Our participants, authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed network of mostly designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.
Contributors
Aline Hernández
2024—
Aline Hernández is a Mexican art historian and exhibition curator. Find out more
Ana Rivera
2024—
Ana is an artist, researcher, and musician from Bogotá currently based in Mexico City. Find out more
Casco Art Institute
2024—
Working for the Commons is an experimental platform where art invites a social vision. Art and the commons are two key practices, which serve as tools and models for non-capitalistic ways of living together. Find out more
Federico Pérez Villoro
2024—
Federico is an artist living and working in Mexico City whose research explores the ways in which state, corporate and institutional power materializes through the strategic use of information technologies. Find out more
Fiky Daulay
2024—
Fiky is a writer, translator and sound-maker. He is a member of KUNCI Study Forum & Collective since 2017. Find out more
Institute for Postnatural Studies
2024—
The Institute for Postnatural Studies is a center for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. Find out more
KUNCI
2024—
KUNCI Study Forum & Collective experiments with methods in producing and sharing knowledge through the acts of studying together at the intersections between affective, manual and intellectual labour. Find out more
Massimiliano Mollona
2024—
For many years Massimiliano Mollonahas developed institutional experiments around the notion of ‘commons’ – cross-sectional spaces of political and economic autonomy – as a teacher, researcher, curator, activist and filmmaker. Find out more
Materia Abierta
2024—
Materia Abierta is a space to mobilize critical thinking and political will through principles of collectivity. Find out more
Migrants in Culture
2024—
Migrants in Culture is led by artists, designers and organisers with lived experience of the UK’s Hostile Immigration System. Find out more
Nuraini Juliastuti
2024—
Nuraini is a translocal practicing researcher and writer who focuses on art organizations, activism, illegality, alternative cultural production, and everyday practices of vernacular archiving. Find out more
Rosalie Schweiker
2024—
Sophie Mak-Schram
2023—
Sophie cares about the radicality possible in the 'and' between art and education. Find out more
Yuri Tuma
2024—
Yuri is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist living in Madrid whose work focuses on the investigation of contemporary narratives related to sonic ecologies through collective practices, sound art, installation, and performance. Find out more
Ashlee Conery
2024
As a Curator, Ashlee Conery has worked for over seventeen years in museums and galleries, across six countries. Find out more
Carolina Valente Pinto
2024
Carolina (she/her) works as an independent media researcher, event programmer and writer. Find out more
Emma Dowling
2024
Bianca Elzenbaumer
2023
Bianca Elzenbaumer is a feminist design researcher based in the Italian Alps. Find out more
Carlos Rendón Bejarano
2023
Carlos is the Liaison Manager and Management Assistant at SACO Contemporary Art Biennial. Find out more
Dagmara Wyskiel
2023
Dagmara is a Polish visual artist, based in Chile. PhD from the University of Fine Arts in Krakow. Director of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, SACO. Find out more
Maxim Spivakov
2023
Maxim is a visual artist and researcher. His work focuses on the technically-conditioned transformations of the aesthetic faculty and the reciprocal implications of technicity, sensation and desire. Find out more
Zeyno Pekünlü
2023
Zeyno is an artist whose artistic interventions mostly take the form of videos and installations. Find out more
Ama Josephine B. Johnstone
2022
Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist. Find out more
Brandy Butler
2022
Brandy is a performance artist, musician, educator, mother, and activist who spends their time creating creative opportunities at the interface of art and community. Find out more
Clara Balaguer
2022
Clara (Makati City, Pisces Metal Monkey) is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. Find out more
Contemporary And (C&)
2022
Contemporary And (C&) is an art magazine and a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. Find out more
Edwin Ramirez, Criptonite
2022
Edwin (they/them) is a performance artist and stand-up comic based in Zurich. Find out more
Emily Fong
2022
Emily is a medical artist exploring life and death, embodiment and emotion; the experience of existing in a human container. Find out more
Johann Otten
2022
Johann (* 1991 in Celle, Germany) works as a dramaturg and journalist. Find out more
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
2022
A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. Find out more
Klasse Klima
2022
Student-led Klasse Klima, founded at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2009, translates demands for climate justice and degrowth into aesthetic education and practice. Find out more
Lina Dokuzović
2022
Lina works at the intersection between visual art and research/knowledge production. Find out more
manuel arturo abreu
2022
manuel (they/them) (b. 1991, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a non-disciplinary artist from the Bronx who lives and works on lands of Multnomah, Cowlitz, Chinook, Kalapuya, Klackamas, Grand Ronde Confederation, Siletz Confederation, and other First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Find out more
Philipp Bergmann and Thea Reifler
2022
Philipp and Thea work as curators, artists, social justice trainers, teachers and researchers in the field of visual art and performance. Find out more
School of Intrusions
2022
School of Intrusions is a collective of sorts practicing informal ways of gathering in and around specific urban and rural sites in Palestine. Find out more
Will Fredo Furtado
2022
Will (they/elle) is a non-binary artist, writer, and editor of Guatemalan and Cape Verdean heritage. Find out more
John Parker (aka St Celfer)
2021
St Celfer, once a New York artist, is now based in Seattle and São Paulo with drawings on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC-USP). Find out more
Rory Pilgrim
2021
Rory (Bristol, 1988) works in a wide range of media including songwriting, composing music, film, music video, text, drawing and live performances. Find out more
Bianca Carague
2020
Bianca, a designer, creative researcher, and certified natural healer with an interest in culture, cognitive science, politics and well-being. Find out more
Clare Price
2020
Clare is an Artist living and working in London studying at both Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths. Find out more
Cuarentena Volumes
2020
We are four artists connected through our performative practices, we came together to open a new studio when the pandemic broke out. Find out more
Demian Jakob
2020
Demian, born in Berne, Switzerland, grew up in Rumonge, Burundi and Real de Catorce, Mexico. In 2012 he finished an apprenticeship for live event technician at the IHK Karlsruhe, Germany. Find out more
Dr. Friederike Landau
2020
Friederike (*1989) is a Berlin-based urban sociologist and cultural geographer interested in intersections of radical democratic political and spatial theory. Find out more
GCD Memes
2020
GCD Memes is a rolling body of work that attempts to reflect on the collective experiences of those involved in the GCD course at CSM from the student perspective. Find out more
Gianna Rovere
2020
Gianna, Beobachterin und Beschreiberin von intimen Situationen und Szenen im öffentlichen Raum. Geboren 1995 im Luzerner Rottal. Lebte als selbsternanntes Stadtkind in Bern, Brüssel, Luzern und seit Kurzem in Zürich. Dort studiert und beschäftigt sie sich mit Kulturjournalismus, Kunstkritik, Elefanten und Namensvetterinnen. Find out more
Katy Morrison
2020
Katy (b. Stoke-on-Trent, 1989) is an independent curator & researcher with interests in discursive frameworks, performative platforms for critical enquiry and ways in which we can facilitate and mediate multiple spaces for the generation of knowledge. Find out more
Lena Skrabs
2020
Lena lives and works in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Find out more
Omsk Social Club
2020
Omsk Social Club’s (they/them) work is created between two lived worlds, one of life as we know it and the other of role play. Find out more
Prom
2020
Prom can refer to a group of individuals belonging to the same generation, or a ball at the end of an academic year. Find out more
Rebeca Romero
2020
Rebeca is a Peruvian artist, currently based in London, UK. Her practice is multidisciplinary; through text, performance, sculpture, sound, and video she questions ideas concerning representation, authorship, and storytelling in the digital age. Find out more
Stefan Klein
2020
Stefan lives in Berlin and works as an artist. His many interventions, which are recorded in notebooks often remain a mere assertion. At least this is what he says. Find out more