BIOS

Ron Broglio writes books and essays on nonhuman phenomenology and animal studies. He has curated and produced a number of art exhibitions on contemporary environmental art. Broglio is director of the desert humanities initiative at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Institute for Humanities Research. He is author of Animal Revolution and Surface Encounters: thinking with animals and art among other books and edited collections including the recently published The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. He co-edits the Desert Humanities book series for Texas Tech University Press. Broglio was collaborator and co-curator of Trout Fishing in America and Other Stories in which artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson examine the cultural life of endangered species in the Grand Canyon. He has performed as Field Marshal of the Animal Revolution and created a number of animal art interventions including Teat Tweet and Santio’s Gift. Currently, he is working on desert phenomenology experiments with the arts, designers, and science collaborators in an art book series Strata (first issues on saguaro, rocks, and lines & borders). As Director of Desert Humanities, he is engaged in a number of long-term thinking-making experiments in the deserts of the American Southwest.

Heather Davis is a writer, researcher and teacher whose work draws on feminist and queer theory to examine ecology, materiality, and contemporary art in the context of settler colonialism. She is an assistant professor of Culture and Media at The New School. Her most recent book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022), re-examines materiality in light of plastic’s saturation. Davis is also a member of the Synthetic Collective, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, humanities scholars, and artists, who investigate and make visible plastic pollution in the Great Lakes.

EATING IN PUBLIC (EIP) was founded in 2003 in Hawai‘i by Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma to nudge a little space outside of the State and capitalist systems. Following the path of pirates and nomads, hunters and gathers, diggers and levelers, they gather at people’s homes, plant free food gardens on private and public land, set up free stores and other autonomous systems of exchange, generally without permission. Unlike Santa and the State, they give equally to the naughty and the nice. We do not exploit anyone’s labor nor offer any tax-deductions. They are, in all the word’s various definitions, free. EATING IN PUBLIC has initiated over 1,000 projects. On rare occasions they will take part in art exhibitions in the forms of distribution centers or how-to demonstrations. Selected venues include Flux Factory (Bronx), Honolulu Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), and the Honolulu Triennial. EATING IN PUBLIC’s ideas are purposefully unoriginal. They are simply continuing the work of the 17th century Diggers in remaking the commons.

Gaye Chan is a visual and media artist recognized equally for her individual and collaborative work. Her ongoing interest in examining history through found materials has culminated in solo exhibitions at Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu), Art in General (New York City), YYZ (Toronto), Artspeak (Vancouver), Gallery 4A (Sydney), SF Camerawork (San Francisco), and The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu). She is currently a professor and the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa.

Nandita Sharma is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Sociology and an affiliate faculty member of the International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program at The University of Hawai’i-Manoa. Dr. Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by such social movements as “No Borders” and those struggling for the commons. She is the author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006 – ) and a co-founder of the Basmati Action Group, an activist organization dedicated to exposing biopiracy and the corporatization of life forms.

Caroline Galderisi (they/them) is an artist, writer, photographer and community organizer in the East Village. They are currently in the Fine Arts program at Parsons School of Design, focusing a lot of their work on textile photo and poetry as mixed mediums. Caroline grew up in suburban New York with the idea of closeknit community, gardening as a form of care, and the importance of family and home-life. Caroline now uses those values to create importance projects within East Village Mutual Aid, the art world and everything in between.

Dylan Gauthier is Program Director of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space Program, a 501c3 non-profit gallery devoted to experimental practices in the visual arts located in Times Square, NYC. For over a decade, Gauthier has led a multimodal practice that combines the role of artist, curator, cultural critic, and community organizer.  Employing sound, performance, video, sculpture, and photography, Gauthier works through a research-based and collaborative practice centered on ecology, architecture, landscape, and social change. Gauthier is a founder of the boat-building and publishing collective Mare Liberum (www.thefreeseas.org), and of the Sunview Luncheonette (www.thesunview.org), a co-op for art, politics, and communalism in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is co-organizer, with Mariel Villeré, of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency based at NYC's largest former landfill. Gauthier received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, CUNY (‘12), and teaches ecological art and design at Parsons/The New School. He is an Eyebeam Rapid Response fellow in 2020 and was recently New York City Urban Field Station Artist in Residence.

