Donato Mancini is a Canadian poet and artist whose practice focuses mainly on bookworks, text-based visual art, poetry, and cultural criticism. His books include Ligatures (2005) and Æthel (2007), Buffet World (2011), Fact ‘n’ Value (2011), Loitersack (2014), and Same Diff (2017) which was a finalist for the 2018 Griffin Prize. Mancini’s collaborative visual works have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia, and Cuba.
Gabriel Saloman Mindel works as an artist, writer, curator, and composer. Mindel holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts and is completing a PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. His work focuses on the production of visual artworks from time-based phenomena such as sound composition, dance, social practices, and protest. Saloman has been performing experimental, conceptual, and freely improvised music for over 20 years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans, a Portland based noise group that released over 50 recordings and toured internationally between 2001-2008, and have recently began playing shows again as of 2023. His solo performances, under the name Gabriel Saloman, are investigations into temporal abstractions, conceptual sound and gestural noise. Often his compositions stem from collaborations with choreographers such as The Contingency Plan, Daisy Karen Thompson, Lisa Gelly Martin, Rob Kitsos, and Vanessa Goodman.