Bazinato (Bazil Stachievich) is an artist, researcher, and social and environmental activist from Belarus. They work with practices of interaction and perception exploring the world, macro and micro structures, patterns and connections. Bazinato’s work interacts with the environment, space and time, applying available art practices and scientific knowledge in experiments. They specialize in developing and leading interdisciplinary projects exploring connections between art, digital culture and science, cultural activism, and environmental movements.

Bazinato explores the connection of art to everyday experience through interaction and collaboration with the environment. An immersion in a different sensibility, where there are no binary relations, no natural and no human, and the human being is not a fundamental being. They explore the pattern of impermanence and variability of the nature of the perceived. Bazinato invites us to go beyond words, meanings and to form our own spirituality, through immersion in the natural substratum of the derivatives of being – difference and diversity.

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Nicolás Estévez treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively, through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited and performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, Hemispheric Institute, Princeton University, Casita Maria, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, CALL/WALKS, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others.

Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.

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Alaina Claire Feldman is a curator, writer and Director of the Mishkin Gallery at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on the relationship between identity and globalization, specifically the relationship between geography, the oceanic, and representation. She curated The Aesthetics of Learning; The Work: An Exhibition in Two Chapters by Lise Soskolne; Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia; and Lamin Fofana: BLUES, at the Mishkin Gallery. Previously, she was the Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) where she curated the international traveling exhibition The Ocean After Nature and edited and contributed to the subsequent catalogue.

Alaina’s writing has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies and catalogues. She has taught at CUNY, The University of Porto, Center for Feminist Pedagogy, and ICI’s Curatorial Intensive and was the 2017 Annual Beckwith Lecturer at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Tufts, Boston. Alaina also serves on the International Advisory Board of Casa São Roque–Centro de Arte, Portugal.

Jaime Iglehart explores dreamscapes and the line between imagination and concrete world-building. Her projects are deskilled, social and experimental; involving ‘play,’ utopian fantasy and highly personal iconography.  She works within a variety of disciplines including film-making, performance, sculpture, and educational platforms which democratize learning– such as free schools.  She is currently a professor of Visual Narrative in the Digital Design Department at CUNY Hostos.

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Lance Johnson is a visual artist who works with various materials to celebrate the complexity of the urban environment. Using vibrant colors, textures and inspirational text to convey a sense of hope and pride that is prevalent in city life.

Art has the power to connect people from all walks of life. Across cultures, languages and religions. To Lance, art has always been a us over individual pursuit. Collaboration is a large part of his practice. Collaborating with dancers, musicians, poets, singers and other visual artists throughout his artistic journey. Multidisciplinary artistic expression creating dialogues across perceived and unperceived barriers.

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Interview with Lance Johnson during his Art Prospect Residency at the Ilkhom Center for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, March 2023. Interview conducted by Jakhongir Azimov, courtesy of gazeta.uz.

Born in Kyiv, Tatiana Kochubinska is an independent curator, writer, and lecturer, whose work focuses on Ukrainian contemporary art. She has worked as a curator on the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre and on the center’s exhibition and publication programs.  As a curator, Tatiana is particularly interested in questions of responsibility, Soviet history and its relationship to today’s society. In recent years, she has collaborated with various cultural institutions, designed courses on contemporary art, co-developed curatorial residencies together with Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro, Ukraine), and co-edited a special issue about Ukrainian art and society after 2014 at the invitation of Obieg Magazine. Tatiana also became a member of the curatorial team of the International Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the War in Ukraine antiwarcoalition.art.

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A seamstress, artist, queer-feminist, and grassroot activist, Antonina Melnyk works with textiles and clothing and engages in theatrical activities and performance. Antonina’s practice is focused on non-alienated, fairly-priced labour; the alternative economy as a tool against exploitation of women; and investigation of discriminatory practices. She also works with the idea of re-thinking and re-appropriating cultural, historical, and social traditions.

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Antonina graduated from Kyiv National University of Technology and Design and studied contemporary art in Kyiv and St. Petersburg. In 2015, she co-founded the Shvemy sewing cooperative (Kyiv – St. Petersburg). In 2016, she joined the ReSew sewing cooperative in Kyiv. Antonina collaborates with her fellow artist Mariia Lukianova.

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Daria Pugachova is an artist, performer and art activist born in Rivne, Ukraine. Daria uses participatory practices to unite communities and integrate art into daily life. She explores the themes of the transformation of place and society through the direct presence of the artist.

In 2021, Daria received a grant for a project “Microcosmos” in Poltava, Ukraine. On February 11, 2022 the solo exhibition of the artist opened in Jump Contemporary Art Centre. Two weeks later, Russia started a war in Ukraine. 

In March 2022, Daria was invited for an artist residency at Radar Sofia in Bulgaria. In Sofia, she made her latest performance “I Will Close The Sky So You Could Breathe” about the war in Ukraine. She presented the “Microcosmos” in front of the abandoned cinema “Cosmos” in Plovdiv (Context AiR residency) and opened two solo exhibitions MICROCOSMOS / SKY OF WAR connecting both projects she made before and after the war started. Currently, Daria travels across Europe, participating in residencies and art programs to bring visibility to Ukraine through her projects.

Daria studied architecture at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. In 2013-2019, she played drums in the band Panivalkova.

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Mariia Ravlyk Lukianova is a seamstress, artist, and queer feminist activist. She is a member of the sewing cooperatives Shvemy and ReSew. Mariia works with a variety of mediums, including textiles, clothes, video, photo, dance, and performance. Her work focuses on topics such as overcoming discrimination, workers’ rights, poverty, self-care, migration, and the queer community. Mariia collaborates with her fellow artist Antonina Melnyk.

Born in Russia, Mariia has been living and working in Kyiv since 2016 and currently has temporary protection in Finland.

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Katya Taylor is a curator, manager of cultural projects, and contemporary art expert. Her current volunteer project Artists Support Ukraine helps organize exhibitions across the world to promote and support Ukrainian artists during the Russian invasion. Katya curated The Captured House, the exhibition that tells the story of the war in Ukraine through the eyes of 50 contemporary artists. The show traveled to Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, and Rome.

Katya is the founder of the Port.agency. Her multidisciplinary collaborations include projects with UNISEF, UN Woman, World Food Programme, Anti-Corruption Initiative of the European Union, UNDP, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (England), British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and Vogue Ukraine, among others.

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