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- Nicholas James Bullen
- produces sound art including sound installations, sound design for radio-based art, writing on the use of the voice in music and art, lectures, and collaborations with artists. A series of solo performances under the name Alienist began with a performance at the Artists Lounge of Art Basel. He is a founding member of the seminal grindcore band Napalm Death. Bullen’s contributions to Hey Hey Glossolalia will be presented exclusively on Creative Time’s website and accompanying print publication.
- Adam Butler
- is an avant-garde composer better known as Mouse On Mars’ collaborator Vert, and has released solo albums on their label Sonig. Butler has played extensively throughout Europe, and has toured Japan and the U.S. His latest repertoire, known as “experimental crunk showtunes,” was recently showcased in Vietnam and Cologne, Germany, where he is based.
- Dexter Sinister
- is the compound name of a collective founded by David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. Their workspace and occasional bookstore in a basement on the Lower East Side was established in the summer of 2006. Dexter Sinister is featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
- Chris Evans
- is a visual artist from Eastrington, England who recently completed a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, and continuing his project Radical Loyalty, which incorporates building a sculpture park in Estonia. In 2007 he exhibited in the Athens Biennale and the Moscow Biennale. He also had solo exhibitions at Chapter, Cardiff, Outpost in Norwich, The International Arts Centre in Birmingham, and Store, London, and is a featured artist in the 2008 Fifth Berlin Biennial. He lives and works in London and Berlin.
- Ryan Gander
- works in installation, print, performance, sculpture, and has won the 2003 Prix de Rome for sculpture, the 2005 Baloise Art Statements Prize at Art Basel, and was nominated for the 2005 Beck’s Futures Prize. Gander was included in the 2006 Tate Triennial, and has staged solo exhibitions at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, Italy, Artists Space in New York, and Store in London.
- Liam Gillick
- was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 and the Vincent Award in 2008. He works in various media, including texts and physical structures. He has held recent solo shows at the Power Plant, Toronto, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Palais du Tokyo, Paris.
- Mark Leckey
- has exhibited widely in the U.K.—including at Tate Britain in the 2006 Triennial, and the ICA—as well as in the U.S. and Europe. He tours with his two-man band donAteller (named after Donatella Versace) with his collaborator Ed Liq. Leckey is currently Professor of Film Studies at the Staelschule in Frankfurt am Main and is based in Germany.
- Susanne Oberbeck
- is a founding member of the band No Bra, and also performs as a solo artist. German by birth, Oberbeck has lived in London for the last 14 years. No Bra has been featured in i-D, Tank, QX Magazine, DIVA, and Attitude.
- Adam Pendleton
- is an artist, writer, and performer who approaches his projects as multi-disciplinary hybrids. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S., at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, iMOCA, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Performa 2007. Pendleton is the founder of LAB, a think tank practicing research, documentation, art, and design that publishes LAB MAG, an experimental magazine that collects the work of artists, architects, writers, and designers. He is based in New York City.
- Genesis P-Orridge
- was born in Manchester, England and currently resides in New York. P-Orridge has been making music since the late 1970s, as a member of Throbbing Gristle and currently as a member of Psychic TV, among other projects. He has published thousands of articles, texts, and interviews about popular culture, and performed his improvised "Expanded Poetry" as Thee Majesty from 1998 to 2007 with his late partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge.
- Rammellzee
- is a graffiti writer, performance artist, rap/hip-hop musician, and sculptor from New York. His graffiti and artwork are based on his theory of Gothic Futurism, which describes the battle between letters and their symbolic warfare against standardization enforced by the rules of the alphabet. In his treatise Iconic Panzerisms, he details an anarchic plan by which to revise the role and deployment of language in society. Rammellzee was one of the original hip hop artists from the New York area, and he has shown in galleries throughout New York City and Europe.
- Rigo 23
- is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political artist. One of the founding and active members of Clarion Alley Mural Project collective, he is considered part of the first generation of the San Francisco Mission School art movement. He has exhibited his work internationally for over 20 years. Rigo 23 has been awarded several public commissions in addition to receiving the SECA award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and participating in the 2006 Liverpool Biennial. He lives and works in San Francisco.
- Frances Stark
- received her MFA in 1993 from Art Center College of Design. She has had solo exhibitions at greengrassi, London; CRG, New York; Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Kunstverein Galerie, Munich; and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Stark is a featured artist in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
- Ian Svenonius
- is an American musician. He was the singer and mouthpiece of various music groups such Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and Weird War. His solo work includes the 2001 album Play Power under the fictional pseudonym of David Candy, and the book The Psychic Soviet. He is also the host of Soft Focus on VBS.TV.
- Robert King Wilkerson
- was a member of the Black Panther Party who spent 32 years in prison, 29 of them in solitary confinement, for a murder he did not commit. He was exonerated by the State of Louisiana in February 2001 and subsequently released. Wilkerson and two other former members of the Black Panther Party who are still incarcerated, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, comprise a group called the “Angola 3.” Woodfox and Wallace are the longest-held prisoners in solitary isolation in the United States to date, and the Angola 3 have a civil suit pending with the U.S. Supreme Court, based on claims that their isolation is a violation of their Eighth Amendment rights.
- Bedwyr Williams
- makes and uses videos, photography, performance, drawing, text, and occasionally stand up comedy and karaoke in his work, creating events that are whole environments. He has been awarded the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Art 2004. Recent projects and exhibitions include Operation Ferrule, Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Romantic Detachment, Grizedale Arts/PS1 New York; and Tyranny of the Meek, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. He currently lives and works in Wales, UK.
- Carey Young
- is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media into her works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial. Her work is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Arts Council England and the Tate Gallery, and has been exhibited in galleries in London, Vienna, and the United States. In 2003 she was nominated for the Beck’s Futures awards at the ICA in London. She recently held a solo show at New York City’s Paula Cooper Gallery.
- Tirdad Zolghadr
- is a freelance writer and curator based in Berlin. He curates events in a wide range of venues and writes for frieze and other publications. Zolghadr is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine and his novel Softcore was published with Telegram Books London. Zolghadr is a founding member of the Shahrzad, an art and design collective, and also filmed and directed the documentaries Tehran 1380 (with Solmaz Shahbazi) and Tropical Modernism, which premiered at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2006. He is currently teaching at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
