Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, memoir, fiction, tarot how-too, children’s picture books and young adult fantasy. Her most recent, the essay collection Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions and Criticisms, was longlisted forthe 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is the creator of the international phenomenon Drag Queen Story Hour, the online parenting zine Mutha, the long-running performance tour Sister Spit, and the Sister Spit Books series for City Lights. She currently curates the queer Amethyst Editions imprint at The Feminist Press, and co-curates and co-hosts JOSH, a monthly comedy house party, with the writer Tara Jepsen, in Los Angeles.
All the while making underground movies, Jacob Burckhardt has worked at a variety of jobs: Blueberry picker, Steel Mill laborer, grape harvester, Fuller Brush man, Truck driver, Taxi driver, camera repairman and adjunct professor. He did sound recording and mixing from North Africa to the porn industry. After making two features he eschewed the money raising rat race, and now his films are mostly quirky comedies and poetic documentaries.
He first photographed the New Years Marathon in 1976, and has covered most of them since.
David Mason composes music under the name of Listening Center, and has released music with Ghost Box, Polytechnic Youth and a Year in the Country. He works primarily with analogue synthesis and magnetic media, and was a participating artist in Queens International 2018.
Matthew Mottel (born 1981, New York, NY) is an artist, performer and writer. Matthew researches political and cultural histories to ameliorate the relationships between archival historical documents and their contemporary context. These investigations often are in the form of sculpture, intermedia art installation and performance; creating unique environments for archival media to exist within. Matthew was an Artist In Residence At Issue Project Room in 2010 and an LMCC Swing Space Recipient in 2011. He has presented work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Kitchen, New York; Deitch Projects, New York; All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival; London and Moers Music, Germany.
He received in 2003, a B.A at SUNY New Paltz, his degree in Political & Cultural Studies. He presented his thesis exhibition towards an M.F.A. at City College’s Digital Intermedia Art Practice program in 2018 with graduation in 2019.
Suzanne Goldenberg is a NYC based artist, activist and writer. She is the author of HELP WANTED and her forthcoming book GOING PRO. She hosts the CRUSH reading series at the Woodbine collective in Ridgewood, NY. Her work can be found at https://www.instagram.com/golden_suz/
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work looks at places and moments where social, political, and cultural structures take on visible forms. Long-term collaborations include the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared, with Chitra Ganesh, and the video series Performed Places, with choreographer Erin Kelly and composer Qasim Naqvi. Solo exhibitions include the Queens Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Rogaland Kunstsenter, and the Gatchina Museum. Notable group exhibitions and screenings include the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Liverpool Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the Dhaka Art Summit, dOCUMENTA 13, the National Gallery in DC, the Secession in Vienna, the CCCB in Barcelona, and the Met Breuer, MoMA and Guggenheim in New York. Recent texts have been published in Frieze, Ibraaz, Triple Canopy, and the anthologies Critical Writing Ensembles, Dissonant Archives, Utopian Pulse, and Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015. Ghani holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and has received a number of awards, grants and fellowships, most recently from Creative Capital and the Center for Constitutional Rights. She teaches at Bennington College.
Jonathan Aprea is a writer living in New York. His chapbook Dyson Poems was published by Monster House Press in 2018. You can find him on the web at jonathanaprea.com.
Neïl Beloufa (born in 1985 in Paris, France) is a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. He was a student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); at Cooper Union, New York; and Fresnoy – National Contemporary Arts Studio, Tourcoing (France). Beloufa’s work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at K11, Shanghai (2016); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2015); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012 and 2018); and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018). He has taken part in the 2014 Biennale of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, the 55th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2013) and the 2013 Biennial of Contemporary Art in Lyon. Beloufa was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2015, the Artes Mundi (Cardiff, United Kingdom) and Nam June Paik (Essen, Germany) prizes in 2016. He was awarded the Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art 2013, Audi Talent Awards 2011 and the Agnès B. Studio Collector Award 2010.
Alexandra Tatarsky makes work in the unfortunate in-between zone of comedy, poetry, dance-theater and deluded rant, sometimes with songs. Pieces often incorporate absurdist characters and improvised wordplay. A 2017-18 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, they have performed their own work and the work of others at La Mama, 83 Pitt, Maccarone, Picture Room, MoMa PS1, 47 Canal, Bronx Art Space, New Museum, The Kitchen, Brooklyn Museum, AUNTS, Segue, La Plaza Cultural, PSNY, Gibney, Gotham Comedy Club, and Judson Church. Chapbooks include Vacant Love (love letters for vacant lots) and Embrace the Tree (on pagan metal and neo-fascist fantasies). As the Shanzhai Lyric, they publish mini-compilations of bootleg t-shirt poems. Writings on hyper-capitalism, nonsense, and mimes are forthcoming in ArtReview Asia, Folder, and Garlands. A proud third generation East Villager, Tatarsky’s pet hamster is buried in the graveyard of St. Mark’s Church.
Raja Feather Kelly’schoreography includes: I, I Am A Dancer (Ars Nova ANT Fest), UGLY (The Bushwick Starr), ANOTHER FUCKING WARHOL PRODUCTION (The Kitchen, American Dance Festival, nominated Most Innovative Dance Performance of 2017 by Dance Magazine), ANDY WARHOL’S BLEU MOVIE (BAM Fisher, Baryshnikov Arts Center), ANDY WARHOL’S TROPICO (Danspace Project), ANDY WARHOL’S DRELLA, (I Love You Faye Driscoll) (The Invisible Dog), and ANDY WARHOL’S 15: COLOR ME, WARHOL (Dixon Place).
Off-Broadway credits include choreography for A Strange Loop directed by Michael R. Jackson (Playwright Horizons), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY directed by Lila Neugebauer (Signature Theatre); Susan-Lori Parks’ THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz (Signature Theatre, received a 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival); Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, directed by Lila Neugebauer (Signature Theatre); Daaimah Mubashshir’s EVERYDAY AFROPLAY (JACK); Jim Findlay’s ELECTRIC LUCIFER (The Kitchen); Jackie Sibbles-Drury’s FAIRVIEW, directed by Sarah Benson (Soho Rep) and LEMPICKA, directed by Rachel Chavkin (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Raja was born in Fort Hood, Texas, and is the first and only choreographer to dedicate his company’s work to Andy Warhol and the development of popular culture over the last thirty years.
A 2017 and 2018 Princess Grace Award winner in Choreography and a Director for Soho Rep’s 2018/19 Writers and Directors Lab, his honors include a 2018-2020 HERE Arts Fellowship, 2018/19 CartHorse Fellowship at the Buran Theatre, a 2018 Alan Kreigsman Residency at Dance Place (Washington, D.C.), and 2018-19 Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, He is a Connecticut College alumnus and holds Bachelor’s Degrees in English and Dance.
Maryam Ansari is a writer and artist living in with her two daughters and husband. She received her graduate degree from New York University and has called Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Brooklyn and San Jose her home. You can find her musings and artwork atwww.instagram.com/maryam.a.ansari
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a contributing editor for Bidoun and regular critic for Artforum and Aperture. For more than fifteen years, she has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa, reporting on the relationship between art and politics for newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, Frieze, Afterall, Art Journal, 4Columns, and Parkett. She was a 2007 fellow in the USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Program and won a grant from the Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program in 2013. She is currently teaching in the MFA Art Writing Program at the School of Visuals Arts in New York. Etel Adnan (Lund Humphries, 2018), on the paintings of the Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan, is her first book.
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