Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Sabine Breitwieser

Curator, Art Manager, Publicist

Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director, currently based in Vienna, Austria, as independent scholar. She was a 2020/2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles, a prestigious research program she continued in 2022. From 2013 until 2018 she was the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013 she served as Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and headed one of the six specialist departments and collections. From 1988 until 2007 she was the...

Rizvana Bradley

Professor of Film & Media Studies, Scholar of Contemporary Art

Rizvana Bradley is Assistant Professor of Film and Media and Affiliated Faculty in the History of Art and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the 2023–24 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Bradley’s book, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), moves across multiple histories and geographies, artistic mediums and forms—from nineteenth-century painting and early cinema, to...

Kevin Bott

Community-Based Theater Artist, Scholar

Kevin Bott is a community-based theater artist and scholar whose interests lie at the intersection of healing, freedom, justice, and movement-building, as well as in the mutually supportive relationship between individual excellence and collective creation. Bott is the founder and artistic director of Ritual4Return, which he began developing in 2008. His 2010 doctoral dissertation is entitled “A Ritual for Return: Investigating the Process of Creating an Original Rite of Passage with Formerly Incarcerated Men.” The study examines the artist’s own ethical decision making...

Jonah Bokaer

Choreographer, Media Artist

Jonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of Choreography merged with Visual Art & Design. American & Middle Eastern, he has deeply interwoven an international career as an exhibiting museum artist; with a touring multi-ethnic dance company; with a nonprofit practice that has succeeded in delivering 4 arts facilities for younger artists.

Natasha Boas

Contemporary Art Curator, Writer, Critic

Natasha Boas, Ph.D. is a San Francisco and Paris based transnational independent curator and writer. She has contributed to the current exhibition "Termite Bites" at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris with work on San Francisco legend Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001).

Iain Boal

Social Historian of Science and Technics

Iain Boal is an Irish social historian of science and technics, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley and Birkbeck College, London. He is associated with the Retort group, and is one of the co-authors of Retort’s Afflicted Power: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (Verso). He co-edited with James Brook Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights), and is author of The Green Machine (Notting Hill Editions), a brief planetary history of the...

Sven Åge Birkeland

Artistic & Managing Director of Norway's BIT Teatergarasjen

Sven Åge Birkeland was the artistic and managing director of Norway's oldest and most prestigious international theatre, BIT Teatergarasjen, the dance biennial Oktoberdans and the theatre biennial Meteor. In addition, he was sought after as a curator and advisor for programs of festivals and venues, within Norway as well as internationally. In that capacity he influenced the curatorial processes and development of many performing arts programs across the globe with his distinct vision, taste and unique sense for new artistic potential.

His work for the Norwegian...

Katherine Agyemaa Agard

Writer

Katherine Agyemaa Agard is the eldest daughter of a zoologist and a botanist. At 18, she won, and declined, an Open National Scholarship in the Natural Sciences from the government of Trinidad & Tobago. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in painting, performance, and writing. She holds an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies and Social Anthropology from Harvard College and an MFA in Writing from UC-San Diego. KAA has received fellowships from Kimbilio, Lambda Literary, VONA/Voices, and Callaloo. She lives in San Francisco and is a dual citizen of Trinidad and...

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Visiting Writer

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a black, trans writer & educator, currently living in Northampton, MA. His first collection of poetry, Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, Dispatch, was the winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice award & was published by Persea Books in December, 2019. Cam’s writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review,...

Neda Atanasoski

Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland

Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity(University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures(co-authored with Kalindi Vora, Duke University Press, 2019). She...