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K8 Hardy

K8 Hardy is a punk rock artist who works across a motley array of mediums, including video, photography, and sculpture. Through her art practice, she unwittingly becomes a brand, intentionally exploiting persona and pop culture. Long before the ubiquity of the selfie, Hardy was experimenting in documenting her looks and various fictional selves. Her work takes us to the edge of “good taste” and makes us question those parameters.

Hardy came up through the Riot Grrrl scene. She has participated avidly in collaborations, activism, and collectives, like W.A.G.E. and LTTR. Her work is in the collection of The MoMA, The Guggenheim, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She has exhibited at such notable institutions as The Tate Modern, Kunsthaus Zurich, Artists Space, PS1, SFMOMA, Dallas Contemporary, amongst others.

David Levine

David Levine's work encompasses theater, performance, video, and photography, and has been exhibited or commissioned by Creative Time, MoMA, REDCAT, MACBA, and Mass MoCA, among others. He has also directed operas and plays at BRIC House, the Atlantic Theater, Primary Stages, PS122, and Soho Rep. His solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Some of the People, All of The Time, was named one of the 10 best exhibitions globally by the New York Times in 2018. 

He is a contributing editor to BOMB, and his essays and dramatic writing have been published in n+1, Theater, Cabinet, Parkett, and Triple Canopy.

He is the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2013 OBIE award, in addition to fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the MacDowell Colony, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. His holographic installation Dissolution will premiere at the Jeu de Paume in the exhibition Fata Morgana in March 2022.

Precious Okoyomon

Precious  Okoyomon is a poet and artist living in New York City. They have had institutional solo exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau in Zurich (2018), the MMK in Frankfurt (2020), Performance Space New York (2021) as well as major performances commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2019). Their second book But Did U Die? is forthcoming from Serpentine and Wonder Press in 2021. They are the recipient of the 2021 Frieze Artist Award

Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears, and Red Pill. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages, and his writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, writes the ‘Easy Chair’ column for Harper’s, and is the host of the podcast Into the Zone. His art writing has appeared in Frieze and October. Catalogue essays include Glenn Brown, Paul Noble, Kara Walker, Gustav Metzger, Damian Ortega, Jamie Diamond, and Harland Miller. His novella, Memory Palace, was the basis for the 2013 exhibition of the same name at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is a member of the editorial collective of Mute magazine, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an honorary fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He is the recipient of fellowships from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches on the Creative Writing Program at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Mark Beasley

Formerly the inaugural Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar, Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Mark Beasley is currently Curatorial Director of Pace Live at Pace Gallery. A former curator at the New York-based performance biennial Performa curator he has worked with and commissioned work by artists such as Mike Kelley, Florian Hecker’s, Ed Atkins, Tori Wranes, Frances Stark, and Mark Leckey. In 2011 he established the Malcolm McLaren Award for Performa, presented by Lou Reed to Ragnar Kjartansson. He has written for a number of periodicals including Frieze, Art Forum, E-Flux, and The Serving Library, and contributed to many artists' catalogues.