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—

Portrait courtesy of Aline Hernández

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—

Courtesy of The Institute for Postnatural Studies

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—

Courtesy of KUNCI Study Forum & Collective

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—

Courtesy of Massimiliano Mollona

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—

Courtesy of Materia Abierta

Materia Abierta is a space to mobilize critical thinking and political will through principles of collectivity. Find out more

Migrants in Culture 

2024—

Courtesy of Migrants in Culture 

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

Sophie Mak-Schram

2023—

Sophie Mak-Schram

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

Ashlee Conery

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 Valente Pinto

Carolina (she/her) works as an independent media researcher, event programmer and writer. Find out more

Bianca Elzenbaumer

2023

Bianca Elzenbaumer

Bianca Elzenbaumer is a feminist design researcher based in the Italian Alps. Find out more

Bjørn Melhus

2023

Bjørn Melhus

Bjørn Melhus, born 1966, is a German-Norwegian media artist. Find out more

Carlos Rendón Bejarano

2023

Carlos Rendón Bejarano

Carlos is the Liaison Manager and Management Assistant at SACO Contemporary Art Biennial. Find out more

Dagmara Wyskiel

2023

Dagmara Wyskiel

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

Pendar Nabipour

2023

Pendar is a visual artist, independent curator, and art educator. 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 Butler

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 Balaguer

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 Ramirez, Criptonite

Edwin (they/them) is a performance artist and stand-up comic based in Zurich. Find out more

Emily Fong

2022

Studio Portrait 2018, by Sinclair Cunningham Photography

Emily is a medical artist exploring life and death, embodiment and emotion; the experience of existing in a human container. Find out more

Jack Hogan

2022

Jack Hogan

Jack (they/them) is an artist and architect from Waterford, Ireland. Find out more

Johann Otten

2022

Johann Otten

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

Klasse Klima

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

Lena Schubert

2022

Lena Schubert

Lena is a Berlin-based cultural researcher and journalist. Find out more

Lina Dokuzović

2022

Lina Dokuzović

Lina works at the intersection between visual art and research/knowledge production. Find out more

manuel arturo abreu

2022

 manuel arturo abreu

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

Marta Malo de Molina

2022

Marta Malo de Molina

Marta is a translator and feminist researcher. Find out more

Noor Abed

2022

Noor is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Find out more

Philipp Bergmann and Thea Reifler

2022

Philipp Bergmann and Thea Reifler © Laila Kaletta

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

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

Silvia Federici

2022

Silvia Federici (she/her)

Silvia is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. Find out more

Steph Holl-Trieu

2022

Steph Holl-Trieu: Q_Distant-Bodies---Different-Worlds_Yiou-Penelope-Peng

Artist and writer. Find out more

Will Fredo Furtado

2022

Will Fredo Furtado

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

John Parker (aka St Celfer)

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 Price

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

Fred Unruh

2020

Fred is a Berlin-based artist, who doesn’t know what art is. 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

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.run

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

Vera Rieger

2020

Vera studies Vocals at the Classical Music department of the ZHdK. Find out more