Multi-disciplinary artist Golboo Amani is best known for their performance and social practice works that rely on familiar social engagements as a point of entry. Amani’s work often responds to the conditions of knowledge production and systemic epistemic violence. By expanding sites of pedagogy to include the streets, backyards, homes, and public transit, Amani aims to produce skill-sharing experiences that speak to collective agency and egalitarian epistemology. Amani’s work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues including; Toronto Biennial, Creative Time Summit, AGO, Articule, XPACE Artist-Run Centre, Encuentro: Hemispheric Institute, Summerworks Festival, Rhubarb Festival, TRANSMUTED International Festival of Performance Art, 221A Artist-Run Centre, LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. Amani is a member of the Toronto Performance Art Collective co-curating the 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art and 7aMD8 as well as the co-curator of PUSH.PULL: QTBIPOC Cabaret & Performance Art.

Manolo Lugo is a Mexican-born artist and educator working in performance, video, photography, and installation. His work speaks to the conditions of migrancy, precarity, and queerness in advanced capitalist societies. He has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally in venues including Unpack Gallery (Toronto), University of Toronto’s Art Centre, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), LIVE Biennial of Performance Art (Vancouver), and Visualeyez Performance Art Festival (Edmonton). He received a BFA from Emily Carr University and recently completed a Masters of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. He works as a Digital Media Technician at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.