Dariia (Dasha) Chechushkova graduated from the Grekov Odesa Art College (2014–18) and studied art theory at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv (2018–23). Following the war of aggression against Ukraine, she was forced to move to Lyiv. In her artistic practice, she deals with the transformation of ideas and concepts into new forms and creates “total installations” inspired by her diary notebook featuring drawings of modern folklore. In addition, she works in a number of media, including photography, video, drawing, painting, poetry, embroidery, and happenings. Her works often deal with the ways in which individuals interact with their environment and how this “harmony” changes with their (life) circumstances. Her current interests focus on memory, monuments, mimesis, and the meaning of tradition. She lives in Odesa and Lyiv, Ukraine.

Sophie Seita is an artist and researcher. She studies materiality, gestures, and the speculative potential of archives. She exhibits her cross-media work internationally, publishes artist’s books, creates textile works and graphic notations, and directs experimental workshops on topics such as voice, touch, translation, and queer performance. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. Together with Naomi Woo, she runs The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a feminist and queer gardening society inspired by the German abbess Hildegard von Bingen (ca. 1098-1179). The collaboration takes the forms of a joint speculative art and research project focused on the decolonisation and queering of gardening history. So far, the society has presented its work in the form of a solo exhibition at Mimosa House, a zine called The Minutes, and various performances, rituals, and workshops at Nottingham Contemporary, Grand Union, the Cockpit Theatre, the Centre for Art and Ecology (Goldsmiths), and Ruta del Castor (Mexico City).

Alona Karavai is a curator and essayist. She is the co-founder of project space Asortymentna kimnata, which is part of the residency house Khata-Maysternya. She also founded the art medium post impreza. She worked at IZOLYATSIA, a center of contemporary art which was orginally based in Donetsk, Ukraine. Was awarded the Kairos Prize for cultural actors in 2023 and was selected to be a member of the frist cohort of fellows of Socially Enaged Arts Fellow in 2025. Her curatorial work focuses on topics such as periphery(ies), absence and vitality.