About the Author

Jeanne van Heeswijk is an award-winning Dutch artist and curator. Maria Hlavajova is the founder and artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. She is coeditor of Former West- Art and the Contemporary after 1989, Propositions for Non-Fascist Living- Tentative and Urgent, and Deserting from the Culture Wars (all three copublished by the MIT Press). Rachael Rakes is a curator, writer, and teacher. She is the Curator of Public Practice at BAK and Editor at Large at Verso Books.