Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking

Dr. Eva Bentcheva is an art historian and curator with a focus on transcultural art histories between Europe and South/Southeast Asia. She is currently the Maria Reiche Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden, where she is developing a research project on German-Asian relations in art. She has previously held research and curatorial positions at Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Tate in London, and has had academic positions at Heidelberg University, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University) and SOAS, University of London. She is currently the Managing Editor of the open-access book series, Worlding Public Cultures published by ICI Berlin Press.

Annie Jael Kwan is an independent curator and researcher whose practice is located at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural and pedagogical activism. She has an interest in archives, feminist, queer and alternative knowledge, collective relations, solidarity, and spirituality. She is the Director of Something Human, leads Asia-Art-Activism, and is the founding council member of Asia Forum. She was co-editor of the special issues of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art: Archives (2019) and Pathways of Performativity (2022), and the publication Asia-Art-Activism: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience.

Ming Tiampo is Professor of Art History and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University. Her current projects include Mobile Subjects: Contrapuntal Modernisms, which critically examines post-Imperial histories of migration in the former French and British Empires, and Intersecting Modernisms, a co-edited sourcebook on global modernisms. Her research collaborations include Asia Forum, the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex, and Worlding Public Cultures, for which she is the co-lead. Tiampo's previous books and projects include Jin-me Yoon (Art Canada Institute, 2023), Gutai: Splendid Playground (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2013), and Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011).