Gendai is a collective run by Petrina Ng and Marsya Maharani. They are also part of the Collective Collective, a larger network of majority-racialized arts collectives to explore sharing of labour and resources to increase each other’s capacity.

Gendai / Collective Collective (CoCo) is a collective-run organization founded in 2000 to support Japanese artists in diaspora in Tkaronto/Toronto. As an experimental endeavor of succession planning, when the former leadership wanted to retire: They held an open call to give the organization away. In its current iteration, Petrina and Marsya focus on network-building and systems change work that was led by racialized arts practitioners.

Since 2021, Giovanna Esposito Yussif is the artistic director of the Museum of Impossible Forms. MIF is a cultural center and the coming together of communities of art and cultural workers working to build anti colonial, anti patriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.
It is located in East Helsinki.

Farbod Fakharzadeh is an artworker and curator based in Finland. He is interested in art’s potential in shaping what is yet to come, and his work deals with notions of work, curatorial, hospitality, regenerative agency, collective dreaming, and political imaginaries. Farbod currently works as the director of Arte ry, Titanik gallery and Titanik A.i.R residency in Turku, Finland.

Sepake Angiama’s praxis stems from radical pedagogies, black feminist thought, rethinking human/non–human relations rooted in how we might reimagine and inhabit the world otherwise. She is the artistic director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva), dedicated to developing artistic research, embodied practices, collective study, publishing and community led commissioning that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation. She has previously held positions at Tate Modern, Manifesta and documenta. Her current research and thinking stems from an interest in spatial justice, speculative thinking and intentional communities grounded in radical imagination towards creating ecologies of care, empathy and kindness.

Sophie is an artist invested in power, belonging and futures. The artistic practice overcome the boundary of organizational and pedagogical structures, engaging people to think-act together about self-directed ways of coming into relation with each other. The works are influenced by personal and shared experiences of cultural difference, coloniality, race and gender.

Patricia Carolina (MX) is an artist and organizer based in Oslo. She works primarily with video, text and textile. Intricately weaving together ideas on language, progress and loss, her practice follows the relation between water infrastructures, vulnerability and displacement, from a flooded village in northern Mexico to a water sanitation plant by Oslo fjord.