/ SPRING BREAK 2020 /
Catherine Malabou
is a philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London.
Leonardo Caffo
is philosopher and curator. Currently, he is co-curator of the Public Program at La Triennale Milano and professor of Ontology at Politecnico, in Turin. He is professor of Philosophy of Art at NABA, in Milan.
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
is a professor of cultural studies at Kyung Hee University in South Korea and a visiting professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University in India. He is a member of the advisory board for The International Deleuze Studies in Asia and one of the founding members of Asia Theory Network (ATN).
Peter Singer + Michael Plant
Peter Singer is professor of bioethics, with a background in philosophy. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. He is the founder of The Life You Can Save.
Photo by Alletta Vaandering
Michael Plant is a moral philosopher, founder-Director of the Happier Lives Institute and a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre, Oxford.
Suzanne Goldenberg
is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and activist. She hosts the CRUSH reading series at the Woodbine collective in Ridgewood, NY. Her work can be found here.
Iris Cäzilia
is a visual and performing artist in her final year at Luther College in Decorah Iowa. Since 2018, she has been one of the presidents of the Luther Artist’s Collective (LAC), a group dedicated to connecting Luther students outside of class through the arts and with the greater Decorah community. She is also the leader of KPROJECT, a contemporary hip-hop dance club that provides a space for students to teach, learn, perform, and connect through pop choreography.
Zairong
Xiang
Zairong Xiang lives in Berlin and is postdoctoral research fellow of the DFG Research Training Group “minor cosmopolitanisms” (Potsdam University). He is author of Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration (2018, punctum books) and curator of the minor cosmopolitan weekend at HKW (December 2018).
Photo by Jordán Rodríguez
Alenka Zupančič
is a philosopher and social theorist. She works as research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences. She is also professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Benjamin H. Bratton
is Program Director of The Terraforming at Strelka Institute. He is Professor of Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego, and Professor at European Graduate School and Visiting Professor at NYU Shanghai and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Paul B. Preciado
is a philosopher, a curator, and a trans activist.
Sandra Sánchez
is an art critic who writes for magazines, newspapers and blogs such as Letras Libres, La Tempestad, Confabulario and GasTv in Mexico City. They is currently the editor of Onda Mx, a bilingual website dedicated to reviewing contemporary art exhibitions in Mexico City. In 2015 they founded Zona de Desgaste, an artist run space dedicated to teaching, writing and producing a critical reflection on issues related to contemporary art, theater, aesthetics, and politics.
Humberto Valdivieso
is a PhD in Humanities. He is a researcher at the Research and Humanistic Training Center of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in Caracas, Venezuela. He is also a curator, the author of various books on art and contemporary aesthetics, a columnist ,and consultant for projects related to image and cultural strategies.
Emanuele Coccia
is a philosopher who teaches at the EHESS in Paris. He wrote extensively on nature, art and fashion. His last books are The Life of Plants (2018, Polity translated in 10 languages) and Métamorphoses (Paris 2020) In 2019 he co-organised the exhibition Nous les Arbres at Fondation Cartier, Paris.
Mareike Dittmer
Since summer 2018 she is director of Art Stations Foundation CH / Muzeum Susch. Before she was the associate publisher of frieze magazine. Trained in cultural studies and communication at UDK Berlin, she has been involved with several exhibition and book projects, most recently, together with Julieta Aranda, she became a chairperson of the 9th Futurological Congress 2016 - 2018. Since 2019 Mareike has been a lecturer at the Zurich art school ZHdK.
Tony D. Sampson + Jussi Parikka
Tony D. Samson is a critical theorist and reader in digital media cultures and communication at the University of East London. He has the blog Virality.
Jussi Parikka is a writer, media theorist and professor in technological culture & aesthetics at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). He is also Visiting Professor at FAMU in Prague and Visiting Professor, Chair of Media Archaeology, at University of Udine, Italy.
Diego del Valle Ríos
is a cultural agent, writer, and editor who oscillates between anxiety and the excitement of watching the world burn. They acts from self-education and educational self-management being the editor of the magazine Terremoto and member of the Permanent Circle of Independent Studies (CIPEI) with the programs Less Foucault / More Shakira and Languages of Indigestion.
Jan Ritsema
is a theatre director, choreographer, and performer. In 2006 he founded the artist-run residency program Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France, which hosts more than 500 artists from different disciplines a year.
Franco Berardi +
Andreas Petrossiants
Franco “Bifo” Berardi is the founder of the famous Radio Alice in Bologna and an important figure in the Italian Autonomia movement, is a writer, media theorist, and social activist.
Andreas Petrossiants is a writer and editor living in NY. His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, View, Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, nuart journal, Exhibition Reviews Annual, and elsewhere. He is the editorial assistant of e-flux journal.
Eva Illouz
Eva Illouz is a sociologist. She is the Director of studies at EHESS and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studies the development of capitalism from the perspective of subjectivities.
Cleo NH
is philosopher, artist, and musician currently studying at Luther College in Decorah, IA.
João Exunto
+
Erica Love
are an artist duo based in New York who collaborate on projects about the technopolitics of work, institutions, and economies tied to Contemporary Art. They produce moving-image work, photographic series, sculptures, and live presentations that analyze and/or directly intervene in the structures that govern creative labor.
Cornelia Herfurtner
is a visual artist an activist based in Berlin and currently on a research turned reading trip in NYC. She is organized in the Interventionistische Linke [interventionist left] and works in the alliance Rheinmetall Entwaffnen [Disarm Rheinmetall] against Germany’s biggest arms exporter. Photo: Flipping the Stationary Car (Cornelia Herfurtner, David Iselin-Ricketts, John Allan MacLean).
Photo: Flipping the Stationary Car (Cornelia Herfurtner, David Iselin-Ricketts, John Allan MacLean)