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Bilna'es
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is an adisciplinary platform that seeks to find new models for artists to redistribute resources and support one another in the production and circulation of work. It functions as a publishing space with releases ranging from music to video games, web projects, publications, performances, installations, and other yet-to-be-developed forms.
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nora chipaumire
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was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans – known as group B schooling. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe and dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. As African knowledge acquisition does not come with baccalaureates it is impossible to quantify what the African body holds. chipaumire acknowledges these knowledges in addition to the western forms branded into her.
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Denise Ferreira da Silva
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is an artist and philosopher. She is the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities and Co-Director of the Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Study Co-Laboratory at New York University and adjunct professor at the Monash University School of Art, Architecture, and Design (Australia). Her artistic and academic work reflect and speculate on themes and questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, political theory, black thought, feminist thought, and historical materialism. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), The Impagavel Divide (Workshop of Political Imagination and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt (Stenberg / MIT Press, 2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Her artwork includes the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020) and Ancestral Claims/Ancestral Clouds (2023) in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational artistic practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri. She has performed shows and lectures in important artistic spaces, such as the Pompidou Centre (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), MASP (São Paulo), Guggenheim (New York) and MoMa (New York). She also wrote and created for publications for major art events (Liverpool Biennale, 2017; São Paulo Biennale, 2016; 2023 Venice Biennale, 2017 and Documenta 14, São Paulo Biennale, 2023) and published in art spaces such as Canadian Art, Texte Zur Kunst and E-Flux.
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Juliana Huxtable
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is a writer, artist and musician living and working Between New York and Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Reena Spaulings, New York, Project Native Informant, in London, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. Her work has been exhibited and collected at The Guggenheim, The New Museum, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The ICA London. Her forthcoming poetry collection will be published with Wonder Press in 2025. Her first collection of texts, Mucus In my Pineal Gland, was co-published by Wonder Press and Capricious in 2017, and she co-wrote Life: A Novel with Hannah Black, which was published in 2018 with Buchhandlung Walther König.
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Darrell Jones
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is a performer, educator, researcher, and choreographer. He has performed extensively across the United States and globally, in all kinds of venues, including Links Hall in Chicago, Danspace Project, Dance Box – Kobe, Japan, and the Venice Biennale. He maintains long-term collaborative relationships with Bebe Miller Company and Ralph Lemon. Additional foundational experiences have included working with Min Tanaka, Ronald K. Brown, Kokuma Dance Theatre (Birmingham, UK), and Urban Bush Women. Jones is a two-time Bessie Award recipient and has received grants and awards including the 3Arts Award, Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the MAP Fund and a Walder Foundation Platform Award. He is a tenured faculty member at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where he teaches classes in physical practice, performance, and improvisational techniques. He holds an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.
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Julie Tolentino
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(b. 1964, San Francisco; lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree) led queer club spaces such as Clit Club, Tattooed Love Child, and Dagger, and was a member of ACT UP New York, Art Positive, and the House of Color collective. Exhibitions and performances have been held at CSS Bard, Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (2025); SPACES, Cleveland (2024); Brown University, Providence (2024); Commonwealth and Council (2024, 2019, 2013); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Aspen Art Museum (2020); Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2020); Performance Space New York (2019); Participant Inc, New York (2019, 2005); The Kitchen, New York (2019, 2001); EFA Project Space, New York (2019); 6th Annual Thessaloniki Biennale (2018); The Lab, San Francisco (2018); and New Museum, New York (2013), Performa, New York (2013, 2005). Tolentino is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2025), Foundation for Contemporary Art Creative Research Grant (2025), MacDowell Fellowship (2026), Joyce Foundation Award (2023), Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Grant (2022), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2021), Queer|Art|Prize for Sustained Achievement (2020), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Performance Award (2019), Fulcrum Arts Artist Honor (2019), Pieter Performance Dancemakers Grant (2018), Art Matters Foundation Award (2015, 2010), and CHIME Mentorship Award with J. Kidd (2012) and Doran George (2010). Tolentino has participated in residencies at Herb Alpert/Ucross (2021); MacDowell (2020); BOFFO, Fire Island (2018); Hope Mohr Bridge Project Community Engagement (2017-18); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2013-14); and PACT Zollverein, Essen (2012). Tolentino received an MFA from University of California, Riverside (2020) and is Faculty and Program Co-Director of the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts.
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Wendy’s Subway
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is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We support emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes for learning and thinking in community. Wendy’s Subway is dedicated to encouraging creative, critical, and discursive engagement with arts and literature. inseparable assembly is curated by Marian Chudnovsky, Juwon Jun, and Rachel Valinsky for Wendy’s Subway.
After Hours Film School is a semi-monthly workshop and screening series devoted to new currents in cinematic practice. The series invites moving-image makers to share new work or work-in-progress and engage around methodology, production, and key questions animating their work. After Hours is organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky.
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Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen
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are artistic collaborators and the main caretakers of Penélope (b. 2021). Andrea and Adriano work through dance as an expanded set of practices and tools for knowledge exchange that can be used to sense and make sense with the audience. Their work questions the distribution of care and solidarity beyond ‘the family’ and considers how such a distribution could inform dance practice. They were fellows at the Jan van Eyck Academie 2023-2024, and have presented their work across Europe. Their separate artistic practices are still present, but since the last three years, it’s all a bit tangled up.