Bhanu Kapil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  For twenty years, she taught seminars on narrative and architecture, poetry, and performance at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Since 2019, she has been based in Cambridge, where she is now an Extraodinary Fellow of Churchill College. Kapil is the author of a number of full-length collections, including (in the UK): How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press) and Incubation: a space for monsters (Prototype). The recipient of the TS Eliot Prize, a Windham-Campbell Prize, the 16th International Poetry and People Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge), Kapil also collaborates with Blue Pieta, a choreographer, dramaturg, performer and artist. Their co-authored book of scores and essays, Autobiography of a Performance, is forthcoming in a new edition. Currently, in the Archives Center of Churchill College, Kapil is writing Novel on Yellow Paper, by hand. Her blog can be found here.

A poet, writer, performer and activist, Edka Jarząb practices deep listening as a starting point for sound activism using the voice as a bridge between the public and private, and singing and improvisation as a practice of resistance. Edka co-creates the Warsaw-based community Radio Kapitał and is the author of poetic radio plays and interventions, such as the phantom protest Wielogłos [Polyphony] created in collaboration with Diana Lelonek. From 2020 to 2021 she was a resident of the experimental studio WORM in Rotterdam; and permanent collaborator of the interdisciplinary platform Q-O2 based in Brussels. Working with voice, radio waves, field recording and electronics, she creates atmospheres in, among other places, the Dance Theatre in Warsaw. Edka has participated in the exhibition Post-peace at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart; Gotong Royong; Things We Do Together in CCA Warsaw; Sound & Participation symposium in Belgium and many other events. She was the curator of the program Sirens’ Song at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Jarzab is co-author of Warsound/Warszawa published by U– jazdowski, collaborates with the magazines Glissando and Wakat, co-creates the sound collective Critical Band Ensemble and the feminist improvising group SYRENY, practicing extended voice techniques.

Marf Summers is an artist, architect, and leatherworker whose work explores themes of trans identity, domesticity, and class, working in mediums including silicone, sandpaper, and hard candy, turning a subversive eye on the mundane through butch-camp sensibilities. Their current body of work ‘Standing Stone Butch’ collides the unknowable landscape of prehistory with 20th century constructs of queer identity, incorporating performances that reveal the urgent intersection of trans embodiment and manual craft practices. Marf’s work has been exhibited internationally and they are currently a member of the Conditions Studio Programme.