yaw atuobi approaches the problem of representation as a network of political, aesthetic and ethical strategies for inhabiting the world. they are a writer, curator, and an independent researcher who works within the nexus of fiction, criticism and visual culture, and can be found at yawatuobi.com.
esé emmanuel is a writer, artist and curator working at the intersection of black poetics, third cinema and west african cultural histories. using text, moving image and other such pliable material, they re-present and problematize the afterlives of coloniality in the deceptively benign symbols and narratives that constitute contemporary life.