Ain Bailey is a composer, artist and DJ. She facilitates workshops exploring identity, memory and sound. Past exhibitions include ‘The Range’ at Eastside Projects, Birmingham; ‘RE:Respite’ at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, a solo show at Cubitt Gallery, London: ‘And We’ll Always Be A Disco In The Glow Of Love’ (2019). In 2020 Bailey and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski created a composition and print entitled ‘Remember To Exhale’ for Studio Voltaire, London. Bailey was commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, to create the exhibition ‘Version’, and composed ‘Atlantic Railton’ for the ‘Listening To The City’ programme in the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion. For 2022, Bailey created the moving image/sound work ‘Untitled: Our Wedding) for the ‘Black Melancholia’ exhibition at CCS Bard, New York, USA and ‘Trioesque’ for Bruckenmusik 27 in Cologne, Germany. Bailey’s most recent commission was for FACT Liverpool’s ‘Resolution’ research project, for which she created the installation ‘Four’ (2024). She was the 2022-23 Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Bailey is a 2023 recipient of Awards For Artists from the Paul Hamllyn Foundation, and was shortlisted, together with Camden Arts Centre, for the Freelands Foundation Award. .Forthcoming in 2026 is a solo exhibition with Camden Arts Centre.
Gisou Golshani is a London-based artist from Iran. She performs rituals of belonging and resistance through sound art, performance, and poetic chants. Her work explores fictioning, hauntology and speculative world-building to reflect on issues related to land, liberation and collective healing.
Her recent exhibitions and performances include: MANIFEST:IO X IKLECTIK (London) Mimosa House (London) Bayt AlMamzar (Dubai) Iklectik Artlab (London), Deptford X festival (London), Emergency Live Art festival (Manchester) Diasporas Now UK tour (Hull) and New Art Exchange (Nottingham, UK). She is regularly invited to take over radio shows with experimental mixes, including Radio Alhara’s Sonic Liberation Front worldwide radio takeover (September 2022), to bring attention to the Jina revolution in Iran. She took part in Disturbance, an experimental residency for queer performance and video artists at Ugly Duck in London, first as an artist (November 2022) and then as a jury (April 2024). In July 2023, she was part of Lost and Found’s East African Soul Train residency, with showcases in London, Gaborone and Bangalore.
Helin Karabil is a London-based artist whose work explores questions of identity, memory, and cultural heritage, informed fundamentally by experiences of displacement and political persecution in the Middle East. Born out of the context of a heritage that has in the past experienced obstacles in the passage of its histories, they create live archives and visuals that seek out repressed histories. Using TouchDesigner and new media, Karabil creates audio-reactive visuals that intersect ancestral memory and queer identity, offering an interior perspective on resilience and cultural inheritance.
Tarek Lakhrissi (born in 1992 in Châtellerault, lives and works in Paris) is a French artist whose transdisciplinary practice spans video, installation, performance, poetry, and more recently, drawing. Informed by literature and pop visual culture, his work explores the interplay between language, desire, otherness, and power through a symbolic and affective approach. His recent drawing practice shapes a visual poetics infused with speculative narratives and collective imaginaries.
Lakhrissi has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Palais de Tokyo (FR), Migros Museum (CH), 22nd Biennale of Sydney (AU), Julia Stoschek Foundation (DE), Wiels (BE), Louvre (FR), Frieze (GB), Art Basel Paris+ (FR), Art Basel Miami (US), Centre Pompidou (FR), Hayward Gallery (GB), La Verrière – Fondation Hermès (BE), Haus der Kunst (DE), Auto Italia South East (GB), Grand Palais – FIAC (FR), Institut du Monde Arabe (FR), Somerset House Studios (GB), Fondation Lafayette Anticipations (FR), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo / Sandretto (IT), Clima Gallery (IT), Manchester International Festival (GB), Mostyn Art Gallery (GB), Tinguely Museum (CH), HKW (DE), ICA (GB), Shedhalle (CH), Fondation Ricard (FR), Quadriennale di Roma; Palazzo delle Esposizioni (IT), High Art Gallery (FR), Kunstverein Kevin Space (AT), Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian (FR), Veda Gallery (IT), CRAC Alsace (FR), La Galerie CAC (FR), MoCO (FR), Nicoletti (UK), KW (DE)… Lakhrissi’s artworks are held in various private and public collections including Defares, Fondazione Sandretto, CNAP, Lafayette Anticipations or Migros Museum. He currently teaches at ZHDK in Switzerland and is represented by Galerie Allen (FR).
Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer and writer whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, film and sound. Collecting the raw material of her work from the internet, books on natural sciences and photographic archives, Ntjam uses assemblage – of images, words, sounds, and stories – as a method to deconstruct the grand narratives underlying hegemonic discourses on origin, identity and race. Her work weaves multiple narratives drawn from investigations into historical events, scientific functions and philosophical concepts, to which she confronts references to African mythology, ancestral rituals, religious symbolism and science-fiction. These apparently heterogeneous discourses and iconographies are marshalled together in an effort to re-appropriate History while speculating on not-yet-determined space-times – interstitial worlds where systems of perception and naming of fixed (id)entities no longer operate. From there, Ntjam composes utopian cartographies and ontological fictions in which technological fantasy, intergalactic voyages and hypothetical underwater civilizations become the matrix for a practice of emancipation that promotes the emergence of inclusive, processual and resilient communities.
Solo exhibitions include Futuristic Ancestry, Fotografiska, New York, USA (2024); matter gone wild, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris, FR (2023); Limescale Memories – un maquis sous les étoiles, NıCOLETTı, London (2023); Underground Resistance – Living Memories, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2022); When the Moon Dreamed of the Ocean, FACT, Liverpool, UK (2022).
Ntjam’s work and performances have been shown in international museums and exhibitions, including Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR (performance, 2023); LUMA, Arles, FR (performance, 2022); Centre Pompidou, Metz, FR (2022); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (performance, 2022); MAMC+ – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, FR (2022); Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, USA (2022).
utopian_realism is a research-driven music project that originates from a fascination with the aesthetics and communities revolving around internet-native music genres and explores concepts of nostalgia cycles, controlled escapism, commodified utopian narratives and collapsing myths of progress.
Huw Parry is an arts worker and musician. He is currently Programmer at Somerset House Studios.
Anne Duffau is a cultural producer, researcher, and founder of A—Z, an exploratory/nomadic curatorial platform. A—Z aims to open up to audiences by sharing discursive practices in order to challenge preconceived ideas about race, gender identities and so-called history in terms of power relationships. She has worked with PAF Olomouc since 2017, programming screenings and exhibitions. She co-funded and programmed the collectives: Transmissions.tv and Décalé. She is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Practice Programme and works as a freelance producer/researcher for Somerset House Studios. She produces monthly shows on Resonance FM and stegi.radio and live music under Alpha through several projects and collaborations (MAENADS, Polisonics, The New Adolescents). Her latest project was hosted at Matt’s Gallery (May-Sept 2024) and is an ongoing series titled: Always Coming Home.
