Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

Sasha Dees is an independent writer, producer, curator, world citizen, and connector living for the arts. Dees provides a platform for emerging artists who push limits, cross borders and break down barriers. Art for her is about communication, confronting people without imposing, and creating a dialogue that offers a different perspective. She is interested in the collaboration between different cultures, traditions, genders and the various art disciplines. All art disciplines are equally important to her—theater, visual art, dance, music, spoken word and film. She works with artists who experiment with the classical art forms, who mix them up and break them down—not to destroy, but to analyze and re-use and build something new. International, interdisciplinary, inclusive and innovative are crucial elements in her projects.

In 2021 she published Entangled Species. Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, the result of a fifteen-month research project. Between November 2017 and May 2019, she visited 16 countries in the Caribbean (including Curacao, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad & Tobago). Decolonization discourse and international politics are reflected in her encounters and conversations with artists, art professionals, and institutions in the Caribbean. Engaging anecdotes and conversations with artists and art professionals draw us into her journey. This publication reads like a travel book and serves as a toolkit to contemporary art in the Caribbean. Entangled Species. Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean provides a different view of the Caribbean through a personal lens showcasing the depth and variety of artists and art communities of the Caribbean.
www.sashadees.com

Christopher Cozier is an artist whose work aims to explore and affect conventional readings of the Caribbean as a place that has been shaped and is shaped by the world. For Cozier, the Caribbean is a fluid space and an ongoing negotiation with shifting narratives and interpretations. Through his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded staged actions, Cozier investigates how Caribbean historical and current experiences can inform understandings of the wider contemporary world.
In 2006, he co-founded Alice Yard, an informal venue for creative experiment, exchange and debate that presents artist projects, performances, music events, readings, film screenings and exhibitions. Alice Yard participated in ：documenta 15 (2022) in Kassel, Germany. https://christophercozier.blogspot.com/

Maksaens Denis is recognized for his activism through his artwork generating works speaking of the dramatic economic and political situation experienced by the population in Haiti. They deal with topics related to spirituality, Vodou, and the questions that surround it. They often refer to homosexuality, injustice, or discrimination experienced by the LGBTQI community in Haiti and talk about love. same-sex love. Denis's work spans several disciplines, from installation to video art, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Coming into his practice in the Techno movement, he acquired significant experience in VJ-ing since the 90s. Denis is renowned as the pioneer in multi-media and digital art using mapping techniques in the Caribbean. Denis loves to play with the duality and the contrast of the images between the abstract, very colorful aesthetic and the realism of the color or black and white photo or video and combines effortlessly visual aesthetic inspired by electronic music combined with the Vodou culture. He collaborates with other artists from different disciplines, visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, poets, dancers, and performers in residencies in various countries worldwide. https://www.maksaens-denis.com/

Nadia Huggins, a self-taught artist, works in photography and video. Since 2010, she has built a body of images that are characterized by her observation of interest in the everyday. Her work merges documentary and conceptual practices, which explore belonging, identity, and memory through a contemporary approach focused on re-presenting Caribbean landscapes and the sea. Huggins' practice is dedicated to challenging perceptions about what the Caribbean and Caribbean photography look like. Her main preoccupation has been with the sea which she feels presents an opportunity to explore new ways of imagining ourselves. In the water, she contends that we are freed of the constructs of class, gender, and race that exist on dry land. Her photography examines the possibility of who we can be and how we can exist, in a medium that is both connecting and distorting. Her current work interrogates belonging and displacement and identity and distortion through images of her own body and the marine environment she encounters. https://nadiahuggins.com/

Sharelly Emanuelson is a filmmaker and visual artist. Through her lens-based work and research, Emanuelson is interested in film, photography, and multimodal arrangements that contemplate and materialize a multisensory vocabulary. She gathers and uses multisensory forms, techniques, or movements to reflect around heritage in contemporary everyday life. Her practice is informed by decolonial thought to evoke curiosity and reflection about how we have arranged and moved ways of living, thinking, and being in our world. Each work or project is a personal journey to learn, unlearn, and reconnect to the different knowledge’s that have been forgotten, buried, or discredited by the forces of modernity/colonialism. In addition to her practice, she founded Uniarte, an artist-run foundation that promotes the visibility and development of artists in the Caribbean. https://www.sharellyemanuelson.com/

Rodell Warner works primarily in new media and photography. His works assume various forms in a process of exploration. Through his digital creations, Warner participates within a global framework of discourse about the nature of digital possibilities and brings unseen aspects of nature into view. How we see, think, and interact with each other and with nature is brought into question as Warner seeks to understand what is already there. https://rodellwarner.com/

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is an artist whose research-based practice resists colonial erasures and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Her work deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives and contests dominant visual culture through multiple approaches to documentation. She employs text, image and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local. She is currently a fellow of the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative.https://sofiagallisa.com

Natalia Lassalle-Morillo is a visual artist, filmmaker, theatermaker and educator whose work reconstructs history through a transdisciplinary approach to research, form and narrative. Melding intuitive experimental ethnography, theatrical performance, and collaborations with non-professional performers, Lassalle-Morillo’s practice centers on excavating imagined and archived history, decentralizing canonical narratives through embodied reenactments, and challenging written history by foregrounding instead the creation of new mythologies. Her multi-platform projects explore familial and citizen relationships in the context of Caribbean collective memory and the resulting imperialist oppression that has altered generations of material and spiritual trajectories. Bringing the practice of theater into the camera, Natalia explores a methodology that creates its own decolonial rhythms. www.natalialassallemorillo.com