Anette Baldauf
Anette Baldauf is professor for methodology and epistemology and co-director of the artistic research program PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has directed multiple extensive artistic research projects that served as a meeting and study ground for artists from different geopolitical contexts.
Susanna Delali Nuwordu
Susanna Delali Nuwordu is a fashion researcher with a strong background in the industry, having held roles as a buyer and merchandiser. Her research focuses on various aspects, including the interplay of fashion across generations, diaspora fashion and the intricacies of fashion aesthetics.
Moira Hille
Moira Hille works at the intersections of theory, art/research, and education through visual, poetic and performative forms. Currently she coordinates the MA critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Sasha Huber
Sasha Huber is a Helsinki-based visual artist researcher of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Her work is concerned with the politics of memory and belonging in relation to the colonial residue left in the environment. Connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based reparative interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Sasha Huber also usurps the staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics (pain-things).
Janine Jembere
Janine Jembere is an artist and learner working in different constellations on performances and educational, video and sound projects. Her works center senses and the body, mainly questioning concepts of representation and translatability, ableism, race and gender. She is interested in the resonances of embodied knowledge, sensual hierarchies and the concept of dissonance as a tool to think and live within difference. Her works have been shown at Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Museum of History Sarajevo, Music Hall Public Library Detroit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, mumok, Wien, Temps d’Images Lissabon, Golden Pudel Club Hamburg, Dokumentarfilmwoche Duisburg. She is a Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Abiona Esther Ojo
Abiona Esther Ojo is a textile artist and photographer.
In her work she engages with embodied ways of storytelling. She is interested in sharing stories trough images, fabrics and patterns.
Jumoke Sanwo
Jumoke Sanwo, born 1977, is a storyteller, place-maker, and cultural producer, whose artistic and curatorial interventions focus on the intersection of technology, innovation, materiality and art. She explores the spatial and temporal experiences of the individual and the collective, highlighting the impact of colonial systems on, and within postcolonial societies. She lives and works out of Lagos, Nigeria.
Mariama Sow
Mariama Sow is a freelance artist and costume designer whose work focuses on the political aspects of clothing and performance within the context of empowering and representing marginalized bodies. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In her research, she is interested in speculative approaches to imagining black/afrodiasporic bodies and existences in various times and spaces.
Milou Gabriel
Milou Gabriel (they/them) works as an art and cultural mediator and is currently studying in Master’s program in Critical Studies. They are interested in different ways of knowledge production as well as mediation, sense-making, and storytelling. Working collectively is a central component of their work, in which collective learning processes and alternative approaches to understanding play a major role.