Artist residency program to convey globally intertwined vulnerability caused by climate change.

‍Dr Safua Akeli Amaama is the Head of New Zealand Histories and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa, the National Museum of New Zealand. Formerly she was the Director of the Centre for Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa. She works across multiple networks with curators, academics, artists, communities, and agencies and is interested in expanding curatorial and museological practices. She is an affiliated researcher on the project ‘Indigeneities in the 21st Century’ a multi-sited project across North and South America, Australia and the Pacific. She was elected President of the Pacific History Association in 2021, and is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Museum of Heritage Studies Programme at Victoria University. She has research interests in cultural heritage, gender, governance, and health. Safua holds the high chief title of Togialelei from the village of Ti’avea in Samoa.

‍Bricx Martillo Dumas/ShrimpPaste is a visual artist and storyteller from the Philippines. He is known for his vibrant and emotional artworks that often deal with themes on climate change, biodiversity, culture, and youth education. He has won numerous awards, including the first prize in the DigitalArt4Climate competition at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021. Dumas has worked closely with various environmental organizations including the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) under the Young ASEAN Storyteller program. Currently, he is developing stories on environment and climate awareness with ClimateTracker.Asia.

Bettina Korintenberg, Dr. is a curator, researcher, and the head of ifa Galleries at the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. The ifa - institute works with partners worldwide to promote freedom in the arts, research, and civil society. Korintenbergs' curatorial and academic practice focuses on critically questioning and reflecting on paradigms of modernity against the backdrop of current social and ecological transformations. Korintenberg was a Curator at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Vitra Design Museum. She wrote her dissertation on the subject of “the museum as heterotopia in a postcolonial perspective”. Recent curatorial projects are “Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics” (2020), “Digital Imaginaries. Africas in Production” (2019), “Thresholds. How to tie time together” (2021/22), “Resonaciones. An Embrace to Awake” (2023/2024) and “Camila Sposati. Breath Pieces” (2023/2024).

Renan Laru-an is the artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. He is a researcher and curator creating exhibitionary, public, and research programs that study ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images or subjects at the juncture of development and integration projects. Laru-an is a founding member of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) and has been (co-)curator of the 2nd Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2022); the 6th Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019); the 8th OK.Video—Indonesia Media Arts Festival, Jakarta (2017); and other exhibitions.

Adi Meretui Ratunabuabua-Divialagi is the Chairperson of Blue Shield Pasifika advocating for the implementation of the Hague Convention in the Pacific, focusing on disaster risk reduction and management for cultural heritage properties and sites. During her career Adi has worked with many governments and led various CSO boards. She has initiated projects at regional, national, and international levels representing Fiji’s efforts in the fields of culture, conservation, and education. Adi was a Senior Lecturer teaching graphic reproduction and design at the Fiji Institute of Technology’s School of Arts Culture and Design in Suva, which she had initiated. She continues to work with youth development and mentorship programs to strengthen the cultural sector in Fiji and the Pacific.

‍Maciusela Raitaukala is a curator and cultural and arts manager at the Fiji Arts Council (FAC). The FAC is a non-profit organization that acts as a coordinating body for the preservation, development and promotion of the arts. The FAC strives to establish a vibrant arts scene in Fiji. Raitaukala works at the interface between artistic practice, cultural policy, and civil society in the global South.

Nada Rosa Schroer is a research associate at the Institute for Art and Material Culture at the Technical University of Dortmund and a curator based in Cologne. Schroer is focusing on curatorial and artistic practices that address the ecological, social, and psychological consequences of the colonial capitalocene. She is co-founder of Fluid Circulations – an initiative that conducts research on water bodies in (post-) industrial landscapes. Her recent publications "Towards Permacultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking” and "Curatorial Learning Spaces. Art, Education and Curatorial Practice" were published in 2023. Further texts have appeared in Monopol Magazin, Missy Magazin and Philosophie Magazin, among others.