Nottingham Contemporary

Aimar Arriola works as a curator, editor, and researcher. Currently, he is the inaugural Research Associate (2020-2022) at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao where he is doing research and public programming on the notion of ‘queer form.’ A graduate from MACBA's Independent Studies Programme, Barcelona, Aimar holds a PhD in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London and has been a research resident at Reina Sofía, Madrid, Visual AIDS, NY, and X Central American Biennial. He was a nominee for the 2012 ICI New York Independent Vision Curatorial Award. Since then, Aimar has organised exhibitions and events in MACBA, The Showroom in London, and Tabakalera in San Sebastián, among others. As a member of the collective ‘Equipo re’, from 2012 to 2018, Aimar developed the long-term, AIDS-revisitation project AIDS Anarchive. He is co-editor of The Against Nature Journal, a publication and events programme initiated by Council, Paris, that explore the concept of laws ‘against nature.’

Malik Gaines is an artist and writer based in New York. He is the author of Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible (NYU Press, 2017) and many articles and essays about art and performance. He performs and shows work in collaborations including the group My Barbarian, which will present a survey of its work at the Whitney Museum, New York, in 2021. Gaines is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Laura Guy is a writer, editor and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is a Research Excellence Academic Fellow in Art History at Newcastle University having previously held teaching positions in Critical Studies for Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London. She was the 2019/20 Honorary Fellow in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating at the University of Edinburgh. Her research on feminist and queer visual culture has appeared in various magazines and journals, most recently Aperture, Women: A Cultural Review and Third Text. Over the past decade Guy has published interviews and essays focusing on artists working with moving image and photography and has collaborated with individuals, community groups and cultural institutions to profile the work of photographers who documented queer lesbian community in the US and UK between the 1970s and 1990s. She is currently working on a monograph on this subject. She is editor of Phyllis Christopher: Dark Room, forthcoming from Bookworks, and curator of an accompanying exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in 2021. With Glyn Davis, she is Co-editor of Queer Print in Europe, a collection of essays, forthcoming from Bloomsbury.