Cosey Fanni Tutti is an English performance artist, musician and writer, best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.
Liam Gillick is a British artist who lives and works in New York City. Gillick deploys multiple forms to make visible the aesthetics of the constructed world and examine the ideological control systems that have emerged along with globalization and neoliberalism. He utilizes materials that resemble everyday built environments, transforming them into minimalist abstractions that deliver commentaries on social constructs, while also exploring notions of modernism.
Jens Hoffmann Mesén is a writer, editor, educator, and exhibition maker. His work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making. From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London. He is the former director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art from 2007 to 2016 and deputy director for exhibitions and programs at The Jewish Museum from 2012 to 2017, a role from which he was terminated following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations brought forth by staff members. Hoffmann has held several teaching positions including California College of the Arts, the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as others.
Fillip is a Vancouver-based contemporary art publishing organization formed in 2004. It publishes a magazine as well as books of critical writing. The magazine with the same name was started in 2005. The publisher of the magazine is the Projectile Publishing Society, a Canadian non-profit.
Joseph Thomas Del Pesco is a contemporary art curator and arts writer. He is currently the International Director of Kadist.
Gary Webb is a British artist. He makes sculptures out of industrial materials, often achieving comic effects with the use of sound.
Nathaniel Mellors is an English contemporary artist and musician.
Jessica Voorsanger is an American artist and academic, living and working in London. She has worked on the "Mystery Train" project for the Institute of Contemporary Arts to make contemporary art more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Her work has been exhibited more than two dozen times with her husband, fellow artist Patrick Brill, best known as Bob and Roberta Smith.
Maayan Amir, born in 1978 Hadera, Israel, is an artist, researcher, and senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Arts Department.
Kadist is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection. In addition to being a collecting body, Kadist hosts artists residencies and produces exhibitions, publications, and public events. The first location was opened in Paris in 2006 by Vincent Worms and Sandra Terdjman, and a San Francisco, California location was added in 2011 in the Mission District.
Zach Blas is an artist and writer based in London. His work engages technology and politics and has been exhibited internationally at venues including IMA Brisbane; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Currently, Blas is a lecturer in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths.
Candice Hopkins is a Carcross/Tagish First Nation independent curator, writer, and researcher who predominantly explores areas of indigenous history, and art.
Cell Project Space is a not-for-profit gallery space and workspace provider based in Cambridge Heath, East London. Cell Project Space presents up to 5 exhibitions and 3-4 events per year and supports the dissemination of artists’ knowledge to the local community through workshops.
Lisbon-born Filipa Ramos is a writer, lecturer and curator. She received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the School of Critical Studies at Kingston University, London. Her research, manifested in exhibitions, critical and theoretical texts, lectures, workshops and edited publications, focuses on how art addresses ecology, fostering relationships between nature and technology. She advocates a move away from anthropocentric approaches in the arts and humanities.
Charlotte Prodger is a British artist and film-maker who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her films include Statics (2021), SaF05 (2019), LHB (2017), Passing as a great grey owl (2017), BRIDGIT (2016), Stoneymollan Trail (2015) and HDHB (2012). In 2018, she won the Turner Prize.
Helen Cammock is a British artist. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Turner Prize and was awarded the prize along with the other three nominees. For the first time ever, they asked the jury to award the prize to all four artists and their request was granted. She works in a variety of media including moving image, photography, poetry, spoken word, song, printmaking and installation.
John Menick is an artist and writer working primarily in the moving image, fiction, and essay form.
Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist currently who works between New Delhi and London. Singh Soin's interdisciplinary work focuses on the nature of identity, environmental issues, and the notion of deep time. She works across film, spoken word, performance, epistolary poetry, animation, music, and embroidery, which allows her to interweave complex concepts and narratives together. Singh Soin has performed and exhibited at the Serpentine Galleries, Dhaka Art Summit, Somerset House, Devi Art Foundation, and Performa, and won the India Foundation for the Arts Award, and the Frieze Artist Award.
Rianna Jade Parker is a British writer, critic, curator and researcher based in South London whose work stems from her interest in internationalist Black cultural production. She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary collective Thick/er Black Lines and a contributing editor of frieze.
Isabel Waidner is a German-British writer and cultural theorist based in London. They have written four novels: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Sterling Karat Gold, We are Made of Diamond Stuff and Gaudy Bauble. We are Made of Diamond Stuff, set in the Isle of Wight where Waidner's partner is from, was nominated for the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize, and Sterling Karat Gold won the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize. They are also the editor of the anthology Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature and have written for numerous publications including Granta, Frieze, the Cambridge Literary Review, and AQNB. Along with artist Richard Porter, Waidner is the co-founder of the Queers Read This event series hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Arts. They were the host and curator of the ICA's literary talk series, This Isn't a Dream, which was live-streamed fortnightly via Instagram Live between January and May 2021.
