Bio 

Formed in 2015, by an interdisciplinary group of collaborators, A Future Collective makes archives, writes scores, creates site specific installations, facilitates non-performances and collaborations with communities, institutions and individuals across the world. Their work was exhibited at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and Performance Space New York (2018). Its members are currently based between the US, the UK, Palestine and Pakistan.

Sadia Shirazi is a writer, curator, architect, and scholar based between London and New York. Shirazi’s interdisciplinary practice moves between text, installation, exhibitionary and archival practices. Their writing on art, architecture, and performance appears in frieze, e-flux journal, and Bidoun, as well as artist catalogues, peer-reviewed journals, and edited volumes. Shirazi was previously curator of International Art at the Tate Modern where they curated exhibitions, including Rasheed Araeen: Zero to Infinity (2024), and worked on acquisitions of underrepresented artists from South Asia and the diaspora for the museum’s permanent collection. Their collaborative work has been shown at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennial, Performance Space New York, and the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi.

Mezna Qato is a historian, writer, and organiser based between Cambridge, Chicago, and Tulkarm. Her work is primarily concerned with histories, lives, and movements of refugee and exiled communities. Her writing on archives, education, dispossession and destruction appears in journals, blogs, zines, letters, placards, emails, and post-it notes. She is co-convenor of the ‘Archives of the Disappeared’ Network, is a member of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, the US Palestinian Community Network, British Palestinian Committee, and other formations, visible and not so visible. Her collaborative artistic work has been shown in Venice, New York, Liverpool, Bergen, Ramallah and Amman.