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 Extraordinary 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. Jarząb 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 (b.1991) is an artist and architect whose work is primarily sculptural and performance based. Their current body of work uses neolithic pre-history as portal to explore contemporary trans experience within a deep-time landscape. Their sculptural work is site-specific, using vernacular architectural ‘failures’ as sculptural methods to conjure up pictographic bodies and symbols that recall chalk hill figures, ancient cave art and late 20th century graphic languages. Past performances have celebrated the ancient craft of flint knapping, with the artist home cooking 4kg boulders from sugar, which are then knapped into sharp tools, and eaten.