Emily Apter is Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of Comparative Literature at New York University. Her books include: Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic (Verso, 2018), Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013), Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (co-edited with Barbara Cassin, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood) (2014); and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006). The current project, What is Just Translation? takes up questions of translation and law, sexual safety, and transmediality. Her essays have appeared in October, PMLA, Comparative Literature, Art Journal, Third Text, Paragraph, boundary 2, Artforum and Critical Inquiry. In 2019, she was the Daimler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2017ñ18, she served as President of the American Comparative Literature Association. In fall 2014, she was a Humanities Council Fellow at Princeton University. And in 2003ñ04, she was a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.

Félicia Atkinson is a musician and artist. She graduated with her MFA from Les Beaux Arts de Paris and is currently a PhD researcher at Rennes 2 University, France. Recent exhibitions include Dinosaur Acts? (A forest turns to stone), Western University of Brittany, Les Abords, Brest (2016) and Spoken Word (a spoken song), Criée Center for Contemporary Art, Rennes (2017). She was awarded the Langui Prize for Painting/Young Belgium Art Prize (2013) and has received fellowships from Institut Français, Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs, and FNAGP. She co-runs the independent music label Shelter Press. Atkinson currently lives and works in Rennes.

Trisha Baga is an artist working mainly in video and performance. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in New York (2007) and her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson (2010). Solo exhibitions include Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012) and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (2017). She has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including The New Human: You and I in Global Wonderland, Moderna Museet, Malmˆ (2015); A Composition of Intimate and Public Truths, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, Oregon (2016); and 3D: Double Vision, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2018). Baga currently lives and works in New York.

Constant Dullaart is a conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (2008) in Amsterdam. Solo exhibitions include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (2012); Jeu de Paume-espace virtuel, Paris (2014); Aksioma, Ljubljana; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (both 2015); and the FOAM Museum, Amsterdam (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Electronic Superhighway, MAAT, Lisbon (2017); I Was Raised On The Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); and Behind the Screen, Kindl-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2019), among others. Dullaart was awarded the Prix Net-Art in 2015, which honors exceptional virtual artistry. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Nikita Gale is a visual artist. Gale received a BA in Anthropology from Yale University and MFA in New Genres at University of California, Los Angeles (2016). The artistís work has been installed in solo presentations at a variety of institutions, including Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2018); University of Texas-Austin Visual Arts Center (2019); and MoMA PS1, New York (2020). The artist work has also been featured in multiple group exhibitions, including Cultural Capital Cooperative Object #2, LAXART, Los Angeles (2016); Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); Made in LA 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium, Bemis Center, Omaha; Mud Muses, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (all 2019); and Sound Off, LACE, Los Angeles (2020); among others. Gale lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Ana Janevski is currently Curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art. Most recently, she co-organized Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done (with Thomas Lax and Martha Joseph). She has collaborated with many choreographers and artists such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jérôme Bel, Yvonne Rainer, Rabih Mroué, Boris Charmatz & Musée de la danse, Simone Forti, Martha Rosler, Ralph Lemon, and Trajal Harrell. She is the editor of a MoMA Dance Series book on Boris Charmatz and co-editor of Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe (with Roxana Marcoci and Ksenia Nouril). She co-edited with Cosmin Costinas a publication Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?: The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions. From 2007 to 2011, she held the position of Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Steffani Jemison is a visual and performance artist and educator. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jemisonís work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and special projects at LAXART, Los Angeles (2013); RISD Museum, Providence (2015); Mass MoCA, North Adams; Jeu de Paume, Paris (both 2017); Nottingham Contemporary (2018); and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); among others. Recent group exhibitions include Speech Acts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017); Direct Message, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019ñ20); and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2019). Jemison currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Christine Sun Kim is a sound artist working predominantly in drawing, performance, and video. She graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and from Bard College in New York. Solo exhibitions include Tate Modern, London (2016); The Art Institute of Chicago (2018); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston (2020). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Soundings: A Contemporary Score, MoMA, New York (2013); 99 Objects series with Taeyoon Choi, Whitney Museum, New York (2015); Dumbbell Directive, New Museum, New York (2016); Soundtracks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); Serralves Collection: New Lines, Images, Objects, Serralves Museum, Porto (2018); What We Make, Ross Art Museum, Delaware (2018); Undocumented, PS120, Berlin (2019). Kim currently lives and works in Berlin.

Prem Krishnamurthy works across media to explore the transformative potential of art and design by experimenting with presentational strategies, performative modes, and ways of communing. He currently directs Wkshps, a multidisciplinary design consultancy; is artistic director of FRONT International 2022, the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art; and organizes Commune, an emergent workshop that practices artistic tools for social transformation. In March 2021, he released Pompeii!, a new digital artwork commissioned by Pompeii Commitment.

Previously, Prem founded the design studio Project Projects and the exhibition space P! in New York. He received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Artís A Year With… residency fellowship in 2018. In 2019, his professional papers were acquired by Bard Collegeís Center for Curatorial Studies. Krishnamurthy is based in Berlin and New York.

