Penumbra: Full Moon Party

Ezra and Noah Benus are artists who founded Brothers Sick, a sibling artistic collaboration on disability justice, illness, and care. Ezra is an artist, educator, and curator, who addresses a range of themes in his art such as time, care, pain, and illness/health by tapping into his background and experience in Jewish studies, art history, and the embodiment of disability. He engages the self as a site where social, political, and spiritual forces collide through tapping into bodily knowledge and social constructions around values of normativity. He is currently a SHIFT Artist in Residence at EFA Project Space. Noah is a New York City-based photographer interested in exploring activism through social, educational, and political works. As a disabled artist, he ventures to reveal often overlooked moments through modes of portraiture, photojournalism, and studio works. His photographic works use alternative processes, and analog and digital formats to educate and advocate for access. Currently, he is completing his MA in visual arts education (K – 12) at CCNY.

Yo-Yo Lin 林友友 is a Taiwanese American, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging, embodied technologies.

Jimena Lucero is a poet, actor, and a sister. She was a 2019 – 20 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow at the Poetry Project. Her writing appears in the Recluse, Nightboat’s Echo, EOAGH, Colorbloq.org, and more. She recently collaborated on a short film after her poem titled “Silver Femme.” Jimena’s work is rooted in trans liberation, disability justice, and future building.

Born in Medellín, Colombia, danilo machado is a poet, curator, and critic on occupied land interested in language’s potential for revealing tenderness, erasure, and relationships to power. A 2020 – 21 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, their writing has been featured in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical, and TAYO Literary Magazine among others. machado is the author of the Post Post Post newsletter and has contributed writing to exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation, No Longer Empty, and Abrons Art Center. A producer of public programs at the Brooklyn Museum, machado is also the curator of the exhibitions Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text (Franklin Street Works, 2019 – 20) and the upcoming support structures, featuring the 2019 – 20 cohort of Art Beyond Sight’s Art and Disability Residency. machado is the co-founder and co-curator of the reading series Maracuyá Peach and the chapbook/broadside fundraiser already felt: poems in revolt & bounty. They are working to show up with care for their communities.