is calling on you – yes, you, even as you read this – to renew your commitment to refusing and resisting genocide everywhere you find it. May your commitment to Palestinian liberation deepen your commitment to your own. May your exhaustion deepen your resolve and make you immovable. May we all be drawn irresistibly closer to refusals that are as spectacular as the violence waged against our peoples.
was born and raised on Gadigal Land, and is currently based in London. They like Toni Morrison, semi-colons, and loitering.
attended public schools then Deerfield Academy and made his first film in New York in 1966. He was encouraged by the freedom of the New American Cinema, and in 1967 relocated to Europe with the filmmaker, Gregory Markopoulos. He has made films in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and the USA, he currently lives in Berlin.
is an artist based in Zürich. She is interested in materiality, more specifically the permeability between the worlds of ‘dead’ materials and ‘living’ organisms. She is currently trying to make biopolymer casting materials using agro-industrial food waste such as blood.
is the author of Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes (Milkweed, 2024) and a moving nomad thinker, daring to tress hope in tormented voids. She is a nonspeaking autistic poet and the co-founder of Hear Our Minds, an art movement motioning autistic revolution.
was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland.
is a British photographer, living and working in Berlin. He tends to problematise photography as a medium. For example, by manifesting what would normally be post production processes in front of the lens.
is one of Denmark’s most exciting writers. Their debut novel, Marie House Warehouse, was awarded the Bodil & Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize for emerging Danish writers in 2016. In 2023, After the Sun was awarded the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, adding to its long list of accolades that also includes winning the Nordic Council Literature Prize and a nomination for the International Booker Prize. Eika lives in Copenhagen.
is a writer and artist. His most recent publications are: Gallery and A Box of Ideas, both published by Timglaset, and Pett Levell published by Deaths of Workers.
is a writer based in New York. Recent work has been published by or is forthcoming in Second Factory, Annulet, mercury firs and others. Currently he is an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU, and the Assistant Poetry Editor of the Washington Square Review.
is the author of eight books, including the novels Summer of Hate, Torpor and I Love Dick. Her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together, will be published in 2025.
is a poet based in New York. He is currently working on two interrelated books of poetry: AMBULANCE (short poems) and HOSPITALITY (one long poem). He’s looking to surprise you, i.e. to incite gaps in language that allow forgotten possibilities and non-hegemonic forms of intelligence to slip through.
was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1928 to Greek immigrant parents, he began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder of the New American Cinema movement in the 1960s. In 1967, he left the United States for permanent residence in Europe, withdrew his films from circulation and concentrated upon an ideal form of film presentation, The Temenos.
teaches philosophy at Emory University, and is the author of several books of poems, including: Duppies (Commune Editions: 2019), and Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman: 2008). His poetry has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review and Poetry London.
is a tilted listening animal languaging. He teaches and learns at Unrestricted Interest and is the curator of Multiverse, a series of neurodivergent writing from Milkweed Editions. His most recent book of poems is Things to Do in Hell (Coffee House, 2020) and his first book of nonfiction is May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future (HarperOne, 2022).
lives and works in CDMX. At first glance, her work carries aesthetic and pleasure claims, right up to a tenuous range of sensations. However, its presentation is performative – soaked with temporality – and its purpose, conceptual. The work revolves around a quest to locate and isolate concepts built around tangible elements, to then create abstractions that regenerate their image and position their force within a new context.
is an artist broadly concerned with expressions of multiplicity; fragmentations of thought and feeling that complicate dominant cultural narratives of the singular, cohering subject. Spanning video, drawing, sculpture, writing and audio, her work seeks moments of dissonance and simultaneity to explore vital antagonisms within, and between, what we call selves.
is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. Her work centers around the use of printmaking, fabrication, photography and drawing, as means to serve as visual hosts for research of environments, land use, and shifting perspectives. www.tavatedesco.com
is a writer, professor and photographer. He is the author of The New York Times bestselling poetry collection, Time is a Mother, and The New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. He currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City, where he serves as a Professor in Modern Poetry and Poetics in the MFA Program at NYU.
is the first non-speaking autistic to attend a university in Canada. He is completing his MA studies at Concordia University and is co-founder of dis Assembly, a neurodiverse arts Co-Lab. He is a poet and artist and author with works The Wanting Way (Milkweed Press) and Open Book In The Ways of Water (Punctum University Press) and has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and poets.org. He is presently completing an experimental film installation film and more of his work can be found at adamwolfond.com and dis-assembling.com.
creates multi-layered text-based narratives using video, sound, photography, performance and more. TL;DR, was published in 2021 by If A Leaf Falls Press and documentation of Sink In / III, a livre d’artiste can be found in Prototype 4, the fourth instalment of Prototype’s annual anthology.
is a critically acclaimed LA-based philosopher, visual artist and poet. He has won a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize.
