Constantina Zavitsanos works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound to elaborate what’s invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and means beyond measure. Zavitsanos has exhibited at the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Artists Space, and Participant Inc. in New York. With Park McArthur, they wrote “Other Forms of Conviviality” in the journal Women & Performance (2013), and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (2017). They are a coorganizer of the cross-disability arts events I Wanna Be With You Everywhere and have received a Roy Lichtenstein Award in Visual Arts from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists and a Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from Bard College/CCS. Zavitsanos lives and works in New York.
Danielle A. Jackson is the Curator at Artists Space, New York.
Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher, writer, and filmmaker who currently holds the Samuel Rudin Professor in Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and co-directs the Critical Racial and Anti-Colonial Study Co-Laboratory at New York University. As an academic, her publications include Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013), Homo Modernus (2022), Unpayable Debt (2022) and A Divida Impagavel (2024). Her numerous articles have been published in venues such as Social Text, TCS-Theory, Culture and Society, The Black Scholar, Boundary 2, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Quarterly, Cultural Dynamics, Social Identities, Theory & Event, and Griffith Law Review, among others. She has held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and La Trobe University, among others. In 2023, she held the International Chair in Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the Université Paris 8. Her artwork includes the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters: Deep Implicancy (2018), and Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020); Ancestral Clouds / Ancestral Claims (2022), with Arjuna Neuman; and the performance and visual art practices Poethical Reading, Sensing Salon, and Reading with Echo (with Valentina Desideri). She has exhibited, performed, lectured, and/or contributed to publications at renowned international art spaces including the Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Barbican Centre, Serpentine Gallery, MASP, Galway Arts Centre, Kunsthal Extracity, MACBA, Munch Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, and the São Paulo, Berlin, Urals, and Venice Biennials.
Valentina Desideri explores art making as a form of study and study as a form of making art. She trained in contemporary dance at the Laban Centre in London (2003–6), later did her MA in fine arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (2011–13), and then received a PhD at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2019–23). She does Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, and is one of the coorganizers of Performing Arts Forum in France, she speculates in writing with Stefano Harney, she engages in Poethical Readings and gathers Sensing Salons with Denise Ferreira da Silva, she is part of the online platform www.ehcho.org. She reads and writes.
Kearra Amaya Gopee is an antidisciplinary visual artist and facilitator from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin islands comprising the nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing, and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. Their work has been exhibited at venues such as Documenta 15, The Kitchen, White Columns, and at film festivals internationally. Previously, they have been awarded fellowships by MacDowell, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, Queer|Art, and the Global Fund for Women. In 2023–24, they were an Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 2024, they will be in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program as well as Headlands Center for the Arts. They have participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Red Bull Arts Detroit, and NLS Kingston in Jamaica, among others. They have guest lectured at Emory University, Rutgers University, and the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. They hold an MFA from UCLA with a concentration in interdisciplinary studio and a BFA in photography and imaging from New York University.
S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist working primarily in poetry and photography, and, by extension, vocal and sonic performance and publishing.
Jason Hirata lives and works in Highland Park, New Jersey. Hirata holds a BFA in photography from the University of Washington. Recent solo exhibitions include Dà a chi avaregia, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2024); Werkgelegenheid / Interruptions & Coincidence, Billytown, The Hague (with Magnus Frederik Clausen) (2023); Minutes, Ulrik, New York (2022); Plot, Theta, New York (with Tony Chrenka) (2021); From Now in Then, Fanta-MLN, Milan (2021); Sometimes You’re Both, 80WSE, New York (2019); Pelican, Svetlana, New York (2019); Splash, Veronica Project Space, Seattle (2019); and 25 October 2015–12 May 2019: Work Organized by Jason Hirata, Kunstverein Nuremberg (2019). His works have been presented in group exhibitions at Fluentum, Berlin (2024); Ensemble, New York (2024); Regards, Chicago (2023); Simian, Copenhagen (2023); Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2023); Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2023); 4649, Tokyo (2022); The Wig, Berlin (2022); Ulrik, New York (2022); Fanta-MLN, Milan (2022); Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (2022); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2022); Drei, Mönchengladbach (2021); Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2021); KevinSpace, Vienna (2020); Artists Space, New York (2019); and FriArt, Fribourg (2018).
Carolyn Lazard is a New York/Philadelphia-based conceptual artist and writer working across video, sculpture, performance, and installation. Their work engages the radical possibilities of care, dependency, and collectivity. Lazard has had celebrated solo presentations of their work at both national and international institutions. They participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2019 and 2024, as well as the Venice Biennale in 2022. Their work is included in the permanent collection of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museum Ludwig, Cologne. They are a 2024 Macarthur “genius” Fellow.
Park McArthur’s recent solo exhibitions include Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany, and Paid, Seattle, both 2023.
Geelia Ronkina is a writer and artist based in New York. Recent work has appeared in Cura., The Contemporary Journal and at the Poetry Project, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Performance Space New York. They were a 2023–24 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney ISP and are a current PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University.
Cameron Rowland lives and works in Queens, New York. Rowland’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; Établissement d’En Face, Brussels; Artists Space, New York; and Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York.
