Christophe Alix is an artist, teacher and researcher in performance art and director of Le 75. Before coming to Belgium, he worked and lived in the UK for almost 20 years. There, he was full-time academic of Theatre Studies and Performance Art in the School of Arts and New Media at the University of Hull (2003-2014). He has contributed to interdisciplinary networks, thesis supervision and publications worldwide, through a wide range of projects. In particular, he has published on performance art in relation to cybernetics, staging, dramaturgy, pedagogy, activism, and artistic research. His practical work includes a large number of performances, such as most lately the collaborative and socio-artistic project Performance invisible (Douchy-les-Mines, 2017, FR).

Marta Bosowska (1984) working mostly with installations, sculptures, objects, videos and performances and photography. The projects and artistic realizations are concerned with the human condition and the reflections that result from experiencing the surrounding reality. She often works (site-specific works) in border locations. Most interested in memory as a medium and as an ingredient in the process of creating artwork. She explores the concepts of memory, ritual and residue and investigates the social states of places. Her inspiration comes from emptiness, notions of absence, forgetting, exclusion, which persistently inhabit spaces, places and human histories. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the University of Arts in Poznań in the Performance and Sculpture Studio. Member of the Performance Art Foundation, JAZZ Poznań Association. In addition to her artistic work, she is also involved in curatorial and educational activities at Poland and abroad. She has collaborated with many institutions and universities conducting workshops, presentations and lectures. The author of many solo exhibitions, she has repeatedly participated in group exhibitions, festivals and art projects at home and abroad.www.martabosowska.com

Áine Phillips is a performance artist based in Galway, she is exhibiting and performing in Ireland and internationally since the late 80’s. She creates work for multiple contexts; public art commissions, the street, club events, galleries, theatres and museums in Ireland and internationally. Her performative video works and art films have been screened at major global film festivals and visual art spaces.

She is also a teacher, a writer and has worked extensively as a curator and organiser of performance events in Ireland and the UK. She is Head of Sculpture at Burren College of Art (BCA) since 1999. In 2015, she authored the seminal volume Performance Art in Ireland: A History, Intellect, UK and publishes regularly in visual art journals, books and online platforms.

Antoine Pickels (1963, professor) lives in Brussels, where he works as an artist, writer, curator, teacher and critic. He writes plays and essays, publishes and curates projects (currently, the Brussels international live art festival “Trouble”, founded in 2005, biennial since 2019). He has been the editor of the e-magazine “Klaxon” and the curator of the festival “Signal”, a yearly 3-4 days event, both dedicated to living art in the public space, for CIFAS in Brussels (2012>2018). Before that, he was director of La Bellone/House of Performing Arts in Brussels (2007>2011).

He teaches at La Cambre Arts Visuels (main visual arts academy in Brussels), at the Ecole supérieure des Arts du Cirque (the Circus Academy of Brussels), and lectures in different universities in France and Belgium. His main areas of research are contemporary dance, experimental theatre, live art and performance art, public space living art, and queer aesthetics.

Michela Sacchetto is an art historian, writer and curator. She hold a PhD in art Theory and History from UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, on Exhibitions Studies and correspondance betweeen art, exhibitions and mythology in the 1970s. After graduating in Art History at La Sapienza University (Rome), she took part in the CuratorLab curatorial laboratory at Konstfack College of Art (Stockholm). Since 2018, she has been teaching art history and research methodology at ESA Le 75 and erg - école de recherche graphique - in Brussels. She is part of the curatorial plateform [or nothing].

Korean. A little bio: I mainly work on images and image theory through photography, drawing, and installation. The age: 28.

I will quickly introduce you to the main themes of my work, which are the questioning of image and temporality, the questioning of everyday life and its observation, and finally the questioning of socio-cultural contexts such as discrimination, prejudice and the absurdities of our society. It is therefore these three themes that are close to my heart and that I question and experiment within my work.

