Shelley Etkin is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and gardener based in Berlin, Germany with roots in the US/Turtle Island and Israel/Palestine. She works at the intersections of art and ecology, engaging with relations between bodies and lands through place-based knowledges. Her work integrates practices from dance/somatics, herbal medicines, pedagogy, and intersectional queer feminist community organising. Shelley’s bodywork and earth-care practices are dedicated to expanding perception, communication, and connectivity particularly with the plant world. ‘Landing‘ as a process and movement forms the grounds for her methodology.
Read MoreDr Tracey M Benson is an Australian based artist, academic and researcher. Her work focuses on issues related to belonging, place, wellbeing and pro environmental behaviour change. Specialising in online and screen based art, user experience design, locative media and site specific installation, her work has been extensively presented internationally in media arts festivals and exhibitions.
Nathalie 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.
Read MoreSean Clute is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and performer. Clute’s creations embrace hybridization of media and interactivity to explore forms of interdisciplinary expression. By developing custom software and hardware, Clute experiments with technologies and methodologies to construct audiovisual instruments, sensor-based interfaces and computer generative processes. Collaboration, a key element in his work, is employed through partnerships with choreographers, musicians, scientists, writers and artists.
Read MoreLucy Finchett-Maddock is an artist and academic at Sussex Law School, writing, researching and teaching in the fields of critical legal theory and speculative philosophy. She is one of the founders of the Art/Law Network and writes broadly on the themes of resistance, aesthetics, property, artificial divisions of art and law, and entropy.
Read MoreCarl Haase received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art, Maine, US in 2001. In 2005 he completed a four-year apprenticeship in a letterpress studio in the Maine, US. Shortly thereafter, he founded and operated a silkscreen studio which specialised in fine art printing in conjunction with freelance design projects. Currently he is continuing this body of research as a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerpen’s ARIA (BE) program.
Read MoreMichael Hirschbichler studied architecture at ETH Zurich and philosophy at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed his doctoral dissertation on “Mythical Constructions” at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He lived and worked in various countries, such as the United States, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea, Italy, Azerbaijan and France and is currently based in Zurich and Munich.
Read MoreCaroline Koebel is an Austin-based filmmaker and writer, with recent retrospectives at Festival Cine//B (Santiago, Chile) and Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany). Current research focuses on the relationship individuals have to the greater reality of contemporary global experience and the means by which information is disseminated, gathered and assimilated in the Web 2.0 age.
Read MoreFreek Lomme works as professional curator and editor in the field of art, design and social practice since 2003. He is founding director of public gallery and publisher Onomatopee as well as a freelance curator, lecturer, moderator and writer.
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 MoreCarolina Mendonça is interested in contamination of knowledge and in being vulnerable to different logics. Graduated in Performing Arts at ECA-USP and with Master’s in Choreography and Performance at Giessen University in Germany. Her latest projects are Pulp- History as a Warm Wet Place (2018) in Mousonturm that deals with an intuitive archeology digesting the leftovers of the XVII-XVIII centuries; useless land (2018) a night reading that invites de audience to sleep that happened in many different contexts such as MAerzmusik in Berlin, Ferme de Buisson in Paris, Beursschouwburg in Brussels and Sesta in Prague among others; We, the Undamaged others (2017) a work that puts in question happiness as an horizon that organizes our lives, premiered at Oswald de Andrade in São Paulo and showed in MIT-2018; Falling (2016) explores sleeping as a possible dance practice presented at Mousonturm.
Read MoreTom Overton is a writer and and Archive Curator/Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barbican Centre, London. As part of an AHRC-Funded PhD between the British Library and the Centre for Life-writing Research, King's College London, he catalogued the archive of the writer and artist John Berger (1926-2017), and curated a conference, free school and exhibition at Somerset House, London, to mark the 40th Anniversary of Berger's collaborative TV series and book Ways of Seeing (1972) and Booker-winning novel G.
Read MoreBorn in Venezuela and based in Porto, Portugal with a background in theatre, Daniel Pinheiro has been exploring, among others, the concept of Telematic Art, using video as a tool and the internet as a platform, merging both languages into a single object of expression. In this field he aims at reflecting on the impact of technology on everyday life and the environment of the Internet as a reflection of a world where the abstract nature of this transmedia movement changes the notions of space, presence, privacy and identity.
Read MoreSimon Pope’s art practice is preoccupied with participatory art’s engagement with new materialism and concepts of the more-than-human.
Read MoreSteve Rowell is an artist who works with photography, moving image, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts to produce complex multicomponent projects. His practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, ecologies, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist.
Read MoreAna 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).
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