People

Lu Jie is an artist, curator and the Founder and Director of the Long March Project, which was founded in 1999 and is an ongoing art project that links Chinese and international artists.

Jihan El Tahri is a Franco Egyptian award-winning film director, writer, visual artist and producer.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige question the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries and the writing of history.

João Menezes is a composer and sound artist whose interests include sound synthesis, algorithmic composition and sonic interaction design.

A contemporary choreographer, dancer and visual artist, Eisa Jocson investigates the labour and representation of the dancing body in the service industry.

Sarah Johnson is a curator whose research centres on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on Iraq.

Jolene Rickard is a visual historian, artist and curator interested in the intersection of indigenous knowledge and contemporary art, materiality and ecocriticism with an emphasis on Hodinöhsö:ni aesthetics. She is former Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Programme (2008-2020) and Associate Professor in the departments of History of Art and Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Kevin Jones is an independent arts writer and educator who is interested in the self-representational strategies of art practitioners in the UAE and the ways in which they write about their practices.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2017–present) and was curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015).

Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas collaborate as visual artists and filmmakers.

Visual artist and filmmaker Lamia Joreige uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on the construction of historical narratives and the relationship between individual stories and collective memory.

Since the mid 1990s, Fernando José Pereira has used video to explore a range of interests that have recently focused on the remote territories of the extreme North.