shortlist 2023

Tiziano Cruz (AR)

Tiziano Cruz is from a town called San Francisco that belongs to the Valle Grande department of the province of Jujuy, in the north of Argentina. He was born and raised on the border between Chile and Bolivia, lands through which nine indigenous communities have passed; the Atacama, the Kollas, the Guaraníes, the Tobas, the Ocloyas, the Omaguacas, the Tilianes and the Toaras.

Tiziano Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist. His work fundamentally brings together the visual and theatrical language, performance, and artistic intervention of public space.

WWW: tizianocruz.myportfolio.com
Instagram: @tizianocruzok

Autumn Knight (US)

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video and text. Drawing from her training in theatre and the psychology of group dynamics, New York–based artist Autumn Knight makes performances that reshape perceptions of race, gender, and authority. She scrutinizes institutional spaces that regulate African American subjects or that assert their absence, often putting black women at the center of the conversation to usurp the dynamics of a room with humor and with purpose. Knight’s video and performance work has been presented by various institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen (NY), and Performance Space New York. Knight is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Arts and a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

WWW: autumnjoiknight.com
Instagram: @autkni

Jota Mombaça (BR)

Jota Mombaça lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal; and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Jota Mombaça is an interdisciplinary artist whose work derives from poetry, critical theory, and performance. The sonic and visual matter of words plays an important role in their practice, which often relates to anti-colonial critique and gender disobedience. Through performance, visionary fiction, and situational strategies of knowledge production, they intend to rehearse the end of the world as we know it and the figuration of what comes after we dislodge the Modern-Colonial subject off its podium.

In 2020, Mombaça was granted the Pernod Ricard Fellowship in Paris, and the position of writer-in-residence at Nottingham Contemporary. Their visual and performative work has been included in institutional group exhibitions as the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN (2020); More, More, More, TANK SHANGHAI (2020); the 46th Salon de Artistas in Colombia (2019); À Nordeste, SESC 24 de Maio (2019); the 34th São Paulo Biennale, Though it’s dark, still I sing (2021), among others. Their work is included in the Kadist Collection, as well as in the GfZK (Leipzig, DE) collection.

As a writer, Mombaça is the author of Ñ V NOS MATAR AGORA, a collection of texts published by EGEAC (Portugal, 2019) and Editora Cobogó (Brazil, 2021). Besides that, they have had their essays and fictional writings included in institutional publications such as The Contemporary Journal, Afterall, Le Magazine – Jeu de Paume, Terremoto.Mx, HAU 3000, Revista Piseagrama, among others.

WWW: jotamombaca.com/
Instagram: @monstraerratik

Joshua Serafin (PH/BE)

Joshua Serafin is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines dance, performance, visual arts, and choreography. Born in the Philippines, they are currently based in Brussels. They are also a house artist of Viernulvier from season 2023-2027.  They are trained in dance in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and PARTS in Brussels. They also have finished their bachelor’s and master’s in Visual Arts in Fine arts in KASK in Ghent. Their works deal with questions about identity, transmigration, queer politics and representation, states of being, and ways of inhabiting the body. Their cosmology of works creates new forms of rituals, and embodiment, based on queer ecologies. Serafin’s work as a maker, performer, and dancer have been recently internationally acclaimed as they actively show and tour their work across the contemporary art scenes of Europe and in festivals in East Asia. Whether performing on stage, inside the museum, or through video and photography, Serafin’s artistic process is an intense sociological exorcism of Filipino identity with hybridity of the western ideologies; unpacking the historical violence of its feudal contemporary society and its dehumanising normality.

WWW: joshuaserafin.com
Instagram: @joshuadoser