teaches political theory, cultural studies and gender studies at Humboldt-University Berlin and Vienna University. Among other things she had an assistant professorship for gender and postcolonial studies at University of Arts Berlin and was a news editor at german television.

is philosopher and art theoretician; he works at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Departement Kunst und Medien, Vertiefung Theorie) and at the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies). He is co-ordinator of the transnational eipcp research projects republicart (2002-2005), transform (2005-2008) and Creating Worlds (2009-2012) and member of the editorial board of the multilingual webjournal transversal and the Austrian journal for radical democratic cultural politics, Kulturrisse.