Deepak Ananth
Deepak Ananth is an art historian, critic and curator based in Paris. He studied at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University
of London. He currently teaches at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Caen, Normandy. His curatorial projects have included
exhibitions of contemporary French art, 19th century French painting, Surrealism, and contemporary Indian art, notably 'Indian Summes',
the first in-depth presentation of contemporary Indian art in Europe, held at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 2005. He has
written on a range of modern and contemporary European and Indian artists, mostly for museum publications. He was a selector
for the Artes Mundi prize in 2006.
Rasheed Araeen
Rasheed Araeen is an artist, writer and the founder of both Third Text (London) and Third Text Asia (Karachi).
As an artist, he began his journey in 1953 and continued to pursue art while studying civil engineering at NED Engineering College
in Karachi. After doing some important works in Karachi, seminal to his later pursuits, he left for London in 1964 and has since
lived there. In 1965, he pioneered minimalist sculpture – representing perhaps the only Minimalism in Britain. After having
been active in various groups supporting liberation struggles, democracy and human rights, he began to write, in 1975, and then
started publishing his own art journals: Black Phoenix (1978), Third Text (1987) and Third Text Asia (2008).
He has curated two important exhibitions: 'The Essential Black Art' (1987), 'The Other Story' (Hayward Gallery, 1989); and is a
recipient of three honorary doctorates (PhDs) from universities of Southampton, East London and Wolverhampton. He is now directing
a project that will revise and produce the most comprehensive and inclusive history of art in postwar Britain.
Anita Dube
Initially trained as an art historian and critic, Anita Dube creates works with a conceptual language that valorizes the sculptural
fragment as a bearer of personal and social memory, history, mythology, and phenomeno-logical experience. Employing a variety of
found objects drawn from the realms of the industrial (foam, plastic, wire), craft (thread, beads, velvet), the body (dentures, bone),
and the readymade (ceramic eyes), Dube investigates a very human concern with both personal and societal loss and regeneration. Dube
came to her sculptural practice through her involvement with the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association, a group of young
artists formed in the 1980s in Baroda whose self-styled critical social and political consciousness contrasted with the more established,
self-conscious narrative painting of the so-called Baroda School.
Ruth Noack
Ruth Noack is an art historian, lecturer, independent curator and art critic. Together with Roger M. Buergel she co-curated documenta 12 in 2007.
Noack also teaches film theory at the University of Vienna. From 2002-03 she served as the President of the Association Internationale des Critiques
d'Art in Austria and from 1994 has served as an art critic for Camera Austria and Texte zur Kunst. Noack's publications include:
Shirin Neshat (2000), Double Life: Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art (2002), Danica Dakic: Role-taking,
Role-making (2006) and documenta 12 Catalogue & Reader (2007).
Suely Rolnik
Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst, cultural critic, independent curator and Professor at the Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a
guest lecturer at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Contemporary Art History and Visual
Culture Master; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Independent Studies Program; and the Départament de Danse, Université de
Paris 8. She is the author, along with Félix Guattari, of Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Semiotext(e), 2007).
Daniel J. Rycroft
Dr Daniel J. Rycroft is Lecturer in the Arts and Cultures of Asia at the School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
He is also Director of the Film Studies and Art History course, and Director of the MA Cultural Heritage programme. He is founding editor
of a new journal entitled World Art, and works on collaborative research projects with colleagues in Europe, Asia and America.