Neo Sinoxolo Musangi is a queer feminist living in Olkejuado, Kenya. They work in art and academia; is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR); is a founding member of the Black Planetary Futures Collective, and teaches Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence and American University.
Zeerak 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.
Iole Alessandrini is an artist who was born and raised in Italy, and has been living in Seattle since 1994. She received her diploma in Fine Arts from the First State School of Fine Arts in Rome and earned two master’s degrees in Architecture: one from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and the other from the University of Washington in Seattle. It is the intersection between these two creative expressions – art and architecture – through which her work moves.
Sanford Biggers, an LA native working in NYC, creates artworks that integrate film, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, original music and performance.He intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, identity and art history in order to offer new perspectives and associations for established symbols. Through a multi-disciplinary formal process and a syncretic creative approach he makes works that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are conceptual.
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.
Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist based in Europe. She has been awarded Fellowships by the Swedish Research Council, Arts Council of England, British Council amongst others. She has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2016 and the recipient of the highly coveted MAP Funding (USA) award in 2019, and multiple other awards and recognitions. She holds an MFA in Choreography from Temple University (Philadelphia, USA) and a PhD from Laban Centre London (CNAA validated).
Grace Gloria Denis’ work converges agricultural research with interactive installation, incorporating edible material, sound, and image to propose a convivial and comestible approach to critical inquiry. Implementing the meal as both a medium and a pedagogical tool, her work refers to participatory action research models, engaging in collaborations with actors in local food systems.
Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.
Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, award winning curator, writer, photographer, producer, art director, designer, and public speaker. Her work explores the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, the objective and subjective, the living and the inanimate.
Nola Farman studied sculpture at Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, completing her MA and PhD at the University of Western Sydney. She is currently writing and producing artworks about the absurdity of contemporary life, using the art world as an exemplar.
Jason File is an artist and international lawyer based between London, UK and New York, NY, where he is a studio holder at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Manhattan. He is a former United Nations war crimes prosecutor and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Netherlands, who holds degrees in fine art from the Chelsea College of Arts, London, and the KABK. He also holds degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and law from Yale (1998), Oxford (2000) and Yale Law School (2004).
Luca Forcucci is an artist, composer, and scholar exploring the relationships between the sonic, consciousness, perception, experience, memory, and the body. His research and artworks are regularly presented worldwide and have won numerous national and international awards in well regarded contexts.
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture.
Carles Guerra (Amposta, 1965) holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. He has pursued a career in art criticism, teaching and research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities.
Carolyn Guertin is a scholar-practitioner of new media. She is a Senior Researcher in the Augmented Reality Lab at York University in Toronto and is a faculty member in the MFA and PhD programs at Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany.
Tia Halliday B.F.A, B.Ed, M.F.A, Ph.D. (Candidate) is an internationally recognized artist, currently residing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tia is also a tenured faculty member in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Calgary where she is active in both Graduate and Undergraduate programs.
Kate Hilliard is an artist, curator and educator. She is the Creative Director at The Orillia Centre for Arts + Culture, fostering programming and residency opportunities for artists across disciplines. Over the years she has cultivated a teaching practice in her own community and in several institutions, including The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC.
LAURA HICKS (she/they) is a queer feminist Canadian artist from Tkaronto (known as Toronto). Working as a choreographer, performer, and educator in the Frankfurt am Main area since 2013, she creates choreographic work for the stage, while also teaching in different contexts. Her interest is in sensory states, qualities and intensities explored through improvisation.
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American instrument builder and sound artist based in Berlin DE, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound + space, media archaeology and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has created scores of unique and experimental instruments, installations, and performances since 2002, as well as taught sound art workshops, across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand.
Estelle Hoy is a writer and academic based in Berlin. She completed her Phd in Contemporary Feminist Experimental Literature (New Narrative). She's lectured at The Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Goldsmiths, Bard College, Parsons Paris, The New School, Université Paris-Sorbonne and Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris.
Phillis Ideal has exhibited nationally including exhibitions at major museums and galleries in San Francisco, Santa Fe and New York City. Her work has been exhibited and collected in many private and public collections such as the M. H. de Young Museum, the Oakland Museum of Fine Arts, the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museum of Santa Fe. She is currently represented by Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Arts in New York City.
Catalina Insignares is a Colombian choreographer and dancer based in Paris. She studied dance in Canada and France, and completed a Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen, Germany. Her pieces question the systems of artistic production and their relationship to society. She seeks the moment when dance generates unintelligible, whatever-like subjectivities and collectives. She works always in collaboration and long term associations (Caroline Creutzburg, Miriam Schulte, Else Tunemyr, Zuzana Zabkova, Gretchen Blegen) for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching and performance.
Beth Krensky is Area Head and Professor of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist working in the border zone between social issues and the sacred who creates objects and performative gestures as a contemplative act.
Steve Lambert explores advertising and the issues of public space and how it is connected to the commercialism and aggression of the military-industrial complex. He works in mediums that have included objects, performance, and video.
