Rehema Chachage works with and through multimedia/multisensory installation, image, sound, olfactory elements, and text. Rooted in divergent and decolonial perspectives, her research-based, process-oriented, and community-centered practice focuses on alternative and non-canonized knowledge, with an emphasis on knowledge that is community-centered and generated; on togetherness and community building as a means of survival; on forms of subversion and refusal that emerge from the mundane and everyday; and on the idea of continuity through citation, naming, and renaming, arguing that citation is a means for repair, re-membering and, more importantly, refusing erasure.

Avishek Ganguly works on the ethics and politics of writing-adjacent forms and practices like translation, theatre and performance, and most recently design. He has co-edited two books: ‘Performance and Translation in a Global Age’ (2023) with Kelina Gotman, and ‘Living Translation: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’ (2022) with Emily Apter, Mauro Pala and Surya Parekh. He is currently working on a monograph on the cultural politics of ‘Global Englishes’, and a transdisciplinary research project titled ‘Design Humanities.’ He is Associate Professor and Department Head of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, USA.

Nadia Yala Kisukidi, born in Brussels, Belgium is specialized in french and africana philosophy. She taught in Switzerland (University of Geneva) and France (University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis) .She was vice-president of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014-2016) and fellow at the Institute for Ideas and imagination/ Columbia University (2022-2023). Member of the editorial committee Les Cahiers d’études africaines (CNRS, Ehess), she was co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa / RDC – a process that took place in Kinshasa from february 2020 to august 2022. She has written a book with the feminist and Brazilian philosopher Djamila Ribeiro, Dialogue transatlantique (Paris, Anacaona, 2021), and her first novel is La Dissociation (Paris, Le seuil, 2022).

Naya de Souza aka LUX VENÉREA, the @Bundaskanzlerin of Germany. Naya de Souza was born in 1991 in the Caatinga region of Brazil and grew up between the borders of Bahia and Pernambuco. Working under different alter-egos like ‘LUX VENÉREA’ and ‘@Bundaskanzlerin,’ she transitions between disciplines such as performance art, comedy/stand-up, and cooking. Multilingual by birth and transdisciplinary by heritage, Naya’s body of work transcends traditional boundaries, whether between disciplines, countries, or institutions. She views art as a perpetual process of immigration and translation. Based in Berlin since 2016, Naya has stormed the cultural scene with her multimedia cabaret performances and politically charged stand-up sets. Her online ‘@Bundaskanzlerin’ serves as a social media critique of Germany’s exclusionary political/art world. With her pedagogical memes and adept teaching skills, Naya has become one of Berlin's most influential voices aiming to engage younger and marginalized audiences in Germany.

Dr. phil. Baruch Gottlieb, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University Montreal, is a practicing transdisciplinary artist specializing in embodied practices and methodologies, kunst am bau, art for public space, interactive and generative art, and sound art. He is currently lecturer in digital aesthetics at UdK Berlin and at FH Potsdam. He has a doctorate in digital aesthetics from the University of Arts Berlin and author of Most-Human Condition: A Treatise in Eco-Communism’ (Delere Press 2024), ’Gratitude for Technology’ (ATROPOS 2009), ‘A Political Economy of the Smallest Things’ (ATROPOS 2016), and Digital Materialism (Emerald 2018). Since 2017, he has been working as a curator at West Den Haag programming a wide range of activities and events, including exhibitions, discussion events, and schools.