Karen Barad is a philosopher, physicist, and feminist scholar. She is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad held a tenured appointment in physics before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Particularly known for the theory of agential realism, Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Manuela Infante Güell is a Chilean theatre director, playwright, scriptwriter and musician, working internationally. She is well known for offering scenic articulations of contemporary theoretical issues, creating work that stands somewhere between music, theatre, and philosophy. Her play Estado Vegetal has toured extensively and won several prizes. At KVS she created Metamorphoses, and her next performance will premier in the autumn at KVS, in co-production with Kaaitheater. Its title: Horizon.
Camila Marambio is a curator and private investigator who delights in telling circular stories, practices the ancient technology of the interview and dances for no reason. In 2010 she founded the nomadic research program Ensayos. Ensayos brings together artists, scientists, activists, and local community members to exercise speculative and emergent forms of eco-cultural ethics at the world’s end. She is co-author of the books Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja with Cecilia Vicuña (Errant Bodies Press, 2019) and Sandcastles: A Queerfemme Proposition with Nina Lykke (forthcoming).
