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Working across diverse media such as video, photography, performance, sound, installation, and drawing, Tejal Shah positions her work within a feminist and queer framework. She is currently interested in the intersections of art, ecology, and healing in relation to consciousness. Her works also focus on sex, sexuality, body, gender, and natureculture while challenging normative social hegemonies. Her latest project, Balcão, is unraveling a new thread in her praxis, it is a shape-shifting, collaborative, and community experiment in embodied learning on a small piece of land in Goa, India. Her works have shown globally in museums, galleries and film festivals, including dOCUMENTA (13), 2012.

Andrea Thal works on exhibitions, publications and artists’ productions in various fields and in close and often long-term collaborations. Since 2006 she runs the independent space Les Complices* in Zurich. With Les Complices*, she has developed a program that is rooted in an understanding of queerness as a political and aesthetic practice and critically discusses and intervenes in social and political issues. She lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.