Immersed in 1960s downtown New York art scene, Joan Jonas studied with the choreographer Trisha Brown for two years and was influenced by the work of John Cage and Claes Oldenburg. Adopting the idea of art-as-process, she turned from painting and sculpture to performance art. In the early 70s, her work became increasingly symbolic, gamelike, and ritualistic. By the 80s, she began to create complex, nonlinear narratives premised on literary and historical texts, including science-fiction, medieval Icelandic sagas, and, more recently, the writings and biography of the art historian Aby Warburg. Her most recent work explores the relationship between new digital media and performance in multichannel video installations.

Daisy Desrosiers is the inaugural Director of Artist Programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College. She is an interdisciplinary art historian and independent curator. Her thesis concerns the cultural, post-colonial, and material implications of the use of sugar in contemporary art. In 2018, she was the inaugural recipient of the Nicholas Fox Weber curatorial fellowship, affiliated with the Glucksman Museum (Cork, Ireland), as well as a curatorial fellow-in-residence at Art in General (Brooklyn, NY).