Elke Krasnyis Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator and author. Krasny's scholarship addresses care, ecological and social justice, memory work and emancipatory cultural practice at the present historical conjuncture marked by ecocidal and genocidal pasts. Her exhibitionHands-On Urbanism: The Right to Greenon urban gardening and farming as subsistence practices was included in the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibitionCritical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, curated with Angelika Fitz at the Architecture Centre Vienna in 2019, introduces a perspective of planetary care ethics through architectural practice. Krasny co-editedCurating as Feminist Organizing(Routledge, 2023).

Lara Perryworks in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton. Trained first as a historian, Lara's career has involved her in work with artists, curators, photographers, educators, computer scientists, philosophers, archivists, activists and art historians. Much of her research has focused on evolving feminist museology, starting with her doctoral thesis on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London) published asHistory's Beauties: Women, History and the National Portrait Gallery 1856-1900in 2006. Lara has published a number of essays and edited volumes concerning art history's and curating's relationship to gender and feminism, most recently, an edited volume with Elke KrasnyCurating as Feminist Organizing(Routledge, 2023).