• Denise Ferreira da Silva

    Artist

    Denise Ferreira da Silva is an artist and Professor at UBC’s Social Justice Institute-GRSJ and Adjunct Professor at Monash University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel (Oficina da Imaginaçāo Política and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt (Sternberg/MIT Press, 2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Her artistic works include the films with Arjuna Neuman and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon in collaboration with Valentina Desideri. She has exhibited and lectured at the Pompidou Center (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), MASP (Sao Paulo), Guggenheim (New York) and MoMA (New York). She has written for publications from Liverpool Biennale, 2017; Sao Paulo Biennale, 2016, Venice Biennale, 2017, and Documenta 14 and published in journals such as Canadian ArtFriezePassTexte Zur Kunst and e-flux. She has held visiting professorships at major universities in Australia, Brazil, Britain, Denmark, Germany and the United States and is a member of the collective EhChO.org and an editor of Third Text.

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  • Arjuna Neuman

    Artist

    Arjuna Neuman is an an artist, filmmaker and writer, with recent presentations at CCA Glasgow; Centre Pompidou (Paris); Manifesta 10 (Marseille); Showroom Gallery (London); TPW Gallery (Toronto); Forum Expanded, Berlin Biennale; Jameel Art Centre (Dubai); Serpentine Gallery (London); Gasworks (London); Or Gallery (Vancouver); Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Istanbul Modern, amongst others. As a writer, he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings and e-flux. Recently, he has been dropping mixtapes about the “ecological unconscious” on NTS, Dublab and Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee.

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