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Anna Engelhardt (alias) is a video artist and writer. Her investigative practice follows the traces of material violence, focusing on what could be seen as the ‘ghost’ of information. The toxic information environments Engelhardt deals with stem from structures of occupation and dispossession. She has shown her work at ICA, transmediale, Ars Electronica, Kyiv Biennial, BFI London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, National Gallery of Art (Lithuania), Aksioma, and V.O Curations. Engelhardt holds an MA in Forensic Architecture from Goldsmiths and is a Film London Artist Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) Fellow (2023-24).

Mark Cinkevich (1994, Lahoysk) is a Belarus-born interdisciplinary researcher and artist based in Warsaw. Having received his master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Helsinki, he now pursues a PhD at the Department of Anthropology, University of Warsaw. In his practice, he is interested in critical, speculative and experimental aspects of art that operate at the intersection of fact and fiction. His work focuses on the post-Soviet infrastructural and social landscape, through which he explores, in particular, the concepts of nuclear colonialism, infrastructural colonialism, extractivism and monstrosity.