Bisan Abu Eisheh

Bisan Abu-Eisheh (1985) is an artist and researcher based between Jerusalem and London. He holds a PhD from the university of Westminster, London. He is an M.A. Fine Art holder from Central Saint Martins, 2014. He has obtained his B.A. in contemporary visual art at the International Academy of Art – Palestine.

Abu Eisheh is using art as a tool to investigate history, society and politics. Working across media, such as video, installations and interventions, with a practice situated both within the gallery space and the public sphere, his work attempts to create a shared awareness for himself as well as his audience about several details lost within grand narratives. Researching through different resources, from conversation and oral testimonies to archives and collected objects he tries to challenge the aesthetics of his artworks in order to bring some facts under the eyes of his viewers. By doing so, his works often aspire to open a dialog and, perhaps, seek answers related to several topics such as national identity, mobility, migration and socio-political injustice.

Selected Group Exhibitions include: We Still Follow its Path, Palestinian Art Court (Al Hoash), Jerusalem (2022/21). I thought of Home online exhibition, Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal (2020).Clear-Hold-Build, 12 Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (2019). Subcontracted Nations, Al Qattan Cultural Centre, Ramallah (2018). Jerusalem Lives, the Palestinian Museum, Berziet(2017). Don’t You Think It’s Time for Love?, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), Moscow, Russia (2016). The Jerusalem Show VIII: Before and After, Jerusalem, Palestine (2016). Glasgow International 2016, Bitter Rose project by Birthe Jorgensen and TawonaSithole, Glasgow, Scotland (2016). Eva International Biennial/Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick, Ireland (2014) and The 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).

Oree Originol

Oree Originol is a multimedia visual artist who creates artwork to communicate ideas about personal and social / political issues. He was born on September 11, 1984 in Glendale, California where his parents met after migrating from Mexico in the 1970s. He grew up in the same house in North East Los Angeles until his early 20s. His neighborhood was marked by gang activity and drug addiction which made him acquire a sense of empathy and awareness of social issues that impacted his community. He discovered a passion for art at a young age and developed his creative skills through self study. As a teenager, he got involved in graffiti adopting the alias "Oree", which derived from the Spanish word, "orejas", meaning "ears", a childhood joke about his big ears as a kid. His last name, "Originol" was inspired by a streetwear clothing brand, ‘Joker’, that promoted west coast urban culture and sometimes included the text, "Original", in its designs. His full alias is in reference to his background growing up in the streets of Los Angeles.

In 2009, he moved to the Bay Area to expand his creative and personal development in a new environment. He broadened his skillset to include digital art, which played a significant role in 2014 when he launched his groundbreaking open source art project, 'Justice For Our Lives', a digital portrait series of 100 black and white portraits honoring individuals who were killed by US law enforcement since the beginning of the 21st century. The project has been widely reproduced and displayed in museums, classrooms, and public demonstrations against police brutality providing the visual backdrop for "Black Lives Matter" protests in The Bay Area. In 2020, the project was showcased at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC for "¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now", a traveling exhibition that included The Amon Carter Museum, The Hood Museum, and The First Museum. It also showcased at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, CAN for "XICANX Dreamers + Changemakers / Soñadores + creadores del cambio", also a traveling art show that included The Contemporary at Blue Star.

His primary body of artwork illustrates a unique vibrant world of figurative compositions. The central figures are usually human characters to effectively relate the human stories that are expressed in the work. His art style incorporates flat shapes as the building blocks of his visual content which is designed to translate similarly between multiple mediums like painting, digital art, stencils, and screen printing. The execution of his work strikes a balance between a measured and organic process that delivers a playful and cartoonish representation of his illustrations. Inspired by the legacy of social justice activism in The Bay Area, his work continues to engage community and bring awareness to a range of social issues through a racial lens that is informed by his experience as a "Chicano" artist from California.

Uli Aigner

Uli Aigner was born in 1965 in Austria. After her pottery apprenticeship diploma she studied product design under Matteo Thun at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Graduation with Distinction, 1990) and postgraduate Digital Image Design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. After producing numerous video, performance and installation artworks, she started drawing large-scale colour pencil drawings in the mid-90s. Her work has been shown at renowned international museums, institutions and galleries. Her visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (2001-2003), set yet another focus in her work, resulting in a 5-year curatorship at Lothringer 13 – Gallery of Contemporary Art of the City of Munich. Uli Aigner has been living with her family in Berlin since 2011 and devotes herself to her own artistic production. Since 2014, Aigner has been producing porcelain objects as part of her lifelong analog-digital project ONE MILLION. She is an official participant of the cultural program PURPLE PATH in Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture 2025.

Alexandra Apsokardou

Athens, Greece

Ayed Arafah

Ayed Arafah was born in Jerusalem in 1983 and currently lives in Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem. He holds a BA in Contemporary Visual Arts from the Academy of International Arts, Ramallah. His works vary between drawing, composition, installation, video and photography. The practice of art to him is a journey of productions based on experiments, in which he seeks to develop his visual skills and relay between subjects and ideas that may produce endless questions. He believes that art is a process of rephrasing the calcified concepts or vocabulary produced by human societies.Ayed participated in local group exhibitions in Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Jericho, and internationally in London, Oslo, Cairo and Beirut. He participated in art programs in Amsterdam, the Austrian city of Graz and he also spent art residences in Biella, Italy, and the Rockefeller Estate in New York. Afterwards, he created a mural for the late activist, Rachel Corre, who was killed in Gaza. The mural is permanently exhibited at the Palestine Museum in New Haven, CT. His solo art exhibitions entitled “Your Place is a Secret” at Bab al-Deir Gallery and “Thor” or "Bull" at the Walled Off Hotel Gallery were held in Bethlehem. The last exhibition he held was in the Lebanese capital of Beirut entitled “From Jerusalem to Beirut”. He currently lives and works in his own studio in the city of Bethlehem, Palestine.

Raneem Ayyad

Raneem Ayyad is an architect, researcher and an artist. Her research focuses on the correlation between the built environment and socioeconomic dynamics with an interest in Palestine and Jordan. She holds an MA degree in Human Rights and Arts from Bard College-New York (2022-2024) and a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural engineering from Birzeit University (2021).

