Larissa Fassler (b. 1975, Vancouver) is a Berlin-based artist whose drawings, paintings, and sculptures map the emotional, political, and physical contours of urban life. Trained at Concordia University (BFA) and Goldsmiths, University of London (MFA), she walks and measures sites using her own body before translating fieldwork, overheard conversations and signage, and archival research into dense hand-drawn compositions that expose how power and memory shape public space. Solo exhibitions include the Musée d’Orsay (Paris); Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany); the Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, New Hampshire); the Esker Foundation (Calgary); and the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris). Group shows include the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the São Paulo Architecture Biennial. Her work is held in the National Gallery of Canada, the Berlin State Museum, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, and the Deutsche Bank Collection. Featured in Artforum, Frieze, Canadian Art, and The New York Times; monograph published by DISTANZ (2022). Represented by Galerie Poggi, Paris.

Shauna Janssen is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher, curator, performance designer, and educator working and living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Her teaching, research, and creative practice are consonant with site-specific, intersectional, interdisciplinary, socially-engaged and collaborative approaches to performance creation. Janssen is Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She is also Associate Professor of Performance Creation in the Department of Theatre, Creative Director of PULSE, and Studio Director of Immersive Storytelling housed at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. She is a co-investigator and researcher with Hexagram réseau de recherche-création en arts, cultures et technologies. Between 2018 and 2023, Janssen was appointed a Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism, and from 2018-2020 she was the Director of Concordia’s Institute for Urban Futures.