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Nahed Mansour is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and curator. Working in video, installation, and performance, her works typically draw on visual archives to highlight the relationship between entertainment, labour, and processes of racialization and gendering. In using found images and found footage in her work, Mansour seeks to draw attention to the reproduction of social hierarchies by means of seemingly innocent forms of entertainment. Her current project focuses on the iconography of Little Egypt , the stage name of the first belly-dancer in North America, who premiered the dance during the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago. She is Constituent Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada. Previously Nahed has held the position of Artistic Director at the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, as well as Director of Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts – Toronto.

Stephanie Deumer is an artist currently working in Los Angeles, California. Comprised of video, sculpture, and photography, her installations often incorporate their environment by using recordings and photographs from their surroundings. This process reveals the entanglements between identity, imagery, objects, and space with the goal of pulling apart the common cultural belief in the existence of distinct things—including ourselves. Much of her work presents women subjectively experiencing and interacting with their representations, and simultaneously expresses the mise en abyme of their objectification in infinite replications. Deumer received a BA at the University of Guelph and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts.