Théo Casciani is an author. Born in 1995, he studied humanities and social sciences at SciencesPo. and mathematics at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in Paris, before joining La Cambre, in Brussels, where he is now a lecturer. Retina, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019 and will be out in English and Polish in 2026 on HELA Press. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, including WIELS [BE], Reference.Point [UK], Kyoto Art Center [JP], Centre Pompidou [FR], Montez Press [US], Spielart Festival München [DE], Terranova [SP], Théâtre National de Chaillot [FR], KW [DE], Beyeler Foundation [CH], Goldsmiths [UK], Soto [JP], LG Arts Center [KR], Palais de Tokyo [FR], Göteborg Opera [SW], Actoral [FR], Lafayette Anticipations [FR], Trauma [DE], Spazio Maiocchi [IT] and the Louvre [FR]. He has also contributed to publications such as AOC, Kaleidoscope, Alphabet, Klima, Habitante, Possession Immédiate, 90antiope, Magma, Mouvement, European Review of Books and The Brooklyn Rail. These texts have led to various collaborations, for example for projects with Damien Jalet, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Arca, Jonathan Glazer and the Chair of Narrative Medecine at Bordeaux Hospital, residencies at Villa Médicis, Providenza or Hôtel Experimenta and a research seminar in Belgium, in 2021. His second novel, Insula, has been published by P.O.L in January 2026.

Francesco Leto is a writer and translator. The author of several novels published in Italy, he is notably the translator of the work of Guillaume Dustan, whose discovery he helped introduce to the Italian public. His work explores the sensitive territories of desire, memory, and language, with particular attention to bodies and minority voices.

Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher at the Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. He is also the director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; as well as the author of Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded the Best Monograph of 2023 by the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) in Portugal. In 2025, his book Unconscious/Television was published by Becoming Press.