Anne Murray is a writer, artist, and curator. Her work explores human and other, language and absence, identifying new pathways to connect, while imagining herself as both an octopus and a stone. This research manifests in various media including poetry, video, installation, performance, photography, social practice, and art criticism. Educated at Parsons School of Design in Paris and Pratt Institute in New York, she now lives in Budapest. Her video work Exquisite Exodus was included in Cf as part of the Research Pavilion curated by Jeanette Doyle at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and at La Biennale Méditerranéenne d’Art Contemporain d’Oran, Algeria. She has exhibited in Europe, Asia, and the United States. www.annemurrayartist.com

Zolt Asta (his pseudonym) was born Zsolt Asztalos in 1974, Mátészalka, Hungary. Asta lives and works in Budapest. He graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Budapest in 1999 in Dora Maurer’s class. Asta has exhibited throughout Hungary and Europe. He represented Hungary at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 under his birth name, Zsolt Asztalos, with his project ‘Fired but Unexploded.’ His art focuses on the past in several aspects. In previous years, his research turned to the topic of individual and written world history. He also analyses the history of art in regard to the official Canon. He uses various media in his work, including: installation, film, video, photography, and print computer graphics. www.zoltasta.com & www.zsolt-asztalos.com