Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer, producer, and curator of art and film. She lives in Marseille.
Kristine Khouri is a researcher with a background in Arab cultural history and art history. Her interests focus on the history of art circulation, collection, exhibition, and infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as archival practice and knowledge dissemination.
Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti are researchers and curators of Past Disquiet, a long-term research project that began in 2008 and was transformed into a documentary and archival exhibition that has been exhibited internationally seven times since 2015. They are also co-editors of Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, and Museums in Exile, (2018).
Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning is an artist, writer and curator specialising in photography and art from Latin America. Sebastian holds an AHRC funded PhD focused on digital memory platforms, and cultural and visual studies from Latin America (University of Bristol). He was the Assistant Director of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (2016-2018). His research interests include photography, museology, art history, digital heritage, human rights and memory in Latin America and the intersections between these areas.
Wing Chan is an editor at Afterall Research Centre. She also moonlights as a translator. Her publications include How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000 (co-edited with Arianna Mercado and David Morris; Afterall, 2025) and Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974–77 (co-edited with David Morris; Afterall, 2023).
Dr Holly Eva Ryan is a Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Her research sits at the intersections of global politics, social movement studies, and practical aesthetics. She examines how non-state actors use art and other forms of cultural production to imagine, demand, and enact political change. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at Queen Mary University of London and a founding member of the Artistic Activism Research Co-Lab at New York University.
Christabel Gurney was a long-time activist in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, joining the campaign to stop the all-white Springbok rugby tour in 1969. She edited the AAM’s monthly newspaper, Anti-Apartheid News, in the 1970s. She has since researched and written about the history of the AAM and runs its ‘Forward to Freedom’ website: www.aamarchives.org. She is the Secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives Committee and a member of the Advisory Council of the AAM’s successor organisation Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA).
Lynn MacRitchie is an artist and writer based in London. Born in Glasgow, she studied Fine Art at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, where, as a student in 1973, she organised the pioneering Participation Art Event featuring artists David Medalla and John Dugger. Moving to London in 1974, she joined Artists for Democracy (AFD), and took part in the Arts Festival for Democracy in Chile organised by AFD at the Royal College of Art in October 1974. Her video tapes of the festival record an event now recognised as of historic importance. As well as her work with AFD, in 1975 she became a founder member of the Tolmers Square Poster Collective (later the Poster Film Collective).
David Morris is a research fellow and editor at Afterall Research Centre. His work explores different approaches to artistic research, education and exhibition, with a focus on experimental and collective practice. His publications include Schizo-Culture (co-edited with Sylvère Lotringer; Semiotext(e)/MIT, 2013), Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98 (co-edited with David Teh, Afterall, 2017), Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974–77 (co-edited with Wing Chan; Afterall, 2023) and How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000 (co-edited with Wing Chan and Arianna Mercado; Afterall, 2025). With Helena Vilalta he leads a research masters programme in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where he is also a trade union organiser.
Rami Rmeileh is a critical psychologist, researcher and critical pedagogue whose work centres Palestinian refugee histories, anti-colonial struggle, and the infrastructures of transnational solidarity. He is lead pedagogist at Makan Rights, an organiser with the European Centre for Palestine Studies, and currently completing a PhD in Middle East politics at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.
Sorcha Thomson is a historian of tricontinental solidarities and ecologies. She is a Research Fellow within the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) project at the University of East Anglia and a Teaching Fellow at SOAS and UCL. She is co-editor of the books She Who Struggles and Palestine in the World. Alongside Rami Rmeileh and Akram Salhab she has developed the digital teaching tool Free Palestine: British-Based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution.
