Piotr Bujak is a Polish interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher. He lives and works between Krakow and Tokyo. While working on this project, he was employed as a JSPS postdoctoral researcher in the Yoshitaka Mouri Lab at the School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. His recent shows have included Wander for Wonder, at the Tokyo Biennale, and No Way Back, at Krakauer Haus, Nurnberg, both 2025.Ana M. Franco teaches in the Department of Art History at Rice University. She is the author of Neo-clásicos: Edgar Negret y Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar entre París, Nueva York y Bogotá, 1944–1964 (2019) and coeditor of the volume New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America (2019). She curated the exhibitions Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: La Vida entre Cajas y Papeles at the Centro de Exposiciones at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and New Classicism in Collage: Edgar Negret, Louise Nevelson and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar at the Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery in Houston.Branislav Jakovljević teaches in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University. His most recent book is The Performance Apparatus: On Ideological Production of Behaviors (University of Michigan Press, 2025). He is the author of the award-winning book Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–1991 (2016) and of a number of other books and articles published internationally.Kristine Nielsen teaches in the School of Art & Design at Illinois Wesleyan University. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies and journals, including Critical Arts, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, Passepartout, Periskop, and Third Text.Paulina Pardo Gaviria specializes in the history of modern and contemporary art of the Americas. Her scholarship focuses on the development of contemporary art under dictatorship in Brazil and examines the introduction of experimental artistic strategies beginning in the 1970s. Paulina teaches in the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach.Karen Benezra is an independent scholar living in New York City.Yevgeniy Fiks is a New York-based artist, author, and organizer of art exhibitions.Igor Grubić is a Croatian multimedia artist raised in the former federal republic of Yugoslavia. His work spans public interventions, photography, and film.Angela Harutyunyan teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is a founding member of the Ashot Johannissyan Research Institute in the Humanities, Yerevan, and the Beirut Institute of Critical Analysis and Research. One of the founding editors of ARTMargins, she has extensively researched and written on postSoviet art and culture, Marxist aesthetics, historical temporality, and curatorial theory.Gal Kirn teaches cultural sociology at the University of Ljubljana and is currently affiliated with European University Viadrina.Jaleh Mansoor teaches in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia.Magdalena Radomska teaches in the Institute of Art History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and activist who teaches at the City University of New York Graduate Center and serves as a codirector of Social Practice CUNY. His forthcoming book from MIT Press is titled The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World.Sven Spieker teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent books are a co-edited volume about sound in art and culture (Akusmatik als Labor: Kultur/ Kunst/Medien, edited with Mario Asef, 2023) and the monograph Art as Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge (2024). Forthcoming is the edited volume Curating Socialism: International Art Exhibitions 19471989 (Toronto University Press).Kuba Szreder teaches in the Department of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
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