Ghamal Bokonbaev

In Bishkek, you can find a street named after the Bokonbaev, and the texts of the Bokonbaevs are obligatory reading in schools. Gamal Bokonbaev shares his name with the renowned  classics of Kyrgyz literature Joomart Bokonbaev.

During his younger years, Gamal was a rebellious art practitioner who challenged the system and norms. Today, he is a well-established and respected figure. The documented performance gains new meaning over the years, reflecting how one can become a monument in their own right.

Gamal Bokonbaev is an established art critic, curator, and chief editor of an art magazine regularly published by the Union of Artists of Kyrgyzstan. He is a prominent figure in contemporary Kyrgyzstan.

Michele Cavaliere

I was born prematurely in a former concentration camp turned maternity hospital, on a summer morning in 1969 in Bolzano, northern Italy. I grew up quickly, becoming a hyperactive child who was difficult to contain. The only things that could keep me still and seated for a reasonable amount of time were paper and markers. I would spend hours and hours drawing, much to my mother’s relief.

I published my first humorous drawings at the age of 15, initially in local newspapers and later in Il Cuore, a weekly satirical magazine published in Italy between 1991 and 1996. Since then, my drawings have appeared in national newspapers, on television, in commercials, books, and art galleries. I also enjoy drawing in public, in live shows where I create large caricatures in a matter of minutes.

In addition to designing advertising campaigns for agencies, I prefer working on social projects where I can use my art to contribute to the community. I have conducted seminars on satire and the creation of Bookpages in universities, academies, and secondary and primary schools. My degree in International Political Science helps me understand the complex mechanisms that regulate society and political power.

Andrey Chikachev

Andrei Chikachev's work is known far beyond the borders of Yakutia, be it portraits, landscapes, or scenes related to village life, hunting, and fishing. A cycle of paintings dedicated to rural childhood has won the hearts of viewers. The images lure to positive and bright memories, releasing people from the daily routine and stresses of adult life. The subject matter of Andrei Chikachev's works reflects the importance of human connection with the environment and the traditional way of life. Paintings convey the atmosphere of peace and tranquility of rural life, become a way to return to happy moments and spiritually cleanse people, allowing them to get away from the hustle and bustle and enjoy the simplicity and joy of life. Painting the elderly and children, the artist demonstrates the connection between generations, and the importance and significance of the origins of culture, which causes respect for the traditional life of the Sakha people. The author's works of art are in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha, in galleries and private collections in the USA, Great Britain, Turkey, Canada, South Korea, Germany, and Japan.

Angélica Chio

Angélica Chio has lived and worked alternately in Berlin and Mexico City. She currently resides in Mexico City, where she was born in 1966. She studied Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City, and pursued postgraduate studies in Art in Context at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, video festivals, and national and international cooperative projects. She has been a recipient of grants from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mexico, and in 2023 she received a grant for artists over 45 years old from the Kunststiftung K52 (Art Foundation K52) in Germany.

Investigating language and its possibilities of translation and transference, as well as proposing new alliances between word and image, constitute the compass and guiding thread of her artistic research. Rather than exploring a medium of expression, she focuses on concepts around an event and approaches it from different perspectives and strategies, creating independent and interconnected works, primarily drawings, objects, artist books, videos, and installations.

Plácido Coyac Amatitla

Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer and a

tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY. In

his work, he explores indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation.

Dennis holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College,

PA, and a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, NY. He

currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock

Indian Reservation.

Ustinya Dogordurova

Ustinya is a member of art group ARCHETYPE.

Etem Fazli

Etem Fazli was born in Rijeka, Croatia, a member of the country’s Roma minority.

After finishing college, he started working with the Civil Organisation Roma and a member of Roma in the Croatian Parliament for the Roma national plan. He also worked with a local politician to create an action plan for Roma people.

For 5 years he worked in schools as an assistant for children and for 9 years in projects like summer schools, trips, football matches, artistic activities, youth festivals, and more. One of his artistic projects with youth and children involved taking old objects to create new art. Etem has also conducted travel research throughout Europe, financed by the Ministry of Culture and the Erasmus program for youth and students.

Gennaro García

Gennaro Garcia is a native of San Luis, Sonora, Mexico.

Gennaro was the second Latino artist in 26 years, after Fernando Botero from Colombia, to have a solo show at the Calvin Charles Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ.

Gennaro was born and raised in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico. He migrated to Arizona in his early twenties with drive, passion and the desire to create art. In 2012, Gennaro reached his personal goal – a solo exhibit in San Miguel de Allende, in his native México. His art alludes to his dual identity as both Mexican, and now, American.

His use of Italian techniques with oils, acrylics, wood, and plaster, along with the combination of a Mexican color palette from his childhood, has resulted in art that showcases both world-class skill and a true Latino immigrant perspective. To create his first Talavera collection, he traveled to Puebla, Mexico to study the original 195-year-old technique with Uriarte Talavera in which he has a 5-year partnership where he continues to create Talavera.

His art pieces are featured in many commercial and residential interiors, and he has participated in more than 60 exhibits in the last 4 years, including 9 solo shows. Currently, you can acquire Gennaro’s art in 10 different galleries in the United States in various cities in Mexico such as Puebla, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico City, Cabo, San Jose del Cabo, Todo Santos, and Valle de Guadalupe.

The Mexican film director, Carlos Muñoz, is working on a short film about Gennaro’s journey as an artist in Mexico. Salvador Robledo, an American filmmaker, has been concurrently shooting a complementary documentary for the last 2 years about his transition and art in the United States.

In 2015, Gennaro was the Heard Museum’s Signature Artist at their annual El Mercado de las Artes. In 2016, he received the Masters of the Southwest Award, a recognition presented by the Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine, as well as the Hispanic Heritage award presented by Cox Communications and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Gennaro began an exciting partnership with Disney in 2016. The partnership includes a conference where he presented on his journey as an artist, as well as a mural in collaboration with his daughter, little Frida, in Mexico City. He has bridged his love and passion for the arts and the culinary world by venturing into the restaurant design field. As of now, he has designed the following restaurants: Barrio Queen, Tio Chano, El Sonorense, Ghost Ranch, Taco Chelo, Salt, and Galaxy Taco

Jeanno Gaussi

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up across Kabul, Delhi, and Berlin.

