Valerie 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 MoreSyowia Kyambi is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg as part of the visiting artist program for the 2023- 2025 cycle. Kyambi co-founded Untethered Magic established in 2019 which focuses on supporting the process for research based conceptual contemporary arts in Nairobi. She builds networks and facilitates exchange in support of research and process-based practices. Kyambi is particularity interested in knowledge building through the merger of different disciplines. Often bringing together different age groups, areas of study as well as merging artists with creatives in the field of humanities and sciences. In her practice Kyambi examines how our contemporary human experience is influenced by constructed histories, creating installations that include a performative process to narrate stories and activate objects, exploring cultural identities, linking them to issues of loss, memory, race, and gender. She represented Kenya in the La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. Her works include a permanent commission ‘Infinity: Flashes of the Past’ Nairobi National Museum (2007). She is the recipient of the Centre for Art Design & Social Research fellowship (2018-2020), the UniArts Helsinki fellowship (2018), the Smithsonian Artist Research fellowship (2017) and the Art in Global Health grant from the Wellcome Trust Fund, United Kingdom (2013). Artist residencies include PRAKSIS, Norway (2019), Delfina Foundation, UK (2016) and IASPIS, Sweden (2013). Her work is held in a number of collections including the Kouvola Art Museum, Finland, and the Sindika Dokolo Foundation.
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Abi Tariq is an artist and cultural worker born in Karachi and based in Paris. Tariq holds a Masters of Fine Art from Transart Institute (Berlin/NY), a Bachelor of Fine Art from Parsons Paris (now Paris College of Art), and a Pakistani passport! Since 2023 they've taken on the role of Communications Director at Transart Institute.
Read MoreEdward Shanken is best known for his scholarship at the intersections of contemporary art and new media. He has supervised dozens of MFA and practice-led Ph.D. students in the US and Europe and is committed to helping former students succeed in academic careers. He is Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz.
Read MoreAngela Bartram, PhD, is an artist and artistic researcher working with objects, sound, video, drawing, print, collaboration, performance events, curating, and published text.
Read MoreAlison J Carr is an artist, mentor, and independent scholar. She works visually and creates performances. Alison has shown her work nationally and internationally in USA and Europe. Career highlights include being a Site Gallery Platform / Freelands resident and co-editing Sex on Stage, with Dr Lynn Sally, forthcoming, Bloomsbury.
Read MoreAngeliki Avgitidou studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts (MA, PhD). She has exhibited internationally at venues that include the ICA (London) and the French Museum of Photography.Her research interests include the everyday, autobiographical practices, body and space, gender and identity, performance and politics/activism, performance documentation and the archive.
Read MoreSophia Wright Emigh (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, queer mother artist and movement filmmaker working in the emerging field of somatic ecology via performance, installation, film, photography, mark-making, social practice, writing, and action. Through camera, body, sound, and embodied ritual, she traverses and transmits the dance of life around the ineffable.
Read MoreSean Clute is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and performer. Clute’s creations embrace hybridization of media and interactivity to explore forms of interdisciplinary expression. By developing custom software and hardware, Clute experiments with technologies and methodologies to construct audiovisual instruments, sensor-based interfaces and computer generative processes. Collaboration, a key element in his work, is employed through partnerships with choreographers, musicians, scientists, writers and artists.
Read MoreLaura González is an artist, writer, yoga teacher and an Athenaeum Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also faculty at Transart Institute. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she teaches art and psychoanalysis at various institutions in Europe and the US. She creates intimate durational performances for galleries and festivals, including Unfix, Buzzcut, Glasgow Open House and Market Gallery, and, in 2019, her work was shortlisted for the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance.
Read MoreMarc Herbst is an broadly interdisciplinary researcher, artist, editor/publisher and sometimes activist whose core experiences are built upon work on the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest he co-founded in Los Angeles in 2000. The journal describes itself as a 'weirdo archive' and his interests are culturally odd, relational, marginal and interested in the radical.
Read MoreMichael Kliën is a choreographer and artist whose work has been situated around the world. Kliën’s artistic practice encompasses interdisciplinary thinking, critical writing, curatorial projects, and, centrally, choreographic works equally at home in the Performing as well as the Fine Arts.
Read MoreCaden Manson is an artist, curator (Contemporary Performance and Special Effects Festival), and educator. Through the company Big Art Group, their performance work creates radical queer narrative structures and embodiments to construct and aid transitory generative critical space for participants and audience. Their work is dense, fast, multi-layered, and traverses multiple genres and forms, often using interference, slippage, and disruption strategies. Manson has presented throughout 14 countries and over 50 cities in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Read MoreMorgan O’Hara (Los Angeles 1941) was raised in an international community in post-war Japan. Her practice researches the vital movement of living beings through drawing. In 1989 she began doing performative drawing in international performance art festivals, did her first site specific wall drawings and began the practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art. In 1997 O’Hara’s work was honored with a solo show in the newly opened Drawing Room at the Drawing Center in New York. O’Hara lives in New York and works internationally.
Read MoreDr Jo Scott is an artist-researcher using sound arts to explore our felt relationships with ecologies, landscapes and other-than-human nature. Jo’s latest research is using sited sound to explore precarious and changing landscapes, in an era of climate crisis, habitat and biodiversity loss.
Read MoreDr Zoran Poposki, FRSA is a multi-award-winning transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator based in Hong Kong. Poposki explores cultural translation, liminality, identity, and public space through digital art (including AI and NFT art) combined with painting, drawing, photography, (post-digital) printmaking, performance art, video, film, curating, art education, and publishing.
Read MoreNew York painter Mark Roth’s work is focused on issues of extinction, rewilding, eco-grief, ethology and painting’s capacity as a tool for inquiry and solace.
Read MoreJeff Thompson (b. 1982, Minneapolis/USA) is an artist, programmer, and educator based in the NYC area. Through code, sculpture, sound, and performance, Thompson's work physicalizes and gives materiality to otherwise invisible technological processes.
Read MoreMargherita Tisato is a movement practitioner and a seeker of somatic wisdom and integration. She facilitates a range of movement experiences spanning from Trauma-Informed yoga and somatic movement to dance, Butoh, and body suspension; her educational offerings include experiential workshops in anatomy, pain science, embodiment, and trauma theory, and she currently teaches in vastly diverse environments, from colleges to prisons.
Read MoreJosephine Turalba, born in Manila, Philippines is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates intersecting layers of different media: performance, sculpture, video, sound, photography.
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