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Elizabeth Diggon is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies Program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her dissertation examines the mobilization of art as a means of cultural diplomacy in the Canadian context from the mid-to-late twentieth century. She also currently holds the research position at the Esker Foundation in Calgary.

Lorenzo Fusi (b. 1968) is the Visiting Academic Curator at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design) in Calgary. He is also the Artistic Director of PIAC (Prix International d'Art Contemporain) at the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.

“I'm interested in the idea of Landscape and the role it plays in the ability or inability of people to move freely, how landscape and physical features such as islands, rivers, mountains, deserts, borders, wilderness areas etc., facilitate or interrupt free movement. I’ve been looking at and photographing sites of incarceration refuge, or asylum for more than twenty years.”

Marianne Gerlinger has exhibited in the past at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Her works are represented in many corporate and private collections in Canada, China, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, and USA, including the Canada Council Art Bank, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and University of Lethbridge.

She is represented in Canada through Jarvis Hall Gallery (Calgary, Alberta).

Robin Metcalfe has been Director/Curator of Saint Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax, since 2004, and was previously Curator of Contemporary Art at Museum London. Widely published as a writer, he has a particular interest in diasporic, post-colonial and Queer identities; in gender and the body.

Ursula Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist from Nova Scotia with Mi’kmaw ancestry. She graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Her art draws upon performance, installation and sculpture, often incorporating traditional Mi’kmaw basketry. Johnson explores the impact of colonialism on Indigenous material and linguistic culture, and challenges the museological and ethnographic frame imposed upon it. She has been a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize and twice long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.

Linda Duvall is a visual artist whose work exists at the intersection of collaboration, performance and conversation. Her hybrid practice grapples with recurring themes of connection to place, grief and loss, and the many meanings of exclusion and absence. She often sets up situations in which people who might not normally meet are invited to interact.

Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist who uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art's capacity to penetrate layers of the past and reflect on the contemporary experience. Born in 1974 in Leningrad, USSR, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 1997 and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts.

How do we relate to things are unnamed or unnameable?  What happens at the perceptual limits of human thought, consciousness, and comprehension?  Throughout her practice, Miruna Dragan engages these questions, peeling back at the glimmering edges where language, object, and reason overlap with the unknown.  With an ongoing interest in metaphysics, Dragan’s site-response work reflects themes of dispersion, immanence, and transcendence.  Operating within and between various modes of studio research including drawing, lens-based media, site-specific intervention, and others, she interprets sur