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lara ayad is an independent researcher and
art historian. She is the author of “The ‘Negress’
of Alexandria: African Womanhood in Modern
Egyptian Art” (African Arts, Winter 2020).
She currently hosts the television show AHA!
A House for Arts on WMHT public media.
Kaira Marie cabañas is the 2021–22
William S. Seitz Senior Fellow at the Center
for Advanced Visual Studies at the National
Gallery of Art and Professor of Art History
and affiliate faculty in the Center for Latin
American Studies and Center for Gender,
Sexualities and Women’s Studies at the
University of Florida, Gainesville. She is
author of Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and
Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art
(2021) and Learning from Madness: Brazilian
Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
(2018), among other volumes. She also served
as editor of the Portuguese-language book
O silêncio que as palavras guardam (2021), by
artist and therapist Lula Wanderley.
Elizabeth Harney is an art historian and
curator at the University of Toronto, where she
teaches art theory, histories of African mod-
ernism, and anticolonialism and global post-
war visual cultures. As the inaugural curator of
modern and contemporary arts at the National
Museum for African Art, Smithsonian
Institution, she designed the museum’s collec-
tion policy and a suite of exhibitions. Harney
is the author of Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in
the Diaspora (2003) and In Senghor’s Shadow:
Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde (2004), as
well as coeditor of Inscribing Meaning: Writing
and Graphic Systems in African Arts (2007) and
Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity,
Colonialism (2018).
Matthew j. Mason is a doctoral candidate at
St. John’s College and the Ruskin School of Art,
University of Oxford. His research explores the
relationship between art, exhibition, and poli-
tics in the modern and contemporary periods,
with a particular emphasis on non-Western art,
specifically that of Latin America and Australia.
Dorota jagoda Michalska is a PhD candi-
date at the Ruskin School of Art, University of
Oxford. Her texts have been published in
Afterall Online, L’Internationale, and Kajet
Journal. She has also written for the Venice
Biennale (2017), the Prague Biennale Matter
of Art (2022), and Zachęta National Gallery
in Warsaw, Poland. Her research currently
focuses on questions of race and decoloniality
within the context of Eastern and Southern
Europe, as well as on global decolonial histo-
ries of surrealism(s).
slavs and tatars is an art collective devoted
to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and
west of the Great Wall of China known as
Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the col-
lective has shown a keen grasp of polemical
issues in society, clearing new paths for con-
temporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic
form of knowledge production: including pop-
ular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions,
oral histories, modern myths, as well as schol-
arly research. Their work has been the subject
of solo exhibitions at institutions across the
globe, including the Vienna Secession; MoMA,
New York; Salt, Istanbul; and Albertinum
Dresden, amongst others. The collective’s
practice is based on three activities: exhibi-
tions, publications, and lecture-performances.
The collective has published more than twelve
books to date, including most recently The
Contest of the Fruits (2021).
alberto toscano teaches in the School of
Communication, Simon Fraser University,
and the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths,
University of London. He is the author of
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd
ed.) and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of
Marxism (2022). He edits The Italian List
series for Seagull Books.
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