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Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966 and studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Sussex University. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 for his installation Memory Bucket (2003) a documentary about Crawford, Texas the hometown of George W Bush, and the siege in nearby Waco. Acting as curator, producer or director, his expansive approach to making art is based on participation and collaboration often with groups outside of mainstream cultural and social activity. One of his most acclaimed projects, The Battle of Orgreave, recreated an important event during the 1984/5 miners strike with original participants and historical re-enactment societies. His work is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York.
Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery, London.
Rob Young is the author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music, published by Faber and Faber (2010). He is The Wire magazine's Editor-at-Large and lives in the UK.
Matthew Higgs was Curator at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2001-2004). Prior to that he was an Associate Director of Exhibitions at the ICA, London. Since 1992 Higgs has organised more than 100 exhibitions and projects with artists. He has contributed essays and interviews to more than 50 publications and art magazines including Artforum, Frieze, Art Monthly and Afterall.
Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies during the past forty years. Whether as Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, or as one of the leading public intellectuals of the postwar period, he has helped transform our understanding of culture as both a theoretical category and a political practice.