is a writer based in London. His short fiction has appeared in The White Review, The London Magazine, 3:AM and others. In 2022 he was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.
has created a complex body of work that considers the relationship between the corporeal and the digital, the ordinary and the uncanny, through high-definition computer-generated (CG) animations, theatrical environments, elliptical writings, and syncopated sound montages. With these filmic and text-based artworks, Atkins tracks forms of feeling, living, and communicating hidden behind or curtailed by technological representation, which unfold into sensitive and often somber narratives.
works with performance, using texts, video fragments and choreographies – either composed or strategically appropriated from elsewhere. This works aims to explore the unique ways we learn though performing and especially how knowledge and meaning are generated through relationships with others. Since 2016 he has published TALKER, a zine that features interviews with performance-makers about their process.
is an artist and filmmaker who balances conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision in her work. She merges films, sculptures, installations, live-performances, text pieces, and publications that are grounded in the material and conceptual qualities of cinema. She also creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship.
focuses on sexuality, politics and narrative experimentation in her writing, challenging the distinctions between fiction, the essay and poetry. In 2018-19 she was the subject of ‘On Our Mind’, a yearlong series of pubic events, commissioned essays and reading-group meetings organised by CCA Wattis ICA. In October, 2021 Semiotext(e) published Bee Reaved, a essay/memoir collection circling around grief, loss and abandonment; and a new edition of her 1998 PoMo vampire novel The Letters of Mina Harker. With Kevin Killian, she co-edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997.
was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. Berlant was a leading theorist whose impact stretched across disciplinary lines. They sought to define the desires and emotions that compel people to create forms of life that support a sense of belonging, and the complex ways in which gender, race, citizenship, class and sexuality affect and mould those attachments.Berlant’s award-winning book, Cruel Optimism (2011), analyzed the devices that affect everyday human connections, and how the culturally conditioned material regard for the perfect life compels human beings to act against their own best interests.
is a Brazilian artist based in Lisbon, whose artistic practice combines tangible, performative and written matter, in collaborative and individual trajectories. Her transdisciplinary training – Visual Arts, Philosophy and Contemporary Dance – favors a crossing of borders of knowledge and a critical and experimental approach.
is an artist living and working in London. Previous projects include Artlicks Weekend Radio & RTM FM: Submission with Corelli Hotel, 2019, Stalker, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam, 2015, Private Dancer, Wolfart Projectspace, Rotterdam, 2015. In 2015 he worked on the Brighton School Project public art commission with Spacemakers agency.
is an artist based at Submit to Love Studios – home to a group of artists living with a brain injury. Solo exhibitions of Tony’s work include Cafe OTO (London, 2019) and e5 bakehouse (London, 2015) .
has acted as Reviews Editor of Poetry London and is an editor of clinic press. His publications are Faber New Poets 15 and, with Lavinia Singer, Try To Be Better (Prototype, 2019), a creative-critical engagement with W. S. Graham. He is currently completing a PhD at the University of York, and in 2018 undertook an AHRC fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2016, and has published critical writing and/or poetry in Chicago Review, Poetry Review and Test Centre magazine.
has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). Other titles include While Standing in Line for Death and Ecodeviance. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
is a moving image artist based in London. She is a recipient of the BBC Arts and Arts Council England New Creatives scheme and received her MA in Experimental Film from Kingston University in 2021. Her work has screened at LUX, ICA, FILET, Strangloscope and Alchemy Film and Moving Image.
is united by a passion for the traditional music of the British Isles, Ireland and beyond. They are committed to folk music not as an artifact to be unearthed, but as a communal activity – inviting to those it speaks to. A kind of musique boue, a patchwork stitched together and rearranged, holding the voices of the oppressed and those who, by their labour, create the wealth of the world.
is writing a book about undocumented lives. They can be contacted via workbookcollective@protonmail.com
is a writer living in South London. He works as a nurse in north London. He has previously written a number of self-published works under his own DIY imprint, Poppy Books. A selection of these were collected together by De Stijl Records in the USA in 2011. He is currently writing a memoir about the criminal justice system
is a writer, translator and researcher. Following her 2007 debut with the sonnet collection Fremdwörterbuchsonette, she has published books in English and German in mixed genres and media, including I, Coleoptile and Lather in Heaven with Broken Dimanche Press. Her most recent works include translations of Joe Wenderoth (All that ever happens/Das einzige, was passiert, Engstler 2020), Isabel Waidner (Gaudy Bauble/Geile Deko, Merve 2020), Rosmarie Waldrop (The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter/Pippins Tochters Taschentuch, Suhrkamp 2021; Rehearsing the Symptoms/Die Symptome Proben, Engeler 2021) and the SF prose collection Lyophilia (Suhrkamp 2019). Cotten is currently working on her dissertation collecting material for a non-humanist aesthetics at IFK Vienna.