Mia van Leeuwen practices the body of performance to explore wide-ranging themes (fandom, whiteness, death, religion, pop culture) – while playfully blurring the lines between theatre and visual art. Queering, juxtaposing, unsettling, disturbing, re-mixing, winking, collaborating, baring process, and making strange are some of the actions that inform the devising of her various projects.
Alanna Lockward (1961 - 2019) has excelled as a journalist, classical ballet dancer, author and contemporary arts curator specialized in time-based undertakings. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she has a licentiate degree in Communication Science from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México, City, and a masters in Art in Context from the University of the Arts Berlin.
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.
Carole 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.
Ana Fabíola Maurício (b. 1985, Lisbon) is co-founder and co-curator of the independent curatorial project “nanogaleria” with Luísa Santos since September 2018. She is Head of the Research and Innovation Office of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) since January 2018.
Neo Sinoxolo Musangi is a queer feminist living in Olkejuado, Kenya. They work in art and academia; is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR); is a founding member of the Black Planetary Futures Collective, and teaches Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence and American University.
Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist based in Europe. She has been awarded Fellowships by the Swedish Research Council, Arts Council of England, British Council amongst others. She has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2016 and the recipient of the highly coveted MAP Funding (USA) award in 2019, and multiple other awards and recognitions. She holds an MFA in Choreography from Temple University (Philadelphia, USA) and a PhD from Laban Centre London (CNAA validated).
Beth Krensky is Area Head and Professor of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist working in the border zone between social issues and the sacred who creates objects and performative gestures as a contemplative act.
Steve Lambert explores advertising and the issues of public space and how it is connected to the commercialism and aggression of the military-industrial complex. He works in mediums that have included objects, performance, and video.
Mia van Leeuwen practices the body of performance to explore wide-ranging themes (fandom, whiteness, death, religion, pop culture) – while playfully blurring the lines between theatre and visual art. Queering, juxtaposing, unsettling, disturbing, re-mixing, winking, collaborating, baring process, and making strange are some of the actions that inform the devising of her various projects.
Alanna Lockward (1961 - 2019) has excelled as a journalist, classical ballet dancer, author and contemporary arts curator specialized in time-based undertakings. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she has a licentiate degree in Communication Science from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México, City, and a masters in Art in Context from the University of the Arts Berlin.
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.
Carole 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.
Ana Fabíola Maurício (b. 1985, Lisbon) is co-founder and co-curator of the independent curatorial project “nanogaleria” with Luísa Santos since September 2018. She is Head of the Research and Innovation Office of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) since January 2018.
jLuis A Lara Malvacías I am a Venezuelan experimental and trans-disciplinary artist and dance teacher whose body of work includes creating multidisciplinary works with a great focus on movement practices. My research and process reflect my experience as part of the larger diaspora of Latinx brown queer immigrant artists.
Musyoki Mutua is a multi-talented artist hailing from the vibrant Akamba community in Kenya.
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.
Dedicated choreographer who can work with dancers and actors off all ages and experience level proficiency at organizing live performance helping to integrate costume into performance and developing routines, specialized in large theatre productions.
Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo is a curator, bookmaker and artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is facilitating a session for the Trans Art residency in Nairobi
Morgan 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.
Jared ONYANGO's interests are in choreography, writing, everyday happenings, urban spaces and environmental topics. He has been exploring movements and behaviours of people in public spaces. Jared is one of the founding members of Tempo Arts Centre, a community green space located in Lucky Summer Estate, approximately 11 kilometres northeast of Nairobi's central business district.
Eto 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.
Diogo Passarinho is a Portuguese architect, and founder of D_P_S, a practice based in Berlin. D_P_S is a research-based design studio, founded in 2015, investigating how emotional contexts can be brought into shaping spatial memories.
Ece 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.
Dr. Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), at Coventry University, UK; and leads the centre’s Critical Practices research strand. Carolina Rito is a researcher and curator whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an investigative practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields of curating, visual arts, visual cultures and cultural studies. In her work, Rito has been preoccupied with the notions of knowledge production in the field of the curatorial. This has meant that her interest resides on how practices – such as curating – produce new knowledge, or, in other words, produce a particular way of understanding the world.
Deborah 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.
Tereza Ruller (she/her) identifies as a mother, a communication designer, a researcher, and an educator. In her practice—The Rodina—Ruller investigates the performative and critical approach toward graphic design. Her transdisciplinary practice emphasizes the power of situation, playfulness, active spectatorship, and relations between human and nonhuman actors. Ruller’s work is deeply collaborative and consists of participatory events, spatial installations, virtual environments, and visual identities. Addressing critical issues of our time—such as ecological, social, and political crises—she seeks to develop collective shifts in perspective.
Konjit 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.
Mary 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.
Born 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.
Alec 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.
Born 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.
Wolfgang 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”.
Anita 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.
Margherita 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.
