Kerstin Schroedinger is an artist based in Lesvos/Greece, working with long-term research-based projects at the intersection of analogue film, video, sound and performance. Her projects are strongly concerned with the social and political formations of time-based media in their historicity and their materiality.

Artist and filmmaker Oliver Husain is based in Toronto, Canada. His projects are often collaborations with other artists and friends; and often begin with a fragment of history, a rumor, a personal encounter or a distant memory. He uses a wide range of cinematic languages, technical experiments and visual pleasures — such as dance, puppetry, costume, special effects — to animate his research and fold the viewers into complex narrative set-ups.

Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness. Often constructing heavily ornamented painted glaze surfaces and experimental, organic building techniques, Green explores material and object integrity by utilizing transness as a lens with which to look at the world.

Green has exhibited her work internationally, notably at the New Museum, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, France, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and as a part of La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon France. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including Transgender Studies Quarterly, Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen and The Center for Arts Research publications, University of Oregon, Eugene. Green is a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Winner, a 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation Grantee, and was a 2020 Art Matters Fellow. In 2019, she was finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award, and a recipient of an Arts/Industry Residency from the John Michael Kohler Art Center, among other awards and residencies. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Green is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Panteha Abareshi has an artistic practice rooted in their existence as a chronically ill/disabled body contending with multiple medical illnesses, at the foundation of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia- a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain and bodily deterioration, both of which increase with age.Their work explores the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored, constantly examined, and made to feel like a specimen, critically interrogating the sick/disabled body’s place within medical institutions. Taking images that are recognizable as “human” forms, and reducing them to the gestural is a juxtaposition of Abareshi’s own body’s objectification, and dissection. Through performance work, they pushes their body to, and often beyond, the limits of its ability. In their video work and sculptural installations, Abareshi confronts the able-bodied gaze, and questions notions of consent within the dynamics of power, control and objectification between viewer and disabled body as subject. The radicalized abjectification of the normative corporeal form allows for a rigorous examination of the complexities and hierarchies within loss of ability, and its connection to a larger context of universal fragility fear, pain and mortality.

Currently, Abareshi is focusing on the disabled body as fetish object, and conducting research into disabled sexuality, and its representations within pornography and fetish materials.

P. Staff (b. 1987, Bognor Regis; lives and works in Los Angeles and London) studied at Goldsmiths College, London (2009) and was part of the Associate Artist Programme at LUX, London (2011). Solo exhibitions have been held at Ordet, Milan (2024); Kunsthalle Basel (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2022, 2018); LUMA, Arles (2021); Institute of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2020); Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); 59th Venice Biennale (2022); 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021); Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2021); 47 Canal, New York (2021); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); and Gasworks, London (2016). Staff is a recipient of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019) and the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists (2015). Staff has participated in residencies at FD13, Minneapolis (2018); LUX, London (2014); The Showroom, London (2014); Fogo Island Arts (2012); and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta (2010).