Daisuke Kuroda (b. 1982, Kyoto) received his PhD from Hiroshima City University of Arts in 2013 for his research on sculptor Heihachi Hashimoto. After living in Hiroshima for many years, he has been based in Kyoto since 2020. Through his research, Daisuke Kuroda discovers ghostly entities that remain forgotten and ignored by society, and creates video works and installations based on these discoveries. In recent years, he has been researching sculpture, the basis for this work, and has been developing a highly performative series of works that take modern and contemporary sculptors and their creative activities, as well as the relationship between sculptors and war as motifs.

Rin Takahashi (b. 1996, Tokyo) grew up in Nagoya. They work with found images, objects and small personal events as starting points and employ a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance. After completing an exchange program at Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022, Takahashi received an M.A in Global Art Practice from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023. Major exhibitions include motivated bodies (KomagomeSOKO, 2024), Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024: 30 Ways to Go to the Moon (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2024), Blind dog (Art Lab Aichi, 2023) and Adventure Something (École nationale supérieure de paysage, 2022) among others.

Hirotaka Fukui is a theater director born in Kyoto in 1996. His work uses theatrical formats and systems to reorganize the relationships between people, things, and space, re-presenting situations in different scales and perspectives. Notable works include Interior (2018–2023) and Desktop Theater (2021–2023). In 2022, he began Theater Material (2022–2024), a project in which each and every “thing” in THEATRE E9 KYOTO was photographed and recorded. An archive catalog was produced and sold at the theater in 2024. He is a 2022–2024 THEATRE E9 KYOTO associate artist.

After withdrawing from the Art Planning program at Seian University of Art and Design, Maki Kawaguchi worked in agriculture for four years. From 2009, she joined the office staff of Art Area B1, a community space in Nakanoshima, Osaka, where she was involved in producing exhibitions, music events, and performances. Art Area B1 incorporated in 2013, and Kawaguchi presided as the director and secretary general until 2023. Since February 2023, she has worked in public relations in the business planning and promotion office of the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum. Independent of her work at the museum, she also collaborates with artists working in various fields by organizing exhibitions.

Takuya Tsutsumi is an independent curator and graphic designer. He graduated with an MA in cultural studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in 2019. When working with artists to create exhibitions or produce printed materials, Tsutsumi takes an organic approach to the projects, eschewing typical constraints or expectations and allowing his role to shift as needed. His curatorial projects include Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel: Charting the Contours of Time (Kyoto, 2023), Takuya Yamashita’s solo exhibition Hope Embedded in Darkness: Bear, Munch, Cheeseburger, and Others (Taipei, 2023), Takehiro Iikawa’s solo exhibition Decorator Crab: Measuring the Future, Pulling Time (Kagoshima, 2023), Aichi Triennale 2022 (Aichi, 2022), and Salt of the Blood, Light of My World (Tokyo/Kyoto, 2021). Since 2018, he has served as Program Director for Yamanaka Suplex, a shared studio space in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture.

Nagara Wada graduated with a degree in film and performing arts from Kyoto University of Art and Design, and then completed the art studies master’s program at the same university. In February 2011, she began working as a theater director based in Kyoto and founded her own theatre unit, shitatame. With a deep interest in the act of acting, Wada deciphers texts and motifs as if zooming into them, aiming to establish a distinct language for acting with each performance. She actively pursues collaborative projects, and through the medium of theater, she connects with artists from various fields, including visual art, photography, architecture, music, sculpture, and dance. Since 2018, she has served as a member of the booking team for the multidisciplinary art space UrBANGUILD, where she organized 3CASTS, a performance series that focuses on actors. From 2019, she has been involved with the cartographical research project Our Freehand Atlas. She is chairperson of the Kyoto Performing Arts Organization.