is an artist and writer based in Frankfurt and London. He writes plays, short stories and novellas and makes sculpture, video, painting and installation.
is an artist who plays with spatial boundaries through performance, writing, sound and installations. Identifying direct actions that focus on how environments choreograph bodies becomes an everyday practice and intervention of navigating spaces. By doing so the works explore social and political histories through the construct of site.
has published several collections of short stories and for a time worked as Alfonso Reyes’s secretary. In recent years a massive resurgence of interest has acknowledged her as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. Awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1977, she was honoured with the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2015.
writes about landscapes of memory, intimacy and dominion; her poetry can be found in the anthology Poets of Queens, as well as in computer files and recycling bins across several continents. She is the translations editor at Armstrong Literary and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she spends most days drinking tea compulsively.
is an artist, teacher, artistic researcher and occasional curator. He is currently developing a new body of artwork under the working title of ‘The Phantom Industry’ which includes drawings, performance, sound works, animations, objects and large scale texts. His work is formally difficult to classify, as it moves between various media, technologies, materials, processes and forms, but it could be said to have a leaning towards the mattering (and un-mattering) of language. He is based in Bristol UK.
is an artist and writer from California. His writing has appeared in a number of publications including Artforum, Mousse, X-TRA and Frieze. He lives in Europe. www.renebel.com
is an artist, activist and writer based in London. Elsey works mostly with text, radio and events to unfurl thinking across the continuum between sociopolitical urgencies and speculative fancies.
is a performance artist living and working in London. Responding to a political climate where misinformation and fraudulent rhetoric propagate through public life, Ewe’s performances explore one’s self as a personal and privatized object – often to absurd ends. He ‘reopens’ stolen space (as therapy uncovers trauma) to narrate a performance, a location and the psychological parameters of the live moment in real time with an audience.
is a choreographer based in London. She enjoys collaborating with artists of all mediums. She is interested in improvisation, chance, the collective unconscious, and dream states.
is a poet from and based in New York City, whose poems can be found in Form IV, Wendy’s Subway’s The Quick and The Dead, The Felt, and No Dear among others. They hold an MFA from Bard College, and co-curate ‘Here I Am Again’, a reading series. They are currently an immigration paralegal for detained minors.
is a Scottish artist, filmmaker and musician. He has developed a practice that is, at the same time, singular and collaborative, poetic and political, structural and documentary, archival and deeply human. With an emphasis on communities of people, outward thinkers and the history of the left, his 16mm films tell the stories of alternative movements in Britain, from psychiatry to photography to music to education.
is a Swedish-American musician and filmmaker from New Orleans, Louisiana. Aili studies the rapidly changing environmental and human landscapes of her upbringing, often using local folktales from the Gulf Coast and Scandinavian forests as a backdrop to investigate natural disaster, resource extraction, and how our interactions with the environment reflect the complexities of our own personal connections.
is an artist and researcher established between Madrid and London. Their artistic practice employs oppositional reading strategies, camouflage techniques, and opaque translations through minor gestures to saturate or inhibit the relationships between alterity, intelligibility, and value.
is an artist/filmmaker working with fictional activism to critique imperialist storytelling in 20th-century cinema. She was joint-winner of Film London’s Jarman Award and recipient of the Stuart Croft Moving Image Award in 2020. Her film The Bang Straws (2021) screened at the 65th BFI LFF Short Film Award and she won the Best Experimental Film Award at Aesthetica Short Film Festival. She is currently working on a new film Thieves a fantasy adventure and tale of fictional revenge.
is an artist, experimental poet, writer and editor whose work has taken shape across a diverse range of media and concepts involving the materiality of language, memory, sound ecology, perceptions and boundaries of place, elements of chance, ritual and archive. Her processual practice is described as poetic fieldwork through practices of expanded writing, field recording, deep listening, sound poetry, performance, drawing, found objects, video and installation.
is a poet, his recent books include Now It’s Dark (Wesleyan, 2020), Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2020), and Archeophonics (Finalist for the National Book Award, Wesleyan, 2016). His honors fellowships from The Rex Foundation, The Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The Guggenheim Foundation. He has twice been the recipient of The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. For more info: petergizzi.org
is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She has written many books and drawn many drawings. Find out more at reneegladman.com.
is the author of two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist, and two story collections, Elements and Denny Smith. His collected essays, Communal Nude, was published by Semiotext(e) in 2016 and New York Review of Books Classics republished Margery Kempe in 2020. His books of poetry include Reader, La Fontaine with Bruce Boone, and In Commemoration of the Visit with Kathleen Fraser. In 2023 Roof Books will publish Glück’s long poem ‘I Boombox’. With Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott, he edited the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Glück served as director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. He was co-director of Small Press Traffic Literary Center and associate editor at Lapis Press.
is a Chinese artist based in Los Angeles and Shanghai. He received a BA in studio art and environmental analysis from Pitzer College, California. His photographic and installation work explores human’s fragile relationship with nature, as well as the vanishing boundary between the natural and the built environment.
is a poet, translator and essayist. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of the poetry collections Rumored Place (2004), which was nominated for the California Book Award; Disaster Suites (2009); Music for Porn (2012); Common Place (2015); and [————]Placeholder (2015). He co-wrote the book-length poem Snow Sensitive Skin (2011) with Taylor Brady.
is an artist working mostly with sound and installation.She is currently completing BA in Fine art at Central Saint Martins. Her practice is motivated by the philosophy of eastern mysticism and modern science. She tries to give the audience an aesthetic experience by evoking the eeriness within the space through sound and installation. @sohyunhaan
is an artist and writer based in Battersea, he is also the director of the non-profit project space Wells Projects. Charlie’s practice included painting, printmaking, writing, facilitating and teaching.
is a Korean-American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, a collection of poems, performances, and essays; and the novel On Hell. Their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Their new novel, Your Love Is Not Good, will be published by And Other Stories Press in May 2023.
is a poet and prose writer based in Ireland. Her poetry pamphlet Illuminations at Nightfall was published by Sunday Mornings at the River in 2022. She’s the winner of the Luain Press Prize 2022, was shortlisted in the Anthology Poetry Award & Dark Winter Contest, and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. Her work appears in The Moth, fifth wheel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Moria, National Poetry Month Canada, and elsewhere. www.christinahennemann.com
is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Professor Emerita in Literature at the University of California, San Diego, she has mentored a generation of American poets, activists, and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical forms of thinking.
is a writer and critic based in Berlin. Her second book, Pisti 80 Rue de Belleville (After 8 Books, 2020) was just released, with an introduction by Chris Kraus. Her forthcoming book, Midsommer, co-written with Sabrina Tarasoff, is scheduled for release with Mousse Publishing in spring 2021.
is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. The collective’s work disrupts historical narratives and addresses political action, including decolonisation and social protest; their films reexamine collective memories and histories of patriarchal and capitalist regimes.
is an artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally, working across art making and curating, studio and organisation. He is the founder of TACO!, an artist-led space for research, production and exchange located in Thamesmead, South East London.
is the author of numerous books, including Victims, Wolf at the Door, All Fall: Two Novellas, The Suiciders, See You Again in Pyongyang and Bad Writing. In addition, he is known as the creator of object-oriented writing, a metaphysical form of writing-as-embodiment that attempts to channel the inner lives of art objects; Jeppesen’s first major object-oriented writing project, 16 Sculptures, was published in book format by Publication Studio, featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial as an audio installation, and was the subject of a solo exhibition at Wilkinson Gallery in London; his second one, U, is in progress and is excerpted in Fieldnotes Issue 3.
is a poet and musician based in Beijing. He has published a small number of poems with very few readers in last 15 years. Since 2016 he has used pennames for self-publishing in China. He is an active artist who works in the experimental music field. yanjun.org
is a London based cellist from Germany. Over the years, she has carefully deconstructed her childhood classical roots and almost exclusively plays unscripted, improvised music. Much of her work has evolved in relationship with other art forms such as poetry, film, dance and site specific performance. www.utekanngiesser.net
is a filmmaker, writer and lecturer. His book London, based on his 1994 film of the same name, was published by FUEL in 2020. His other films include Robinson in Space (1997), also a book (1999) and Robinson in Ruins (2010), expanded as The Robinson Institute, an exhibition at Tate Britain in 2012. patrickkeiller.org
lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Kemp is the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and in 2020 he received The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. His work is represented by Martos Gallery, NY and M. LeBlanc, Chicago.
lives on a farm in the Campsies in Scotland, and for the past 10 years has been developing a constantly evolving, semi-mechanical orchestra. Made up of mechanically-assisted acoustic instruments, this orchestra is designed to be played by one person and creates sounds that are dictated, in part, by the uncontrollable nature of the instruments in the set-up.
works predominantly on long-term documentary projects. In 2008 she self-published the book We would come to doubt everything. And almost everyone would come to doubt, in 2014 her second book Sous cloche was published by Kominek Books, Berlin. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and she has worked as an Artist in Residence at KAIR in Kamiyama, Japan, Le Chateau d’Eau in Toulouse, France and at MING Studios in Boise, Idaho. Currently, Wytske is working on a new publication titled Stick Holding Branch combining photographs made between 2014 and 2019 in The French Pyrenees, Japan and Idaho.
is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. She is focused on making immersive performative situations and installations, employing a wide range of mediums. Her work is situated at the intersection of liveness and stillness. Through her practice, she is trying to expand our comprehension of performativity as a perceptual apparatus.
is a writer. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, The New England Review, Washington Square Review, Volume I Brooklyn, Midnight Breakfast, and The Nervous Breakdown among others. She is the author of the poetry chapbook John Travolta Considers His Odds (2016, Whitehorse & Slaughter) and is completing her first novel. She has taught creative writing and composition at the University of Texas at the Permian Basin and Columbia University, where she received a De Alba fellowship in fiction.
is the author of From Old Notebooks (Dzanc Books) and Avatar (Six Gallery Press). He is a founding editor of Noemi Press and teaches creative writing in the MFA Program at Virginia Tech. Find him at el-s.net.
is an artist based in London.
works between Lisbon and London. He works predominantly between video and sculpture, reflecting on three main subjects: Vision, Religion and Sexuality. His work emphasises the power of belief(s) and illusions, in order to inspect notions of sensitivity – through one’s senses, morals or experiences. The results are pieces that work as detectives, searching for something labeled as soul. He also draws from his lived experiences of employment in locations such as sex-shops, gay saunas and cruising parties, to gain insight on queer sexuality. Previous exhibitions include MELTDOWN (2022) at Ridley Road Project Space, London, Staying Alive (2022) at Duplex AIR, Lisbon, and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.
is a writer, critic and prize-winning translator of German literature including work by Durs Grünbein, Volker Braun, Michael Krüger, Evelyn Schlag and Raoul Schrott. Her translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s Thick of it (Seagull Books, 2018) won an English PEN award and an American PEN/Heim award, and was runner up for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize of the Society of Authors (2019). Her most recent translation is Ulrike Almut Sandig’s I am a field of rapeseed, give cover to deer and shine like thirteen oil paintings laid one on top of the other (Seagull Books, 2020).
lives and works in Berlin. Lippard’s practice explores the voice as a medium. Her education in graphic design informs how language can be visually powerful; her texts are visual, rhythmic, and performative rather than purely informative, and her work is conveyed through a variety of disciplines, which include short films, sound pieces, installations and performance.
considers the potential of the body as an archive in order to examine how memory and identity is formed and constituted, with a focus on dance and through a varied and often collaborative body of work comprising performance, installation, sound and video.
is the author of the forthcoming Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners (Fordham, 2021), Giraffes of Devotion (Kore), Electrical Theories of Femininity (Black Radish), and Household Mechanics (New Issues). She lives near Seattle, WA and is working on a book of poems about the life and work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. sarahmangold.com
is an artist fascinated with history, conspiracy theories and the interconnectivity of things. As artist-in-residence at Hart Club – an organisation championing neurodiveristy in the arts, since early 2020 – he has been working alongside artist James Randell on the project ‘Believe Or Not To Believe’.
is a PhD candidate anthropologist in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, as well as a research associate in controlled environment agriculture (CEA, or ‘vertical farming’) at Cornell University. His research examines how corporations, activists, and publics imagine social and technical solutions to ecological crises, with a focus on agriculture.
was awarded the Tate Turner Prize in 2016. Marten works across sculpture, print, video and writing to create a body of work that through its juxtaposition of high and low, serious and comedic, made and found, questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. Alluding to ideas, systems and experiences, her work across all media sets out to articulate complex ideas about the way in which we exist in and understand the world around us.
is a founder member of Black Audio Film Collective, the award-winning documentary film group (Handsworth Songs, The March). He formed Dubmorphology with Gary Stewart in 2005.
lives and works in Berlin. His practice is motivated by the cultural histories of the landscapes around him. He layers found materials such as rubber, glass and wood with oil paint and printed matter. His sculptural paintings are often made in groups, with each work being used as a tool to produce the next; a circular economy of materials, each bearing traces of their prior use and abandonment.
is a poet and artist. Recent contributions include MAP and Another Gaze. Her films include Soft Rio (Marseille Underground Film Festival, Marseille, France, 2021; Rio Cinema, London, UK, 2021), horsecity (xviix.com, 2020; Centre of Gravity, Bristol, UK, 2020) and Four Dances (Takuroku, 2021) – a film & piano collaboration with Billy Steiger. Zara co-programmes the sound/movement series CEREBELLUM with Evie Ward which took the form of a Cafe OTO livestream in April 2021 following a collaboration with Florence Peake. zarajoanmiller.com
is a poet and scholar. Moten’s poetry collections include perennial fashion presence falling, The Service Porch, The Little Edges, The Feel Trio, B Jenkins and Hughson’s Tavern. His scholarly texts include The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study coauthored with Stefano Harney, and In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition.
is a poet and literary researcher interested in the semiotics and somatics of queer experience. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The White Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review, wildness and elsewhere. A PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, she lives and works on unceded Ohlone homelands in Berkeley, California.
is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognised writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, came out in 2022. A “Working Life”, their newest collection of poems was published in 2023. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.
