Eszter Szakács is a curator, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Amsterdam, where she is taking part in the project IMAGINART—Imagining Institutions Otherwise: Art, Politics, and State Transformation. Eszter is on the curatorial team of the grassroots art initiative OFF-Biennale Budapest, with which they were lumbung members at documenta fifteen. She was a team member of the East Europe Biennial Alliance that collectively curated the Kyiv Biennial in 2021. Eszter worked as a curator and editor at tranzit.hu in Budapest (2011–2020).

Naeem Mohaiemen explores forms of utopia-dystopia (families, borders, architecture, and end of life) that span decolonization’s hopeful milestones and transnational collisions. Several contemporary conversations about the Non Aligned Movement pivoted around the premiere of his Two Meetings and a Funeral at documenta 14 in 2017. Naeem is the author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel 2014) and Midnight’s Third Child (Nokta 2023). He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts & Concentration Head of Photography at Columbia University, New York.