Biographies
Annie Abrahams is a Dutch multimedia artist, performer, and poet with a great interest in language and collaborative practices. She questions the possibilities and limits of communication in general and, more specifically, investigates its modes under networked conditions.
Carla Adra is a French and Canadian artist born in 1993 in Toronto (Canada). She lives and works in Paris. Tales of the self and the experience of reciprocity are at the heart of her practice. Through collective and performative experiments, she amplifies voices that are often disqualified within the domestic, the urban or the institutional spheres. In public as well as private spaces, she collects individual testimonies echoing shared experiences.
Serine ahefa is an independent multimedia author, writer and producer working between Belgium and West Africa. Concerned with the ethics of representation, knowledge transmission and the sociopolitical aspects of culture, she documents creative ecosystems, new generations of arts communities in Africa, the diaspora and the Global South and how they activate social change and navigate postcolonial and digital contexts. Through sound, images, writing and journalistic inquiry her practice involves the creation of new memories allowing to build spaces where different futures can germinate.
Ernst van Alphen is a cultural analyst and professor emeritus of Literary Studies at Leiden University. He is the editor of Productive Archiving: Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities. His main research interests are visual and cultural studies, Holocaust studies, and gender studies. He has also written extensively on modern and contemporary art and literature.
Leon Decock is a filmmaker who graduated from RITCS School of Arts in Brussels in 2022 and went on to study media arts at KASK School of Arts in Ghent. He often works with chance encounters, found material and notes gathered from archives and fieldwork with amateur collectors and naturalists.
Ils Huygens is a curator, writer and researcher, currently connected to the University of Antwerp. Working for over 15 years in Z33 – House for Contemporary Arts as well as freelance, she curated numerous exhibitions (On-Trade-Off: Charging Myths, The Sustainist Gaze, Learning from Deep Time, The School of Time, Nuclear Culture, This Rare Earth) with a strong focus on ecology and extractivism. She is a writer and also co-editor of Studio Time: Future Thinking in Art and Design and Seasonal Matters. Rural Relations. Apart from visual arts and design, she also has a passion for cinema and is co-founder of the cult film festival Offscreen in Brussels and the short film magazine Kortfilm.be.
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and member of Bare Minimum. Bare Minimum is a queer interdisciplinary anti-work art collective. We hate working, hustling, neoliberal self-improvement, wage labour and surplus value, private property, how work eats into our time, our love, and our ability to make things in earnest. We are a group of friends who decided to formally name an existing structure of relation that keeps us alive through our labour for each other. We are lazy, queer and many of us are disabled.
Paula Rodríguez Sardiñas is an art historian, writer, editor and researcher. Her texts regularly appear in Etcetera, Metropolis M, GLEAN and De Lage Landen. She recently joined the team of the Flemish Centre for Art Archives.
Wolfram Vandenbergen is a writer and language teacher living in Brussels. He holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and Western Literature from KU Leuven and he is part of the team of volunteers at argos.
