In his wide-ranging art, activism, teaching and writing practices, Gregory Sholette (American, b. 1956, lives in New York) was a founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution, which issued publications on politically engaged art in the 1980s; of REPOhistory, which repossessed suppressed histories in New York in the 1990s; and more recently, of Gulf Labor, a group of artists advocating for migrant workers constructing museums in Abu Dhabi. In dozens of essays, three edited volumes, and his own books Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017), and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture (Pluto Press, 2011), he has documented several decades of activist art that, for its ephemerality, politics, and market resistance, might otherwise remain invisible. He is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Studies Program and teaches sculpture, art theory and social practice at Queens College City University of New York where he co-directs Social Practice Queens (SPQ). He blogs at: https://gregsholette.tumblr.com/
Agata Craftlove (born Lyubov Hyimichna Chumak, 1978) is a Queens-based sound artist, graphic novelist and photomontagist. She is a founding member of the collective THEMM! whose work has appeared in exhibitions at Momenta Arts, Queens Museum of Art, The Cooper Union Art Gallery, Gallery 400 in Chicago and the Pori Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland. THEMM! is the collective name of three intergenerational artists –Agata Craftlove, Karl Lorac, and TJ (topjesus)– whose hand-crafted sculpture (Lorac), artists’ books (TJ), photomontage, graphic novels and experimental thrash songs (Craftlove) have appeared in exhibitions at Momenta Arts, Queens Museum of Art, The Cooper Union Art Gallery, Gallery 400 in Chicago and the Pori Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland, as well as featured in the journal WITNAS number 7, May 2012, and Shifter 21, 2014. Group website: http://themm.us