Fiona Alison Duncan is an author, curator, and the founding host of Hard to Read, a literary social practice. Her books include Ex-Best Friends (2025), Pippa Garner: Act Like You Know Me (2023), and Exquisite Mariposa (2019), winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Duncan is a founding member of the Estate of Pippa Garner.

Born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland, chukwumaa makes soft sculptures, techno-divining performances and other media experiments about liminal characters, Igbo trickster myths and non-linear narratives. They have performed and exhibited at MoMA PS1, Long Island City; The Corcoran Museum, District of Columbia; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; ICA London; The Kitchen, New York; and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Matt Hilvers (b. 1990) is an artist from Chicago based in New York. Working with painting, video, and dance, Hilvers employs techniques of replication, movement, and storytelling, referencing art history and internet culture, to explore concepts of spirituality, the sensitive everyday, community health, and ownership. Recent exhibitions include The Frame (New York, 2024); Gladstone (New York, 2024); Jeffrey Stark (New York, 2020); Kunstverein Munich (Munich, 2020); Karma (New York, 2019); and Soft Opening (London, 2018). Recent performances at the Center for Contemporary Arts Berlin (Berlin, 2025) and Performance Space (New York, 2022). Hilvers received his BA from Columbia College of Chicago and his MA from The Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, ArtNews, and Spike Art Quarterly.

Dozie Kanu (b. 1993, Houston, TX) is an artist living and working in Santarém, Portugal. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2016 and participated in the Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon in 2022. Recent exhibitions include Self Governance at piece*unique, Cologne (2025); not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour at Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milan (2025); Hoi Köln, Teil 3: Albtraum Malerei at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2024); Sommerausstellung at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (2024); Our Porcelain Thoughts at DREI, Cologne (2024); Residual Energies at Nina Johnson, Miami (2024); Mimesis at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin (2023); P-O-T-B-O-I-L-E-R-S at Quinn Harrelson Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Enzo Mari at C-Mine, Genk (2023); Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich (2022); and Cordyceps Gaud Adversary at Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen (2022). He has also presented projects with Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York (2022); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2022); Performance Space, New York (2021); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2019).