James Albers (they/he) is an emerging artist, curator, writer, organizer, performer and drag artist based in Vancouver on the stolen and ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ First Nations. In their recent endeavors, James is thinking through subjects like queer fantasy, sci-fi, virtuality, digitization, futurism, poetics, nostalgia, humour, embodiment, and spirituality. They are interested in exploring the queer potentials of revisionist histories and choose to believe in the magic of fiction. Recently, James has been thinking through the truth that a perfect lie may hold, and vice versa. They graduated from the department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with a double major in Visual Arts and Art History. During their final year, they were the Assistant Director of the Hatch Art Gallery, UBC’s only student-run art space.

Emily Fedoruk is a poet and antidisciplinary scholar who is the SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellow in the Multimedia Archive at SFU this year. She grew up on unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Halkomelem speaking peoples in the extracolonial suburb we call New Westminster and completed a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. She published a book of poems, All Still, in 2008 and is at work on two manuscripts: one investigates the role of poetry in public space, and the other is a study of radical classes in the arts since 1960.

Natasha Katedralis is an artist living and working on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territores colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Her practice incorporates a diversity of photographic tools, alongside material forms and sculpture. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Toy Bubble (Joys, Toronto 2024), and Eyebat, The Cutting Floor (Burnaby Art Gallery Offsite, March 2025). Katedralis is a two-time shortlist nominee for The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize (2017, 2022).

Tiziana La Melia is an artist and author born in Palermo (IT) and raised on an orchard-garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. She works across many media such as painting, poetry, sculpture, collaboration, collage and drawing. In her writing and art practice, Tiziana gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Over the past few years, they have been editing a video that features friends and family performing the simple life in a fabled drama between hamsters and mice, travelling between the rural and the urban, while tracing familial and symbolic understandings of food, clothing, and place. In October 2022, Tiziana released Kletic Kink, a poetry album with musical compositions by Ellis Sam. Her latest book of poetry, titled lettuce lettuce please go bad, was published by Talon Books in April 2024.

Kiel Torres is a writer, editor, and curator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work focuses on performance, poetry, criticism, and correspondence. 

Christian Vistan is an artist from Morong, Bataan, Philippines, living on unceded xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territories. Their artwork gathers materials and motifs from personal, familial, and migrant histories and narratives, bringing them together into hybrid forms that intersect, misidentify, and relate affect and language across painting, poetry, and collaboration. In particular, they think about the materiality of water in relation to painting and the experience of distance and diaspora, and collaboration and poetry as a way to articulate a sense of place and one’s positionality. Recent projects include ‘HOHOL (Hang Out Hang Out Lang)’ (2024), a multisite exhibition and series of programs dedicated to Filipino contemporary art practices and identities that they co-curated with Patrick Cruz and grunt gallery across Vancouver; ‘Rice Cooker’, a performance, forthcoming book project, and collaboration with Kiyoshi Whitley, originally performed at Boombox (Vancouver) in 2023; and ‘dreams comma delta’ (2020-2023), a bedroom turned gallery space that hosted artist projects and exhibitions inside their family home in Ladner, BC, that they ran and co-curated with Aubin Soonhwan K. They are currently a fellow at 221a (Vancouver), where they are learning how to make books and running a press as a year-long performance tentatively called ‘The Past’.

Alison Yip‘s multidisciplinary practice finds ways of speaking to the dispersed nature of our cognitive apparatus, often working from the psycho-phenomenal origins of figuration. Ambivalent tensions are evoked through a mix of withholding expressions, over-used or popular imagery and various pictorial modes. Yip holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada. She continued her studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany and in 2016 received an MFA from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. Recent solo, collaborative and group exhibitions include Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin; Mauer, Cologne; Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier; Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund; Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver; ACUD, Berlin; and Lady Helen, London.