Hey there. I’m a 32 years old white cis fag, born in Liège (Belgium), living and studying in Brussels. Defining myself as an artist is no easy business since I came to art (and art school) only 3 years ago. A struggle after the weird chaos/failures of my 20ies. My first sensitivity is to space, I even studied architecture for a few years. But I became much more interested in bodies and speeches, moving bodies, sounds of the bodies, unintelligible languages, all rooted in social constructs, all as political entities. Examples among others, I am interested in rituals that are not seen as such, or pop « stuff» that makes feelings like sadness, empathy and mockery indistinct. I’ve just began my Master degree journey, with in my bag : family memories, the experience of psychiatric internment, anger, ghosts to chat with, pseudosciences to believe in, the feeling of being trapped in exile in one’s own life, and a ill-defined and still somewhat shameful desire sometimes to be a slut. In art and in life. XoXo

Erin Besch is a multidisciplinary artist, whose current practice centers around identity and sense of place, manifested through the profound connection she feels to the Irish landscape and heritage. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the Burren College. She received her MA in Art Education from the University of Florida in April 2022, as well as a certificate from the Kang O’Higgins Atelier at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington that same year. In 2019, she earned her BS in Psychology and BA in Visual Arts from Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Fadwa Bouziane is a Canadian PhD researcher at Burren College of Art (BCA). Her artistic practice is based on personal experiences as a racialized woman. Her research examines how performance art and storytelling are catalysts to transform trauma embedded in the body. Bouziane use performance art to analyse connections between identity, body and mind. Her movement-based practice unpacks long-term tensions stored in the body.

I am a 27 year old French artist based in Brussels. I studied political science and journalism in Montreal before devoting myself completely to my artistic practice. My practice is oriented towards space, space as scent, space as power, space as playground, space as self-representation... I work on the question of ambivalence, versatility, common places, oppositions, false pretenses by often incorporating humor and irony in my work. My performative practice wants to decomplex the body and the game, the self game.

Kat Cope is a PhD researcher at Burren College of Art (BCA) nd she creates wearable sculptural costumes, performance, and engages with social practice. Kat holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College (2005) and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2009).

Léah Crabé is an artist, photographer based in Brussels, and actually studying in ESA Le 75.

Luna Descamps is an artist, photographer and former student in ESA Le 75. She is passionate about cinema, which inspires her a lot in her practice. Since her childhood, she has been in love with the arts, which pushed her to start a theatrical training.

Dawid Dzwonkowski, nonbinary artist born in 1999, Poland. Currently study at first MA year at Curatorial Studies Department at University of the Arts Poznań, Poland Interested in topics connected to ecofeminism and critics of late capitalism. Coming form design background they are focusing on performance art, intermedia and curatorial studies. In their works and research they are oriented around topics of questionable future, potential behavior strategies and experiences of a queer person growing up in a village.

Joseph Hendel is a theatre director, digital and performance artist and Ph.D. candidate at Burren College of Art (BCA). His practice-based research in digital and performance art looks at the intersection of male power and digital technology. Joseph holds a a B.A. in Music from Yale College and an M.F.A in Theater and Dance Directing from UC San Diego.

Kimia Nasirian was born in 1996 in Tehran, Iran, She lives and studies in Brussels. Multidisciplinary artist -installation, performance, sculpture, video and sound- Kimia's artworks are focused on memory, individual mythology and religious and traditional rituals in middle East. Throughout her career, Kimia has drawn on personal and collective narratives to create works that challenge the functionality of human memory in political and social movements. She questions the functionality of human memory in political and social movements using her body and the traditional gestures and ceremonies. Since October 2022, she co-founded M-A performance collective in Brussels. This collective aimes to raise awareness about the situation of Iranian woman by performance art. Kimia received her Bachelor of Design from the University of Strasbourg and complete her Master in Sculpture from ENSAV La Cambre Brussels. She is also a part of Identity performer Nomade project.she has been exhibited and performed in galleries and museums across Europe and middle East.

Martyna Przybyło, artist born in 2000 in Poland. She is studying at Sculpture Faculty at University of Arts in Poznań. Mainly focuses on performance art, installations and ceramics. In her works the most important are issues that are occurring in her daily life, becoming a significant part of it. Her artistic activities are aimed at making people aware of the essence of our well-being and at the same time have a form of self-therapy. She is also very interested in topics related to social attitude, and how she resonates with them.

