Indira Allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Allegra’s work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Artnet, Art Journal, BOMB, e-flux Criticism, and Artforum and in exhibitions and performances at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), Blaffer Art Museum (Houston, TX), KADIST (San Francisco, CA), Center for Craft (Ashville, NC), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA) and SFMOMA (San Francisco, CA), among others. Allegra is the author of Tension Studies (2024), Dispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness (2024) and Blackout (2017) (Sming Sming Books). They have been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Burke Prize, United States Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital, Gerbode Choreographer Award, CripTech Metaverse Fellowship, and Art Matters.
Mariana Fernández is a writer and curator based in New York and Mexico City. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Artforum, ArtReview, BOMB, e-flux Criticism, frieze, Momus, and X-TRA, and in several exhibition catalogues.
Alessandra Gómez is a New York-based interdisciplinary curator and writer whose research focuses on the intersections of performance and visual art. She is the curator of a forthcoming public art initiative at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and curates at Offerings, a performance series at the historic Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square. Previously, she was a curator at Luna Luna and a member of The Shed’s founding curatorial team from 2018 to 2023. She has guest-curated shows for Nike, Center for Performance Research, Queens Museum, and Knockdown Center.
Amando Houser is a trans-masculine clown and actor born and based in NYC. Following a sold-out run at The Brick, their solo show DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch! debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and had its US premiere at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Off Broadway: Midnight Coleslaw! Tales From Beyond The Closet! (The Tank); Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken (Soho Rep). They have performed in and devised work at venues and variety nights around town as well as at The Signature, The Elysian, New York Theatre Workshop, Vox Populi Gallery, The Wild Project, JACK, and The Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College. Amando is a recent graduate of École Philippe Gaulier in France and has trained with Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and Julia Masli (ha ha ha ha ha ha).
Seta Morton is an interdisciplinary curator, performance producer, writer and editor based in New York, NY. She is the Program Director & Associate Curator at Danspace Project and the editor for Danspace’s digital and print publications. Seta has edited fifteen publications to date at Danspace and has co-curated numerous performances, artist commissions, public programs, residencies, and artist research fellowships. She has co-organized four Danspace Platforms with Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor (2021 + 2022) and with guest artist-curators Okwui Okpokwasili (2020) and Kyle Abraham (2024). Seta co-curated Danspace’s 50th Anniversary Festival with Judy Hussie-Taylor in 2025. In her work as an independent curator, Seta organized V E S S E L / / F E R M E N T: archive alchemy (make it a prayer), an evening of poetic readings and rituals for all-Black audiences at Pageant in Brooklyn, NY (February 2024) and curated The Burden, an exhibition of sculptures by Yves B. Golden, at the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, CA (Fall 2024). Seta was previously an independent producer for artists Sarah Michelson (2016-2018) and iele paloumpis (2021-2022) and worked as an administrator for choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones (2017-2019). Seta’s writing has been published by Danspace Project, Imagining: AGibney Journal, The Feminist Center for Creative Work /Co-Conspirator Press, Villa Albertine, BOMB, and Topical Cream.
Diana SeoHyung is a New York based-writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Momus, The AMP, Hyundai Artlab Editorial, and others. She is the recipient of the 2024 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. She is an immigrant, born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in Queens, New York, and is a mother of a six year old called Mark.
Lumi Tan is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is the curator for the Focus section of Frieze New York, and the curator for the 2026 Converge45 city-wide exhibition in Portland, Oregon. She recently served as the Curatorial Director of Luna Luna, a revival of the world’s first art amusement park created by André Heller in 1987 and exhibited in Los Angeles in 2024. Previously, she was Senior Curator at The Kitchen, New York, where over a twelve-year tenure, she organized exhibitions and produced performances with artists including Kevin Beasley, Meriem Bennani, Gretchen Bender, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autumn Knight, Moor Mother, Sondra Perry, The Racial Imaginary Institute, Tina Satter, Kenneth Tam, Danh Vo, and Anicka Yi. Tan has also held positions at the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, France; Zach Feuer Gallery, New York; and MoMA/P.S.1, New York. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Mousse, Cura, Art in America, and numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She was the recipient of 2020 VIA Art Fund Curatorial Fellowship, and has been visiting faculty at the School of Visual Arts, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and Yale School of Art.
Allie Tepper is an interdisciplinary curator and art historian invested in experimental practices in contemporary art. She is the curator of Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, the first retrospective on the artists’ five-decade exchange, presented at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College and the Columbus Museum of Art at the Pizzuti, and editor of an accompanying monograph. She has curated exhibitions and performances for the Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, SculptureCenter, and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. Tepper is the co-editor of Side by Side: Collaborative Artistic Practices in the United States, 1960s–80s (Walker Art Center, 2020), and a contributor to BOMB and ASAP/Journal. Previously she was assistant director of Triple Canopy.
Quori Theodor is an invitation to self, unlearning as insubordination. their work addresses questions of capital disobedience and the politics of vulnerability through the media of food. they are a founding member of Spiral Theory Test Kitchen and Circle Time School in partnership with Telfar Global.
Wendy Vogel is a writer and art critic based in Brooklyn, New York whose work often focuses on issues related to gender, power, identification, and body autonomy. In 2018, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing. She is a part-time assistant professor in the photography department at Parsons School of Design.