Anna Rose Hopkins is an emerging performing artist who plays at the intersection of food, theater and narrative. Her work considers food systems, the Anthropocene, affective labor and hierarchies of service. Immersive food collaborations with Marina Zurkow include Soupy Salty Sonic: A Liquid Wanting (ICA San Diego, FoodxFilm Festival, Guild of Future Architects, Rockefeller Foundation), Broken Bread: Future (PBS, KCET, Tastemade), Making the Best of It: Noble Food for Climate Chaos (UCLA IoES), Outside the Work: A Tasting Of Hydrocarbons And Geological Time (Rice University, Boston University). Other collaborations: Lifecycle: Wheel of Life (Erika Marthins, Swissnex SF), Port Capa (Dany Naierman, Getty PST:LA/LA) and Sun/Adjacent (Cécile B. Evans, Barbara Seiler Gallery). Film/TV credits include High Maintenance (HBO), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Dark Night (dir. Tim Sutton), Amos World (dir. Cécile B. Evans), Gregory Go Boom (dir. Janicza Bravo), and upcoming Autopilot (dir. Jasmin Blasco). Anna Rose is chef and co-owner of Hank and Bean; co-founder of Farm2People, bolstering the farm to food bank supply chain; writer/actor with IAMA Theatre Company. Anna Rose is an alum of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Del Hardin Hoyle is an artist and musician. He is interested in interiors and their atmosphere. Del combines furniture design, sculpture, light, sound and plant life among other things to build intricate and often colorful large scale interactive installations.

Ellie Irons is an artist and educator living and working on Mohican land in Troy, New York, USA. Working across media, from foraged watercolors to un-lawning experiments, her practice combines socially engaged art, ecology fieldwork, and embodied learning. Recent work involves collaborations focused on spontaneous urban plants (aka weeds), including co-founding the Next Epoch Seed Library and the Environmental Performance Agency. Irons received a BA from Scripps College in Los Angeles and an MFA from Hunter College, NY. In December 2021 she completed her PhD in arts practice at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, researching forms of artistic practice that cultivate multispecies solidarity and ecological justice.

Luc Kellum is a senior in the Integrated Design program at Parsons, focusing on sustainable cities and speculative design for the Anthropocene. He is currently developing a walking bee colony to allow the practice of beekeeping to live on and exist as a method of decentralized agriculture and self-sufficiency within communities affected by the climate crisis. In addition to this project, Luc also explores experimental garment design created with waste material and music production/ sound design.

Anne Randolph was born in Manhattan and raised in Hawaii. Her investigations into the nature of light have included working in a neon sign shop and as a lighting designer for community theater. She is currently photographing water.

Sal Randolph is an artist working between language and action. Her current work addresses the intersection of attention, time, feeling, capital, and crisis through performance, experimental publishing, and the creation of social spaces. Randolph's performances, performance lectures and social art projects have appeared internationally at spaces including Akademie der Kunst Berlin, Asian Arts Theater (South Korea), BüroFriedrich (Berlin), Centre Culturel de Cérisy, Chalet Society (Paris), Cooper Union, Göttingen Kunstverein, La Box Bourges, Live Biennial (Vancouver), Ljubljana Biennial, Manifesta 4, Mengi (Reykjavik), Mildred’s Lane, Museum of Jurassic Technology, New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Pioneer Works, PPOW, Raygun Projects (Australia), Röda Sten (Sweden), and the Sao Paulo Biennial. She is co-founder of dispersed holdings, originally a listening and publication space in New York sited in the former apartment of sculptor Eva Hesse, continuing now as a publishing project. She is a member of the research consortium ESTAR(SER) and is currently a teaching fellow at Bennington College. She is also a Zen practitioner and senior student of Roshi Enkyo O’Hara at the Village Zendo.

