Akwasi Bediako Afrane (b. 1990) is a Ghanaian artist and a PhD student at the department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He lives and works in Kumasi, Ghana. His works explore the idea of augmentation or extensions between consumer technological gadgets and humans. He works with discarded electronic gadgets, which he refers to as amputees’, and he refashions and repurposes these amputees into machines and micro-organisms, which he describes as ‘TRONS’.
Andriy Rachinskiy (b.1990) and Daniil Revkovskiy (b.1993) are a creative duo of Kharkiv. The artists are fusing different formats of artistic practices (installations, reenactment, video, archives), researching the contexts and landscapes of the industrial regions of Ukraine. In 2010, they created the page called “Pamjat” (Memory) in Vkontakte. It was a social network to research the collective memory of the post-Soviet territory. This project was the starting point of their collaboration. Shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022, holders of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020 public choice award for the “Hooligans” project.