Klara Lidén is an artist working primarily in installation, video, sculpture, and architectural practice. She attended the School of Architecture, Royal School of Technology in Stockholm and graduated from Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design. She also attended the Berlin University of the Arts. Klara Lidenís work has been featured in a number of solo exhibitions, including the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2007); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); New Museum, New York (2012); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2015); and Secession, Vienna (2019). She has also participated in a wide variety of group shows, including Public Spaces Changes, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); The New Public, Museion, Bolzano (2012); 8 Ways To Overcome Time and Space, K¸nstlerhaus Bremen (2013); Manifesta 10, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2014); Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Netherlands (2016); and Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); among others. She currently lives and works in Berlin.

Hanne Lippard is a poet, writer, and visual and performance artist. She studied graphic design at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her solo exhibitions include the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017) and the Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2018). She has also participated in a wide variety of group shows, including Individual Stories: Collecting as Portrait and Methodology, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna (2015); ars viva 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig; Yesterday, Today, Today, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2018); Histories of Our Time: On Collective and Personal Narratives, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2019); and The Full Moon Sleeps at Night, Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art (2020), among others. She currently lives and works in Berlin.

Jesse Ly is an artist originating from Dayton, Ohio, who now resides and works in Cincinnati, OH. He holds a bachelorís degree in Fine Arts with minors in Art History and Critical Visions from the University of Cincinnatiís College of DAAP. Ly uses a photographic approach that incorporates processes of sculpture, installation, bookmaking, and writing to inform imagery. His work explores identity through representation in photographs and its liminal qualities of existence. Recent solo exhibitions include Image Interference at Basketshop Gallery, Cincinnati and Dear, Sincerely, at Aviary Gallery, Boston.

Ouecha is the collective transdisciplinary practice of Frank Lyon and Christina Marie-Karr Lyon. Ouechaís ethos is centered around collaboration and a staunch rejection of modern classification.

Selected exhibitions by Ima-Abasi Okon include: Parables for the BLAZER: Mahaliaís EXCISTENCEandEXISTENTS-HyPE fragrant stacking balm (306.HAL), Plaza Plaza, London; Suró [MIX-USE COMMODITY] óplus, Kingsgate Project Space, London; DakíArt Biennale, Dakar; Thereís something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), The Showroom, London (all 2018); Infinite Slippage: nonRepugnant Insolvencies T!-a!-r!-r!-y!-i!-n!-g! as Handclaps of Mís HardíLovedíFlesh [IíM irreducibly undone because] óLeanage-Complex-Dub, Chisenhale Gallery, London; The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (both 2019); The Art of Critique: Image Power, Frans Hal Museum, Haarlem; and Technical – Adjacent, Turf Projects, London (both 2020). Okon is a recipient of the Nigel Greenwood Research Prize (2018) and a Turner Bursary; a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award; the Artist Foundation Award (all 2020). She has completed residencies at Rijksakdemie van Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands (2021); Hospitalfield (2018) Villa Lena (2017) and Supercollider (2015). Okon currently lives and works in London and Amsterdam.

Laure Prouvost received her BFA from Central St Martins, London (2002) and her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London (2010). Prouvost has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including New Museum, New York (2014); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021), among others.  She has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York (2010); Mirrorcity, Hayward Gallery, London (2014); The Way Things Go, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2018); and the Sydney Biennial (2020). Prouvost represented France at the 2019 Venice Biennial. She won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and was awarded the Turner Prize in 2013. She currently lives and works in Antwerp.

Jimmy Robert is an artist working primarily in performance, installation, photography, and film. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, London and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Solo exhibitions include Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2012); Museum M, Leuven, Belgium (2015); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019); and Leopold Hoesch Museum, D¸ren (2020). He has also participated in a variety of group exhibitions, including 30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2009); Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool (2011); Mile-Long Paper Walk, MoMA, New York (2014); The Museum of Rhythm, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódź (2016); Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2018); and Hybrid Sculptures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019). Robert currently lives and works in Berlin.

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator at The Kitchen. Previously she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russellís written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020), is published by Verso Books. Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.

Sable Elyse Smith uses video, sculpture, photography, and text to point to the carceral, the personal, the political, and the quotidian, and speak about a violence that is largely unseen and potentially imperceptible. Her work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions including at MoMA PS1, New Museum, Queens Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and many others. In 2018ñ2019, she was an artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem and in 2022, Smith will be an artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva.

Pilvi Takala uses performative interventions as a means to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different cultural contexts. Solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Kunsthalle Erfurt; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; and Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway. Her work has been shown at MoMA PS1 and New Museum, New York; Palais de Tokyo; Kunsthalle Basel; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award in 2013. Takala will represent Finland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2021. She currently lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki.

Nora Turato is a visual and performance artist. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie then studied at both Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Nora Turato’s work has been featured in a wide range of solo exhibitions, including Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2019); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2019); Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2020); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020). She has also participated in numerous group shows, including Open Shelf, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2016); Standing Still, Lying Down, As If, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2018); Image Behaviour 2019, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; David Maljković: ìSkolekcijom,î Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (2020); Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2020); La pleine lune dort la nuit, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart (2020). Nora Turato currently lives and works in Amsterdam.