Chiara Pussetti (PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of Turin, Italy, 2003) has lectured at graduate and post-graduate levels in Italy, Portugal, and Brazil. She has published extensively in the subjects of Anthropology of Body and Emotions, Medical Anthropology, and Migration Studies. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on body and emotions, health, poverty, risk and security in Guinea Bissau, Portugal, Brazil. She is currently reflecting on ethnography as a possible ground for art production. Her work, as anthropologist, artist and curator undermines the conventional categorical distinction between ethnography and art, causing interferences in the established circuits of academia and in those of contemporary art. She is presently Associate Researcher of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

Maria Concetta Lo Bosco is currently a ERC Research Project Manager at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She has collaborated to the 2016 Paratissima International - Ethnographic based Contemporary Art Festival - in Lisbon as well as worked in art projects management and coordination with local jurisdiction and as communication officer (press releases, interviews arrangement, distribution of materials to stakeholders and public). As an anthropologist, she has explored parental care experiences with children diagnosed with ASDs (autism spectrum disorders), their daily advocacy practices and actions, as well as the use of online support groups and social network as tool to promote and protect the rights of disabled people. Her previous researches cover topics such scientific knowledge 's production of medical categories as well as  HIV prevention policies among marginalized female populations.