Myrfei (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer, with their practice rooted first and foremost in loving, caring, and dreaming. His works explore the interconnectedness of the personal and the communal, as well as joy and grief, and delve into conversations around/about the fluidity of form and perception, the queerness and horrors of body, and the significance of whimsy. They also work largely with semiotics and archiving; and experimental/alternative processes, that center play and curiosity. 

They are the co-founding art editor for Lihaaf Zine, a zine/archive created to honor the Desi lesbian tradition and resist sapphic erasure. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in/at Writing Women, Kitab Ghar, Queer Unschool South Asia, Usawa Literary Review, FORGE, Misery Meals, The Blue Orange Zine, and elsewhere. Their work has been taken up for group exhibitions at Cinema 73, Karachi (2025) and Far Studios – Hechyeomoyeo 13, Chiang Mai (2026).

We are setting off from a contemporary art ecosystem developed from a not-for-profit work model. A large part of our operational support comes from our constitutive collective, which in turn were given by donor institution, sponsors and independent funding from our business unit, apart from the funds given from our member out of their own volition. When we decided to work together as an ecosystem, we tried to set a system of co-storehouse where every resource we have is collected and shared in proportion to every collective need. The various resources from every collective comes in many forms: money, program, equipment or even books. We pooled those assets for easier access and sharing for every member of the collective.

Spaceship Beben is a collective of cosmonauts with expertise in various fields of feminist creative practice, such as art, curating, activism, writing, research, radio and music making, theater, performance, cooking, divination and political organizing. Together we harness our talents to question and interrupt mainstream ideas of space travel, space science and space research, using decolonial radical thinking and action. We use science fiction as a blueprint for the just futures we deserve as multiply marginalized FLINTAQ+ (Femme, Lesbian, Intersex, Nonbinary, Trans, Ace/Aro, Queer +), primarily using the creative formats of worldbuilding and soundmaking to manifest alternative timelines in our everyday lives.

Anshika Varma’s practice engages with images, working with an interest in personal, collective and mythical histories. Combining her curiosity to study cultural and social evolution with storytelling, her work often looks at the emotional connection between an individual and their environment. With photography and book-making, she is interested in exploring the intricate relationship between memory and object as markers of one’s identity. The book becomes an important medium of work for the artist to align with her interest in the democratic dissemination of artistic expression and break notions of exclusivity in access and ownership of art. She is the founder of Offset Projects, an initiative working extensively on creating modes of access and creation within the photographic language with a focus on voices from South Asia and the Global South through activations from its public access library, workshops, residencies, artist talks, curated reading rooms and collaborative exercises in publishing. Anshika’s works and curations have been part of exhibitions, festivals and panel conversations at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Aarhus Museum, China Academy of Arts, Museum of Art and Photography, Photo Kathmandu, Chennai Photo Biennale and others. She has been invited to speak within educational institutions and festival programming on subjects of photography, publishing and the growth of the visual language in South Asia and continues to teach on these subjects at institutions such as YaleNUS (Singapore), Photography Studies College (Melbourne) and Ashoka University (India). Her writing has been part of publications such as Aperture Magazine, Photobooks& and the Alkazi Foundation. Her practice is defined through processes of collective participation and creation of work separate from institutional systems.

Sharareh Bajracharya is an art educator and currently the Director of Srijanalaya, an organization that works in arts education. She looks for systemic ways for the arts to foster the curiosities and joy of young children, young adults, and communities around them. She also teaches at Kathmandu University Department of Art and Design and the School of Education and has edited/produced children’s books. She has a background in the contemporary art field in Kathmandu, having been the past Director of the nonprofit art exhibition Kathmandu Triennale 2077.