Sophia 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 MoreVeronica Marina Fazzio Welf is an Artist, Educator, and Learner. From Buenos Aires, she now lives in South Florida, USA. Social Sculpture Practitioner.
Read MoreMichelle M. Vara’s work is visually diverse, structurally intriguing and tactilely rich.
Read MoreGiulia Vismara is an electroacoustic composer and researcher. She is mainly concerned with the organic nature of sound and the development of textures which combine concrete and synthetic elements. Her compositions range from electroacoustic and acousmatic composition to intermedial works and sound installation, sounds and music for theatre, performance and video art.
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 MoreAnnette Weintraub explores the architectural environment. Recent work includes: Life Support (2003), a web based project exploring hospital architecture and the subjective experience of space through a hybrid of 2D and 3D representation;The Mirror That Changes (2001), a web-based sound and moving image piece exploring issues of water sustainability, commissioned by The Ruschlikon Centre for Global Dialogue; and Mirage (2001), a narrative work exploring the intersection of photography and tourism, commissioned by CEPA for the exhibition Paradise in Search of A Future.
Read MoreValerie 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 MoreAli Williams is a writer, educator, and creative practitioner from California, a landscape with a deep influence on her transdisciplinary work investigating the human relationship with land, more-than-humans, and each other. Her current research-based practice centers on materiality, embodiment and place, particularly in the consideration of grief as a response to environmental, collective, and personal loss.
Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist. His work combines installation and stand-up comedy and often draws upon the quirky banalities of his own autobiographic existence to develop his sculptures and performances. His work merges art and life with a comedic twist that is instantaneously sympathetic and relational.
Read MoreErin Wilkerson works to expand the definition of invasive species beyond the botanical and zoological, facilitating an investigation into anti-colonial methodologies. Growing up in proximity to the US/Mexico border, her work investigates imposed boundaries and liminal spaces.
Read MoreCaroline Wilkinson has a background in art and science and her research and creative work sits at the forefront of art-science fusion and includes subjects as diverse as forensic art, human anatomy, medical art, face recognition, forensic science, anthropology, 3D visualisation, digital art and craniofacial identification. Caroline Wilkinson is Director of the Face Lab, a LJMU research group based in Liverpool Science Park. The Face Lab carries out forensic/archaeological research and consultancy work and this includes craniofacial analysis, facial depiction and forensic art. Craniofacial analysis involves the depiction and identification of unknown bodies for forensic investigation or historical figures for archaeological interpretation. Face Lab research relates to facial identification, craniofacial reconstruction, preserved bodies and facial animation. Caroline is accredited as a forensic anthropologist Level I (craniofacial specialism) by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and is an experienced forensic practitioner.
Read MoreLauren Wilson is an actor, director, playwright, and teacher. After running away to join the circus in her twenties, she has been lucky enough to cobble together a life and a living from these occupations, and to become part of an extended international family of students, teachers, clowns, poets, activists and theatre makers. She is currently a faculty member at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where she served for the past five years as School Director.
Read MoreAmy Wilton is a Maine, USA based photographer and mixed media artist. She tells stories through her artwork.
Read MoreBeth M. Weinstein (BFA Syracuse, MArch Columbia GSAPP, PhD UTasmania) is an architect, artist, educator and researcher. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions of her work include Performing Spatial Labour (2019, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart), Palimpsest (2019, Un Lieu pour Réspirer, Les Lilas-Paris), States of Exception (2018, Cité Internationale des Arts/Jeu de Paume, 2018) and the 2015 and 2018 Arizona Biennials. She received the NY Architectural League’s Young Architect’s Award and has been awarded artist residencies through the Académie d'Architecture, the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Bundanon Trust (New South Wales), and the Casa de Velazquez (Madrid).
Read MoreMark Wright holds a joint appointment between FACT (The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) one of Europe's leading centres for new media, where he is Director of FACTLab and the Liverpool School of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moore's University, where he is co-director of the Contemporary Art Lab.
Read MoreDr Lee Wright is a specialist in Design History and Theory and currently teaches the history and theory of fashion design & fashion communication, including fashion photography. Her field of expertise spans material and visual culture, in particular popular culture studies. She has supervised PhD students jointly with History, American Studies and Art & Design. Her publications focus on a range of subjects from snapshot photography in the inter war period to gender and clothing.
Read MoreMiki Wolf is a Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, and Cree multi-disciplinary performer and facilitator, proudly from the Champagne and Aishihik Nation in the Yukon. Miki is actively pursuing research in new studio praxis methodologies for Indigenous performers (theatre and dance) that exist within and through colonial modalities of teaching.
Read MoreLadan Yalzadeh
Community and Wellness Leader
Ladan is an artist and a mindfulness and stress-release coach focused on healing and restoration. She helps individuals and communities find the resources within themselves to process stress, find resilience and reconnect with their inherent joy and wellbeing.
Read MoreThrough performance-based film, Ayoung Yu explores Korean folk traditions and spiritual practices. Passed on generationally, they connect her to her family and to a land whose absence she feels palpably. However, she is not faithful to the historical canon. Her work aims to transgress older traditions, regenerating them within queer, diasporic contexts.
Read MoreArchitect and Teacher, Marwan Zouein comes from a multicultural background from which he received an international and open minded education. He holds a DPLG from the school of Paris Belleville and a DEA in Architecture from the ETSAM (UPM, Madrid). As founding partner of the award winning spanish architecture office [casaleganitos], he has 15 years of experience in a wide range of projects either with [casaleganitos] or as a consultant for other firms and institutions in Europe and in the Middle East.
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