Speakers

Fatima Al Qasimi (Researcher, Writer)
Khadim Ali (Artist)
Caline Aoun (Artist)
Aisha Bilkhair (Writer, Researcher)
Hannah Black (Artist)
Mohamed Bourouissa (Artist)
Yarimar Bonilla (Writer, Researcher)
Imani Jacqueline Brown (Artist, Researcher)
Zoe Butt (Curator ,Writer)
Anis Chouchene (Artist, Writer)
Jace Clayton (Artist)
Douglas Coupland (Artist, Writer)
Diego del Valle Rios (Cultural Organiser, Writer)
Koray Duman (Architect, Researcher)
Torkwase Dyson (Artist)
Adrienne Edwards (Curator, Researcher, Writer)
Tarek El-Ariss (Researcher, Writer)
Yasmine El Rashidi (Writer)
Léuli Eshrāghi (Artist)
Reem Fadda (Curator)
Hannah Feldman (Researcher, Writer)
Ebba Fransén Waldhör (Artist)
Peter Friedl (Artist)
Meschac Gaba (Artist)
Nikolaus Gansterer (Artist)
HACKLANDER / HATAM (Artists)
Ho Tzu Nyen (Artist, Writer)
Eisa Jocson (Artist)
Alexandre Kazerouni (Researcher, Writer)
Omar Kholeif (Writer, Curator, Editor, Broadcaster)
Koyo Kouoh (Curator, Writer)
Lee Weng Choy (Writer)
Isabel Lewis (Artist)
Ulrik Lopez (Artist)
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (Artist)
Michael Marder (Researcher, Writer)
Carlos Martiel (Artist)
Suchitra Mattai (Artist)
Mohau Modisakeng (Artist)
Aram Moshayedi (Writer, Curator)
Neo Muyanga (Artist)
New Orleans Airlift (Artists)
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (Artist, Filmmaker)
Otobong Nkanga (Artist)
Sarah Perks (Artist, Filmmaker, Curator)
Phillipe Rahm (Architect, Writer)
Shubigi Rao (Artist, Writer)
Lisa Reihana (Artist)
Todd Reisz (Architect, Writer)
Tracey Rose (Artist)
Felwine Sarr (Artist, Writer)
Kidlat Tahimik (Artist)
Claire Tancons (Curator)
Sofia Victorino (Artist, Writer)
Fabian Villegas (Artist, Writer)
Akram Zaatari (Artist)


Fatima Al Qasimi’s research focuses on Ibn Al Arabi, a thirteenth-century Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet and philosopher whose works have been influential beyond the Muslim world.

Ali, Khadim

Ali, Khadim

Artist

Rich in historical references as well as traditional and modern motifs from both Eastern and Western art, Khadim Ali’s drawings and paintings tell stories about the loss of his own cultural heritage in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

Aoun, Caline

Aoun, Caline

Artist

Caline Aoun works within the frames of urbanism, architecture, print and digital advertising space to produce pieces that playfully increase, invert and suspend environmental noise in a series of measured experiments.

Black, Hannah

Black, Hannah

Artist

Hannah Black is an artist and writer working across installation, video, performance and text.

Yarimar Bonilla is a political anthropologist, professor and writer specialising in questions around sovereignty, citizenship and race across the Americas.

Bourouissa, Mohamed

Bourouissa, Mohamed

Artist

Mohamed Bourouissa creates images, installations and videos that explore power relations, displays of masculinity and societal tensions, often by referencing art historical imagery.

Butt, Zoe

Butt, Zoe

Curator and writer

Zoe Butt is a curator and writer based in Vietnam. Her curatorial practice centres on building critically thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among countries of the global south.

Artist and poet Anis Chouchene is Tunisian by nationality, African by identity and human by belonging.

Clayton, Jace

Clayton, Jace

Artist

Artist, writer and DJ Jace Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how memory, sound and public space interact.

Coupland, Douglas

Coupland, Douglas

Artist, Writer


Douglas Coupland is a writer and artist best known for his observations on modern-day North American culture.

Diego del Valle Ríos is a cultural organiser, independent writer and editor at Terremoto magazine.

Duman, Koray

Duman, Koray

Architect

Koray Duman collaborates with numerous organisations to invest in the social, cultural and ecological challenges of our built environment and, in response, explores innovative strategies in architectural practice.

Dyson, Torkwase

Dyson, Torkwase

Artist

Working in multiple mediums, Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter whose forms address the continuity of ecology, geography, infrastructure and architecture.

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.

El Rashidi, Yasmine

El Rashidi, Yasmine

Writer

Writer Yasmine El Rashidi is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and a contributing editor of the Middle East arts journal Bidoun.

Spanning disciplines and languages, Tarek El-Ariss’ research interests include contemporary Arabic culture, literature and art; new media and cyber culture; and digital humanities.

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