Discussion: Infinite Ear exhibition curators and participants in conversation

Tarek Atoui (b. 1980, Lebanon) is a musician, composer and sound artist. He released his inaugurate album on the Staalplaat Records label in the Mort Aux Vaches series in 2006. In 2008 Atoui was creative director of the studio STEIM (Amsterdam), which worked on the development and production of new electronic music instruments. He has presented his pieces internationally at many forums of contemporary art, including Sharjah Biennale (2009, 2013); Seoul International Biennale of Media Art (2010); Performa 11 (New York, 2011); dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel (2012); and the 8^th Berlin Biennale (2014). He has also exhibited at the world's top museums and galleries, including The New Museum (New York, 2010); Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2010); Serpentine Gallery (London, 2012), and many others. Tarek lives and works in Paris.

Anastasia Mityushina (b. 1982, Moscow) is a curator of public programs, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. After receiving her Master of Arts in History of Art at Moscow State University in 2004 Mityushina worked as a consultant for two private collections of international contemporary art; managed PR campaigns for the Ural Biennale (2010); and was associate curator at Perm Museum exhibition MoskvApolis (2007). From 2005 to 2007 she worked as project manager for the state museums in Russia overseeing the Pavel Filonov exhibition at the State Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. She is currently Curator of Public Programs at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Recent curatorial projects include: do it Moscow (co-curated with Snejana Krasteva), Garage, 2014, Art Experiment. In the Studio, Garage, 2015; A Long Happy Life. Building and Thinking the Soviet City: 1956 to Now (co-curated with Ekaterina Inozemtseva), Garage, 2015; COSMOSCOW International Art Fair Public Program, Gostiny Dvor, 2015; Co-thinkers (co-curated with Marya Sarycheva), Garage, 2016; SOTA@GARAGE Performance Festival (co-curated with Dina Khusein), Garage, 2016; If our soup can could speak: Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties (co-curated with Dmitriy Gutov and David Riff) Garage, 2018; Infinite ear (co-curated with Iaroslav Volovod and the group Council), Garage, 2018. Mityushina also contributed to a number of Russian art press including ArtKhronika Magazine, Moscow Art Magazine and ArtGuide.

Iaroslav Volovod (b. 1991, Murmansk) is a junior curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. He graduated from the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University and received a master's degree in curatorial studies from the joint program of Bard College (New York) and St. Petersburg State University. He trained at the Central Institute of Hindi (New Delhi) and Heidelberg University, was a member of the TRANScuratorial Academy (Berlin / Mumbai) program, and collaborated with the Calvert 22 Foundation (London), the PRO ARTE Fund for Culture and Art (St. Petersburg), the international organization CEC ArtsLink (New York / St. Petersburg) and other institutions. He was twice nominated for the Sergei Kuryokhin award in the field of contemporary art in 2015 and 2016.

Irina Venskaya (b. 1985, Moscow) is an artist, researcher, and participant in numerous independent dance projects. From 2000 to 2015 she collaborated with various theatrical and dance groups, actively toured and performed at theatrical and festival venues of more than fifteen countries, including France, Switzerland, China, Croatia, Montenegro, Italy, etc. Participant of the action If .... (2015) She is an author of documentary video projects #seeyou and #stoptime (2017). Mediator-performer at the exhibition Infinite Ear (2018).