2026 Participants

Adrián Villar Rojas portrait photographed by Seowon Nam

Adrián Villar Rojas

Artist whose large-scale, site-specific sculptures and environments explore questions of deep time, future ruins, and the conditions of a humanity at risk.

Talks & Readings
Camille Henrot portrait photographed by Charlie Rubin

Camille Henrot

Artist whose work across film, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation transforms references from literature and psychoanalysis to social media and self-help.

Performance

Lucy Raven

Artist whose multidisciplinary work explores infrastructural systems and the dynamics of changing material states.

Performance

Kaveh Akbar

Poet, novelist, and scholar celebrated for his innovative, deeply personal work exploring spirituality and addiction.

Talks & Readings

Lyle Ashton Harris

Artist whose work across photography, performance, collage, and installation explores the rupture of identities, acts of intimacy and questions of authorship.

Performance
Matthew Barney portrait by Ari Marcopoulos

Matthew Barney

Artist renowned for provocative explorations of the body and sexuality across sculpture, installation, film, performance, and drawing.

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote
Installation

Morgan Bassichis

Writer and performer whose work moves through sharp, comedic explorations of gender, queer culture, and social justice.

Talks & Readings

Nuar Alsadir

Poet, nonfiction writer, psychoanalyst and professor whose work explores selfhood, embodied knowledge, unconscious communication, and what it takes to feel alive.

Talks & Readings

Ivan Cheng

Performance and video artist whose work engages place, text, and the accumulation of information.

Performance
Julie Dash portrait by Maarten de Boer

Julie Dash

Filmmaker, writer, and producer whose work explores racial justice, diasporic identity, migration, and the experiences of Black women across film, video, and installation.

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote

Patrick House

Neuroscientist and writer fascinated by the mysteries of the mind, consciousness, and the strange ways brains can be manipulated.

Talks & Readings

Miranda July

Artist, filmmaker, writer, and performer whose work navigates desire, intimacy, and the emotional complexities of everyday experience.

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote

Paige Lewis

Poet and novelist whose writing moves from the irreverent to the epic through humor, vulnerability, and cosmic imagery.

Talks & Readings

Kali Malone

Composer and musician working with pipe organ, chamber ensembles, and electroacoustic formats to create durational compositions that draw from polyphonic traditions.

Performance

Darnell Moore

Writer, media maker, educator, and thought leader whose activist work centers on identity, equity, and social justice.

Performance

Aliza Nisenbaum

Artist who creates richly detailed, large-scale portraits born out of close collaboration and exchange with her subjects

Talks & Readings

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Artistic director of Serpentine in London, and senior advisor at LUMA Arles.

Talks & Readings

Okwui Okpokwasili

Artist, performer, choreographer, and writer known for multidisciplinary performances merging dance, theatre, and installation.

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote

Jane Panetta

Art historian and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Talks & Readings

Deantoni Parks

Percussionist, producer, and composer whose work blends acoustic drums with electronic, granular samples.

Performance

Raymond Pinto

Interdisciplinary artist creating work rooted in the diasporas of the Global South

Performance

Rachel Rose

Artist whose immersive video installations, drawings, sculptures, and paintings invite viewers into dreamlike spaces where personal and collective stories converge.

Talks & Readings

Caroline Shaw

Composer, violinist, vocalist, and producer whose work moves among roles, mediums, and genres spanning classical and contemporary music.

Performance

Los Thuthanaka

Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton are artists and musicians whose experimental work weaves Aymara Indigenous traditions with avant‑garde sound design and contemporary music.

Performance

Hamza Walker

Curator and the executive director of The Brick (formerly LAXART) in Los Angeles.

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote

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