Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has published numerous articles and books on cultural criticism, including The Subversive Imagination : Artists, Society and Social Responsibility (1994), Zones of Contention : Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender and Anxiety (1996), Surpassing the Spectacle : Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art (2001), Thinking in Place : Art, Action, and Cultural Production (2010), and The Invisible Drama : Women and the Anxiety of Change (2013).
Lisa Yun Lee is the Director of the School of Art and Art History, a visiting curator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and a member of the Art History, Museum and Exhibition Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lee is also the co-founder of The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, an organization dedicated to creating spaces for dialogue and dissent and for reinvigorating civil society.
She has published Dialectics of the Body : Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno (2004), and researches and writes about museums and diversity, cultural and environmental sustainability, and spaces for fostering radically democratic practices. Achim Borchardt-Hume is Head of Exhibitions at Tate Modern in London where he has curated numerous exhibitions and displays including Mark Rothko (2007), Doris Salcedo (2008), Kazimir Malevich (2014) and Richard Tuttle (2014).
Prior to his current appointment, he was Chief Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, where he curated exhibitions by Walid Raad (2010), Wilhelm Sasnal (2011) and Mel Bochner (2012). In 2013 he co-organized Gerhard Richter's first exhibition in Lebanon at the Beirut Art Center. Sara Pooley's photographs successfully illustrate how process plays a central role in Theaster Gates' work, capturing moments of inspiration and realization that go beyond the convention dictated by the studio.