CONtributOrS
Gwen L. Allen teaches art history in the
School of Art at San Francisco State
University. She is the author of Artists’
Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art
(AVEC Presse, 2011) and recently edited the
anthology The Magazine in the Documents
of Contemporary Art series (MIT Press and
the Whitechapel Gallery, 2016).
Nikola Dedi ´c teaches art history at the
University of the Arts in Belgrade. His books
include Utopian Spaces of Art and Theory after
1960 (2009), Less Than Human: Srd–an Đile
Markovi´c and Underground Figuration (2011),
and A Painting in the Age of Media: Dragomir
Ugren (2011).
Octavian Es¸anu teaches in the Department
of Fine Art and Art History at the American
University of Beirut (AUB). He is curator of
the AUB Art Galleries. Among his publica-
tions are What Does “Why” Mean? (J.&L
Livres, 2007), Transition in Post-Soviet Art:
The “Collective Actions” Group before and
after 1989 (CEU Press, 2012), and “Moscow
Conceptualism” in The Encyclopedia of
Aesthetics (Oxford UP, 2014).
Nida Ghouse is a writer and curator. Son
ongoing project, Emotional Architecture with
Malak Helmy, has released two publications:
No Fantasy without Protest (2015) and We
Started by Calling It a Summer of Two Fires
and a Landslide (2014). Her latest texts
include “The Loss of Tokyo” in Dreams and
Music: Hassan Khan (Revolver, 2016) et
“On Listening In” in Rapture 03 (Office for
Contemporary Art Norway, 2016). Elle est
currently director of Mumbai Art Room.
Catherine Hansen researches, translates,
and writes on Western and Eastern European
avant-garde and modernist literature and
art. Her work has appeared in ARTMargins,
Dada/Surrealism, Cabinet, L’Esprit Créateur,
Hyperion, The American Reader, and Umelec.
Angela Harutyunyan is head of the Art
History program at the American University
of Beirut. Her research interests include the-
ories of art history; late Soviet and post-Soviet
art; and the intersections between art and
labor. Her recent curatorial work includes
This Is the Time/This Is the Record of
the Time at Stedelijk Museum Bureau
Amsterdam and AUB Galleries (with Nat
Muller); and her book The Political Aesthetics
of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The Journey
of the “Painterly Real” is forthcoming from
Manchester University Press (2017).
Vid Simoniti is the Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior
Research Fellow at Churchill College,
University of Cambridge. He is working on
a postdoctoral book project entitled Artist
as a Thinker: From Conceptual Art to Artistic
Research.
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