Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything was published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022, and was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and The Guardian. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021 and was named a favorite nonfiction book of 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her most recent poetry book, was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She lives in Los Angeles and is a Faculty member within Antioch’s low-residency MFA Program.
Alexandra Crouwers
Alexandra Crouwers (NL, 1974) is an artistic researcher and lecturer in the digital realm, working on the cusp of escapism and activism. Crouwers studied at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and is currently a PhD in arts candidate at LUCA School of Arts/Leuven University in Belgium, focusing on finding new and unusual – sometimes unsettling and occasionally sardonically funny – means to deal with eco-anxiety and ecological grief.
In the research trajectory, a former family forest – a victim of the European spruce bark beetle plague – functions as a lens to look at global issues in the context of (post-)pandemic sentiments towards the ecological and climatological system crisis.
Crouwers’ artistic practice is explorative and versatile, generating a range of output such as immersive video-installations, .gifs, emoji proposals, digital 3d sculptures, audio, in situ animations, woven tapestries, and public art works.
Next to her visual practice, Crouwers publicizes her writings on the research, and on digital art and NFTs in relation to the wider field of contemporary art. Crouwers is currently based in Antwerp, Belgium.