is a writer & artist based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. LDSN is her audio / visual moniker. Sound work has been released on IC, Sound Holes, Chocolate Monk, Fort Evil Fruit & Krim Kram (forthcoming). Her book Gazing Down on It is published by Ugly Duckling press.
met her father for the first time at age fifteen, two years before publishing her first novel. She is the recipient of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, the latter being the highest honour a Frenchwriter can receive. One of ten finalists for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, alongside Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson, she is the author of over a dozen plays and works of prose.
is a writer, producer and researcher, working primarily in the areas of artists’ moving image and film archives, and is a Professor in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Glasgow. She has been researching and writing on the work of Margaret Tait for many years and is co-producer with Luke Fowler of Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait.
is a composer, conceptual artist and environmental activist, who has been developing interspecies communication over the last 50 years. Using a variety of instruments, such as voice, cello, flute and electric guitar, as well as designing a ‘waterphone’ made of steel and bronze, and a floating drum, Nollman has improvised with a variety of land and sea animals.
is a writer and artist living in London
is a Nigerian American poet, performer, and visual artist based in New York.
is an artist-writer based in Croydon, and until recently a childcare worker. Some themes which come up in her work are co-regulation, unusual/garbled voicing, and disturbances within highly regulated spaces. She works on collaborative projects with friends, and is currently researching liquids and urination for a multi-media work.
was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1973. She has a degree in Literay Theory from Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 1999 she founded the independent art space and small press Belleza y Felicidad. She has published more than ten books of poetry and short stories in Argentina, Mexico, Brasil, Chile and Uruguay. She has been translated into English: Little Joy (Semiotexte, 2021), A hotel with my name (Scrambler books, 2015), Liquorice candies (Scrambler books, 2016) and Belleza y Felicidad (Sand Paper Press, 2014). She has been translated into French with Bombons à l’anis (Varichon & Cie., 2022). She runs Microcentro a nomadic space dedicated to poetry readings, that organises workshops and readings in different cities.
is an artist, creative writer, mud mason in training and co-creator of the micro-publishing house Bernard Georges Editions. Her work oscillates between digital moving image, sculptural installations and participatory interventions in both public and private spaces. Recent shows include a video commission from Blindside Gallery Melbourne, an AI piece Loss=“binary_crossentropy” at Enclave Gallery London (UK); she has showed works at the Oxford Art-Science Conference 2019; and at Z33 (Belgium), Luma Arles (France) and the Pera museum (Istanbul) as part of the group show A school of schools.
lives and works in London. She creates short videos which explore the social and political histories of artefacts, architectures and documents. While the subject of her videos may be historic artworks of cultural significance, she is more frequently concerned with marginal or derogated things, and often features pop-cultural or mass produced objects. The video narrations’ often draw upon and satirise the administrative and academic rhetoric of institutions as well the promotional vernaculars of private and commercial organisations.
is an artist. She also teaches at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
is a Lebanese-American independent scholar and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Jounieh, Lebanon, she emigrated to Washington D.C. at a young age, and came to NYC as a teenager. She is the author of Count Thereof Upon the Other’s Limbs (Cixous 72 Press, 2019), and the chapbooks Bataille’s Eggs (blush, 2021) and Puce Commodity (earthbound editions, 2020). Her translations of Georges Bataille, 27 Poems on Death, was published 2021 (o•blēk editions).
is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue filmmaking. Plans to have his body burnt in a volcano after he dies.
is a Romanian writer and film director, currently living and working in Berlin. Between 1995 and 2009 she translated poetry from Romanian and English, published her own poetry in international literary journals and made documentary films. So far, she has written two radio plays and created radio features on the subject of poetry and literature.
lives in London. From 2012-2019 she was the co-editor of the feminist art journal SALT. Hannah has two published collections of poetry, When I Was Alive and Oliver Reed (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020). She is currently working on her first novel.
is an artist and filmmaker represented by Kate MacGarry Gallery. Awards include the EYE Art Film Prize; FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists; twice winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival; Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard University. He recently collaborated with Anocha Suwichakornpong on the feature film Krabi, 2562.
is a writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her fiction collection Honey Mine was published by Nightboat in 2021. Previous books include Sherwood Forest from Futurepoem, and Cheap Speech a play from Leroy Chapbooks, as well as Swarm (fiction, from Black Star Series). She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions (poetry and prose, from Kelsey St. Press) and Cold Heaven (plays, from Leslie Scalapino’s O Books). Recent work has been published in Amerarcana and Open Space (SFMoma blog). More information can be found at www.camilleroy.me.
is the author of many books, including most recently Dunce, which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of My Private Property, Trances of the Blast, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures and Selected Poems. She has also published a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! and is an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow, they can be previewed online.
