Adam HajYahia is an independent writer and curator. His work examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics in times of revolutionary awakening, capitalism and desire, and contradictions and overlaps between cultural work and labor organizing. He’s particularly interested in how, through practices of image-making, performance, literature, and sound, revolutions erupt, resume, and sometimes terminate. By focusing on anti-colonial and workers’ organizing traditions past and present, he seeks to elucidate how worldmaking projects unfold aesthetically. His texts, programs, and exhibitions have been presented in various museums, universities, and cultural institutions such as Bard College, the Mosaic Rooms, the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, MoMA PS1, the Berlin Biennale 12, and Mophradat. He has given talks and lectures at the Harvard Law School, Yale University, and Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He lives and works between Palestine and New York.

Andrea Geyer is a multi-disciplinary artist un-sensing the construction and politics of time. With a particular focus on those who identify/ed as women or LGBTQIA+, her works use photography, performance, video, sculpture, drawing, and painting to activate the lingering potential of specific events, places, or biographies. Her work materializes the entanglement of presence and absence in the face of ideologically motivated omissions in archives and memories. She sees art as a site that offers re-orientation(s) towards the urgency of a present moment. Exhibitions include MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); Jumex Foundation in Mexico; IMMA in Dublin; TATE Modern in London; Generali Foundation, Secession in Vienna; São Paulo Biennal and documenta12 (Kassel). Representation by Hales Gallery in London/New York and Galerie Thomas Zander (Cologne). Her solo exhibition a promise of lightning is on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum until early 2025. Geyer was a 2006–2007 VLC Fellow and is an Associate Professor at Parsons Fine Arts. She lives and works in New York.

Carlos Motta’s multidisciplinary practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities to challenge normative discourses through visibility and representation. As a historian of untold narratives and an archivist of repressed histories, Motta is committed to in-depth research on the struggles of post-colonial subjects and societies. Motta received his MFA from Bard College and completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2006. His work has been the subject of survey exhibitions, including Carlos Motta: Formas de libertad at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia (2017), which traveled to Matucana100, Santiago, Chile, in 2018, and Carlos Motta: For Democracy There Must Be Love Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg, Sweden (2015), and a 2022 solo survey exhibition Your Monsters, Our Idols at the Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, OH. In 2019, Motta was appointed tenure-track Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice at Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts Department. Carlos Motta: History’s Backrooms, a 20-year career monograph, was published by SKIRA in June 2020. His work is part of Marco Scotini’s Disobedience Archive at the sixtieth Venice Biennale. Motta will be the subject of a mid-career survey exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, in 2025. Motta contributed to the VLC exhibition OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding and several other programs.