Zeina Barakeh is a Lebanese-Palestinian artist based in San Francisco. Her work examines how people and spaces become polarized during binary divisions. Through animation, digital media, and archival installations, she interrogates constructions of identity, history, memory, and territory.

Photo by Robert Flynt

Choreographer Pavel Zuštiak is the founder and artistic director of NY-based company Palissimo, an interdisciplinary platform for research, production, and development of live arts. Palissimo's work merges the non-linear qualities of theater with the abstraction of dance, creating new performances that are rich in visual imagery and powerfully emotional, multi-sensory experiences.

Photo by Christine Jean Chambers