The Otolith Group

Anjalika Sagar (1968, London, lives and works in London) 
Kodwo Eshun (1966, London, lives and works in London)

The Otolith Group is an award-winning artist-led collective founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002. Their moving image, audio works, performances and installations are characterized by an engagement with cosmogonic aesthetics that evoke the interscalar imagination of differentiated planetarity. Their works explore science fiction of the present that entail the work of temporal anomalisation, anthropic inversion and synthetic alienation.

Recent solo exhibitions include, We will move to the land of birds as a flock of previous humans, Greengrassi, London (2024); I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another, Greengrassi, London (2023); What the Owl Knows, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2023); What the Owl Knows Secession, Vienna (2022-2023); Xenogenesis, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2022-2023), Sharjah Art Foundation (2021-22), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2020), Buxton Art Gallery, Melbourne (2020), Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2020), and Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2019); O Horizon, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2018); Reconstruction of Story 2, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2018);  The Radiant, Art Gallery at Miyauch, Tokyo, (2017); In the Year of the Quiet Sun, Casco: Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht (2014); Novaya Zemlya, Museo Serralves, Porto (2014); Medium Earth, Roy and Edna Disney at Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles (2013).

Annett Busch

Annett Busch is a research-curator, editor, writer and translator, with an interest in radical forms of filmmaking and unruly artistic methods. She co-curated the exhibition Tell It to the Stones: The Work of J. M. Straub and D. Huillet (2017, with Tobias Hering) and co-edited an encompassing volume of the same title, published by Sternberg Press. A long research thread on African cinemas lead to the publication Ousmane Sembène: Interviews (2008, with Max Annas) and to curating various film programmes (most recently, Synchronize! Pan-African Film Networks at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2022, with MH Gutberlet). 

Her focus has also been on audacious female artists, administrators, philosophers, and fighters, cocurating the multifaceted, multilocal, research-based, artistic project Women on Aeroplanes (since 2017, with MH Gutberlet and Magda Lipska), and coediting the accompanying Inflight Magazine. She has also taken catalyzing historical moments and their hangovers, as in the volume and exhibition After Year Zero (with Anselm Franke); and focused on the politics and cultures of magazine production, as in Electronic Textures (with Kodwo Eshun and Michael C. Vazquez, among others).