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Alhena Katsof is a writer who works in close conversation with artists. Her essays on gardens, fascism and exhibition histories have been published in books including Solution 263: Double Agent (Sternberg Press, 2015); The Artist as Curator: An Anthology (Mousse Publishing, 2017); On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany, and Cultivation (Valiz Publishing, 2021); and Interior Garden (Hatje Cantz, 2024).

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She has published monographic essays on several artists including Nicole Eisenman, Andrea Geyer, and Katherine Hubbard. Among her curatorial projects is Towards the Unknown, an exhibition of drawings and scores by the autophysiopsychic musician Yusef Lateef, which led to her role as Curatorial Advisor for the artist’s estate. She was a participant on De Appel Art Centre’s Curatorial Programme, and serves as an editorial collective member for Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Katsof has a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Art History at Eugene Lang College | The New School.

Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves is an artist guided by metaphysics, network science, ethnobotany, and the granular analytics of poetic inquiry. Supporters include Rauschenberg Residency, Artists Space, Issue Project Room, Montez Press at Matthew NYC, Wendy’s Subway, The Poetry Project, 4 Columns, Hyperallergic, Belladonna*, Kore Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brown University, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, and Milkweed Editions.

Anne Percoco is a sculptor whose work recontextualizes existing materials and environments. After earning an M.F.A. from Rutgers University, she received an Asian Cultural Council fellowship to conduct research and produce new work in India. Her solo exhibitions include Chitrakala Parishath College of Art (Bangalore, India), NURTUREart and A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and ArtBloc and Casa Colombo (Jersey City, NJ).

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Her work has been presented nationally at venues including the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), the Anchorage Museum (Anchorage, AK), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), the Islip Art Museum (East Islip, NY), and the U.S. Botanic Garden (Washington, DC), and internationally in India, Italy, Germany, Chile, the Netherlands, and Estonia. She has received a public sculpture commission from the Randall’s Island Park Alliance (NYC), participated in the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace program, and been awarded an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Percoco works with discarded materials and overlooked spaces where natural and human-shaped ecologies intersect. She produces public interventions, gallery installations, web-based projects, and publications. In 2015, she co-founded the Next Epoch Seed Library with Ellie Irons. This ongoing project is dedicated to collecting and sharing seeds of urban weeds and encouraging attention to resilient plant ecologies emerging in human-altered landscapes.

Davide Balula is a French-Portuguese artist and animal trainer based in New York. His work is often developed in collaboration with algae, fungi, A.I. systems, fire, chefs and dancers… merging both organic and synthetic ecologies. Since 2018, he has been collaborating with philosophers, artists, critics, and poets to create AI surrogates trained exclusively on their personal archives. He is a co-founder and active participant in various community-based environmental initiatives, and also edits the online poetry publication Viseu.Us.

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Solo exhibitions & performances at institutions and galleries include Swiss Institute, NY, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France; Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, Rome and Athens; MoMA PS1, New York; Daejeon Museum of Art, Seo-gu, South Korea, among others.

Matthew Schrader is an artist working between sculpture, photography, and spatial intervention. He holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Schrader’s work has recently appeared in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, KAJE, White Columns, Franz Kaka, Someday, and Brief Histories. He is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in New York City and the Howard Foundation Fellowship in Object Based Arts and Installation Based Arts. Schrader is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College and faculty in Sculpture at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.