Aimé·es Rossi, born in 1998, from Martinique, living in Brussels since 2017 to study scenography. Has been studying scenography for four years now and has always tended towards the medium of performance, adapting each response to an exercise in space into an action. Through the Master where they have the freedom to approach scenography in the broadest sense, slowly weaving a web of links between the different attempts proposed. They are now moving towards performing installations rather than doing set design in the usual sense. For the last two years, they have taken complementary performance classes at La Cambre. During each session, they had the chance to approach performance with ten professional performers, and therefore as many different approaches. This allowed them to discover a number of angles of attack and to use different performative tools. Beyond the framework of the school, they touch on the activation of their body as a militant tool.

Fanny Schaepelynck is an artist, photographer and vidéomaker based in Brussels, and actually studying in ESA Le 75.

Barbara Stańko-Jurczyńska (2000, Poland), currently study at Sculpture Faculty at University of the Arts Poznań. Is a feminist, visual artist and member of two collectives: FAK - Feminist Creative Action and Basta - an anti-fascist collective.She is primarily interested in performance, site-specific realizations and actions with the community. Closest to her is engaged and body art. In her projects, she treats her body as sculptural matter and refers to the port wine stain - a disease with which she shares her life. In her artistic practice, she primarily uses found situations, taking them to the point of absurdity.She works in the space of violence and juxtaposes it with seemingly mismatched elements.

Maria Strzelecka (1996) - coming from a background in Cognitive Science, she is now developing her practice at the Intermedia department of University of the Arts Poznań, as well as Interactive Media and Audiovisual Performances (UAM). She looks for, and plays around with, performativity -- both as a research method and as participatory practice. She focuses on the context of technological environments, their boundaries, and the ways they enable interactions of still and moving matter, forming (non)human structures and complex organisms.

Phoebe Tohl is an artist and curator from Los Angeles based in western Ireland. Her practice centres around eco-materiality, craft, connection and care, and is often influenced by the local landscape. She aims to foster a sense of community through gatherings and personal exchanges. Phoebe earned her Bachelor's in Gender Studies, Art History, and Arts Administration from Skidmore College in 2018, and is currently finishing an MFA in Art and Ecology at the Burren College of Art (BCA). Recently she co-curated an exhibition, Meant to Fade, at Laneway Gallery in Cork (June 2023), which will take new form in Saarbrucken as part of Zeitgeist Irland 2024 programming. She has shown work at Kilcoe Studios in Cork, Newtown Castle in County Clare, and the Burren College of Art Gallery.

Asia Urbańska (2000) Currently study at Sculpture Faculty at University of the Arts Poznań. Polish artist working mainly with the performance art, objects, sculptures and intermedia arts. In her works she is mainly focuses on sociology, trauma and generational trauma, other people's influence, relationships and different attitudes towards the world. Interested in borders in art, assuming that work is always supposed to establish relationships and bring the recipient closer to the artist and the artist to the recipient. In hers searches she is looking for a natural connection with the viewer, who is always part of the work.

Recently graduated from a photography bachelor at le 75 in Brussels, Louise Valin is an artist, photographer and graphic designer currently moving around the world, chasing more and more questions to ask herself. Using dance and music as living matter to evolve, she takes every emotion that she sees and feels to put it in her art.

louisevalin.cargo.site/home

Renaud Barret worked as a graphic designer before directing several documentaries taking place in Kinshasa, in co-direction with Florent de la Tullaye.

Isabelle Bats, soon after theatre studies, writes performances out of the usual theatre format, like the « soap » Anne et Isabelle or the songs-based Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières. More recently she created the performative and autobiographical solo Girl/Fille at Théâtre de l’Ancre. In parallel she does smaller-scale performances, (Perfect Match, Smashing Hits, Blondes Make the best Victims...) or collaborates in the projects of Christophe Alix, Valérie Cordy and Jean-Claude Englebert, l’Observatoire de l’Espace du CNES, Boris Dambly... Dancer-performer for Phia Ménard in Belle d’hier, she was also co-curator of the performance evenings « Crash test » at Brass, together with Mathias Varenne, with whom she is today co-director of Théâtre La Balsamine. She is one of the founders of the feminist lobbying group F(s).

Benoît Bellet is a sound artist dealing with recording, editing, machine building and performance. He also worked with theatre and dance as a sound designer. He also studied the history of science, especially the one dealing with the perception of light and colors.