is a photographer, artist and director of Sirkhane DARKROOM which operates on the border of Turkey and Syria. The darkroom is founded on a fundamental belief in photography as a universal and therapeutic language, it invites children living in the area, many of whom are refugees, to experiment with the medium as both a form of play and a means of understanding the world around them.
has written four volumes of poetry. She is a notable performer and often works with filmmakers, sound artists and musicians and her CD with poetry band LANDSCHAFT appeared in 2018. She has won most recently the Wilhelm-Lehmann-Prize, the Horst-Bingel-Prize (2018), the Erich Loest Prize (2021) and the Roswitha prize (2021) for her novel Monsters like us (2020).
is an artist, writer and musician living in London. They work across sound, writing, performance, music, image and video. Current favourite themes include the decay of the body, fungi, microbes and invertebrates, masculine urges, dreams, hybrids, folklore, eroticism, country music.
is a writer in Chicago. His work has appeared in The Bennington Review, Conjunctions, The Drift and elsewhere.
is a painter, a musician and a poet. La banque de jeu de pharaon is his sound poetry solo. In this solo project, he plays minimalist nursery rhymes based on voices (a capella, here and there), samples, tape loops, sometimes field recordings … or not. He runs the label ‘no lagos musique’, and participates in many groups including Mamiedaragon, Bordigaga, Mouvelle, Le Gros, Bled, La Petite Paire des Peuples and Rampart. He has received awards or his paintings (Novembre à Vitry – 2018). Author of numerous experimental critical texts for Revue et Corrigée and Musique Journal, his essay ‘L’ennui avec les musiques improvisées’ will be published this fall in the 18th issue of Audimat magazine.
is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. His practice includes photography, sculpture and installation. He received a BEng on Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Southampton in 2018. He went to Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and currently pursuing a BFA degree at Parsons School of Design.
is an artist living in London. As a self-taught bass player, access to performing came via various bands ranging in style from punk-rock to pop and improvisation. Alongside discovering improvisation came the creation of his alias Haddow, a depersonalised persona for exploring sound through instrument building, field recording and performance.
is an artist living in London. His approach to music and sound is based on finding ways of translating and understanding experiences with an emphasis on place and time. Through working with improvisation Rob created his alias ‘Haddow’, a depersonalized persona deployed to explore sound through instrument building, field recordings and performances.
is a poet and member of the Suquamish Tribe. His books include Guard the Mysteries (lectures) and most recently All This Time (poems) both from Wave Books. He lives in Lofall, Washington.
is a social circus school founded in 2012 in a region where it is difficult to be a child. Sirkhane’s mission is to provide a safe and friendly environment for children, who are affected by conflicts. Children have the opportunity to collaborate and form friendships with one other, beyond gender, social and cultural differences.
is a Slovenian transdisciplinary artist, vocalist and improviser based in London. His sound is marked by meditative and expansive vocal tapestries that emerge spontaneously from both his movement and voice, bearing the mark of of his classical background, jazz training and Slavic heritage.
is an artist filmmaker based in London. Renowned for its formal ingenuity, subversive wit and oblique storytelling, his work has been shown in art galleries, museums, independent cinemas and on television around the world.
was born in Howth on the 16th December1986. Now he plays the violin. ‘Then he sat down by a pond and began to play a tune. As he played, the most extraordinary thing happened. One by one the fish in the pond began to jump out and fly about in the air. And what is more, they were all different colours and they were singing to the music.’ Patrick, Quentin Blake.
writes and teaches on affect, the ordinary, the senses, and modes of ethnographic engagement based on curiosity and attachment. Her first book, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an `Other’ America (Princeton University Press, 1996) portrays a dense and textured layering of sense and form laid down in social use. Ordinary Affects (Duke University Press, 2007) maps the force, or affects, of encounters, desires, bodily states, dream worlds, and modes of attention and distraction in the composition and suffering of present moments lived as immanent events.
is one of the leading translators of innovative French literature. The recipient of numerous honors and prizes, he has translated books by Nobel laureate Claude Simon, Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Eric Chevillard, as well as Jules Verne’s French-language novel The Mysterious Island.
is a speculative writer of Izzi, Abakaliki ancestry; a Medical Laboratory Science student whose works have been nominated for the Forward Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best of The Net Award. He was the winner of Write About Now’s Cookout Literary Prize. He has works published or forthcoming at Strange Horizon, Ink Sweat & Tears, Augur Mag, Sand Journal, Mudroom Mag, Bracken Mag, The Shore Poetry, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, The Deadlands, West Trade Review, No Contact, The Fourth River and elsewhere. He is fond of his poorly-lit room from where he tweets @wordpottersull1.
is an artist based in London. Her works and performances have been presented at Vi Lever Pa Polsk, Copenhagen; Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite, Colchester and South London Gallery, London; Workplace Gallery; RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts; Cooke Latham Gallery; CIRCA, Piccadilly Lights, all London.
