nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans – known as group B schooling. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe and dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. As African knowledge acquisition does not come with baccalaureates it is impossible to quantify what the African body holds. chipaumire acknowledges these knowledges in addition to the western forms branded into her.

Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher and artist. She holds the Samuel Rudin Professor Chair in Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Her books include Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minnesota, 2007), Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins, 2013), and Unpayable Debt (Sternberg, 2022). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris 8, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, La Trobe University, among others. Her artistic work has been exhibited in international venues, including Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, MoMA, Guggenheim, MACBA, Munch Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, and the São Paulo, Berlin, and Venice Biennales.

André Lepecki is an essayist and independent curator. He is a Full Professor at New York University and Associate Dean at the Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of Exhausting Dance (2006), Singularities (2016), and Idiorritmia (2018) and has curated festivals and projects for HKW-Berlin, MoMA-Warsaw, MoMA PS1, Hayward Gallery, Haus der Künst-Munich, Sydney Biennial 2016, and Xavier Hufkens Gallery, among others. He was a dramaturg for choreographers Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Francisco Camacho, and Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. In 2008, he received the Best Performance Award from the International Association of Art Critics (USA) for the direction and co-curation of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts by Allan Kaprow. Since 2003, he has collaborated with Eleonora Fabião on several of her actions.