Abdullah Qureshi is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Rooted in traditions of abstraction, he incorporates gestural, poetic, and hybrid methodologies to address autobiography, trauma, and sexuality through painting, filmmaking, and immersive events.
Read MoreUsha Seejarim (b. South Africa) is a conceptual and socially engaged artist who uses found objects to communicate complex and simple ideas about the domestic position of women.
Read MoreNicoletta Cappello (she/her) (based in Sicily/Madrid/Helsinki) is a performing artist, and Doctoral Researcher in the Doctorate in Arts and Education University of Girona (ES) connected to the Chair of Movement and Languages, in co-tutelle with the Department of Education at University of Catania (IT), currently visiting the Artistic Doctorate in Performing Arts at UniArts Helsinki.
Read MoreJean Marie Casbarian (b. Aberdeen, MD) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, video, sound, writing and performance. She holds an MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College, New York (2000) and a BFA from the University of Colorado at Denver (1987). Her artistic practice lies in her interests around the reinterpretation of memory, personal fictions, migratory space and the essence of time. Along with exhibiting her works throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia, Casbarian has received a number of awards and artist residencies including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation nomination, The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist's Assistance Project Grant, an Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute and has been a Research Associate with Five Colleges, Inc (Amherst, MA).
Read MoreNick Crowe is a British-born visual artist who works predominantly in sculpture and film and video. He was very active in .net art in the 1990s, producing several bodies of work using glass engraving to capture the textures of the emergent internet culture of the time.
Read MoreAlessandra Saviotti is a curator, art educator and cultural activist who lives in Amsterdam. She is a PhD researcher at Liverpool John Moores University and a member of Art Workers Italia.
Read MoreLinda Franke was born in Dresden, Germany, and is based in Los Angeles. Her work engages with the constants of human life by staging situations in which our daily routines are being transformed into absurd Tableaux Vivants.
Read MoreSascia Pellegrini’s expertise and research is in intermedia, and interdisciplinary arts, with a strong background in music composition and dance choreography: in his research he has a particular interest in the phenomenology of the act of performance and its implications upon interdisciplinary thinking and praxis.
Read MoreArturo Delgado Pereira (PhD), also known as Chico Pereira, is a practicing filmmaker and academic living between Finland and Spain. Pereira’s film work combines experimental ethnographic methods, art as social practice and performative documentary, with a particular interest in rural and post-industrial areas.
Read MoreDanica Maier, an American-born artist and academic based in the UK, has a diverse background in painting, textiles, and drawing.
Read MoreJames Charlton is a second-generation New Zealand Post-object Artist whose work includes video, object-based sculpture, stereo-lithography, installation, robotics, interactive screen-based and performance work. He lectures in sculpture, post-material practices and interactive installation, at Auckland University of Technology.
Read MoreZeerak Ahmed / SLOWSPIN is a US-based Pakistani artist. She produces voice-based sculptures, meditative installations and uniquely fragile sound collages that explore notions of identity, memory and longing. Slowspin has a distinct sound practice grounded in Hindustaani classical vocal traditions, dream-folk, ambient and experimental electronic music. Poetry and melodies in her mother tongue(s)—Urdu, Farsi, Purbi and English—build new textural soundscapes.
Read MoreDr Sabina Andron is a London-based architectural historian and urban scholar specializing in urban public cultures in the neoliberal city, and methods based on visual, semiotic and legal analyses.
Read MoreGilles Aubry is active at the intersection between sound and visual arts, experimental music and academic research. As an artist, he creates installations, films, performances and radio pieces exploring sonic materiality and listening processes in relation to affect, coloniality and power. His works have been presented at numerous international art exhibitions, film festivals, music venues, and radio shows, earning him two Swiss Art Awards (2012 and 2015) and a European Sound Art Prize in 2016.
Read MoreSonia Elizabeth Barrett, of German Jamaican Parentage, was brought up in England, China and Cyprus, and thus has an international range of cultural influences. A graduate of St Andrews University where she studied Philosophy, Literature and International Relations and the Transart Institute (MFA) Sonia has shown her work at the NGBK Berlin, the OCCA California, the Format Follow Contemporary in Milan, The Museum of the Sea in Italy and the National Gallery in Jamaica.
Read MoreJuan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano (Bogotá, 1991) is an artist, writer and educator passionate about the historical, material, and mythological relations between technology and ecology.
Read MoreSarah Bennett is a practicing artist and academic. She has exhibited regularly in the UK and Europe. Bennett has 35 years experience in Higher Arts Education – previous posts include Head of Fine Art, and Head of the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University.
Read MoreIsak Berbic (b.1983) is an artist working with photography, moving image and performance. His research deals with social histories, politics, humor, exile, and the limits of representation. His recent artworks investigate the overlaps of documentary and fiction in relation to the visualization of contested politics and contested histories.
Read MoreSandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist [Studies: Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikhochschule München and IRCAM Paris]. His compositions and comprovisations (including 6 operas) are regularly performed worldwide.
Read MoreNathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro merges installations, sonic radio, live art performances, film & archives. Her work analyses processes of power & fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles. She creates environments for untold narratives of resistance movements by African women and indigenous communities. Sedimented in narratives are testimonies of sonic nature archives, queering ecologies and postcolonial feminist experiences towards new monuments, reacting to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. She brings new investigations about the architectures of racisms in cities, the archeologies of urban spaces & economies of tradition systems by exposing the limitations of technologies as functional memory records.
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