Zairong Xiang
Zairong Xiang’s research, teaching, and curatorial practices engage with cosmology and cosmopolitanism in their culturally diverse, historically specific, and conceptually promiscuous manifestations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl. He teaches literature and art at Duke Kunshan University, and was co-curator of the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, ‘Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)’ at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2022), and the 14th Shanghai Biennial Cosmos Cinema (2023–2024). He is working on a research and exhibition project around Afro-Asian stand-in and solidarity. Author of Queer Ancient Way: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books, 2018), he has also edited exhibition catalogues, journal special issues, and a film archive. He is currently completing his second book on ‘transdualism’. Through the concept of ‘shanzhai/counterfeit’, he continues a multifaceted research into the artistic and intellectual exchanges in the Global South, especially between Latin America and China since the nineteenth century. Once a research fellow at the ICI-Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and a postdoctoral fellow of the DFG Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms at Potsdam University, he was twice the recipient of the EU Erasmus Mundus scholarship. All his writings and previous lectures could be accessed here: www.xiangzairong.com
Abraham Cruzvillegas
The work of Abraham Cruzvillegas (born in 1968 in Mexico City) has been part of exhibitions in institutions such as The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (2022); the Honolulu Biennial (2019); the Sydney Biennial (2018); Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City (2018); Kunsthaus Zürich (2018); Ginza Maison Hermès: Le Forum, Tokyo (2017); the Nicaragua Biennial (2016); Tate Modern, London (2015); Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015); Museo Amparo, Puebla (2014); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014); Documenta 13, Kassel (2012); the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); the 6th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2010); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2009); the 10th Biennial de Havana (1994); Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2008); and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), among others. In 2016, Harvard University Press published his collected writings The Logic of Disorder.
