Cara New Daggett, writer and researcher in the field of energy politics, excels at. In her work, energy, work, utopian demands, and unions, become intertwined with oil cultures, petromasculinities and ecomodernism, to reflect on growth, dependency, debt and energy transitions beyond extractivism. Degrowth, desire, pleasure, feminist science and new story-telling strategies are revealed as key ingredients for the recipe to reimagine ecologically generous ways of life on Earth.

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought.

He is the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs, including Plant-Thinking (2013); Phenomena—Critique—Logos (2014); The Philosopher’s Plant (2014); Dust (2016), Energy Dreams (2017), Heidegger (2018), Political Categories (2019), Pyropolitics (2015, 2020); Dump Philosophy (2020); Hegel's Energy (2021); Green Mass (2021) and Philosophy for Passengers (2022), among others.

Saodat Ismailova is filmmaker and artist born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She graduated from Tashkent State Art Institute in Uzbekistan and Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France. Her films and video installations were presented in Biennale of Venice, Berlinale International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, CPH DOX etc.

Works of Saodat Ismailova are in collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and The Centre Pompidou, Paris.

In 2022 Saodat Ismailova participated in main exhibition of 59th Biennale of Venice’s and presented new work and Davra research group at documenta fifteen, as a lumpung artist.

She has been awarded by The Eye Art and Film Prize in 2022.

Alejandro Alonso Díaz is a curator and writer whose practice examines the metabolic encounters between natural, social, and poetic structures of knowledge. His work aims to unfold as an ongoing intimate epistemology entangled in notions of ecology, love and resilience, often based on an inquiry about potential forms of existence and radical alterity.

He has curated and contributed to projects at FUTURA, Prague; Serpentine Galleries, London; Fundación Botín, Santander, CAAC, Vilnius and documenta fifteen, among others. His writing has been featured in publications including Frieze Magazine, Mousse, Terremoto, and various other international publications as well as in exhibition catalogues and monographs. He is currently co-editing (with INLAND) the book Microbiopolitics of Milk (Sternberg Press, 2022).

Díaz is the director of fluent, an organisation dedicated to contemporary art that produces and shows cycles of exhibitions, texts and public programs.

With a master’s degree in Art History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a post-graduate degree in Curatorial Studies from FBAUL, she also undertook additional training in Photograph Conservation and the Preservation of Photographic Collections, as well as in Preventive Conservation – Museum Environment.

Between 1988 and 1989, she carried out archaeological excavations at the Roman Theatre in Lisbon, under the guidance of Professor Dias Diogo. From 1995 to 1999, she worked at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (CGF) Art Archive (Portuguese Photography Collections) as part of the research team, being responsible for studying, inventorying and curating the photographic collections.

Between 2000 and 2010, she worked at the CGF’s Fine Arts Department, where she coordinated the Fine Arts and Exhibitions Division (grants and subsidies), curated and coordinated exhibitions, and coordinated research projects, editorial projects and digital publishing projects. She has organised and participated in international panels (international artistic residencies).

In 2010, she joined the team at the CGF’s Modern Art Centre, as exhibition curator and Collection lead (sculpture and installation), also working in the distribution area, in the field of visual arts (expert opinions, panels and international curator visiting programme). As curator responsible for the sculpture and installation pieces in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum’s Modern Collection, she has participated in numerous exhibitions of the collection’s works. In this capacity, she has researched and revived a series of historical installations by artists such as Ana Vieira, Alberto Carneiro and António Ole. Since 2006, she has curated exhibitions of contemporary artists such as Leonor Antunes and Gabriela Albergaria, Ricardo Jacinto, Vítor Pomar, André Guedes, A Kills B, Tamás Kaszás, Emily Wardill, Ana Jotta and Ricardo Valentim, Yto Barrada, Irineu Destourelles and Manon de Boer (the latter with Susana Gomes da Silva), among others. She was the curator of a survey drawing exhibition of Jorge Martins and of the first retrospective dedicated to the artists José Escada and Túlia Saldanha (the latter with Liliana Coutinho) and was co-curator of the retrospective dedicated to António Ole (with Isabel Carlos).

She has been Programme Coordinator at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum since March 2016.

Her texts have appeared in catalogues and magazines such as Contemporânea and OEI (# 80-81, 2018), the latter dedicated to Ernesto de Sousa and Portuguese avant-gardes. More recently, she participated in the round table discussion 'Collaboration in the Arts in Portugal', part of the conference 'Fields of Collaboration in Contemporary Artistic Practices' (ICNOVA, IHA, IFILNOVA and Culturgest, 2019). In collaboration with African feminist associations Djass, Femafro, Inmune and Padema, and with Marta Lança and Filipa Vicente, she programmed and organised the international meeting 'Where I (we) Stand' to discuss the decolonisation not only of history, bodies and narratives, but also the structure of the museum itself as a place of representation and a producer of knowledge (CM-MCG, 2019).

She taught on the Curatorial Studies Seminar at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra (20142017) and participated as an external evaluator at the MFA of Malmö Art Academy (2018).