Stan Douglas is a visual artist from Vancouver whose practice spans photography, film, video, installation, and theatre. Since the 1980s, he has explored the intersections of history, collective memory, and colonial legacies through technically ambitious and conceptually layered projects. His work often restages pivotal cultural and political moments, blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction.

Douglas has exhibited widely, including five appearances at the Venice Biennale—representing Canada in 2022—and solo exhibitions at major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, and the National Gallery of Canada. His work is held in leading museum collections across North America and Europe.

Douglas lives and works in Vancouver.

André Alexis is a fiction writer who grew up in Ottawa. His novels Fifteen Dogs and Days by Moonlight won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2015 and 2019. He has also received the Scotiabank Giller Prize, CBC’s Canada Reads, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. His eighth novel, The Ring, is the fifth book in his “quincunx” series exploring philosophical themes. Born in Trinidad, Alexis lives in Toronto.