Catalina Insignares

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.

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He Jin Jang

He Jin Jang is a multicity-based choreographer, researcher, dramaturg, curator and essayist, born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Jang has created, researched and written on the idea of & ‘choreography’; and & ‘living(surviving)’. As a female neurodivergent choreographer residing in South Korea, she is currently occupied with in her dance-making are questions like that of embodying resilience.

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Alden Jones

Alden Jones holds degrees in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Creative Writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is the author, most recently, of the hybrid memoir The Wanting Was a Wilderness. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won the New American Fiction Prize and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award.

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Caroline Koebel

Caroline 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. 

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Paula Kramer

Paula Kramer is an artist-researcher and movement artist based in Berlin. She holds a practice-as-research PhD in Dance (Coventry University) and was a post-doctoral researcher at Uniarts Helsinki between 2016 and 2019. She is currently active as an independent artist-researcher and until the end of 2020 as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Artistic Research of Uniarts Helsinki.

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Joasia Krysa

Joasia Krysa is curator and Professor of Exhibition Research at Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Art and Design, with an adjunct position at Liverpool Biennial. At LJMU she leads the development of Exhibition Research Lab (ERL), a public venue and a research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge.

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Stephen Kwok

Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He has exhibited his work at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London.

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Syowia Kyambi

Syowia Kyambi
MFA Programme Leader 

Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enjoys performing characters within her performance installations to tell stories, an alternative layered narrative about history in an attempt to disrupt mono-cultural violence. The connection between the psyche, history and the entanglement that exists within non-stagnant identities is ever present in her creative process. Her practice probes issues of race, perception, hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya.

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Steve Lambert

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.

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Hana Leaper

Hana Leaper was appointed to the post of John Moores Painting Prize Senior Lecturer and Development Manager in late 2017. She began to undertake research on the John Moores Painting Prize in her previous role as Paul Mellon Centre Fellow and one of the founding Editors of the prestigious born-digital journal British Art Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre, a part of Yale University.

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Mia van Leeuwen

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.

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Yuen Fong Ling

Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, specialising in social art practice, post-colonial art and queer art theory, and founder member of The Human Memorial Research Collective. Ling has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2005-7), and a Fine Art PhD by Practice from University of Lincoln entitled “A Body of Relations: Reconfiguring the Life Class” completed in 2016.

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Anne Livingston

Anne Livingston, a painter, writer, culinarian, and educator, holds a BA in Comparative Literature from University of Washington, a Master in Teaching from Seattle University, and an AAS in Culinary Arts from Seattle Culinary Academy. She’s an alumna of The Modern Color Atelier for painting at Gage Academy of Art.

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