was born in 1918 in Kirkwall on Orkney, Scotland, where she returned in the 1960s after a career as a physician. Over the following decades she made a series of films inspired by the Orcadian landscape and culture. All but three of her thirty two films were self financed. She wrote poetry and stories and produced several books including three books of poetry.
is a British-Bermudian artist whose work employs a wide range of approaches including writing, painting, sculpture, assemblage, photography, sound and video. His work is concerned with the connections between visual art and literature, the act of writing, the autobiographical, the tragic and the humorous.
was born in Nigeria. Her father was a farmer and she grew up in the village. She came to the UK in 2010 with her children and lived without papers for a number of years. She currently works in catering.
is an artist who works predominantly with film both as a maker and curator, and in collaboration with other artists and filmmakers. His work which is part of an everyday practice, a way of living, reflects on the experience of place, daily life, qualities of light and time, and the possibilities of poetic forms.
published Freiheit ist Freiheit an anthology of ‘unofficial’ Russian avant garde poets in 1975, then her own debut, Sicher und Gut in 1977. There followed many more books, radio pieces and photographic projects. Her newer photographic series document intersections of technology and nature, such as in large construction sites, animals in zoos, a new underground line, plants in the botanical garden. Her literary works in montage style circle more and more around paranoic paramilitary scenarios in moist outdoor settings. In her most recent projects, Das Wort Ich and body & tech’ she continues to explore cyborg sensitivity in minimal, but always playful, aesthetics.
is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian highlands inhabited by the ghosts buried by its modernist capital: Brasília. Originally from the cerrado and wonderer by choice, Ana has lived in the arid lands of central Brazil and southern Australia, in the mangroves of northern France and in the northeastern shores of the Atlantic. Her filmography activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and instrument capable of dehumanising the human, expanding its connections with forms of life — other than human or spectral. Consequences or expansion of her cinemato-graphy, her activities are also embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations or collective walks. Recent screenings of her work include: Berlinale Forum Expanded, MAM São Paulo, IFFR, Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Jeu de Paume, LUX Moving Images, New York Film Festival.
is a Colombian artist living in London working with expanded notions of drawing and embodied narratives. Composed of a series of collages and text, This is not a garden considers relations to grass and soil, political conflict and personal history via memory, remoteness and mediated proximity. This is the most recent iteration of her ongoing project, More Than an Object, its Shadow, which manifests as publications, performative readings, lectures and sound works. MOS has been staged at ICA, Stanley Picker Gallery, South London Botanical Institute, AWL Radio, Theatrum Mundi, Clouds and Tracks and Radiophrenia.
creates work about becoming, feeling, labour and transgression. Her practice is site-responsive and draws on the materials and spaces she spends time in and moves through. She seeks out and is curious about collective ways of being and working, and wants to know how art can be a practice for social and political beings.
is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International, and The Beach Beneath the Street, among other books. She teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.
after losing all common sense, Hal Washington has travelled jungles of his own. He now resides with parrots in a nest somewhere.
lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He began making film and video shorts in 1994, and completed his first feature in 2000. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998. Often non-linear, with a strong sense of dislocation, his works deal with memory, subtly addressed personal politics and social issues.
is a writer and teacher living in Kent. As part of Estuary Festival 2021 he was the organiser of Cruising the Estuary, a series of writing workshops exploring queer ecologies. He is also the guest editor of Litmus: the lichen issue, a magazine exploring the intersection of science and poetry.
is an artist based in Lisbon.
meaning ‘dirty snow’, ‘leftover snow’, but also ‘pure snow on the top of a mountain’, is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua. She was born in 1953 in Changsha City, Hunan Province; her parents were sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, and she completed only elementary school. Can Xue learned English on her own and wrote books on Borges, Shakespeare and Dante. Her publications in English include Frontier, The Embroidered Shoes, Five Spice Street, Vertical Motion, and The Last Lover, which won the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction.
Frances Young is an artist working with moving image and sound. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. With a background in painting, she began working with electronic sound in the early 2000s, and with film and video soon after. The relation between sound and image has been central to her work, with the practices of audio and video often intertwined; more recently sound has become a particular strand of her practice and research, operating on its own terms.
is a documentary filmmaker based in Wien/Berlin.
was the first poetry editor at feminist journals Aphra and Ms. Some awards: NEA (poetry/1974/1984), BRIO (1991), Leeway (fiction/2003), Pushcart Prize (vol. 6). Recent print publications: Presence (2022), Stronger Than Fear (Cave Moon Press, 2022), Sand (#23), Camas (Dec. 2021), Zone 3 (#36.2), Peregrine xxxv,From the Farther Shore (Bass River), Qwerty#43 (2021), Black in the Middle (Belt), Home: An Anthology (Flexible). Online: www.iwilla.com