Lara Khaldi (*1982 in Jerusalem) is an independent curator. She is a recent alumna of the De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, and the European Graduate School, Switzerland. Khaldi has curated exhibitions and projects in Ramallah, Jerusa- lem, Cairo, Dubai, Oslo, Brussels and Amsterdam. She teaches at the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah and at Dar Al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem. She is currently co-curating Desires into Fossils: Monuments with- out a State, a series of research exhibitions at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, and was the curator of the satellite proj- ect of Sharjah Biennial 13, Ramallah. Khaldi lives in Jerusalem.
Joshua Simon (*1979 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) is a director and chief curator at MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam. He authored the book Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press, 2013) and edited the publications United States of Palestine-Israel (Sternberg Press, 2011) and Ruti Sela: For the Record (Archive Books, 2015).
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Author Niq Mhlongo has been called “one of the most high-spirited and irreverent new voices of South Africa’s post-apartheid literary scene.” he is strongly influenced by his hometown of Soweto as he pens his fiction in Soweto, about Soweto and in Soweto dialect. 
Initially trained as a visual artist and cook, Verwimp is currently doing research into forms of complicity and is since 2014 curatorial director of the Maria de Robe Collection. His work is recognised for the pressing manner in which he explores personal and societal notions of friendship and repair through an artistic practice that involves assemblages, reparations and appropriation. In 2011 he co-initiated the MPA-B (Month of Performance art) and co-founded the Association for Performance art in Berlin. 
Bangkok-based filmmaker and visual artist Chulayar nnon Siriphol works in short film, experimental film, documentary and video installation; his works are in between personal memory and social memory, documentary and fiction, reality and the supernatural. 
Ferhat Özgür’s artistic works cover a wide spectrum ranging from video and photography to installations. His works have been on display in many international locations, such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Museum der Moderne Salzburg and MUMOK Vienna. The MoMA PS1 New York presented 2012 – 2013 with I can sing a solo exhibition of his works 
“Collective Myth” beschreibt unbewusste Antriebskräfte die unseren Alltag begleiten. Jeder kennt diese subtilen Gedanken und Empfindungen, die sich mitunter als Zukunftsvisionen oder Lebenswünsche zeigen. Bilder und visuelle Reize vermögen es, solche Reaktionen auszulösen und darzustellen. Während ihres Projektes macht sich Breen auf die Suche nach einer gemeinsamen Ikonografie.
Monika Rinck was born 1969 in Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate and lives in Berlin. Since 1989, after her university years devoted to Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, she published several books in a number of publishing houses. Her most recent poetrybook HONIGPROTOKOLLE (Honey Protocolls) came out in 2012, for which she was awarded the Huchel-Preis 2013. Followed by RISIKO UND IDIOTIE (Risk and Idiocy), Essays, in Spring 2015. Monika Rinck is member of the P.E.N.-Club, the Lyrikknappschaft Schöneberg, the Akademy of Arts Berlin and the German Academy for Language and Literature. 