In 2003 she co- founded Teatr ZAR, the resident theatre company of the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Poland, and was a principle performer-maker in its formative, multi award winning productions. This laboratory-style company, makes work by combining in depth ethno-musical field research with rigorous physical work, to create immersive sonic and visual performances. Ditte has been on song gathering expeditions to places such as Sardinia, Georgia, Corsica, Spain, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Turkey.

Her teaching work is focused on how to hold the act of voicing, whether through song or text. She explores the sensual inner landscapes of sound and reminds us of it’s physical experience and existence.

Ditte teaches at theatre schools, universities and independent creative workshop in Europe, America and Asia. She continues to perform and is currently working as a performer and vocal assistant in a co-production with the Pina Bausch Zentrum and the American company Source Material.

Brenda Bikoko is a PhD student at the VUB. She investigates the re-appropriation of the colonial photographic archive in contemporary art with an intersectional approach. The artists she focuses on are women who are connected to Europe in one way or another. She is involved in ‘Troubled Archives’, a collective of artists and researchers who critically engage with – colonial – archiving practices, including in relation to contemporary surveillance techniques such as facial recognition software. For them, it is important to find a place of dignity from which to confront the violence and indifference towards photographs in colonial archives.

Ana Borralho (1972, Lagos,Portugal) and João Galante (1968, Luanda, Angola) met each other while they studied visual arts at AR.CO (Lisbon, Portugal) and worked together regularly in the 20th century nineties as actors/co-creators with the portuguese theater group Olho in Cacilhas/Almada (near Lisbon). They have been working together on projects of their own since 2002 on performance art, dance, theater, installation, photography, sound and video art. Since 2004 their work has been shown on international festivals in Portugal, France, Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Italy, England, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Netherlands, Canada, Iceland, Taiwan, Greece, Slovenia and Sweeden. Borralho and Galante are co-founders of the non-musicians band Jimmie Durham and the casaBranca cultural association. They are also artistic directors/curators of the contemporary arts festival Verão Azul (Lagos+Loulé/Portugal), and co-curators of the extinct electronic music festival Electrolegos (Lagos/Portugal). They live and work in Lisbon and Lagos (Portugal).

Marion Boudier is a dramaturge and lecturer in theater studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. She has worked with directors such as Joël Pommerat, Cie Louise Brouillard, Guillermo Pisani and Eve Chems-de-Brouwer. Marion Boudier is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and she is developing a research project on "The Actor and the Document".

She is co-artistic director of "Performer Les Savoirs/Performing Knowledge" https://performerlessavoir.wixsite.com/performerlessavoirs

Chloé Déchery is an author, performance artist and lecturer in theater and performance studies at the University of Paris 8. Her stage work is at the crossroads of self-writing, theoretical and documentary research, choreography and the visual arts. Her work, regularly supported by Arts Council England, the British Arts Council and ArTeC, has been shown in France, England, Australia and Estonia.

She is co-artistic director of "Performer Les Savoirs/Performing Knowledge" https://performerlessavoir.wixsite.com/performerlessavoirs

João dos Santos Martins (Santarém, 1989) is an artist based in Lisbon and Paris whose work encompasses a wide range of forms, including choreography, exhibition and publication. He studied dance and choreography in various institutions across Europe between 2007 and 2011, including P.A.R.T.S. and e.x.er.c.e. His practice has been developed through diverse collaborations with artists such as Min Kyoung Lee, Cyriaque Villemaux, Rita Natálio, Pedro Neves Marques, Ana Jotta and Teatro Praga. He also performs in the works of Ana Rita Teodoro, Eszter Salamon, Moriah Evans and Xavier Le Roy. He recently curated a cycle of performances, exhibitions, talks and workshops reflecting on the history of dance in Portugal and founded the semi-annual journal Coreia dedicated to the discourse of the arts and artists. His piece Continued Project (2015) was recipient of the Portuguese Society of Authors’ Prize for Choreography in 2016.

Christiana Galanopoulou holds a PhD in contemporary performance history following studies in art history, archaeology and curating, and she works as an independent curator. She is the founder and artistic director of MIRfestival in Athens. Her research focuses on political aspects of curatorial and artistic practices in new forms of performing arts.

