People
Kristin Ross
Kristin Ross is a leading theorist of French cultural history and politics, and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of several books including The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988), Fast Cars Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995), May 68 and its Afterlives (2002), and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (2015).
Adania Shibli
Adania Shibli (Palestine, 1974) has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. She has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine in 2001 and in 2003. Her latest is the novel Tafsil Thanawi (Al-Adab, 2017, translated as Minor Detail, Fitzcarraldo Edition/UK, and New Directions/USA, 2020), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and in 2021 it was nominated for the International Booker Prize. Shibli is also engaged in academic research and teaching in different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012-2018). Currently she’s a co-curator of the Bergen Assembly 2025, Bergen, Norway.
Srećko Horvat
Srećko Horvat (Osijek, 1983), is a philosopher and author of books such as After the Apocalypse (Polity Press, 2021), Poetry from the Future (Penguin, 2019), The Radicality of Love (2015), What does Europe Want? with Slavoj Žižek (Columbia University Press, 2013). The German weekly Der Freitag called him “one of the most exciting voices of his generation” and he has been described as a “fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape”. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, Jacobin.
David Adler
David Adler is political economist and Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International. Previously, David served on the foreign policy advisory team for US Senator Bernie Sanders and directed policy for the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25). He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Colegio de México in Mexico City.
Morana Miljanović
Morana Miljanović is a sea captain, activist and writer. She has worked in strategic litigation in asylum cases as a human rights lawyer, developed and facilitated various workshops as educator, is part of the Pirate Care project, published a novel Invisible Islands/Islas Invisibiles in 2020 in Mexico, and performed at various sites as a dancer. She has been active in maritime Search and Rescue since 2019, mostly with Sea Watch and Louise Michel.
Saša Savanović
Saša Savanović is a novelist, essayist and non-fiction author. She published two critically acclaimed novels (Deseti život, 2018 and Novo Sada, 2022), along with a wide range of articles, essays, research studies and popular commentary with the focus on post-capitalist economic paradigms and the contemporary transformations of labour, state and citizenship
Selena Savić
Selena Savić is an artist, architect, and assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores critical and creative approaches to data and its critique at the intersection of informational processes and postcolonial technocracy. She researches, teaches, and writes about digital archives, computational modeling, feminist materialism, and posthuman networks in the context of art, design, and architecture.
Gordan Savičić
Gordan Savičić is an artist and critical engineer whose work explores the intersections of digital culture, data, and society. Through his artistic research, he makes invisible infrastructures visible and questions the role of technology in our everyday lives. Through a variety of media, Savicic creates interactive installations, software art, and critical interventions that explore the fractures of online and offline worlds.
Kevin Kenjar
Kevin Kenjar is a Balkan-American linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist based in Rijeka, Croatia. In addition to his scholarly work addressing nationalism, post-empire, ideology, language, he has spent much of the past decade working and organizing with solidarity-based activist collectives. His interest in decolonial praxis, migration, and minorities, combined with his epicurean curiosity, led to the creation of the Naan-Aligned Movement in 2021, building on prior efforts collectively undertaken with kitchen comrades in Belgrade.
Igor Mataić (Pomalo)
Pomalo is a non-profit organization based on the island of Vis, Croatia. Founded on an intercultural dialogue, the organization advocates for the island of Vis by promoting and protecting sustainable development, cultural values, the environment, nature, social tolerance, and a multicultural society. The goal of the association is to encourage and facilitate the local adoption of sustainable development technologies, as well as to construct a free, open, democratic, pluralistic, and tolerant society based on the values of peace, nonviolence, human rights, internationalism, dialogue, and social justice.
Matko Šišak
Matko Šišak is a Croatian builder, artist, and permaculture designer, co-founder of the Green Network of Activist Groups (ZMAG) and coordinator of the “Recycled Estate” in Vukomerić. For over 25 years, he has been engaged in research, hands-on work, and education in ecological technologies, natural building, DIY culture, land art and permaculture design. Šišak is the author and editor of several handbooks and books on sustainable living, including Building with Straw, Permaculture Design Manual, and Energy for the Future.
Robert Perišić
Robert Perišić was born in 1969 in Split, Croatia. He writes novels, short stories, poetry and essays. As an independent author, he collaborates with numerous media outlets, writing literary criticism, columns and commentaries. He has received numerous awards for his work. His books have been translated into numerous European countries and have been particularly well-received in the USA.
