Nkule Mabaso

Nkule Mabaso graduated with a Fine Arts degree from UCT and received a Masters in Curating at Curating ZHdK, Zürich. She has worked as Assistant Editor of the journal OnCurating.org and founded the Newcastle Creative Network in Kwazulu Natal. She has shown work and curated shows in Europe, Africa and South Africa and currently works as curator of the Michaelis Galleries. She is a PHD Candidate at Rhodes University as part of the research team SARChI Chair 'Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa'. Her research focuses on the Kwazulu Natal interior and calls for the development of context specific policy to unlock the economic potential of culture in the context of small cities and large towns.

Jay Pather

Associate Professor Jay Pather is director of the Institute for Creative Arts at UCT where he has created structures for interdisciplinary collaboration in the form of Fellowships, a Post Graduate Programme in public and live art, public lecture programmes and interdisciplinary conferences. His research and artistic work deploys site-specific, interdisciplinary and intercultural strategies to frame postcolonial imaginaries and matters of social justice. He serves as a juror for the International Award for Public Art and on the Board of the National Arts Festival of South Africa.

Jyoti Mistry

Jyoti Mistry is a filmmaker and Associate Professor in the Wits School of Arts. She has taught at New York University, University of Vienna, Arcada University of Applied Science Polytechnic in Helsinki and ALLE Arts School at University of Addis Ababa. Mistry's artistic practice moves seamlessly between filmmaking and installation art practices. She has published widely on the topics of multiculturalism, identity politics, race and memory.

Rael Jero Salley

Raél Jero Salley, MFA, PhD (Chicago), is Professor in Art History at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Visiting Faculty in African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Honorary Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Salley is both a maker and historian. His artwork is represented by Gallery MOMO.

Dorothee Richter

Dorothee Richter is managing director of the Postgraduate Program in Curating at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Art historian, author, curator, she organised symposiums including Curating Degree Zero. She was artistic director of Kuenstlerhaus Bremen, 1999-2003, and is Director of the publishing platform Oncurating.org.