Clyde Lepage is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. Through photography, performance, video and words, she weaves a narrative rooted in her personal experiences and nourished by her political commitments, notably feminism, which she asserts in performances in the public space, but also ecology. Alongside her artistic productions and theoretical research, her interest in relational practices has led her to develop educational activities centered on collective experimentation. She has notably co-directed performance and installation courses at ERG, and regularly gives performance, photography and video workshops at various venues in Belgium and abroad.

Ana Dinger would rather not define what she does, but she has studied dance and visual arts, as well as art history and theory. From early on she felt uncomfortable with categories, oscillating between theory and practice and often undermining disciplinary constraints. Her academic trajectory includes ESD, FBAUP, FBAUL (graduation in Sculpture) and UCP (post-graduation in Contemporary Art and ongoing PhD in Culture Studies). She writes about visual and performative arts, about archives, bodies and body-archives, about modes of continuation of performance-based artistic work, about ghosts as metonymic manifestations. Researcher affiliated with AND Lab since 2015, she has since followed schools and labs and collaborated (more intensely between 2015 and 2019) in the process of continuous reformulation of Modus Operandi AND. She co-curated, with Fernanda Eugenio, the project Of the Irreparable: what can an ethics of reparation do? (2018-2019), in the scope of which, among other events and activities, she contributed to the organization, editorial coordination and conception of the Book-Box AND. Both also collaborate in the Metalogue Series since 2015, a series of conversations that, each edition, inhabit a different question and materialize in various forms.

A multi-disciplinary artist, David has published best-selling and awards-nominated Children’s books, released four original music albums, and was the originator and producer of the seminal New York music documentary, Put Blood In The Music, featuring Sonic Youth and directed by Charles Atlas. David delved into the worlds of oyster farming and shoreline foraging soon after arriving in The Burren in 2105. He has a small oyster ‘allotment’ in Pouldoody Bay - a famous oyster bay dating back to the 15th century, and loves collecting seaweed and sea plants. David is the official tour-presenter for Flaggy Shore Oysters and also takes students from the Burren College of Art on shoreline foraging and oyster trips.

Fernanda Eugenio is an artist, anthropologist, researcher and educator. Her work involves field research, writing, conceptual creation, social intervention, somatic-spiritual practices and expanded performance (body, installation, video, photography and situated propositions). She works in the construction of transversal ways of doing for relational co-positioning, intimate and collective care-curation and creation by re-materialization - namely through the Modus Operandi AND (MO_AND), a methodology of ethical-aesthetic and somatic-political nature that she created and has been unfolding since the 2000s. She founded in 2011, and has since been the director of the platform AND_Lab | Art-Thinking and Politics of Togetherness (based in Lisbon and with branches in Brazil and Spain), an artisanal structure of artistic research, which operates at the intersection between arts, critical thinking, embodied political-affective practices and radical pedagogies, bringing together creators committed to the exercise of art as reciprocity that sustains life (in) common. She was a postdoctoral fellow (2012) at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and she holds a PhD (2006) and a Master (2002) degree in Social Anthropology at the National Museum - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in Dance at Angel Vianna School, Rio de Janeiro. In Brazil, she was Associate Researcher at CESAP/IUPERJ/UCAM (2003-17) and Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at PUC-Rio (2005-12). Her publications, artistic creations and collaborations circulate in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Anna Kalwajtys (1979) performance artist born in Poland. She is a graduate from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Faculty of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and the Inter- Faculty Environmental Doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In 2020, she graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in psychology, and in 2023, she graduated from the Academy of Special Education with a degree in art therapy with a focus on pedagogical therapy. She has participated in several performance art festivals in Poland and abroad i.a Japan, Hong Kong, China, Canda, USA, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Greenland. In her work Kalwajtys deals with performance, video performance and object-installations. Simultaneously, Kalwajtys works on a project beyond her discipline and undertakes curatorial tasks within the domain of performative phenomena.