Using a narrative concept as a starting point, Jeanno Gaussi creates intimate installations about space and memory. Her work crosses a variety of media, including video, photography, objects, and texts.

A central theme of her practice is the exploration of the places where she has worked, traveled, and experienced meaningful encounters. Through these encounters, her work engages questions of remembrance, the search for identity, and the social and cultural processes associated with them.

Her work engages with mechanisms of remembrance, the search for identity, and the social and cultural processes associated with them.

She developed many of her installation projects during residencies in Pakistan (International Diasporic Artists Residency Karachi), Jordan (International Artist Workshop Shatana), Turkey, and Palestine (Al-Mamal Art Residency, Jerusalem) among others.

Gaussi has participated in numerous exhibitions, film festivals, and symposia, including the dOCUMENTA 13, the Havana Biennale, and TEDx Marrakesh.

She is a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre in Munich and received the Ann Wolff Foundation Scholarship 2023.

Jeanno Gaussi currently lives and works in Berlin and Munich, Germany.

LuisRo

Luis Rodrigo González Delezé studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in the city of Puebla. In 2004, he worked at LIAG Architekten in The Hague, Netherlands, and a year later returned to Mexico to join Rearquitectura, an architectural studio that he has directed alongside his father, Luis González Arenal, ever since. His office has carried out more than 500 projects and works in different states of the country, as well as projects for clients from Canada, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, in addition to consulting for Niro of Denmark and Dao Group in Laos for the construction of a coffee freeze-drying plant in the latter country.

In addition to his professional practice, he has been a project professor in Architecture at Ibero and a speaker at various local and international forums such as the Wuhan Design Biennial in China and the Design Month in Graz, Austria.

Luis Rodrigo is an active member of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Puebla, the American Institute of Architects, a trustee of the Mexican-German Volunteer Group, a founding member of the Indo-Mexican Friendship Society along with Humang Hutheesing in Ahmedabad, India, and a member of the promoting group of Puebla as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the design sub-network. He is a founding partner of the Besign Mexico platform, La Escuadra Gestoría Cultural, and the Mexican Coordination of Creative Industries, which he currently presides. He holds a master's degree in Cultural Management and a postgraduate degree in International Cultural Cooperation from the University of Barcelona, is a member of the Cultural Management Network of the National Council of Culture, and has collaborated on various cultural projects with the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the State of Puebla, Design Week Mexico, and other local organizations.

Saida Hamad

Al-Quds Bard

Saida is a Lecturer and Head of the Media Studies at Al-Quds Bard (AQB). She majored in English Literature at Arizona State University for her BA and later obtained a Master's Degree in International Studies at BirZeit University. She has nearly thirty years of experience as a distinguished journalist and Media and Communication Specialist in some of the most leading organizations, including the World Bank, AL Hayat Newspaper (London-based), TF1 (French TV), ABC News, and ITN. Throughout her years of experience, Saida has accumulated a wide range of knowledge in the world of media and a diverse set of communication and analytical skills, of which she passionately transferred to her students at AQB. Saida’s teaching experience at Palestinian universities, including AL Quds Open University and BirZeit University (BZU) enhanced her commitment to further pursue and build her career in the academic field, promote knowledge and critical thinking skills, challenge the traditional media teaching methods in Palestine, and create new programs that enable students to creatively express themselves as journalists and reach a wider audience.

Joining AQB as a lecturer and head of the Media Studies program in the Humanities Practicing Arts Division in 2019, Saida attracted 40 students to the Introduction of Media Studies course. Given her experience and expertise in journalism, Saida revised the entire Media Studies program to further enhance the AQB’s innovative liberal arts education approach. This included adding new interdisciplinary courses, restructuring the academic plan, and diversifying topics across the department to meet the new challenges of the world of Media. She invited high-level guest speakers to AQB, thereby connecting the college more directly to the Palestinian media community in general. As head of the media program, Saida has incorporated excellent visiting faculty to strengthen the program and has an active role in several pedagogy and organizational College Committees. With the collaboration from her colleagues, Saida is now leading the creation of the Online Bilingual Art & Culture multimedia Journal Hannoon. The journal aims to critically engages Palestinian artistic and cultural life across its many forms and fora.

Before joining AQB, Saida lectured at Birzeit University (BZU) where she focused on integrating Information Technology, namely Web, Data, and Mobile journalism, with classic journalism. Specifically, Saida developed new interactive teaching methods in which students simulate a daily “editorial meeting” where they collectively overview and discuss local and international news, and work on writing their own news pieces. Moreover, she introduced the concept of multimedia production of news in the Journalism Lab, where students had to produce both infographic and video-graphic materials to reach a wider range of audience in the world of new media. During her time at BZU, Saida worked with her students to create, write, design, and publish two magazines per semester. These courses provided the students with realistic, interactive, practical, and fundamental tools to utilize in their future careers.

Prior to teaching at BZU, she worked as a Chief Editor and Programs Director and Presenter at Wattan Palestinian TV station. Saida also worked as a Results Reporting and Communications Specialist for the USAID Palestinian Health Sector Reform and Development Project (2009- 2011). In 2009, she also worked as a Project Director with the USAID/NETHAM where she worked on Palestinian media in law and court reporting. Before then, Saida was the External Affairs and Communications Officer for the World Bank in Jerusalem.

Saida was the Bureau Chief for Alhayat-LBC for nine years in which she covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict including reporting live coverage of daily events and special exclusive interviews, Investigative reporting, analytical features in addition to managing field reporters in Gaza and Haifa. Moreover, Saida conducted exclusive interviews with prominent political, social and economic figures under highly dangerous and critical situations including late President Arafat (when he was besieged and before and after) and president Mahmoud Abbas. She has also covered Abbas' famous visit to the White House after he was appointed as a

Prime minister. Furthermore, she covered The Hague Court rolling on the Israeli Wall being built on the West Bank Land. This included live coverage plus in-depth reportage.

