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Ray Brassier obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2001. From 2002 to 2008 he was a Research Fellow at Middlesex University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Palgrave 2007) and the English translator of works by Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux. He is currently working on a book entitled Reasons, Patterns, and Processes: Sellars’s Transcendental Naturalism.

 

Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an independent curator, writer and editor based in Paris, France. She is currently chief editor of the online platform of the European museum confederation L’Internationale (http://www.internationaleonline.org) and has been appointed curator for the forthcoming Contour Biennale in Mechelen. Since 2006 she has co-organized the seminar “Something You Should Know,” EHESS, Paris, France, and is a member of the research group Travelling féministe in the frame of Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir. In 2010 she was associate curator of The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and guest curator of Paris Photo.Between 2010 and 2012 she was co-director of the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Curatorial projects include: Show me your archive and I will tell you who is in power, Kiosk, Ghent (2017), Let’s Talk about the Weather. Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016), Tales of Empathy, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2014), Resilience. Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana (2013). She has contributed to magazines including e-flux journal, Springerin, Parkett, Bidoun, and Sarai Reader. Between 2012 and 2014 Petrešin-Bachelez has been chief editor of Manifesta Journal.

Pascal Schwaighofer (1976) lives and works in Zürich. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan (2003). Recent exhibitions include La Madonna dei Tulipani Public Art in Zürich (2016); Sviluppo – Parallelo, Kunstmuseum Lucerne (2015); Voglio vedere le mie montagne, MAGA museum, Gallarate (2015); La jeunesse est un art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, (2012); Science & Fiction, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, (2011); and I was Uranium, Sils project, Rotterdam (2010). Solo exhibitions at Museo Vincenzo Vela, Ligornetto (2016); Kolumba Museum, Köln (2013); the Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2012); Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano (2011); AR/GE kunst, Galerie museum, Bozen/Bolzano. Recent lectures include La classe sterile, with Christian Marazzi, at Museo Vela (2016); The  Fable of the Bees, at Performa Festival (2015); Tulipmania, with Jan Verwoert, at Le Foyer, Zürich (2014). He was awarded the Manor Art Prize, Ticino, Switzerland and the Swiss Art Awards (2011). In January 2016 Tulipmania was released, a publication based on a dialogue between Jan Verwoert and Pascal Schwaighofer as an extension of a multi-part work called Economimesis. In 2011 he was selected for the Collection Cahier d’Artiste, a publication series promoted by the Swiss Art Council Pro Helvetia. His artworks were acquired by private and public collections in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Maral Deghati is an internationally ­seasoned professional photo­-editor, curator, and project manager based in Paris and Marseille. Maral Deghati has more than 15 years of practical working experience in photojournalistic reporting and management. With varied field experience Deghati has worked in all aspects of the industry from reportage to sales, editorial and commercial. Producing photography and multimedia narratives in collaboration with photojournalists worldwide on issues concerning developing and conflict ­stricken contexts across Asia, Africa and Europe. Today, she balances her time free-lancing between curating photography exhibitions, photo-editing, conferences on photojournalism and co-directing the annual festival of the WARM Foundation.

Susan Schuppli is an artist and researcher based in London whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters. Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US. She has published widely within the context of media and politics and is author of the forthcoming book, Material Witness (MIT Press). Schuppli is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths and was previously a research fellow on the Forensic Architecture ERC project. She is a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award, 2016.

Charles Heller is a researcher and filmmaker based in Geneva whose work has a long-standing focus on the politics of migration within and at the borders of Europe. In 2011, he co-founded the Forensic Oceanography research project that critically investigates the lethal effects of the militarized border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea, and in 2012 they co-founded WatchTheMed platform. Heller’s recent works include the “Liquid Traces” (2014) video, and the “Death by Rescue” (2016) report and video. Heller as been research fellow on the Forensic Architecture project of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently conducting a postdoctoral research supported by the Swiss National Fund (SNF). He was awarded a post-graduate diploma from CCC in 2005.

Fabien Giraud is an artist. Since 2007, he has collaborated extensively with the artist and filmmaker Raphael Siboni, with whom he has exhibited internationally (Palais de Tokyo – 2008, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – 2009, Santa Fe Biennial – 2008, Moscow Biennial – 2009, Sharjah Art Foundation – 2013, Biennale de Lyon – 2015 ). Since 2014, their new and ongoing body of works entitled The Unmanned has been presented in a series of monographic shows in Luxembourg (Casino Luxembourg), Canada (Vox in Montreal) and France (Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de l’Ile de Vassivière).

Together with Ida Soulard, he co-founded The Matter of Contradiction in 2011, a series of seminars and workshops addressing the geological concept of the Anthropocene and its consequences for the theory of art. In 2012, they co-initiated Glass Bead, a research platform and journal launched in 2014 through a series of events in New York and Paris. They currently collaborate on a book entitled The Marfa Stratum.

Ida Soulard is a doctoral researcher in art history at ENS / PSL University and co-director of Fieldwork: Marfa, an international research and residency project run by les beaux-arts de Nantes and HEAD-Genève. She currently teaches at les beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole.

Together with Fabien Giraud, she co-founded The Matter of Contradiction in 2011, a series of seminars and workshops addressing the geological concept of the Anthropocene and its consequences for the theory of art. In 2012, they co-initiated Glass Bead, a research platform and journal launched in 2014 through a series of events in New York and Paris. They currently collaborate on a book entitled The Marfa Stratum.

The research project Beyond the Monument: Political Mobilization, Citizen Initiatives and Art Interventions in Memorial Processes [BM] aims to explore the connection between the paradigm shift in memory politics that occurred in the 1990s (evolution of the normative framework of transitional justice) and situated art practices (from the counter-monument to interventionist, discursive and “performative” proposals) and their situation in the public space. The study examines (1) the transformation of memorial policies since the 1980s; (2) the simultaneous emergence of original artistic formats in this area at the intersection of citizen, activist and artistic initiatives; (3) the impact of developments in transitional justice on art practices; (4) the contribution of art practices in the development of memorial policies. Beyond the Monument is conceived by Pierre Hazan, Denis Pernet, Catherine Quéloz, Yan Schubert, Mélanie Borès and Mischa Piraud.