Dejan Lukic (PhD) is a scholar and writer, and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. His work revolves around the inescapable convergence of art and politics, while taking seriously stylistic forms of writing around and about this convergence.
Read MoreCarole Frances Lung is an artist, activist, Scholar. Through her alter ego Frau Fiber, Carole utilizes a hybrid of playful activism, cultural criticism, research and spirited crafting of one of a kind garment production performances She investigates the human cost of mass production and consumption, addressing issues of value and time through the thoroughly hand-made construction and salvaging of garments.
Read MoreHerman Bashiron Mendolicchio is a researcher, writer, editor and curator, working across different disciplines, territories and cultures. He holds an international PhD in “Art History, Theory and Criticism” from the University of Barcelona and he is currently teaching in different Universities. Herman combines academic research, cultural management, curatorial practices and artistic methodologies, collaborating with a wide range of projects and organizations internationally.
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 MoreEto Otitigbe is a polymedia artist who sets alternative narratives into motion; creating spaces for unique experiences. His interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, performance, installation, and public art.
Read MoreEce Pazarbaşı works and walks on the merged borderline of curatorial practice and artistic research as her main profession. With her special interest in alternative education, she takes parts in various educational bodies in different positions.
Read MoreMusyoki Mutua is a multi-talented artist hailing from the vibrant Akamba community in Kenya.
Read MoreOgutu Muraya is a storyteller, performance artist, and writer, with a profound curiosity in the connection between the spiritual and the neurological, between realms of thinking and meaning, change and understanding.
Read MoreChoreographer Joseph Muriithi works with dancers and actors of all ages and experience level proficiency at organizing live performance helping to integrate costume into performance and developing routines, specialized in large theatre productions.
Read MoreRosie Olang’ Odhiambo is a curator, bookmaker and artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is facilitating a session for the Trans Art residency in Nairobi
Read MoreDeborah Robinson is an artist and Associate Professor (Reader) in Contemporary Art at Plymouth University where she co-ordinates the ARC (Arts Research Collective) research group. Trained as a painter, Robinson earned a doctorate degree from Plymouth University in 2003, writing her dissertation on ‘The Materiality of Text and Body in Painting and Darkroom Processes: An Investigation Through Practice,’ which engaged with feminist and psychoanalytic theory.
Read MoreKonjit Seyoum, who was born and raised in Ethiopia is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, interpreter and cook. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute, Plymouth University, U.K. She is also a graduate of University of Trieste, School of Interpretation and Translation.
Read MoreMary Sherman is an artist, curator and the director of TransCultural Exchange, which she founded in Chicago in 1989. She also teaches at Boston College and Northeastern University and, recently, served as the interim Associate Director of MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
Read MoreBorn and raised in Hong Kong, Winnie Soon is an artist-researcher working as Assistant Professor at Aarhus University. Soon’s artworks and projects have been exhibited and presented internationally at museums, festivals, public libraries, universities and conferences across Europe, Asia and America.
Read MoreAlec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of several major fellowships from the Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Read MoreBorn in Belfast, N. Ireland, André Stitt is considered one of Europe’s foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as a time based artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world. His artistic output includes performance art, live work, relational activity, installations, digital print, videography, photography, painting and drawing.
Read MoreWolfgang Sützl (PhD) is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence and understanding the conditions in which such a critique is possible. His Ph.D. is in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain where he wrote on “Emancipation or Violence. Aesthetic Pacifism in Gianni Vattimo”.
Read MoreAnita Thacher is a New York-based artist known for her work in a variety of mediums–film, video, public art, multimedia, light, architectural and sculptural installation, as well as painting, photography and prints. Her art explores issues of perception both spatial and personal. Memory, childhood and domestic themes are fundamental elements in the work.
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 MoreBindi Vora is an interdisciplinary photographic artist of Kenyan-Indian heritage, associate lecturer at London College of Communication and curator at Autograph a London-based non-profit arts charity that explores issues of identity, representation, human rights and social justice through photography.
Read More