Saida also worked as a Producer for the T.F.1 in Jerusalem for 12 years and contributed to other news-outlets such as ABC News, Monte Carlo Radio Station, Al-Quds Press International, Palestine Press Service, and Al-Fajr English Newspaper.

Samar Hazboun

Samar Hazboun is a Palestinian photographer who holds a masters degree in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster, a BA in International Relations, and a degree in Photo and Video Therapy. In 2019, she was a mentor for the Canon education program in Italy. In 2018 she was chosen for the JS Masterclass for the World Press Photo. She worked as a Middle East Photo Editor for AFP for over 4 years before embarking on a freelance career working for organizations such as UNWOMEN, UNFPA, OXFAM alongside teaching BA students at the Dar Al-Kalima University College. She’s been published by the New York Times, Al-Jazeera, The Washington Post, The Intercept, El Pais among others.

Samar won the Self-Portrait category in the 11th Pollux award. She was awarded grants by the Magnum Foundation, AFAC, and the Prince Claus Fund. She was also awarded the Khalil Al-Sakakini award for her project Hush – Gender based violence in Palestine.

Kyydaana Ignateva

Kyydaana Ignateva is a painter, environmental designer, and curator of contemporary art festivals and design projects. Kyydaana has always wanted to transform the harsh northern landscape and tame the permafrost with her artistic talent and creative energy. In search of interesting solutions and new ideas to improve the branding of localities, Kyydaana has developed numerous contemporary art projects. The talented artist organized many solo exhibitions and workshops, and decorated the walls of offices, children's clinics, and schools with her drawings. In 2016, Kyydaana Ignateva realized her project, which just conquered and inspired the whole city of Yakutsk to change. Street art was implemented as part of beautification of Yakutsk in preparation for the Children of Asia International Sports Games. The artist changes the look of villages and cities of the republic; her street art objects not only transform the environment but also play an important role in the life and mood of the population. Bright colors of the artist's design solutions help people to survive the cold silence of the North and live in anticipation of spring. Her organic plots from the Olonkho epos and a modern look at familiar things energize the creation of a new wonderful world, where, despite the crackling frosts, there is always warmth in the soul and joy in the heart.

Altyn Kapalova

Altyn is a prominent feminist activist, artist, artivist, and researcher known for her unwavering dedication to activism in every aspect of her life. She is the founder of MoFa+ and an icon for many women artists and activists in Central Asia and beyond. Her own existence serves as a form of activism, as she challenges the societal norms prevailing in Kyrgyzstan.

In Kyrgyzstan, all official documents associate our names with our father's name. But where is the justice for those courageous mothers who raise their children alone? Altyn took a stand by changing the paternal names on her children's documents to her matronym. Subsequently, she pursued a legal case against the government, seeking recognition for her cause. She won and lost the case in several courts. It has become political with the president and constitutional court involvement. Although she faced a setback, her actions sparked a movement. Many supporters joined her cause by publicly adopting their mothers' names, shining a spotlight on the labor and significance of mothers. Through this movement, mothers are made visible to their children through the reflection of their names—the embodiment of their maternal dedication and hard work.

Altyn's tireless efforts continue to champion the rights and visibility of mothers, demonstrating the profound impact that one person's determination can have on societal change. Her work transcends traditional boundaries, merging art, activism, and research to bring attention to the transformative power of motherhood and advocate for a more just and inclusive society.

Katerina Korre

Katerina Korre (b.1996, Athens) is an undergraduate student at the Department of Visual Arts, at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 2020. Her visual work consists mainly of installations that include texts, constructions, painting, video, games and performance. With references from the culture of videogames and the pop culture of cinema/series as well as with references to the science of biology, she creates works with social content that originate from memories that carry the trauma. Important in her practice is that there is interactivity, so that people can immerse themselves and enter her virtual world.

Semen Lukansi

Semen Lukansi is a painter with an academic art education, who senses subtly and reacts boldly with his art to what is happening in the surrounding reality. This incredibly productive author, inspired by the beauty of nature and national Yakut culture, creates amazingly aesthetic and laconic canvases. Semyon Lukansi's paintings are rich in color and have textured surface, which adds style and flamboyancy to his works. The artist expresses himself through his works as if searching for a soulful harmony between man and the universe. Paintings of the Yakut artist allow you to travel to the world where the traditions and customs of ancestors are still preserved, where modern people remember their history and culture. His works make people think about the past and have sacral meaning, reminding them of the identity of each nation and its spiritual component. Semyon Lukansi is the winner of numerous exhibitions and international festivals, and has created an author's school of painting. His works are in private collections in Morocco, Turkey, Israel, Finland, China, Iceland, Italy, and Canada.

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Alexander Manzhuriev

Alexander Manzhuriev, a titled sculptor-jeweler of the Republic of Sakha, belongs to the modern generation of jewelry artists looking for new ways to develop Yakut jewelry art. Inspired by the heritage of the Olonkho land and relying on professional arts and crafts, the author creates fantasy images. His images carry the sacred meaning of folk tales and beliefs. The names the author gives to his works require a separate research approach and reflect a deep understanding of the created image. The material for Manzhuriev's works of small plastic forms and jewelry is gold, silver, bronze with patination, precious stones of local origin: diamonds, chromdiopside (Yakut emerald), red garnets, blue and smoky topaz, and turquoise. Decorativeness is enhanced by details made of mammoth tusk, multicolored beads and mahogany stands. Today, the works of a jeweler Alexander Manzhuriev are represented in collections in many countries of the world. His works are acquired not only by museums and galleries, but also by private collectors.

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Tuli Mekondjo

Tuli Mekondjo ( b. 1982, Kwanza- Sul, Angola)  is a self-taught Namibian artist who is the recipient of the prestigious DAAD Artist-in Berlin Program in 2022. Mekondjo was shortlisted for the Norval Sovereign Africa art prize 2022/2023. Tuli Mekondjo works with mixed  media including embroidery, photo transfer, resin and mahangu ( millet) grain- a Namibian  food staple. Drawing on colonial  and  war-time  photographic  archives, Mekondjo’s practice  explores Namibian history and identity politics.

