Ali Al-Adawy is a critic, curator, and researcher. He joins the program from Alexandria, Egypt. Ali’s research interests center around representations of labor in film and art, the shifting dynamics of art spaces in times of permanent catastrophe, and the relationship between the circulation of images, human rights, and financialization.
Anas Alkhatib is an architect, dancer, and spatial researcher. He joins the program from Palestine. Anas’s practice focuses on spatial violence documentation, architectural visualization, and cartography. He is the founder of Architect In Camps” (Me’mar) collective, a multidisciplinary architectural studio.
Majd Alrafie is a graphic designer, illustrator, and activist. She joins the program from Amman, Jordan. Majd’s research interests include Arab queer politics, Palestinian liberation, and art in activism.
Tâm Liêu Âm is an artist.
Nour Annan is a writer, photographer, and inter-disciplinary artist. She joins the program from Lebanon. Nour’s research interests include collective cultural memory and contemporary revolutionary politics. She is a former editor at Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.
Raneem Ayyad is a multidisciplinary researcher, architect, and visual artist. She joins the program from Palestine. Her research focuses on the intersections between the built environment and heritage, with an interest in colonial relations and gender dynamics in Palestine and post-colonial contexts. Raneem is a co-director for the Architect In Camps (Me'mar) collective.
Luka Gotsiridze is a researcher, documentarian, and digital content creator. He joins the program from Georgia, by way of Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria. His research interests include religion and human rights, gender and sexuality, and storytelling and social cohesion.
Adam HajYahia is an independent researcher, curator, and culture producer. He joins the program from Haifa, Palestine. Adam’s research interests revolve around structural and hierarchical violence, and its intersections with capitalist, colonial, sexual, and social dynamics in Palestine and beyond.
Isabella Indolfi is an independent curator living between New York City and Maranola (Italy), and working between Western Europe, Russia, Armenia, and the United States of America. Her curatorial research is focused on public art, site-specific, and community-based practices. Since 2009, she has been collaborating with artists, institutions, festivals, museums and universities. Currently she is an independent researcher for Opere Vive, art director at SEMINARIA Biennial Festival of Environmental Art, and co-curator for Cyland Media Art Lab.
K. is a social researcher, facilitator, and curator who works at the intersection of social sciences, activism, and arts. Her interests include participatory and community-based practices, post-socialism, mobility, citizenship, and urban studies.
Iris Luo tells stories through photography, illustration, and writing, and is trained in theater producing and arts administration. She joins the program from Shanghai, China. Iris’s research interests center on environmental justice as well as South-South and South-North migration, with a particular emphasis on education and health care rights. Her dream is to write fairytales for adults.
Carol Montealegre is an artist working in performance, installation, and video. She joins the program from Bogota, Colombia. Carol’s research interests include experimental film and performance art as mediums for human emancipation. She is the Artistic Director at Liminal Art Collective.
Aya Rebai is an architect, scenographer, and a cultural manager. She joins the program from Tunisia. Having worked on a variety of artistic and educational projects in Tunisia, Aya’s own research and practice focus on food politics and cooking as an artistic tool.
Jina Rishmawi is a peace activist and innovator. She joins the program from Palestine, Beit Sahour—the Shepherds Fields—in particular. Jina's research interests include urban planning, nonviolent resistance, and peacebuilding.
Nestor Rotsen is a fashion and multidisciplinary artist. He joins the program from Moscow, Russia. The main area of interest for Nestor's work is based on the social and political problems of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries that were previously part of the USSR.
Garrett Sager (a.k.a. Melissabeth) is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in theater and cabaret. He joins the program from the Boston area by way of the Hudson Valley. Garrett’s research interests include pop culture and identity, queer time, and the creation of new genders via performance.
Ciko Sidzumo has yet to adopt a discipline. She joins the program from Johannesburg, South Africa. Ciko's research interests include period poverty, gender-based violence, and movements that work toward the eradication of both.
Hattie Wilder Karlstrom is a researcher and an activist. She joins the program from Amherst, Massachusetts by way of Annandale-on-Hudson. Hattie’s research interests center on borders and the people they affect. Hattie was a 2020 participant in the Border Pedagogy Working Group and the recipient of a Watson Fellowship.
Immanuel Williams is an interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of painting, printmaking, performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation. They join the program from Albany, New York. Immanuel's research interests include how themes of fragmentation, alteration, and mythification manifest in memories and familial stories retold. Their work was recently featured in Baby Get Closer at Co-prosperity Catskill.
Pavel Zalevskii is a researcher and an activist. He joins the program from the Kyrgyz Republic. Pavel’s research interests center on queer politics and their histories in Central Asia.
Margarita Kuchma is a video and music artist. She joins the program from St. Petersburg, Russia. Margarita’s research interests include sound and video in advocacy, criminal justice reform, and youth empowerment. She is the songwriter and performer on the EP titled What Did You Say.
