Aliaskar Abarkas is an Iranian artist based in London. His practice is rooted in alternative and communal art education and he stages choreographic encounters that move from individual elements into collective expression. Often in dialogue with historical sources, Abarkas builds collaborative frameworks that invite participants to interpret and activate inherited scores through music, exhibition and performance.He is an associate artist at Sadler’s Wells / Rose Choreographic School and lead artist at Autograph Gallery (London). His work has been presented at institutions including the Barbican Centre, ICA, The Mosaic Rooms, LUX and CIRCA (London), Arts Catalyst (Sheffield), CAPC (Bordeaux), LOCALES (Rome) and Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice).

Eliel Jones is the Curator, Performance and Time-based Media at Kanal – Centre Pompidou, a new museum of modern and contemporary art due to open in Brussels in November 2026. His research interests and methodologies stem from intersectional approaches to queer and feminist discourse and are guided by his involvement in direct community action and solidarity.

Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) is a New York-based artist who works in performance, dance, installation, and video and teaches at Yale School of Art’s Sculpture Department.

Key solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2025); Para Site, Hong Kong (2024); Queens Museum, New York (2023-2024); the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2023); The Kitchen, New York (2017); and SculptureCenter, New York (2016). She has participated widely in international exhibitions, including the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Aichi Triennale (2022); Busan Biennale (2022); Okayama Art Summit (2022); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016); Yokohama Triennale (2008); and the Whitney Biennial (2010). Sasamoto received the Calder Prize in 2023.

Sriwhana Spong lives in London. Her work explores modalities of following (how to approach a subject) and framing (how to understand it). Different bodies of work are sparked by an encounter – a rat nesting outside her bedroom window; a newly discovered species of snake; a painting by her grandfather, the Balinese painter, I Gusi Made Rundu – whose traces are followed through different processes of (un)knowing to allow for a changeable perspective that critically examines her own particular and situated position and how this might contribute to a collective, collaborative and feminist objectivity or understanding of an entangled cosmos. Stopped in her tracks by these encounters, which she then circumambulates, her practice traces a nonlinear course through films, sculptures and performances to open up reorientations to notions of time and human and non-human life.

Zhuo Mengting composes performative situations with site, sound, body and time, in the forms of live art, participatory installation, concerts and relational curation. She uses contingency as a method to explore and unsettle systems of perception, communication and social relation. With a background in literature, critical theory and indie music, her work is as concerned with language as with composition and the unspoken. She studied Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is now based. She has created encounters in theatres, galleries and other settings, from public and domestic spaces to online, across the UK, Europe and East Asia, including Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; BY ART MATTERS, China; MAO Torino, Italy; esea contemporary, Manchester.

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Aki Sasamoto, Grilled Diagrams, 2026. Installation view, Studio Voltaire, 2026. Commissioned and produced by Studio Voltaire. Image courtesy of the artist, Bortolami Gallery, Take Ninagawa and Studio Voltaire. Photo Sarah Rainer. The film Do Nut Diagram is courtesy Akeroyd Collection, the Time-Based media facet of the Shane Akeroyd Collection. Photo Sarah Rainer.