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.
Read MoreEstelle 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.
Read MoreSara Hudston is a writer and editor. Her work focuses on the living world and the spirit of place. She writes non-fiction, fiction, and much in between.
Read MoreProfessor John Hyatt is an artist: painter, digital artist, video artist, photographer, designer, musician, printmaker, curator, author and sculptor. Since 2010, Hyatt has exhibited in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Ireland, Portugal, Japan, the UK and the USA. He has a long and varied career and involvement in cultural practices, pedagogy, industry, urban regeneration, and communities.
Read MoreA versatile and creative visual designer with a broad range of experiences and skills across the fashion industry. Andrew Ibi has worked professionally in the fields of Menswear Design, Contemporary Retailing & Buying, Costume Design & Styling and Design Consultation. He has spent the last few years working in academia, developing research around social trend and its impact on Deisgn/Fashion and Sustainability as well as developing tomorrow’s crop of young, expressive and professional talent.
Read MorePaige King is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working internationally with art and technology organizations. Paige organizes project streams and exhibitions with Thoughtworks Arts and Cyland Media Art Lab collective.
Read MorePhillis 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.
Read MoreCatalina 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.
Read MoreFawz Kabra is founder and director of Brief Histories gallery in New York City, where she collaborates with artists on exhibitions and publication projects.
Read MoreDean Kenning is an artist, writer and educator who lives in London. He makes kinetic sculptures that suggest an idiotic vitalism and he also has a wide-ranging diagram practice spanning art and learning. He has written about the politics of art and art education. He is the winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2020-21.
Read MoreMichael Kliën is a choreographer and artist whose work has been situated around the world. Kliën’s artistic practice encompasses interdisciplinary thinking, critical writing, curatorial projects, and, centrally, choreographic works equally at home in the Performing as well as the Fine Arts.
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 MorePaula 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.
Read MoreIrene Loy is a theater maker, creative nonfiction essay writer, and university arts administrator living in Salt Lake City while she finishes her doctoral studies. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico and an MA in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has lived abroad in Canberra, Australia, and Vienna, Austria, and domestically in several US states.
Read MoreJoasia 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.
Read MoreStephen 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.
Read MoreSteve 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.
Read MorejLuis 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.
Read MoreHana 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.
Read MoreMia 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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