David Richardson writes fiction and essays. Since 2015, he has co-directed the publishing project dispersed holdings, with whom he edited Reading Room (2020) and Speed of Resin (co-published with Cooperative Editions, 2019), and co-edited Reading Now (2021). He holds an MFA in fiction from UMass Poets & Writers, and he teaches in the Bard Language and Thinking Program, the Bard Prison Initiative, and the UMass Writing Program.

Radhika Subramaniam is a curator and writer with an interdisciplinary practice that deploys such platforms as exhibitions, texts and public art interventions as conscious forms of knowledge-making.  She is interested in the poetics and politics of crises and surprises, particularly urban crowds, cultures of catastrophe and human-animal relationships.  She was the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at The New School from 2009-2017 and is also Associate Professor of Visual Culture in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design.  Previously Director of Cultural Programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she was founding executive editor of an interdisciplinary journal, Connect: Art. Politics. Theory. Practice.  She is presently working on a book on a medieval elephant embassy. Her curatorial practice is cross-disciplinary and dialogic, committed to public pedagogy, critical urbanism and political and social justice. Curatorial projects include Art in Odd Places: Number (2013) and Sign (2009, with Erin Donnelly), Abecedarium for Our Times (Apexart, 2008), and Cities, Art and Recovery (LMCC, 2005–2006), a major two-year international initiative focused on art and culture in the aftermath of catastrophe. At the SJDC, she has developed dialogic curatorial platforms such as Living Concrete/Carrot City (2010, with Nevin Cohen), #searchunderoccupy (2012, collaboratively curated), Art Environment Action! (2012), Masterpieces of Everyday New York: Objects as Story (2013, with Margot Bouman) and Offense and Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging (2014, with Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore).

Universal Solvent Studios is collaborative design studio dedicated to providing creative solutions in technology, fabrication, and fine arts. U.S.S. ventures into the unexplored, integrate disciplines, and wrestle creative challenges to produce inventive works. Our design philosophy is that solutions must be bold, awe inspiring, and innovative… U.S.S. seek conspirators, associates, and employment with adventurous projects. Team Bios: Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde is a Nigerian-American artist, designer, and time-traveler living and working in New York. Okunseinde holds a BA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University and an MFA in Design + Technology from Parsons School of Design where he serves as Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design. Yvette M. King Is a construction wizard with a BA in sculpture from Monash University, Australia. She specialises in physical problem solving, metalwork and mechanics. With experience in design, project management and surviving long-distance flights. Nicole Lloyd is a multidisciplinary designer specializing in interior design and interactive media. Jae Pearl is an interdisciplinary designer. Her work explores sustainable systems, ecologies, and data.

Tanika I. Williams is a Brooklyn-based video and performance artist exploring mothering, ecology and spirituality.

Brett Gui Xin is a multidisciplinary artist and figure skater based in Brooklyn, NY. Her current practice explores the potential of post consumer plastics as textile fiber.

Media and participatory practice artist Marina Zurkow connects people to nature-culture tensions and environmental messes, offering humor and new ways of knowing, connecting, and feeling, to foster intimate multispecies and geophysical connections. She works as a founding member of several collaborative initiatives, including Making the Best of It: Nimble Foods for Climate Change, Dear Climate, Climoji, and Investing in Futures. Zurkow's recent solo exhibitions include ICA San Diego, New York City’s MTA Arts & Design, bitforms gallery, New York and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; her work has been featured at Storm King Art Center, New York; 21C Museum, Louisville; the 7th Moscow Biennale; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; and the Seoul Media City Biennial, Korea, among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Creative Time, New York; Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California; Rice University, Houston; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and others. Zurkow is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She is represented by bitforms gallery and resides in the Hudson Valley, New York.