Drawing on histories of change, loss and submission- particularly  when it comes to women- she stitches between past and present. She pays homage to her forebears, fertility and continuity, whist commenting on gendered struggle, intergenerational trauma, and displacement. In many resent work, the artist positions  herself in dialogue  with her ancestors, directly acknowledging their pain, whilst referencing  multiple African folklore traditions. Spirituality is an increasingly important element in her work, and Mekondjo extends her textured media into performance.

Mekondjo has exhibited in multiple exhibitions and fairs, including museum shows, in Namibia, South Africa, Germany, Cote d’Ivoire, France , USA, Hong Kong, UK, Belgium and Portugal. Her works are held  in multiple international collections.

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Nnenna Onuoha

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her films and videos centre Afrodiasporic voices to explore monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the US, asking: how do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform and why?  A second strand of her work focuses on archiving Black experience in the present to chronicle how, amidst all this, we practice care and repair for ourselves and each other. Her work has shown at the Galerie im Turm, the Kunsverein Hamburg, the Brückemuseum, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Galerie im Körnerpark and alpha nova and galerie futura. Nnenna is currently a doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam. She is also a 2023-4 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

Nurperi Orunbaeva

Nurperi Orunbaeva is a rising artist who actively engages with her community in Osh and Bishkek, addressing challenges specific to her locality. Through her art, Nurperi collaborates with Central Asian art institutions and advocates for women's rights and other intersectional groups. She is a winner of MoFA+ fellowship and Culture Management stipend of Cuduk Culture Center.

Anna Osipova

Anna Osipova, a contemporary artist from Yakutia, has developed a unique style and different innovative techniques that convey her artistic visions in both modern and classic styles. In her works, she explores genetic memory, Eurasian archaic with elements of ancient Turkic mythology and Tengrism, which are intertwined with modernity. In search of a new ethno-cultural identity and harmony with herself and the world, Anna creates a fascinating pictorial fantasy, moving through time and dimensions. In her works, Anna creates a mosaic of cultural images, forms a unique artistic mythology, and creates an atmosphere where there is a dialogue between the viewer and the work of art. Through this dialogue, the viewer can access the depths of their subconsciousness, and rediscover themselves. The artist seems to live in all times simultaneously, moving between the upper, middle and lower worlds, but preferring the middle world, where all forces and times interact, the past comes into contact with the present and guards the future.

José Luis Pescador

Gigi Ro

Gigi RO is a visual designer and artist specializing in illustration. She was born and raised in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, a small city in the center of Mexico. She studied Visual Information Design at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (2024).

Growing up in her hometown, she noticed the lack of visibility and representation in both social issues and art. Being an industrial city, there were few incentives and spaces for independent artists to express themselves. Seeing this need, she founded a collective called "Esto No Es Arte" ("This Is Not Art"), where people from different disciplines could participate, regardless of their artistic background, thus democratizing art.

In 2021 and 2022, this collective organized an independent festival featuring a collective exhibition, poetry readings, performances, discussions, workshops, musical presentations, and sales of products from local entrepreneurs, promoting culture and local consumption.

Upon moving to Cholula, Puebla for her studies and after experiencing a worldwide crisis like the pandemic, she rediscovered herself and redefined her work, aiming to transcend.

Her work reflects what moves her and seeks to take a stand on social issues through art, addressing topics such as feminism, women in the church, self-exploration, speaking out loud, and sexual diversity.

She hopes that each person who identifies with her work learns a bit about her story and the wounds that are now healing collectively with those who connect with her.

Christina Rosi

Christina Rosi (b.1990, Sarande, Albania), is a visual artist who resides in Athens, Greece. She holds a degree in Marketing and is currently pursuing a BA at the Athens School of Fine Arts, she also participated in an Erasmus program at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions and competitions both in Greece and abroad, including the Benaki Museum and Atopos cvc in Athens, the Photometria Festival in Ioannina, Greece, and Platform's Project and Vegan Life Festival in Athens. As an artist, Christina's research focuses on environmental concerns, identity, and ethnicity. She also explores the dynamics of tradition, memory, and folklore, experimenting with archival material and personal experiences to create new forms of artistic expression. She seeks to delve into themes of self-mythology, self-knowledge, and the interconnection between personal and collective structures.

By employing a multidisciplinary approach to art, Christina can utilize mediums such as painting, photography, video, and writing to create a unique and distinctive voice in the art world.

Shada Safadi

Shada Safadi, born in 1982 in Majdal Shams, in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, began her artistic journey by studying painting and etching at the Adham Ismail Institute in Damascus. Later, she graduated from Damascus University with a degree in Fine Arts. As a founding member of the Fateh Al Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture, Safadi's talent was recognized with a third-place award at the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Awards in 2008 for her series "In the Presence of the Crow." Her artworks have been displayed in various exhibitions across Syria, Palestine, Sweden, and the UK. Notably, she participated in the Syrian Cultural Caravan, showcasing her art across Europe. In 2014, Safadi completed an art residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Recently, she exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Slovenia with the exhibition "What the Crocodile Dreams About?". Additionally, she collaborated with Akram al Halabi for the two-person exhibition "Mist" at Zawyeh Gallery in Ramallah in 2022. Adding to her achievements, Safadi was an art resident at the Alserkal Art Foundation in Dubai in 2023. Currently, she resides and works between her hometown in the occupied Golan Heights and Ramallah, in occupied Palestine.

Jorge Luis Santos

Santiago Savi

Santiago Savi is a Mixtec painter. He was born in 1984 in Abasolo del Valle, Veracruz, a community with roots in San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca. He holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Autonomous University of Chapingo (2002-2007), was a scholarship recipient for filmmaking studies at New York University (2014), and completed a Master's in Art at the Instituto Cultural Helénico (2015-2017).

