Natasha Tontey is an artist based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, whose practice predominantly explores fictional accounts of history and possibilities of other futures, often from the perspective of outcasted entities and beings. Recent solo exhibitions include Garden Amidst the Flame at Auto Italia in London, Pest to Power at K4 in Oslo, Norway, and ALMANAK at Cemeti in Yogyakarta. Her work has featured in the 2022 Singapore Biennale, as well as in group exhibitions at Shedhalle in Zurich, Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, amongst others. Tontey’s performances have taken place at Performance Space Sydney, and Cemeti, Yogyakarta, amongst others. She holds the 2021-2023 Human Machine Fellowship at the Junge Akademie at Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Toronto whose practice spans moving image, computation, theory, performance, and science fiction, while exploring topics such as technology, queerness, and politics. Blas’ work has been exhibited at the Berlin Biennial, the Gwangju Biennial, the Warszawa Biennale, Art in General in New York, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, MAXXI in Rome, MOCA Chicago, MAAT in Lisbon, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Blas is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. His publication Unknown Ideals is published by Sternberg Press and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst.
Keiken is an artist collective co-founded in 2015 by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos, based between London and Berlin. Keiken (the Japanese word for ‘experience,’ which is at the centre of their practice) are collaboratively building and imagining speculative futures, to test-drive new structures and ways of existing. They do this through filmmaking, gaming, installation, Extended Reality (XR), blockchain, and performance. “Morphogenic Angels” is Keiken’s current ongoing and ever-evolving project, unfolding in a radically different time and space that transcends our current political, societal, financial and subjective reality.
Korakrit Arunanondchai works with video, installation, performance, sculpture and painting, and is based in Bangkok and New York. For Connecting, hethis piece, he has collaborated with Alex Gvojic, a New York-based Art Director, artist, and cinematographer, working across art, music, and fashion. In his work, Arunanondchai explores religious and animist traditions, pop cultural motifs, technology, authenticity, and political struggles. Arunanondchai’s recent solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Serralves Museum in Porto, Secession in Vienna, Kiasma in Helsinki, and S.M.A.K in Ghent. His work was part of group exhibitions at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, X Museum in Beijing, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in, Brussels, the Gwangju Biennale Para Site in Hong Kong, the Singapore Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. Gvojic has been exhibited at Migros Museum in Zurich, Museu Serralves in Porto, the Venice Biennale, the Athens Biennale, Singapore ArtMuseum, Performa in New York, and the Berlin Biennale.
Eva L’Hoest is a multimedia artist based in Brussels. She uses digital language to decode the role of emotions, affect, language, and memories. Recently, her work has been exhibited in major events such as the Biennale of Sydney in 2022, the 2020 Riga International Biennial Of Contemporary Art, the Okayama Art Summit and the Lyon Biennale, both in 2019. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at WIELS in Brussels, Malmö Museum in Sweden, Le Botanique in Brussels, IKOB in Eupen, Casino Luxembourg, La Boverie in Liège, and at Air Antwerp. She is currently an artist in residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
Ian Cheng is a digital artist based in New York. He is known for his live simulations and his use of game engines to generate virtual landscapes populated with characters whose behaviour self-evolves. Recent solo exhibitions include LAS in Berlin, The Shed in New York, LUMA Westbau in Zurich, Serpentine Galleries in London, MoMA PS1 in New York, and Migros Museum in Zurich. His work has been exhibited in group shows at Centre Pompidou-Metz, MOCA in Los Angeles, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Venice Biennale, MoMA in New York, the Sharjah Biennial, MAXXI in Rome, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Tabita Rezaire is a new media artist based in Cayenne in French Guyana. Her practice explores the intersections of technology and spirituality. She works as an artist, farmer, yoga teacher, and a doula. Embracing these practices of healing nourish connection and emancipation in her artistic process. Her work has been shown at Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Gropius Bau in Berlin, the Busan Biennale, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Helsinki Biennial, MASP in Sao Paulo, and at MMOMA for the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Her performances have taken place at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Serpentine Galleries in London, the Guangzhou Biennale, and MoMA in New York.
