Sarah Cullen is a visual artist who headed down the path of walking as a method for artwork, research, and alternative approaches to landscape. After the birth of her first child, she came to a fork in the road and took the diversion that eventually led to the creation of MOTHRA: Artist-Parent Project, which came to be in 2018 in Toronto. This diversion has since made its way back to the original path with many other forays along the way.
Read MoreJohn Byrne is Director of ‘The Uses of Art Lab’ which forms part of Liverpool School of Art and Designs ART LABS Research Centre which will align research developed around the theme of ‘Useful Art’ from LJMU/LSAD alongside Grizedale Arts (Coniston UK), The University of Hildesheim (Hildesheim, Germany), The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) and the L’Internationale consortium of Museums and Galleries: Moderna Galerija (MG=MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain); Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain); Museum van Hedendgaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbermuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, NL); Grizedale Arts (Coniston, UK); University of Hildesheim, (Hildesheim, Germany).
Read MoreAlden Jones holds degrees in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Creative Writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is the author, most recently, of the hybrid memoir The Wanting Was a Wilderness. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won the New American Fiction Prize and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
Read MoreElinor is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working across audio-video, making/painting, and installation. Her/their practice explores embodiment, crip/queer temporalities, sensation, and dark ecologies, creating immersive works that engage touch, intimacy, and liminal states. She investigates how bodies feel, connect, and are perceived beyond normative frameworks of desire, care, and visibility.
Read MoreEka Zharinova is a contemporary dance performance artist and researcher. Since 2008, both individually and in collaboration with other artists, she has been creating experimental dance-media performances that explore the coexistence of the human body and the digital, among other themes.
Read MorePolina Chizhova-Wright is an artist, curator and a practice-based PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Read MoreYvette Chaparro is an Associate Professor of Product and Industrial Design at Parsons, The New School. She practices through her eponymous studio and is an active researcher focusing on design pedagogy, interdisciplinary collaboration, design terminology, the development of families of objects, modularity and its applications, and typology in design.
Read MoreEric Abaka, also known by his stage name Martin Peeves, is an artist & educator of Ghanaian heritage who lives and works between Accra, Ghana and Philadelphia, U.S.A. Eric has a BA in Arts Management and an MFA in Studio Arts ,respectively from Luther College and the University of the Arts.
Read MoreDaniela Marques is a brazilian artist-researcher, based in Goiânia and in London. Working with a mix of media, Daniela's work is dedicated to the investigation of capitalistic ways of colonising the unconscious. She is pursuing a doctorate in Art and Visual Culture, and is a Visiting PhD Student at UAL.
Read MoreValerie Walkerdine (PhD) is an artist and academic. As an academic she has taught, written and researched in the fields of critical psychology, affect studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, artistic practice and theory, social theory, class, gender and feminism, community and de-industruialisation and neoliberalism.
Read MoreRachael Rosalie Volker is a designer and PhD researcher exploring how products shape emotional experience. Her work integrates neuroaesthetics and design research to examine the relationship between emotion, aesthetics, and human performance, informing the development of products, wearables, and experiences that foster wellbeing, recovery, and meaningful human connection.
Read MoreCarrie E Neal is an integral thinker. Liking the challenge of making connections between diverse fields of study and look for ways to connect the ethereal with the practical, Carrie find ways to bring design thinking, consciousness evolution, facilitation, social justice, and holistic healing to each project. As an artist and maker, the work spans multiple disciplines including video, multimedia theater projects, book making, and quilting.
Read MoreStefanie Denz, MFA, BEd, RCT, is an artist, educator and art therapist living on an Island on the west coast of Canada. Her practice includes drawing, painting, installations and collaborative movement. Stefanie is interested in space, bringing three dimensionality to her surfaces, and the sensibilities of the exchange between the different areas.
Read MoreAn international soloist and Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, The Netherlands alumnus, Christos Tsogias-Razakov synthesizes performance with Digital Humanities and historical manuscript research. Navigating the intersections of Arundo donax material science, cultural anthropology, and post-human philosophy, he redefines the oboe as a dynamic, interoperable site of artistic and ontological inquiry.
Read MoreW.K. Lyhne is a painter and practice-led researcher whose work reconfigures fragments from Western art history to examine instability, embodiment and the relations between human and animal life. Through painting, drawing and writing, she explores how images shape ideas of subjectivity, care, reproduction and continuity.
Read MorePhei Phei Oon is a Canada-based Registered Psychotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She was trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Drama Therapist and has worked at vastly diverse settings including hospitals, academia, non-profit community centers, the corporate world, and recently a reception center for Ukrainian refugees. She specializes in Selective Mutism, grief, and trauma.
Read MoreNkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a neuroscientist, choreography artist, leading mindfulness expert and meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. She was a 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow and a 2021 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence. She is currently Esalen Faculty, an Advisor of Chorus Meditation, and a lululemon ambassador for her work in mindfulness.
Read MoreChandana Dixit's interdisciplinary practice explores creativity as an expression of human agency. Through music, painting, writing, and philosophical research, she investigates how artistic practice, consciousness, and lived experience reshape our understanding of creativity, meaning, and human flourishing.
Read MoreJisun Myung is a food performance artist and musician who leads community based projects with 2 cups of love and a sprinkle of humor. Her most recent work is the Miyeokguk (미역국, seaweed soup) Project - A performance of identities of Korean women diaspora and their reproduction stories (AZ commission on the arts R&D grant recipient 2022).
Read MoreJake Tkaczyk's training began in live theatre performance, earning a diploma in Theatre Performance and Creation from Red Deer College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Alberta. While grounded in performance, his practice has evolved into interdisciplinary performance-making and practice-based research, with a focus on devised theatre, participation, humour, and contemporary performance. He has worked extensively as a performer, director, educator, and producer throughout Alberta and beyond.
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