From a young age, he worked as a farm laborer and at 18 years old, he migrated to Mexico City for work and studies. After completing his agronomy degree, he worked in Mexican agriculture on economic development projects in various indigenous communities across the country. Since 2015, he has been painting in his self-taught art studio in Mexico City. In his paintings and murals, he likes to depict Mother Earth, the cornfield (milpa), flowers, animals, nahuales (spiritual beings), and textiles. His art is a way to express the Mixtec tradition inherited from his parents and grandparents from the "Pueblo de la Lluvia" (Town of the Rain).

He has directed films and painted over 10 murals in Mexico City, New York, Querétaro, Irapuato, Oaxaca, and Veracruz. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and the United States. His works are held by art collectors in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Recently, his works were featured in new books by the SEP (Secretary of Public Education).

He signs his works as "Savi" to self-identify with the native language of his parents and grandparents. "Savi" means rain, a force of nature that fertilizes and makes the land bloom; Santiago Savi paints to flourish.

Katharina Schnitzler

Katharina Schnitzler, born in Düsseldorf in 1963, is a Berlin-based artist and educator. She obtained a Master of Arts degree from UdK Berlin (1999-2003) and prior to that, she completed a diploma in Art Therapy and Pedagogy from FH Ottersberg (1995-1999).

In 2023, Katharina Schnitzler participated in several solo exhibitions including "LUFTHOLEN" at Kunsthaus Potsdam with Ev Pommer, "INNEHALTEN" at Mianki.Gallery with Ev Pommer, and "AUF WUNDER WARTEN" at Alte Feuerwache Berlin with Ev Pommer. In 2022, she was involved in the project "AUFLÖSUNG" by H. Egger and T. Sterna at Documenta 15 in Kassel. In 2021, she exhibited "Look at the birds" with Edith Held at mianki.Gallery in Berlin and "Das Fenster, SYSTEMRELEVANTER DRUCKER" at G.A.S - station in Berlin. In 2020, she participated in "Look at the birds" with Edith Held during BERLIN ARTWEEK at Loft Pohl58 in Berlin.

Katharina Schnitzler has participated in various group exhibitions. In 2022, she exhibited at "Uferhallen Aktien" at nbk in Uferhallen Berlin during Art Week, as well as at "TROUBLED NATURE" at Kunst Haus Mitte in Berlin. She also showcased her work at "artKARLSRUHE" and "mianki & friends" at mianki.Gallery in Berlin. In 2021, she participated in "artKARLSRUHE" at mianki.Gallery. In 2020, she was part of the "40 in 40" exhibition at Museum Eberswalde in Eberswalde. She also exhibited at "POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2020," "mianki & friends," and "Zeichnungen" at mianki.Gallery in Berlin. Additionally, she showcased her work at "artKARLSRUHE" at mianki.Gallery.

Katharina Schnitzler observes, uncovers and questions assumed realities.

In her work, she overlays textures, layers of color, and text, and processes fabrics and newspaper photos. Often the background consists of countless layers. As the brushstroke is visible and pulled in different directions, structures, and patterns emerge. In doing so, Schnitzler emphasizes the materiality of her works, as the structures are reminiscent of cut-outs of fabric panels or embossed ornamental wallpaper. Often a sense of space is created. Although the background and foreground could each stand on their own, they communicate and harmonize with each other, depth of color meets abstract formal language. The essence of her work is the exploration of the "in-between". Paintings and drawings are created - installed, poetic, deep, witty, tightly interwoven, and at the same time brutal and beautiful.

Katerina Skordou

Katerina Skordou was born in Athens. After finishing the Empirikeio High School, she came to Athens where she finished the School of Paramedical Professions SBIE and worked at the hospital Biochemistry Laboratory respectively.She retired in 2010. In 2019 she got accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts and started studying at the 11th painting workshop, currently in her 4th year.

Egor Stepanov

Egor Stepanov, a well-known craftsman with a deep connection to nature and the rich cultural heritage of the Sakha people, has revealed his name as a Master through the creation of exquisite images on the mammoth tusk, bone, wood, and ice. His exceptional talent and dedication have brought him both national and international recognition. A member of the Union of Artists of Russia and holder of the title "For Outstanding Achievements in the Culture of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)", Egor Stepanov is also a member of the Association of Ice Sculptors of Canada. Working as a team with a talented carver Alexey Andreev, they made breathtaking ice sculptures that captivated audiences in many countries and won numerous awards at international snow and ice sculpture festivals (China Gold Cup 2016, Canada Cup 2019). Sacral hitching posts (Sergeh) made by him have been installed in several cities in Russia, France, and the USA. Egor Stepanov's works, characterized by a unique style and subtlety, represent a deep and reverent attitude to the culture of the Sakha people.

Emanuel Tanúz

Maritina Tselepi

Maritina Tselepi is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens. Her main artistic practice is video art and photographic installations, with themes such as contemporary urban subculture, the online world and the music scene. Her interests also include specialized research on cinema and the music scene. She studies at the School of Fine Arts and actively participates in group exhibitions.

Ravshan Ta Jing

Ravshan is a designer, artist, and co-founder of the BiSHSI platform (Bishkek School of Contemporary Art). He was born and works in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In his works, he explores various topics such as self-identification, reflections on socio-political processes in the country and the world, and the intersection of the city and ecology. He has actively participated in various local and international exhibitions, working across different media, including photography, collage, and installation. He is also engaged in artistic research and artivism.

Eliana Otta Vildoso

Sayo':klʌ Kindness Williams

Oneida Nation of Wisconsin - Turtle Clan, United States

Sayo':klʌ began beading at the age of 8 years old, learning her craft from two men who were well known beaders in WI, Benjamin Cannon (Oneida Nation of WI) and Gerald Hawpetoss (Menominee Nation, WI/Smithsonian Fellow), both of whom taught her basic beadwork (tying knots, lazy stitch, daisy chain, and peyote stitches), life skills and cultural values/traditions- Be thankful, never give up, finish what you start, give away the first item you make-share, be a thankful, hand down to the next generation the good things you have been taught, share freely, do not be wasteful, and have patience.

