Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung is a writer and cultural worker based between Berlin and Sydney whose research investigates anarchist publishing, dissident print cultures and utopian thresholds in language. He was a lumbung programme team member at documenta fifteen (2022) and, from 2020–22, shaped exhibitions and publications at the Julia Stoschek Foundation. Eugene is founding editor of Decolonial Hacker and received the 2021 International Award for Art Criticism. His writing appears in Third Text, Griffith Review, Art+Australia, and 4A Papers, amongst others.
Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung was the 2023 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery.
Enzo Camacho (*1985, Philippines) and Ami Lien (*1987, USA) are an artist duo based between New York and Berlin. They have had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Freiburg (2018); and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2018). Their work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2021); the 5th New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); the 39th EVA International, Limerick (2021); Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); the Drawing Center, New York (2020); the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2019); the Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London (2019); the NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2018); UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2017); Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (2017); and Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila (2009). In 2023, they were the recipients of the Gold Art Prize, and they are currently Senior Fellows at the Lunder Institute of American Art at Colby College.
Alyana Cabral a.k.a. t33g33 is a polydisciplinary artist, singer, producer, and DJ. Her aim is a queerification of sound practice through extreme explorations of the genre spectrum as well as through blurring digital and analogue media. Through a haunting combination of voice and synthesis, she organically traverses from soft to brutal forms of electronic music. Alyana’s ritualistic live performance practice is a culmination of blood, rave, and energy. Their music aims to decolonise and liberate, exploring manifestations of love, freedom, and bliss from bodily to astral planes. Alyana Cabral has provided a score for Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien’s film Langit Lupa.
Donna Miranda (b. 1979) and Angelo V. Suarez (b. 1984) are activists who volunteer for the Federation of Agricultural Workers (Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura, UMA). As artists, they work at the intersection of choreography and poetry with focus on their materiality and the conditions of their production. Trained as a dancer, Miranda is preoccupied with how movement is written; conversely, trained as a poet, Suarez is preoccupied with how text is produced by movement. Miranda and Suarez are co-founders of Artists’ Alliance for Genuine Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
Lisa Ito-Tapang (b. 1980, Manila) is a cultural worker, writer, and independent curator based in Quezon City. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory, College of Fine Arts (UPCFA) at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she has been teaching art history, theory, and criticism as a faculty member since 2012. Her research, creative, and curatorial interests explore intersections between art practice, socio-political engagement, and ecology. She is the Secretary-General of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), an organisation of progressive artists founded in 1983.
Sama-samang Artista Para sa Kilusang Agrayo (SAKA), a network of peasant advocates supporting the Philippine peasant struggle for land, food, justice and peace. In 2022, they along with 81 others were assaulted and illegally arrested by police on fabricated charges for supporting farmers asserting their right to land. It was the biggest mass arrest since the toppling of the Marcos Sr. dictatorship in 1986.