Olivia Michiko Gagnon is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC, where she is Affiliated Faculty in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration (ACAM) Studies and Faculty Associate at The Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). Her research and teaching live at the intersections of performance studies, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and queer theory, and critical Indigenous studies. She is currently completing her first monograph Closeness: Archives, Performance, and Forms of Relation, which  theorizes  closeness as a minoritarian aesthetic method of doing history otherwise – with and beyond the archive.  Her writing has appeared in  ASAP/Journal, Performance Quarterly, Syndicate and Women Performance: a journal of feminist theory, where she is co-editor (with Dr. James McMaster) of a special issue titled “The Between: Couple Forms, Performing Together.” She has also written exhibition catalogue essays for major museums and galleries in Canada and the US. Gagnon received her PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at NYU in 2019.

Coleman Nye is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, exploring the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, graphic medicine and performance studies. Nye is co-author of Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise and Revolution, the inaugural graphic novel in the ethnoGRAPHIC series by University of Toronto Press, earning the 2018 PROSE Award. Her forthcoming monograph Biological Property: Race, Gender, Genetics (Duke University Press) investigates how genomic research approaches biological inheritance through frameworks of property. Her research is featured in journals including Social Text, TDR: The Drama Review, Women and Performance, Global Public Health and ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. In 2017, Nye curated a special issue of Performance Matters focused on “Science and Performance.” Nye holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and an MA in Anthropology from Brown University.

Laurie White is a curator and writer whose research explores modes of ecological practice in contemporary art and theory. Recent curatorial projects include Surface, Sample, Site, an exhibition of eco-materialist photography for Gallery 44, Toronto. Her writing appears in the catalogues Beginning with the Seventies (Belkin, 2020), Wetland Project: Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art (Figure 1 Publishing, 2022) and A Dream in the Eye: The Complete Paintings and Collages of Phyllis Webb (Talonbooks, 2023). White holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from UBC, where she is currently pursuing doctoral studies in art history.