Emma Enderby is a curator, writer, and lecturer of modern and contemporary art. She is currently curator-at-large at The Shed. Previously she worked as a curator for the Public Art Fund, New York, and the Serpentine Galleries, London. She also worked in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Whitechapel Gallery, as well as in public programs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Enderby has been a visiting lecturer, critic, and speaker at a number of universities and institutions, as well as an editor and writer for various books and catalogues. She holds degrees from University College London and Oxford University.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is the artistic director of the Serpentine in London and senior advisor at LUMA Arles. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 350 exhibitions. Most notable amongst these are the “Do It” series (1993 –), Take Me (I’m Yours) in London (1995), Paris (2015) New York (2016), and Milan (2017); and the Swiss Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice (2014). Obrist has also co-curated the “Cities on The Move” series (1996–2000), Laboratorium (1999); the operatic group exhibition Il Tempo del Postino in Manchester (2007) and Basel (2009), and The 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Rooms series (2011 – 15). Obrist’s recent exhibitions include Enzo Mari at Triennale Milano (2020) and WORLDBUILDING at Centre Pompidou Metz (2023) and Julia Stoschek Collection Dusseldorf (2022). The Handwriting Project, which protests the disappearance of handwriting in the digital age, has been taking place on Instagram since 2013 (@hansulrichobrist).

In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015 he was awarded the International Folkwang Prize. Most recently he was honoured by the Appraisers Association of America with the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Arts. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is contributing editor to several magazines and journals. Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), The Extreme Self: Age of You (2021), and 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021), Edouard Glissant: Archipelago (2021), James Lovelock: Ever Gaia (2023), Remember to Dream (2023), and Une vie in Progress (2023).

Tomás Saraceno’s (b. 1973) work envisions ethical relationships with the terrestrial, atmospheric, and cosmic realms, deepening our understanding of environmental justice and interspecies cohabitation, carried out through floating sculptures, immersive installations, and the artist-initiated projects Aerocene and Arachnophilia. Arachnophilia is a not-for-profit, interdisciplinary spider/web research community that builds on innovations arising from Saraceno’s collaborative research into spider/web architectures, materials, modes of vibrational signalling, and behavior. Through this community, Arachnophilia explores concepts and ideas related to spiders and webs across multiple artistic, scientific, and theoretical disciplines, including vibrational communication, biomateriomics, architecture and engineering, animal ethology, nonhuman philosophy, anthropology, biodiversity/conservation, sound studies, and music.