People - Master List — Transart Institute for Creative Research

Angela Schubot

Angela Vitovec aka Angela Schubot is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, movement researcher and bodyworker. She works between Berlin and Tkaronto with roots in Peru.

Aisha Richards

Aisha Richards is an author, a practicing designer for over a decade and an academic activist. As breathe of practice evolves she applies intersectional social justice to everything she does. Founding Shades of Noir, The Centre for Race & Practice Based Social Justice her work has inspired and informed the full spectrum of creatives and educational practitioners across the UK.

Joanne Tremarco

Joanne Tremarco is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, painting, textiles, film and installation. With 20 years’ experience making thoughtful work with and for a range of communities; supporting people to make beautiful creations out of their lived experience. She’s also a doula of Birth and Death, healer and forager.

T J Bacon

Dr T J Bacon (she/they) is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies, queer theory, crip theory and queer phenomenology to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years and is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure.

Maggie Buxton

Maggie Buxton, MSc, PhD, is a transdisciplinary practitioner, creative entrepreneur and social innovator fascinated with portals and alternative realities. With thirty years of experience, she curates everything from international events to creative innovation labs and augmented reality installations.

Jisun Myung

Jisun 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).

ALL 5 (m-p), Student (m-p), Student PhD 2024Communications DirectorJune 23, 2024PhD, identity, food, theatre

Milos Zahradka Maiorana

Milos Zahradka Maiorana is an artist-philosopher who began his career as a sound and performance artist. Currently he works with screen printing and bookmaking investigating the threshold between art and writing.

Brittanie Jackson

Brittanie Jackson is a New York-based academic and creative who is intrigued by the developing self and the factors that contribute to the resulting outcomes. Her primary interest, rooted at the intersection of psychology and art, is the artist and the artist’s experience.

Joanne Scott

Dr Jo Scott is an artist-researcher and educator, who researches through making performances and sound walks. Jo’s current research uses sited sound to explore the more than human world. She has completed more than 20 artistic research projects, as well as supervising and examining 12 practice-based PhDs.

Holly Regan

Ferdinand / Holly Regan is a multidisciplinary writer and artist who explores the ways that we connect, transcend, and heal through altered states. As a queer and trans person, they focus on the experience of underrepresented communities through work for the page, stage, table, and screen.

Mandu Ekpenyong

Mandu Ekpenyong is a Senior Lecturer in the MPH Global Health Programme at Manchester Metropolitan University. Mandu received a BSc in Medical Physiology from the University of Port Harcourt and an MPH in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health from the University of Ibadan, all in Nigeria. Mandu received her Doctoral Degree in Public Health and Epidemiology, with specialisation in Maternal and Child Health, from the University of Wolverhampton.

Anthi Kosma

Anthi Kosma is an architect researching drawing as performative action and emotional writing. She obtained her PhD from the School of Architecture of Madrid in 2014 with Distinction (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

ALL 4 (I-L), TT 3 (e-n)Communications DirectorApril 5, 2024Drawing, Mixed-media, Architecture, Writing

Derek Owens

Derek Owens is an artist and writer living on Long Island and teaching in New York City.

Birgit Larson

Birgit Larson investigates the rules she (we) live by, dissecting, mending, normalizing and reallocating behavior. Her performative work designs or enhances guidelines in her own life, creating a long form performance that becomes a part of her daily life and identity.

Angela Bartram

Angela Bartram, PhD, is an artist and artistic researcher working with objects, sound, video, drawing, print, performance events, curating, and published text. The subject concerns thresholds of the human body, gallery or museum, definitions of the human and animal as companion species and appropriate strategies for documenting the ephemeral.

Deborah Dudley

Deborah Dudley is founder and artist in residence of Mehitable Blish Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Dudley specializes in curating, cataloguing, and reimagining a person's relationship to the art and artifacts within their daily lives, extracting the oral histories of individuals and families through their most treasured and mundane possessions.

Laurel Terlesky

Laurel Terlesky, a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from Transart Institute and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Her international works explore technology's role in communication and relationships, often through tactile installations. Awarded residencies and supported by prominent arts councils, Terlesky probes embodiment, and memory, seeking to mend communication rifts and challenge dualisms.

Ogutu Muraya

Ogutu 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.

Bindi Vora

Bindi 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.