Nancy Adajania is a cultural theorist and curator based in Bombay. Since the late-1990s, she has written consistently on the practices of four generations of Indian women artists. She was Joint Artistic Director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012) and has curated a number of exhibitions including, most recently a retrospective of five decades of Navjot’s artistic practice—'The Earth’s Heart Torn Out, Navjot Altaf: A Life in Art’, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (12 December 2018 – 25 January 2019); and ‘In the Land Of Downside Up: Adbhut Lok’, at the Birla Academy, Kolkata (9 January – 9 February 2019). 
 
Adajania has proposed several new theoretical models through her extensive writings on media art, public art, the biennial condition, transcultural art practices, subaltern art and the relationship of art to the public sphere. She has lectured on these subjects at numerous venues including Documenta 11, Kassel; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Transmediale, Berlin; the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; and the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress: Beyond What Was Contemporary Art, Vienna. 
 
Adajania was the juror for Video/Film/New Media fellowship cycle of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2015–17). In 2013 and 2014, Adajania taught the curatorial practice course at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. She was research scholar-in-residence at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2010 and 2013. 
 
Adajania recently edited two trans-disciplinary anthologies Some Things That Only Art Can Do: A Lexicon of Affective Knowledge and Totems and Taboos: What can and cannot be done (Raza Foundation, 2017, 2018). She will be curating the artist Sudhir Patwardhan’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, in November 2019.

Anurupa Roy is a puppeteer, puppetry director and the Founder and Managing Trustee of The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, a puppet theatre group based in Delhi, India since 1998. 
 
She has a Diploma in Puppet theatre from DI (Dramatiska Institutet for Film,T.V, Drama and Radio ) at The University of Stockholm, Sweden, and has been trained in traditional glove puppetry from La Scoula Della Guaratelle (School of Traditional Glove puppetry) in Naples , Italy under Bruno Leone in 2002. She has been a Researcher in Residence at Deutches Forum DFP in Bochum, Germany (2011) and at Institute International de la Marionette Charleville-Mezeires. Roy has been a Pro Helvetia Artists at Residence at Rote Fabrik in Zurich and a guest faculty at World Arts and Cultures at UCLA in Los Angeles, USA. 
 
Roy has directed performances for Katkatha, TIE Company National School of Drama, Jana Natya Manch. She is a recipient of the Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Puraskar 2007 – National award for contribution to puppet theatre by the Ministry of Culture.

Lina Vincent is a cultural practitioner committed to socially engaged arts practice that reflects in multidisciplinary projects she has developed and participated in. With 18 years’ experience in research, curation and public art programming, she is currently an IFA Museum-Fellowship grantee. Her recent curatorial management projects include ‘GOOD FOOD India’—international arts program for awareness on Climate Change (Sept 2017- Jan 2018); ‘Story of Space’ (Oct -Nov 2017, Goa); ‘Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India’ (Jan-Mar '16, CSMVS Mumbai). Vincent is Associate Curator with ARTPORT_making waves and Chief Program Designer, Visual Art and Design, for Sublime’s ArtEd (Arts Curriculum development) Bangalore.

Harkat is an international boutique arts studio with a passion for film, new media, community art spaces and accessible contemporary art. Based in Mumbai and Berlin, Harkat takes many forms and identities across disciplines and creative industries. Some of their work-defining projects have been the 16mm film festival, Museum of Ordinary Objects and the Harkat alternative arts and performance space in Mumbai—housing an ever evolving curatorial of programming and in-house projects. We support the new, unheard, emerging, exciting, cutting edge, poetic, the political, forgotten, nostalgic, melancholic, rule breakers, beautiful and more. And that’s what Harkat is. Harkat.

Aradhana Seth is a filmmaker, production designer, photographer and installation artist. She does not confine her art to one medium, often cross-pollinating between them all. Aradhana is a creator of multiple worlds. In her film work, she does not merely build sets, she breathes life into the homes of her characters. She makes sure their imprints are found in every nook—from their flower vases to their toothbrushes to their wall coverings. She rebuilds old and new memories in her photo studio ‘Merchant of Images’. Her living archive ‘The House of Enquiry’ is an ongoing art project that brings together the world of art, film, photography and history. As Art Director she has worked on London Has Fallen, The Darjeeling Limited, The Bourne Supremacy, and Stiff Upper Lips. Her production design credits include The Sweet Requiem, Chuskit, Angry Indian Goddesses, Vara, West is West, Don, One Night with the King, Admissions, Easy, The Guru (India), Leela, Everybody says "I'm Fine!", Karvaan, Earth and Fire. She has had solo shows at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Sunapranta, Goa. Her work has been exhibited with Andrea Anastasio at Istituto Italiano de Cultura, New Delhi and at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna; Grosvenor Gallery, London; Vadehra Art Gallery and Khoj, New Delhi; and ClarkHouse, Mumbai. She has made over 18 documentary films and co-produced a photography book India Mexico: Parallel Winds, featuring the work of Sebastiao Salgado, Graciela Iturbide and Raghu Rai.

