Nicholas John Jones is an artist and curator based in Oslo, Norway. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of PRAKSIS, a non-profit organisation dedicated to art, research, and learning that brings awareness and positive change to contemporary issues. His curatorial practice champions interdisciplinary and transnational dialogue, fostering creative knowledge and communities by connecting artists, thinkers, and institutions across borders and disciplines. At PRAKSIS, he has collaborated with a diverse range of artists and institutional partners to develop numerous residencies, exhibitions, events, and publications addressing social, ecological, and cultural concerns, such as the research programmes: Understanding Intelligence (in collaboration with Ageliki Lefkaditou and the University of Oslo) and An Urgent Situation – Rethinking tourism through art, architecture and community (with Samong Haven and Don Lawrence).

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.

Belén Santillán is an Ecuadorian artist and educator based in Oslo. Her work moves through the intersections of art and critical pedagogy, imagining how institutions might open spaces for creative expression and collective learning.

Ebba Moi lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She graduated from Trondheim Art Academy in 1999 and works mainly with socially engaged art. She works as an artist, curator, project manager and producer in various self-initiated projects, exhibitions and public assignments. Working within the field of socially engaged art, her interest lies in developing this practice, which is based on participation as a way of working. Frequently engaging within public space, her focus lies in involvement and process as artistic strategy. Key words are collaborative participation, direct dialogue, the politics of the real, time as material, process-orientated outcomes.

Rebecca Jane Arthur (1984, Edinburgh) is a visual artist working predominantly with the moving image and writing. Her works often transpire as experimental films, and her interest lies in how personal stories depict a socio-political context and history, giving particular attention to class politics, education and women’s experiences.

Icaro Lopez de Mesa Moyano, also known as, Nene del Solar is a Colombian sound-media artist, musician and educator interested in creating instruments based on digital-electronic infrastructures for performing arts.  In his artistic PhD Icaro researches the agency of gold used in electronic microchips and connectors, proposing music-sound instruments and performance as alternatives to reflect about environmental damage and ecosystem imbalance that gold mining and extraction has caused in territories around the global south. Thus, Icaro's interest in Elasticity arose from the research on the mining communities and bodies that stretch, resist and fight against gold and metal mining.

Åsa Båve (1988) is an artist and filmmaker based in Oslo and Gothenburg. She recently completed an MFA at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and holds a BFA in Photography from HDK-Valand. She works with installation, sculpture, performance, and video. Her work revolves around vulnerability, interdependence, and care from a feminist perspective, often through the lens of maintenance work. In recent years, she has focused on soap as a material in flux, as a way to approach investigating how the material can embody leakage, fragility and change.

Malin Bülow works at the intersection of textile, sculpture, and choreography, creating monumental, site-specific performance installations where body, textile, and architecture form an interconnected spatial system. The elasticity and transparency of the textile membrane serve as both material foundation and conceptual force — a medium for exploring the relationship between strength and vulnerability, structure and dissolution.

Malin Bülow works at the intersection of textile, sculpture, and choreography, creating monumental, site-specific performance installations where body, textile, and architecture form an interconnected spatial system. The elasticity and transparency of the textile membrane serve as both material foundation and conceptual force — a medium for exploring the relationship between strength and vulnerability, structure and dissolution.

Mai Hofstad Gunnes is a visual artist living and working in Oslo.  Hofstad Gunnes works primarily with film and video installation. She often employs collective  workshops and staged performative situations to explore collective memory and processes of  knowledge production. Her film Spin, Measure, Cut (2023) connects the act of weaving with  genetics and reflect on recent discussions on biotechnology, bioethics and how emerging  technologies are reshaping our understanding of what it means to be human. 

Felicia Hedman is a Swedish dance and circus artist based in Helsinki. She has been educated in Italy, France, Portugal, and Sweden, developing a practice rooted in circus, contemporary dance, and acrobatics. Felicia’s work investigates the meeting point between these disciplines, exploring the comical, the unexpected, and the playful qualities of circus alongside the raw, instinctive expressivity of dance. 

Marte Aas (b. 1966, NO) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Oslo. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. Different subjects of interest are realised in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives.

Eline Benjaminsen (1992, NO) makes camera based follow-the-money narratives combining video, print- and publication making. Her works are attempts at observing the always weird, often violent and mostly invisible spaces where market fundamentalism, financialisation and ecological crisis meet.

Belén Santillán is an Ecuadorian artist and educator based in Oslo. Her work moves through the intersections of art and critical pedagogy, imagining how institutions might open spaces for creative expression and collective learning.

Danny Butt is Senior Lecturer at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and a member of the art collective Local Time. His work focuses on artistic research and interdisciplinary practice. He is the author of Artistic Research in the Future Academy.

Liselli is an Oslo-based French-Trinidadian artist and scenographer. She explores the connections between ecology, time, identity and kinship, and the narratives these create in relation to living beings, both human and non-human.

Kurniawan Adi Saputro is a researcher, writer, and lecturer at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, where he coordinates research in the Department of Photography. His work engages with visual media, climate justice, and cultural activism, exploring how local knowledge can shape public understanding of environmental and social challenges.

Helly Minarti is based in Yogyakarta, where she works as an independent curator and dramaturg. Her practice connects theory and action within contemporary performance, exploring the relationship between the body, consciousness, and nature through historiographies of choreography.

Eline McGeorge lives and works in Oslo, Norway. McGeorge’s practice approaches complex con­tem­porary topics through material explo­ra­tions and factual, site-specific research and field work.

Sonia Levy is an artist and research-led filmmaker with a diasporic Berber-Polish background. Her work combines site-specific inquiries and interdisciplinary collaborations to examine how Western expansionist and extractive logics reshape hydrosocial worlds.

Dilşad Aladağ is a researcher and practitioner working across the fields of culture, art, architecture and curation. Her work explores the politics of landscapes and their relationship to knowledge production, focusing on spatial and ecological dynamics, and the performances of power and resilience.

Elise Hoebeke is a Belgian contemporary jewellery artist and lecturer at Sint Lucas Antwerp, whose practice explores the intersections of space, life, object, and jewellery.

Marte Aas (b. 1966, NO) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Oslo. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. Different subjects of interest are realised in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives.