Carolina 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 MoreProf. Dr. Thomas Mical is Professor of Architectural Theory. Previously a tenured faculty in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he has taught and lectured internationally. His research crosses architectural theory, media-philosophy, design research methods. He edits the book series Architectural Intelligences (Brill).
Read MoreJason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College teaching courses in world literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and visual art. He also holds a faculty position at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) and is Director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program for the New Centre for Research & Practice.
Read MoreDafna Naphtali is a electronic-musician/performer/singer/composer from an eclectic musical background (jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music). Since the mid-90’s she composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music using her custom Max/MSP programming for live sound processing of her voice and other instruments, and also interprets the work of Cage, Stockhausen and contemporary composers.
Read MoreRuth Novaczek is an artist and curator, she studied fine art film at St. Martins School of Art in London, and an MA in Fine Art, at Central St Martins in 2000. In 2015 she earned a practice-based PhD entitled ’21st Century Avant-Garde; New Vernaculars and Feminine Ecriture’ from the University of Westminster, London (UK) and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Westminster.
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