Marko Pogačar
Marko Pogačar (Split, Croatia, 1984) is an author of close to 20 books of poetry, essays, hybrid prose and travelogues. He is active as an editor, literary critic and columnist, and occasionally writes for screen and radio. His books are published in 17 countries.
Martin Pogačar
Martin Pogačar is a cultural studies scholar with a PhD in memory and digital media and an MA in Central and South-Eastern European Studies. His research interests include media memory studies, philosophy of technology, as well as Yugoslav popular culture and industrial heritage and the history of technology in socialist Yugoslavia. His recent work includes: ‘E/Affect Agropop: how pop and joke made people resonate in the 1980s’, in Ana Hofman and Tanja Petrović (eds.), Affect’s Social Lives: Post-Yugoslav Reflections, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SA ZU, 2023, and the co-edited volume Social Impact in Arts and Culture: The Diverse Lives of a Concept (with Iva Kosmos), Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SA ZU, 2022 in which he wrote the essay ‘A microphone in a chandelier: how a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect’.
Zdenka Badovinac
Zdenka Badovinac was director of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana from 1993 to 2020 and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb from 2022 to 2023. She currently works as an independent curator and writer. Her work is concerned with the historicisation of Eastern European art and the situated voices in contemporary art and its institutions. Her latest books are Comradeship: Curating, Art and Politics in Post-Socialist, 2019 and Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions, 2022. She is a founding member of L’Internationale.
Bojana Piškur
Bojana Piškur works as a curator at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. Her curatorial and research work focuses on the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav context and the Non-Aligned Movement, especially in relation to art and culture. Much of this work formed part of the ‘Southern Constellations’ series. She is also very interested in how historical emancipatory ideas can be translated and practiced in contemporary situations.She is a member of the Editorial Board of L’Internationale Online
Theo Prodromidis
Theo Prodromidis is a visual artist who lives and works in and around Αthens, Greece. He has been a fellow of ARTWORKS, Onassis AiR, SNFPHI at Columbia University and AFIELD a.o. Theo’s artistic research and practice on performativity, participation and citizenship have been activated in institutional and non-formal spaces of learning, action and exhibition. In 2023, he was in residence at the Public Activities Department of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and in 2024 was a resident artist of Artexplora Festival in Malaga, i.a. He is currently developing a new body of work forTranzit Iași.
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu is a Romanian philosopher, translator and culture theorist, writing on critical social theory, decolonial thought, alternative epistemologies, histories of senses and the cultural history of socialism and post-socialism. In 2021, he co-founded The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life – a collective project growing on a plot of land in the village of Silistea Snagovului, 40 km north of Bucharest. He is a member of the Editorial Board of L’Internationale Online, co-editor of IDEA. Arts + Society magazine, and part of the fluid curatorial frame The Resurrection Committee, aimed at curating research exhibitions that offer historical apertures from which to construct other narratives than the dominant ones of the moment.
Angelina Radaković
Angelina Radaković is a Yugoslav-born curator and cultural worker based in London, UK. Her practice is grounded in collaboration and prioritises relational, socially engaged, and accessible approaches. Her current research explores movements and moments of transnational cultural solidarity, focusing on the Non-Aligned Movement and its relevance today. She is currently the curator at The Mosaic Rooms, London. She co-runs Old Mountain Assembly, a body exploring speculative practices from the Balkans and beyond.
Luka Vlahović
Luka Vlahović (M.Arch, Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb, 2012) is an award-winning architect and inventor dedicated to developing ISSA’s hillside infrastructure and advancing sustainable architecture. After years of working in established architectural studios, he shifted his focus to projects that connect community and landscape. For the past two years, he has been creating solutions for autonomous living on Vis, while also engaging in 3D printing and the design of tools and machines that merge engineering precision with innovative thinking.
Ronjalution
Ronja Krottmayer a.k.a. Ronjalution is an international artist who connects to the world with and through music since her childhood. She is multi-instrumentalist coming from a singer-songwriter tradition and is constantly developing new approaches and ways of expressing herself and making music. The jam sessions she organizes with and for people, offer people the opportunity to discover and experience unconventional music. It’s a way to connect through participation, listening, singing, dancing, playing instruments, and improvising and so creating the sound of the moment together.
Mary Ala
Mary Ala is a chef, recipe writer, and artist based in London. She is currently sous chef at a vegan restaurant, where she designs the pastry menu. In addition to her restaurant work, she organises a supper club series as part of a research and fundraising project for Palestine. Each dinner celebrates a single plant ingredient, incorporating it into every dish of an eight-course menu. Mary also collaborates with community gardens and food organisations to transform local crops and surplus produce into meals for community centres across London.