Naisargi N. Davé is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her work concerns intra- and interspecies ethics, politics, and relationality in contemporary India. Davé is the author of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (2023) and of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (2012, winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize), both from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a third book, Murder: The Social Life of Violent Death.

Karthik Pandian is an artist working to unsettle colonial time. He uses film, sculpture, drawing, and performance to find openings into collective liberation. Supported by a 2022 Creative Capital Award and a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship, Karthik is currently at work on his debut feature film, Lucid Decapitation. The film is a collaboration with Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe), the American Indian Movement activist who orchestrated the takedown of the Columbus monument at the Minnesota State Capitol in June of 2020. Karthik has presented his work internationally at exhibition venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer, and the Palais de Tokyo and on digital platforms such as the Criterion Channel and Triple Canopy. He is a professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and a guide, certified in offering Lama Rod Owens’ Seven Homecomings practice.

Fraser McCallum is Project Coordinator at the Blackwood Gallery. In this role, he works primarily on programs outside of the gallery spaces, including offsite exhibitions, public programs, virtual programming, and publications. Fraser is an interdisciplinary artist of settler Euro-Canadian ancestry, whose practice often draws together histories and ongoing sociopolitical conditions through archives, places, and stories. Fraser has held previous roles at Gallery 44 and Art Metropole, and received a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. His work has been exhibited at HKW, Berlin; Sheridan College, Oakville; Modern Fuel, Kingston; and The Art Museum at the University of Toronto. His video works have been screened by the plumb, LIFT, Hamilton Artists Inc., and Trinity Square Video. Fraser’s writing has been published in the Blackwood’s Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge series, PUBLIC, and Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.