Lars Bang Larsen is a free-lance critic and curator, based in Frankfurt and Copenhagen. He writes regularly for Frieze and Artforum, and has co-curated the Momentum biennial in 1998 and the group shows Pyramids of Mars (2000),Fundamentalisms of the New Order (2002), The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds (2005) and Populism (2005). He has written about the art and culture of the 1960s, for example in 'Sture Johannesson' (2002), about Johannesson's psychedelic posters and digital graphics. At the moment Lars teaches at Konsthögskolan in Stockholm and at the academies in Copenhagen and Århus, and is doing research for a book about the history of psychedelic art in a global context.
Claire Bishop is an art historian and critic based in London. She is currently Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art. In October she will take up a new job in the History of Art Department at Warwick University. She has also taught at Essex University (where she completed her PhD) and Tate Modern. She is the author of Installation Art: A Critical History (Tate, 2005), Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics (October no.110, 2004) and contributes regularly to Artforum, Flash Art, Untitled, and Tate Etc.
Her latest publication is Participation, an edited anthology of key texts on participation in art from the late 1950s to the present day, and will be published in September by Whitechapel Art Gallery & MIT Press. She recently presented the paperLive Installations and Constructed Situations: The Use of "Real People" in Art, at OCA's Verksted seminar on the Art of Welfare, which is published, along with the other participants' contributions, as a book September 2006.
Her current research interests concern post-medium-specific art, the history of exhibition display, and the politics of spectatorship in socially-engaged and relational art.
Chus Martinez is the Director of the Kunstverein Frankfurt where she has been since January this year. At the moment she is curating "Ist das Leben nicht schön?"; a group exhibition in four chapters with Esra Ersen, Wilhelm Sasnal, Arturas Raila and Tommy Støckel. Prior to that she had been the Director of Exhibitions at Sala Rekalde, a center for contemporary art based in Bilbao where she developed a series of exhibitions, workshops, and publications dealing with the new conditions in contemporary art production. Martinez is a regular contributor to Afterall and correspondent to Flash Art International. She holds a M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.
From the January 5-31, 1969 exhibition, organized by Seth Siegelaub: The four participating artists Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, copyright Seth Siegelaub 1969
Seth Siegelaub was born in the Bronx, New York in 1941 and grew up in New York City. He has been active as a plumber; art dealer, publisher and independent exhibition organizer, including 35 art-related projects and the "Artist's Rights Agreement" from 1964 - 1971; a researcher and publisher of left books on communication and culture; a bibliographer of the history of textiles; and currently a researcher studying the theory of time and causality. He has lived in Europe since the early 1970s, currently in Amsterdam.
Marja Bloom is an independent curator, frequently writing on contemporary art. From 1971 to 2005 she worked at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as Curator for Exhibitions where she was responsible for organizing innumerable important group and solo exhibitions including by Agnes Martin, Kazimir Malevich, Lawrence Weiner, JCJ Vanderheyden, Berend Strik, Rini Hurkmans, Richard Tuttle, Marina Abramovic, Gerhard Richter, Imi Knoebel, Georg Herold, Lucio Fontana and Colin McCahon. During that period she was also head of the music program at the museum where she organized weekly concerts by avant-garde musicians, music workshops and exhibitions of musical installations. During the past few years she has organized the first international retrospective exhibition of the major Australasian painter Colin McCahon in New Zealand and Australia. Bloem holds a PhD in art history from Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. She is a board member of several Dutch music foundations, and has also served on a number of art foundations, committees and juries.