As a young woman, Sayo':klʌ went to high school in Santa Fe, NM and was exposed to the beautiful southwestern Indigenous art, which motivated her to continue to practice her art.  Sayo':klʌ entered her first art show at age 16, the Institute of American Indian Arts- High School Art Show, in 1989-90 and took 1st in the beadwork category for a beaded lace collar. Sayo':klʌ sold her beadwork on SFIS campus and at powwows to be self-reliant.

From 2006-2017, Sayo':klʌ beaded as a full-time artist, focusing on powwow regalia making and beaded jewelry. Sayo':klʌ developed her craft- experimenting with contemporary pow wow designs and methods, for regalia making, which included modern supplies like rhinestone banding, crystals/gems, cabochons, etc- commonly used in the powwow circle to make dancers shine. She became known as a beadwork artist within Wisconsin, being sought after to create fully-beaded regalia for powwow dancers.

In 2016, Sayo':klʌ was called to Standing Rock to assist her uncle Harry Kindness, a Long Walker and support for Dennis Banks (AIM). During this time, Sayo':klʌ began creating a line of jewelry, for the movement, inspired by water protectors at Standing Rock. She called this line “Resistance Jewelry”. This line sold out at Standing Rock and continues to be in high demand. Resistance beadwork was about elevating Indigenous pride, the Indigenous Rights movement and honors the power of those images to create unity and identity.  Sayo':klʌ has been affiliated with the Indigenous Environmental Network since 1999 and has been a member of the Board of Directors for 15yrs.

Today, Sayo':klʌ continues to develop new beadwork art, which a focus on Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse/ Six Nations) designs, colors, history and teachings. She also enjoys sharing her art with others and teaching others the art of beadwork by promoting Indigenous identity, celebrating life, and encouraging the continuation of who we are as a living culture- as Indigenous Peoples of North America.

Keith S. Wilson

Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award, and has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. Additionally, he has received fellowships or grants from Bread Loaf, Tin House, the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, UCross, the Millay Colony, and James Merrill House, among others. Keith was a Gregory Djanikian Scholar, and his poetry has won the Rumi Prize and been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best of the Net. His book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon), was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry.
;; re(context) ;; is a series of interactive texts (a digital chapbook) first created through a digital fellowship with Laboratory Spokane. Each piece investigates the fluidity of language—how, like water, language fills its container. And how we, as the keepers of language, cannot help but contextualize it through our physical experiences, even despite the ostensibly disembodied act of being online.

Anónimo | Unknown

Art Group Archetype

This project was formed due to the lack of creative communication and community in the artistic environment. The format of artistic research offered group members, above all, an intensive creative exchange, a program of interdisciplinary communication. In the period 2017-2018, meetings were organized with archaeologists, ritualists, experts in burials and death cult, historians, specialists in the study of the Olonkho epos, theater professionals, and museum specialists. The main idea of the project is to study those archetypal images, which, being a product of the collective unconscious, form the basis of creative thinking and artistic product in general, in particular, those archetypes that formed the plot and poetic canvas of the Yakut epos - Olonkho. The main question to the authors was how the Olonkho originated and how it was transformed by narrators before literary systematization. The task set to the authors was to make the most of the classical perception of Olonkho, conveyed through the literary work "Nyurgun Bootur Rapid", by canonical visualization of its plot and characters through illustrations by Vladimir Karamzin, Ellay Sivtsev, Timofey Stepanov, as well as to create a project-myth articulating archetypal symbols and psychological immersion in the consciousness of the generations that created the epos. Searching for and selecting specific archetypal images from the abstract concept of archaic world perception, the authors tried to trace myth-making as the only way of modeling the world and self-identification possible for our ancestors.

Bellu & Bellu

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Colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi

The Nchivi Ñuu Savi collective has been working since 2014 and was founded with the aim of strengthening, promoting, and disseminating the language, culture, history, and rights of the Ñuu Savi "People of the Rain" by the Nchivi Savi themselves "people of the rain," to forge bonds and give voice to the Mixtecos, primarily in their historical and cultural territory.

Izaira López Sánchez is ña’a Ñuu Savi (woman from the Town of the Rain/Mixtec) and speaker of Tu’un Savi (Language of the Rain/Mixtec). She holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of the Sea - Huatulco Campus. She is a researcher of Ñuu Savi, focusing her studies on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, repatriation of cultural elements, and ancestral remains of Ñuu Savi. She has undertaken academic stays at the Department of Indigenous Peoples, Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, Netherlands, and at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. At the latter, she worked with the Mixtec Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the American Indian. In 2023, she visited and collaborated with various local museums (Community Museum of Yucu Saa, Tututepec, Oaxaca), national museums (National Museum of Anthropology and History), and international museums (British Museum, London, Museum of Ethnology Hamburg, Museum of Ethnology Berlin, Germany, and Museum of Ethnology Leiden, Netherlands) to document and work with the Mixtec Collection in these institutions. She is a recipient of grants from The Americas Research Network (ARENET) and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). She received the State Youth Award Premio Atenea 2021. Additionally, she works on the revitalization of Tu’un Savi (Language of the Rain). She has participated in various local activities and national and international conferences to promote her language. She is the founder of the project Tu’un Vii "Beautiful Words," where she creates and disseminates content in Tu’un Savi on digital platforms, aiming to raise awareness among youth about the importance of Indigenous languages within and outside Ñuu Savi, emphasizing that language is fundamental to understanding the processes of Indigenous peoples and the significance of their cultural heritage.

Bio Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez

Omar Aguilar Sánchez is a Mixtec researcher from Oaxaca, Mexico. He has a PhD from Leiden University, the Netherlands and is an archeologist graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. He focuses on the study and understanding of the historical and cultural heritage of the people of Ñuu Savi (People of the Rain or Mixtec People), with a special focus on the Mixtec pictorial manuscripts. He won the 2016 INAH Award, the National Youth Award in 2019 and the 2021 INAH Award for his doctoral dissertation. He conceptualized and co-created the app Códices Mixtecos. He is co-founder of the Colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi (People of the Community of the Rain) and director of the digital project Mixtec Codices and Cultural-Historical Heritage of Ñuu Savi. Furthermore, he is a member of the project COLING, a fellow of The Americas Research Network (ARENET), member founder of the Universidad Autónoma Comunal de Oaxaca (UACO) and a member of the  National System of Researchers of México.