HH Art Spaces ran as an artist-run residency space established in October 2014 in Siolim, Goa by Romain Loustau, Madhavi Gore and Nikhil Chopra. The program focuses primarily on live art and performance with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative work. HH Art Spaces creates a space for reflection, inspiration and creation; where artists come together to make and share their ideas, processes, experiments and collaborative efforts with one another and the community.
 
 
They are part of a movement of artists from the big cities to Goa, as an environment that offers space, time, an international community and an increasingly critical audience. Their intention is to run the organisation as shared space for ourselves and for other artists. They believe that residencies are a very important part of the life and work of an artist owing to the time, space, facilities and networks that they provide. They are also deeply invested in creating an archive of live art. 
  
Through the overlapping and interweaving of different practices and disciplines there is an inherent desire to create new languages and ways of making and receiving art. Every residency term ended with an OPEN Studio when the house and gardens transformed into a public exhibition to connect them with the larger community of Goa. HH Art Spaces in the last 4 years, have hosted approximately 50 national and international artists in residence, conducted six onsite and offsite workshops and exhibitions, held 20 OPEN Studios and collaborated with organisations within and outside India, including Catterjee & Lal, KHOJ, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation (ongoing), Japan Foundation, Alliance Francaise, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Serendipity Arts Trust (ongoing), Sunapranta, Goa and GOAPHOTO. HH Art Spaces is quickly emerging as an important venue for the live arts in South Asia. As a collective, they consider themselves and function as artists, mentors, facilitators and curators.

The St+art India foundation is a not-for-profit organization that works on art projects in public spaces. The aim of the foundation is to make art accessible to a wider audience by taking it out of the conventional gallery space and embedding it within the cities we live in - making art truly democratic and for everyone.

Vivek Menezes is a widely published writer and photographer, and co-founder and co-curator of the acclaimed Goa Arts + Literature Festival. He curated the large-scale group exhibition 'Konkani Surrealism' at Serendipity Arts Festival 2017, and the even larger 'Panjim 175' (along with Swati Salgaocar) at Serendipity Arts Festival 2018.

Vidya Shivadas is a curator based in New Delhi. She completed her Masters in Art Criticism from Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Vadodara in 2000. She is currently the Director since 2011 of the not-for-profit Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA). FICA was set up in 2007 to support artists, art historians, curators, art critics, and other professionals devoted to the study of contemporary Indian art, as well as to conduct educational and art outreach programmes. 
 
She has curated a number of exhibitions at the Vadehra Art Gallery since 2002 which include ‘Off the Record: Meditations on the Photographic Image’ (2015); ‘Porous’ (2012); ‘The Seeds’, ‘Yoko Ono’ (2012); ‘Something I’ve been meaning to tell you’ (co-curated with Sunil Gupta, 2011); ‘Faiza Butt, Ruby Chishti, Masooma Syed’ (three Pakistani women artists, 2009); ‘Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction in India, 1970s – 2008 (2008)’, ‘Objects: Making/Unmaking’ (2007). In 2009 she was a guest curator at Devi Art Foundation and worked on the solo exhibition of Bangladeshi artist Mahbubur Rahman.
  
In 2013 she co-curated (with Akansha Rastogi and Deeksha Nath) the exhibition ‘Zones of Contact: Propositions on the Museum’ at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida (January – November, 2013). In 2014, she was curatorial advisor for ‘Where Do I End and You Begin’, an exhibition on the theme of Commonwealth at Edinburgh in 2014 to coincide with the Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

Jessica Castex is curator at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAMVP). Her projects are notably focused on emerging creation and prospection. She curated and cocurated solo and group shows, both at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris and in different institutions such as : Mohamed Bourouissa Urban Riders, MAMVP, 2018; Être Pierre, Musée Zadkine, Paris, 2017; Hayoun Kwon, National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, 2016; Co-Workers, MAMVP, 2015; Bertille Bak, Circuits, MAMVP, 2012;Dynasty, MAMVP, 2010. In the permanent collection of the Musée d’Art moderne she led projects inviting artists such as Anita Molinero, Cécile Paris, Kader Attia, andalso created a specific program,Apartés, with Delphine Coindet, Ariane Michel, Raphaël Zarka (2011) ; Leonor Antunes, Julien Prévieux, Marie Voignier (2013) ; Isabelle Cornaro, Alain Della Negra, Kaori Kinoshita, Gyan Panchal (2015).In 2016 she co-curated the first edition of the video festival at Carreau du Temple in Paris. She regularly participates in juries, workshops and talks in France and abroad, mainly regarding the video collection of the Musée d’Art moderne.

