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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is Artistic Director of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. She has been Chief Curator of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, since 2002 and was co-curator of the 2005 Turin Triennale. She is interested in the relations between the historical avant-garde and contemporary art through exhibition-making.

Hannah Feldman

Hannah Feldman is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Illinois, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture. At present, she is completing a book on art and spectacle during the Algerian War, and will spend 2008-09 as a fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1955 where he continues to live and work today. He studied politics and African studies at University of Witwatersrand and theatre in Paris. Upcoming projects include a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2009, and a production of Shostakovich's opera The Nose, set to premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 2010

Robert Leonard

Robert Leonard is Director of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, where Vernon Ah Kee's 'Cantchant' debuted in 2007. He was formerly a curator and gallery director in New Zealand. His shows include 'Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in 1992, and 'Mixed-Up Childhood' at the Auckland Art Gallery in 2005

Sasha Grishin

Sasha Grishin is the Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University, Canberra, and works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and in 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to Australian art and art history. Presently he is completing a commissioned 250,000 word history of Australian art.

Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor holds the Skye Chair of Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has written extensively on contemporary South African culture, and has lectured and written on William Kentridge and curated his work in several group exhibitions. She collaborated with Kentridge on two of his theatre projects, writing the play script for Ubu and the Truth Commission and the libretto for The Confessions of Zeno. She recently won the Olive Schriener Award for her first novel Of Wild Dogs, and is currently writing a book on a history and theory of 'the performance of sincerity'