Soy Tee Savi (hombre de la lluvia), originario del municipio de Santo Tomás Ocotepec, perteneciente al Ñuu Savi (pueblo de la lluvia). Soy profesor de educación preescolar indígena del Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca desde el año 2009. He participado en distintas actividades como promotor cultural desde la educación local e institucional. He sido participante en la vinculación de diferentes áreas de la ciencia con la educación comunitaria desde una perspectiva propia. He sido cofundador del colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi (Gente del pueblo de la lluvia), el cual promueve actividades académicas multidisciplinarias enfocadas a la cultura, lengua y prácticas comunitarias ancestrales y de la actualidad. He impulsado la implementación de los nombres en lengua originaria de las escuelas de nueva creación, como una forma de promover y fortalecer el tu´un savi (idioma mixteco) en el ámbito institucional en el sistema educativo mexicano, principalmente en el subsistema de educación indígena. Formo parte del equipo fundador de la Universidad Autónoma Comunal de Oaxaca, la cual se creó por decreto del Congreso del Estado de Oaxaca en el año 2020. Derivado del trabajo realizado y los procesos vividos, de 2020 a 2023 me desempeñé como consejero académico del Centro Universitario Comunal de la Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco de la Universidad Autónoma Comunal de Oaxaca. He promovido junto con el Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, actividades enfocadas al estudio de los códices mixtecos con alumnos de educación inicial, preescolar, primaria, secundaria, madres y padres de familia, así como autoridades municipales de distintas agencias y municipios de la región mixteca. Soy egresado de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Unidad 201, Oaxaca. Maestro por el Centro de Estudios de Posgrado “Lev Vigotsky” en la Maestría en Ciencias de la Educación con especialidad en “Desarrollo de habilidades intelectuales” y actualmente doctorante en Ciencias Pedagógicas en el mismo Centro. Desde mi experiencia formativa, educativa y comunitaria, he retomado con bastante esmero la investigación de mi historia como parte del pueblo de la lluvia, de mis ancestros y de la herencia histórico y cultural que ha sido negada a través de los años, pero en especifico por el sistema educativo.

Creative Group “Oiduo”

Creative Group "OYDUO" is an independent creative group of enthusiasts making a series of documentaries on acute social and environmental issues in Yakutia, such as the movie in "Tuoi Haya: Gone from the Maps, but not from Memories" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkSGIh1vQtU; They write about themselves "We, complete strangers united after the man-made disaster on the Vilyui River in 2018. That's how our team appeared"... The movie tells about the events in Western Yakutia in the 1960s. The history of the Mirny district of Yakutia is inseparable from the development of diamond deposits which required a large amount of electricity. Construction of the Vilyuyskaya hydroelectric power plant began. Any major project is not without victims. The village of Tuoi Haya with a population of 500 people was in the Vilyui reservoir flood zone. The construction of the hydroelectric power plant was carried out in extremely difficult conditions: a completely uninhabited area with no housing, roads, and industrial base, plus harsh climate, and permafrost. There are several Soviet documentaries about all this which heroize the builders of a bright future. But they do not show the inconveniences and sufferings of those who had to relocate. The creators of the new Yakut film decided to fill this gap and tell about the fate of the people who were left without a small homeland.

Birding the Future (Krista Caballero and Frank Ekeberg)

Krista Caballero and Frank Ekeberg started collaborating on Birding the Future in 2013 wanting to explore the implications of species extinction and environmental change and ways in which technology mediates interspecies encounters. The project has been presented internationally in exhibitions, festivals and conferences such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Dubai; Balance-Unbalance International Conferences in Australia and Arizona; the North American Ornithological Conference; RAY2018 in Germany; Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial in Washington D.C.; and Futurescapes Symposium in Norway.

Caballero and Ekeberg were selected as 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows and are now Smithsonian Research Associates working with the National Museum of Natural History in the USA researching the cultural implications of bird species decline.

Laura Menchaca Ruiz & Khadar U. Handal

Laura Menchaca Ruiz is a sociocultural anthropologist and media maker from the borderlands of the U.S. Southwest. Her research and visual work are rooted in multi-sensory ethnography, epistemologies of the global south, feminist, gender and sexuality studies, decolonial approaches to space and place, and beauty as a critical method. Her creative work celebrates the marks that people make on the world, highlighting the extraordinary in the ordinary, and her scholarship explores survivance and cultures of resistance. Her approach to all her work treasures the local, the small-scale, the personal, and the intimate. Her work has been featured via Black Public Media, the Society for Visual Anthropology, and the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and supported by the Palestinian American Research Center, Society for the Humanities, the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, and the Social Science Research Council.

Khader U. Handal is a media maker based in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is a Co-Founder and Design Director at Element Media, a Bethlehem-based digital media company. Khader’s creative work focuses on the everyday dignities of life in Bethlehem that together, assemble a microcosm of a Palestinian life worth struggling for. His work centers themes of joy, honor, legacy, and resilience that don’t displace the political, but reveal the social questions that accompany it.

Mal de Ojo

Nataaha

Nataaha is a member of art group ARCHETYPE.

zhaoyuefan

zhaoyuefan was born in Wuhan, China and grew up in Beijing, China.
She has been working and living in Germany and Switzerland since 2016.

zhaoyuefan's artistic practice revolves around her experience of living as a legal alien in western countries ("why am I here"). Through video/sound installation, performance, writing, and prints/publishing, she interferes with daily life situations, de-/reconstructs existing objects and found images, digging into their contexts, uses lightness to touch on the visible and invisible boundaries shaped by language, culture, identities and collective memories. Her works are a series of translations, transformations and transpositions based on the transcultural context, leading to reflections on the western cultural hegemony and its profound influence in today's global especially East Asian societies.