Coleman Collins is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher. Recent exhibitions and screenings have taken place at e-flux, New York; Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles; Herald Street, London; Soldes, Los Angeles; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah; Larder, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; Brief Histories, New York; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Collins is a 2022 recipient of a Graham Foundation research grant. He has also received support from NYFA and Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. In 2019, he participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Onur Karaoğlu makes works in performance, video and theater. Since 2010, his original and adapted writing and directing pieces have been commissioned and presented by festivals and institutions such as Wiener Festwochen, Dancing On The Edge, Media Art Xplarotion and Volksbühne. His installations and video works were presented at Bahar (Sharjah Biennial 2017), SPOT, Operation Room and Protocinema. He is one of the founding members of Studio 4 Istanbul that is producing theater, film works and performance space KÖŞE in Yeldeğirmeni which then turned into an international performance festival. Between 2014-2019 he worked as the director of Orhan Pamuk's Museum Of Innocence in Istanbul. Karaoglu taught classes on performance at Boğaziçi and Koç University. He received BA in Sociology at Boğaziçi University and MFA in Theater Directing at Columbia University in The City Of New York. onurkaraoglu.com

Laura Parnes' multi-platform, lens-based projects fuse comedy with pathos to probe social and political trauma. Informed by traditions and genres in narrative film and digital art, her work blurs the lines between conventions of storytelling and experimentation. The performers in her projects are often part of a diverse community of artists, and musicians, many of whom are responsible for the rich underground scene in NYC and who have shaped and affected other mainstream art cultures.

Parnes has screened and exhibited widely in the US and internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; MoMA PS1,NY; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, FL; Brooklyn Museum; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and NY and on PBS and Spanish Television. She had solo exhibitions at Pioneer Works, Human Resources, Burchfield Penny Art Center, LA><, Participant Inc., Deitch Projects, Fitzroy Gallery; and solo screenings at the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Kitchen, New York City. Parnes is a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and a 2016 Creative Capital Awardee. Video Data Bank published a box set of her work, and Participant Press published a book of her scripts titled ‘Blood and Guts in Hollywood: Two Screenplays’ by Laura Parnes. lauraparnes.com

Diane Severin Nguyen was born in 1990 in Carson City, CA and currently lives and works in New York City. The artist earned her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013 and her MFA from Bard University in 2020. Nguyen draws material and inspiration for her photography, video, and installation work from an expansive mix of sources including social media feeds, 20th century philosophical writings, and debris sourced from the streets of New York City. In the collision of these intentionally disparate materials the artist mimics the dissonance of online culture and questions old divides between popular and elite, real and fake, repellent and sympathetic.

In her photography Nguyen works improvisationally, staging miniature events and interactions involving materials ranging from toenails to fruit to grass jelly. Fascinated by the challenge of capturing ephemeral processes, the artist photographs materials as they burn, bubble, drip, tear and sink, catching her subjects in the midst of irreversible transformation. Often shooting very close up and with intensely saturated colors, Nguyen purposefully obscures the identity of her objects, hoping to provoke a deeper viewing and empathy.

This on-going tension between alienation and intimacy is central to the artist’s practice. In her video works Nguyen appropriates, remixes and synthesizes divergent cultural materials like Vietnamese folk poetry, anti-war anthems, and “K-Pop” music to mine what is discovered in their difference. In both “Tyrant Star” (2019) and “If Revolution Is A Sickness” (2021), Nguyen develops meaning through the juxtaposition of the performers’ subjectivities and ever-shifting cultural and geographic contexts. Across mediums the artist creates situations where we must reencounter and reevaluate cultural materials we thought we once understood.