Lea Cetera (b. 1983, Brooklyn, New York) works in video, sculpture and performance to produce temporal installations that examine the space between object and body, public and private, the virtual and real. She utilizes techniques culled from theatre and filmmaking to address constructed identities and the psychological spaces we construct and operate within, engaging with the mediation of technology, the alienation of the human body, and the aura of the object fetish. 

Cetera has performed and shown work in the US and internationally at venues such as Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Drawing Center, Art in General, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Musem, The Jewish Museum, Queens Museum,  Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Phillida Reid (London, UK), Pilar Corrias (London, UK), Roberts Institute of Art (London, UK), Southbank Centre (UK), MOSTYN Contemporary Art Gallery (Wales, UK), Magenta Plains, Kai Matsumiya, Simone Subal, High Desert Test Sites, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church on the Bowery, Anthology Film Archives and more. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, 2012 and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, 2005. She is currently an adjunct professor of Sculpture and Three-Dimensional Design/3D Fundamentals at The Cooper Union School of Art and at New York University, Steinhardt School. She lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Phillida Reid, London, UK.

Image: Chassis, 2022, 43 x 44 x 36 inches, steel, hardware, gears, motor, roller chain, urethane resin, corn syrup, mineral oil, dye. Image courtesy the artist and Phillida Reid, London, UK.

Emma Hedditch (b.1972, U.K) is an artist living in New York. Their work focuses on daily practice, materiality, and distribution of knowledge as political action. They work with a framework for creative activity, that has a profound elasticity, contained by a continued sense of commitment to social relations and unravelling institutional frameworks through self-organization, tasks and projects, rather than a commitment to an institution’s rules or because of the provision of wealth creating activities. They received their BFA from Sheffield Hallam University.

Their video work includes Self-Regulating Systems (2016), Permanent verbalization (2015), A Pattern, (2014), We Are The Signs And The Signal (2008),Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (2007) and Raising A Resister (2000). These videos have screened at the Oberhausen Film Festival, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, Goethe Institute, New York, MACBA, Barcelona, Galería Macchina, Santiago, Artists Space, New York, Peltz Gallery, U.K, Haus der Kunst, Munich and LUX, U.K. 

Hedditch has worked at Cinenova, a feminist film and video distributor (1999–present), The Copenhagen Free University (2001–2008), No Total, a site for performance (2012–2017) and Coop Fund (2018- present). They have participated in exhibitions including +49 30 243459-53, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019), Finesse, Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2017) Claim a hand in the field that makes this form foam, Outpost Gallery, U.K (2016) and Other Romances, Rachel Uffner, New York (2017).

Edner (Billy) Bataille is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Miami and holds a Master’s degree in Economics, at the University of Miami and a Master’s in Geography at the Sorbonne-University of Paris.