Christopher Braddock, artist and writer, is professor of visual arts in the School of Art & Design, Auckland University of Technology. He is director doctoral studies and co-leads the Art & Performance Research Group. He has written extensively on performance art in Aotearoa. He is author of Performing Contagious Bodies: Ritual participation in contemporary art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and editor of Animism in Art and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His performance and installation works have been included in Public Relations at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, curated by Simon Gennard (2022); How to Live Together at ST PAUL St Gallery, curated by Balamohan Shingade (2019); and Material Traces: Time and the gesture in contemporary art, curated by Amelia Jones in Montréal (2013). Key research terms include: animism, dialogue, silence, contagion, material trace, ritual, spirituality, performance and participation. Chris lives in Auckland. See www.christopherbraddock.com

Victoria Wynne-Jones, art historian and curator, is an honorary research fellow in art history at the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland. She currently lectures in the disciplinary areas of art history, fine arts and dance studies, and collaborates with artists on written commissions and exhibition-making. Her research focuses on the intersections between dance studies and performance art as well as curatorial practice, feminisms, contemporary art theory and philosophy. She is author of Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), part of the series ‘New World Choreographies’.

Layne Waerea (Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist and educator whose practice involves carrying out performance art interventions that seek to question and challenge social and legal ambiguities in the public sphere. As a former lawyer and lecturer in law, Waerea uses this experience to inform her performance interventions, with a particular focus on how Te Tiriti o Waitangi could continue to play a critical role in the developing cultural fabric of Aotearoa. In 2016 Waerea completed her PhD at Auckland University of Technology, titled ‘Free Social Injunctions: Art interventions as agency in the production of socio-legal subjectivities not yet imagined or realised’.

Ioana Gordon-Smith (New Zealand/Sāmoa) is an arts writer and curator. She has held roles at Artspace Aotearoa, Objectspace, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery and Pātaka Art + Museum. Gordon-Smith is a co-curator of the international Indigenous triennial Naadohbii: To draw water in Canada, and together with Lana Lopesi is the co-founder and co-editor of Marinade: Aotearoa journal of Moana art. She is a trustee for Enjoy Contemporary Art Space. Consistent throughout her curatorial process is a priority on close working relationships with artists. She lives in Porirua.