Odile Burluraux is curator at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. She has organised a touring exhibition based on the video collection of the museum ‘EntreTemps, L’artiste narrateur – Une décennie d’art français vidéo dans les collections du Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris’, in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, St-Petersburg Shanghai, Chengdu and Taipei from 2009 to 2014.Among the main exhibitions she curated and co-curated solo and group shows: ‘DEADLINE’ (Hans Hartung, James Lee Byars, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joan Mitchell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chen Zhen, Gilles Aillaud, Willem de Kooning, Jörg Immendörf) 2009; ‘Haute culture – General Idea, une rétrospective 1969 – 1994, Paris’, Toronto Art Gallery of Ontario, 2011; ‘Ryan Trecartin /Lizzie Fitch, Any Ever’, 2011; ‘Keith Haring — The political’, 2013; ‘Douglas Gordon’, 2014;‘UNEDITED HISTORY – Iran 1960 – 2014’, Paris and MAXXI, Rome, 2014; ‘De bruits et de mouvements’, video festival, Carreau du Temple, Paris, 2017 ; Ian Kiaer, 2017 ; Mohamed Bourouissa, Urban Riders in 2018. In 2019, she will curate the Hans Hartung retrospective.

Siddhant Shah is a Heritage Architect and Access Consultant who specialises in bridging the gap between Cultural Heritage and Disability, through his initiative #AccessforALL. Shah, a Stavros Niarchos Scholar has finished his MA in Heritage Management from the University of Kent (Athens Campus, Greece) and his bachelors in Architecture (BSSA-NMIMS, India) along with a Post graduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics.
 
 ‘Access for ALL’ aims at pushing the boundaries of physical, intellectual and social access through innovative, indigenous design and advocacy while fostering an inclusive experiential culture. The team focuses on access audits, interpretation & educational activities, inclusive outreach programs, sensitization & awareness program, braille-tactile kits, braille books and CSR based engagement programs.

Anuja Ghosalkar is the founder and artistic director of Drama Queen. Through her performance company Drama Queen, she is evolving a unique form of Documentary theatre in India. The focus of her art practice is undocumented narratives, archival absences and gender in performance. Research, oral history and iterations around form and process are critical to her performance and pedagogical work. Drama Queen’s debut show, Lady Anandi was written while she was an artist-in-residence at Art Lab Gnesta, Sweden in 2015. Since then Lady Anandi has travelled independently across India, Germany and Sweden. Her newest work, Walk Back to Look was a site -specific performance commissioned by the Serendipity Arts Festival 2018, it offered a counter beat to the frenetic rhythm of Panjim Municipal Market and Kadamba bus stand.

She was artist-in-residence at Srishti Institute of Art Design & Technology in December 2017 and conceived a site specific, public art project at the Cubbon Park Metro Station called Dream Walkers. She is an Art Think South Asia Fellow (2017-18). In the past, Ghosalkar has worked at India Foundation for the Arts, Experimenta, in curating and teaching cinema, & as an independent researcher with University of Westminster.

Kai Tuchmann is a theatre maker, based in Beijing and Berlin. His stagings and dramaturgies were invited, among others, to I Dance Hong Kong (2016), Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival (2017), Zürcher Theaterspektakel (2017), Kunstfest Weimar (2017) Festival d’Automne à Paris (2017), Wuzhen Theatre Festival (2018), Asia Society New York (2018) and the Beijing Gallery Week (2019). Tuchmann is a member of the Dramaturgy Faculty at Beijing's Central Academy of Drama and of the Performing Arts Management Faculty at Frankfurt`s University of Music and Performing Arts. He is also a Board Member of the Marvin Carlson Theatre Center in Shanghai and New York.

Situated in New Delhi, The Neemrana Music Foundation is a non-profit organisation promoting Western Classical Music in India. The mission of the foundation is to disseminate lyrical and symphonic repertoires in India and to mould young singers and musicians into professional artists. Each season, The Neemrana Music Foundation produces or coproduces a staged version of an opera as well as a series of concerts that are presented in major cities of India: New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. In light of its mission to teach Western classical music, the Foundation has created several vocal groups and choirs including among under-privileged children.

Every year it offers scholarships to young Indian talents to enable them to study abroad. All professional artistes invited for operas and concerts are also involved in conducting educational sessions. Young students of the Foundation thus have the opportunity to benefit from their teachings and some are then selected to participate in professional productions as soloists or choir singers.

Akshay Mahajan is a photographer, curator and writer. His work comprises of self-initiated research projects that combine his interest in myth, folklore and photography as a mirror to culture and collective memory. Mahajan’s engagement with the visual arts also takes shape through writing, teaching and curation. In 2008, he co-founded Blindboys.org, an open collective aimed at reclaiming public spaces—both online and offline—to showcase photography. Mahajan is a member of the photo editorial of PIX Quarterly, a contemporary photography publication looking at South Asia. He has curated shows at the Format Festival, Angkor Photo Festival and JaipurPhoto among others.