Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung is a writer, cultural worker, and founding editor of Decolonial Hacker. He is currently Head of Programs at Rockbund Art Museum.
Renée Green (b. 1959, Cleveland) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. She is the editor of Negotiations in the Contact Zone (2003, Assírio & Alvim), and a Professor at the Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT, School of Architecture & Planning. She lives in Somerville and New York.
Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich is a filmmaker and artist who makes films concerned with the inner worlds of black women. Her work has been screened all over the world including at the 2023 Berlinale, the 2022 La Biennale di Venezia, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, The Met, and the Whitney Museum of Art.
Born in 1987 in Maputo, Mozambique, Euridice Zaituna Kala lives and works in Maisons-Alfort, France. Her work focuses on cultural and historical metamorphoses and their adaptations. Reproducing the visual vocabulary of historical archives, she interrogates the appropriation of Black bodies through archival representation, reaffirming their existence beyond erasure. Her protean practice spans performance, installation, photography, text, video, and sound. She is an artist-teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and founder of e.a.s.t. (Ephemeral Archival Station), a platform for artistic projects and research founded in 2017.
Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a curator, researcher, and writer based in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she serves as Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Her practice moves fluidly across contemporary art, sound, and archival work, rooted in decolonial methodologies, ecological justice, and Pan-African cultural exchange. She has recently curated projects such as They Still Owe Him a Boat, The Oxymoronic Tea Party and Nyami Nyami: Ancestral Frequencies, which explore ritual, resistance, and the politics of memory. Her writing traces the intimate intersections of art, activism, and social transformation, often centering small acts of care and solidarity as radical gestures of survival. Fadzai’s research spans food and seed sovereignty, embodied dissent, and the politics of exclusion, asking how art can disrupt dominant narratives and open space for alternative ways of being. Through both curatorial and scholarly work, she treats art as a method of repair, a site of relation, and a tool for imagining otherwise. She is a founding member of Practice Theory Collective, a fellow of the British Museum ITP program, and a collaborator of Independent Curators International.
X Zhu-Nowell is a curator, writer, and institutional practitioner currently serving as Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai. Moving between Shanghai and New York, Zhu-Nowell’s practice resists the desire for coherence, favoring instead a curatorial approach shaped by contradiction, displacement, and the labor of (mis)translation. Their work traverses the fractured legacies of globalism and migration, attending not only to what circulates, but to what is lost, misread, or disfigured. At RAM, Zhu-Nowell has worked not to reimagine the museum as a site of experimentation—a word too easily domesticated—but to strain the institution against its own limits, fostering encounters that exceed the institution’s frame, disturb its exiting protocols, and resist settling into cultural product.
Flair Donglai Shi holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Department of English at the University of Oxford. He is currently a tenure-track Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and has edited World Literature in Motion. He also serves as the Executive Editor of the A&HCI journal Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and as a Commissioning Editor of Literature Compass (Wiley). His research focuses on world literature theory, postcolonial studies, transnational Chinese cinema, and Sino-African cultural exchange. His first English monograph, Yellow Peril Revisited, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2027. He is currently exploring topics of race in contemporary Sino-African cultural production.
Jodie Yuzhou SUN is Associate Professor in Modern African and Global History at the Department of History, Fudan University, China. She holds an MSc in African Studies and a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. Her research interests are modern African history, Cold War history and China-Africa relations. She is the founder of China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN). Between 2023-24, she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Center for African Studies.
Lifang Zhang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at Tsinghua University. She holds a degree in Art History from Rhodes University, South Africa, and specializes in contemporary African art. She has curated art projects in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.