Ivan Lupi (born 1972, Ferrara, Italy). Masters in Queer Studies in Arts and Culture from the Birmingham University. Since 2001 Lupi has been one of the founders and active member of the collective Amae with which he has taken part in various collaborations and exhibitions in China, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Lithuania, United Kingdom. In 2016 Lupi starts his own production as a single performer along with Amae’s series of work. The most recent and relevant events: ‘The Voice and the Lens’ - Whitechapel Art Gallery (London 2014), ‘The slip of the tongue’ - Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana (Venice 2015), ‘Transformations’ by LiVEART.US - Queens Museum (New York 2016), ‘MAKING SPACE’ - CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art (Christchurch 2017), ‘Visualeyez Annual Festival of Performance art’ - Latitude 53 Art Gallery (Edmonton 2017), 'WTF?!' - MOTAT - Museum Of Transport and Technology (Auckland 2018). - Khristopher Khrist is an artist living in Spavinaw USA. Incubated in the miasma of Middle America and having cut his teeth on Oklahoma small town rust and later Kansas City’s black top streets, Khrist is a self taught illustrator and instigator.
Utilizing a DIY aesthetic wherein hand-inked drawings, household appliance/makeshift graffiti stencilling, newsprint and magazine clippings are blended into mixed media explorations of the tension that occurs between the political and the personal as well as the advertised and the experiences through a queer lens. - Mana Timu (born 1982, raised in Waihopai (Invercargill) is a tattooist, carver, weaver and tailor of Māori, Scottish, Irish, French, German and Jewish background. With tattooing he mainly specialises in Tā Moko and polynesian tattoos, using machine and Uhi (traditional method). He has been in love with tattooing since childhood when he used to sit in his parents friends studio and watch his parents being tattooed.