Teresa Borasino (she/her) is an artist, researcher, facilitator, and educator. Her practice spans a variety of media, including writing, performance, interventions, video, and artistic gatherings, as well as teaching, cultural production, facilitation, training, and eco-social justice organizing. Teresa was co-founder of Fossil Free Culture, an artist collective working to end oil and gas sponsorship in the cultural sector through disobedient art. From 2021-2023, she initiated the Disobedient Art School, a pedagogical experiment for artistic practices for social liberation. She integrates decolonial, anti-extractive, regenerative, and relational practices into her pedagogical programmes. She was a tutor with Planetary Poetics at the Sandberg Institute and a co-convener of Towards Post-Extractive Cultures (2023–2025).
In 2021, Teresa began a long-term artistic research into the Andean Cosmovision and its tapestry of ancestral ways of knowing and practices. Her current research addresses the interplay between epistemicide and (lithium) extractivism at Quelccaya glacier in the Southern Andes of Peru. This work was part of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice in 2023–2024.
Shailoh Phillips (she/they) is an artist, writer, slow activist, educator, and undisciplinary action researcher who creates participatory interventions. For over 15 years, they have explored collective transformation through art in public space, artist-run and online platforms. Shailoh is a fractal systems thinker, deeply engaged in how large-scale issues manifest within daily life and how inner work can catalyze systemic change. With a background in cultural anthropology, cultural analysis, philosophy, and an MA in education in arts, Shailoh previously coordinated the Media Lab at Rijksmuseum, contributed to the Tools for Action collective, and co-founded the Salwa Foundation, supporting artists with migration backgrounds. Currently, they are pursuing a PhD in narrative psychology, developing art-based learning sessions for people with incurable cancer at the University of Twente, ArtEZ, and UMC.