Malgorzata Kazmierczak – Ph.D. in History. Since 2004 an independent curator of art projects in Poland and USA, especially performance art events. Researcher and author of many essays and reviews. Between 2011-2014 – editor and translator of http: livinggallery.info; 2006–2012 – president of the Foundation for the Promotion of Performance Art “Kesher” in Kraków, Poland; 2012–2014 – managing editor of the Art and Documentation journal; 2014–2016 – director of the City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland. Between 2016–2017 – editor-in- chief of the Publishing House and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Painting and New Media of the Art Academy of Szczecin, Poland. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of the National Education Commission of Krakow. Since 2020, vice-president of AICA Poland, and 2021-2023 vice-president of AICA International. From 2024 President of AICA International.

Paulina Kempisty - graduate of art history at the Jagiellonian University, curator, author of texts about performance art.She collaborated with the Performance Art Center in Lublin (2009) and Galeria Labirynt in Lublin (2010-2018). She participated in workshops and performance festivals in Europe and Asia as an artist and critic (Piotrków Trybunalski, Poznań, Sokołowsko, Warsaw, Berlin, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Chongqing), organized numerous lectures, video shows and presentations of performance artists in Poland and abroad. Since 2019, she has been associated with Wrocław culture, currently works at the Grotowski Institute. President of the Performance Art Foundation and manager of the Performance Platform Lublin festival since 2011.

Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University in Athens, OH, USA. She writes on contemporary art, performance, and issues dealing with gender and identity. Her current project is The Routledge Companion to Performance Art, with co-editors Lucian O’Connor, Graciela Ovejero Postigo, and Natalie Loveless. She has published in PAJ, Frontiers, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Feminist Studies, N. Paradoxa, ArtPulse, Art Papers, New Art Examiner, Genders, and Afterimage.

http://jenniekleinperformancewriting.blogspot.com/

KAROLINA KUBIK daughter of Bogumiła, sister of Katarzyna, granddaughter of Irena and Czesława, a visual performance poet and anti-fascist. Kubik as the recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, has graduated from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) in their MFA in Performance and Performance Studies program (2018) so now she has two art school degrees (MFA, Art Education, 2010, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland). She is a PhD candidate in the University of Fine Arts in Poznan and recipient of the three-year-long scholarship for young researchers awarded by Polish Ministry of Science (2018). She has participated in projects, collective exhibitions and performance art festivals in Poland and abroad (in Bratislava, Belfast, Berlin, Edinburgh, Kaunas, London, Lviv, Madison, New York, Istanbul, Jerusalem/Tel-Aviv, Skopje, Tartu, Zagreb). Karolina lives and works in Poznan in Poland.

Ophélie Mac is an afro-feminist artist who defines herself as performer and ceramist, she works in Brussels since 2012. She questions her history, her double culture, her religions, her intimacy and the relation to the audience. She has a passion for sirens, twins and hosting at home. She has performed in Brussels and Europe what she calls « ceremonials ». The spoken word came late in her work which combines hedonism et « speaking the truth ». Between lecture, confessional or late evening toilets’ discussions, the protocols she proposes call for language in many shapes, and have for focus the moment of the encounter and what is exchanged with the audience.

https://www.instagram.com/mac_coco

Day Magee is an artist, performer, and writer based in Dublin. They have exhibited in solo, duo and group shows across Ireland, including commissions as part of Tulca Festival, Arts & Disability Ireland, Interface Inagh, and the Hugh Lane Gallery. Their oratory, performance-centered multimedia installation work concerns the bodily enactment of self-mythology, drawing upon one’s phenomenology itself as a creative material. Performing images and words live and to lens, they chronicle narrative griefs of queerness, illness, and religious fundamentalism.

Monali Meher is an artist born in Pune, India, today based in Gent. Her works develop in different shapes, the most important being Performance Art. It conveys notions of decay, hybridization, transformation, creation of new identities, reshaping belongings, intimacy... in a dialogue between matter and memory. Since her art studies in Mumbai, she has performed and shown her installations in the whole world, and received many awards. Her work is represented by gallery Lumen Travo in Amsterdam.

https://www.monalimeher.com

Kira O'Reilly (b. 1967) is an Irish artist currently based in Helsinki; her practice is willfully interdisciplinary and celebrates an undisciplinarity, stems from a visual art background. It employs performance, sculpture, biotechnical practices, writing and experimental media with which to consider speculative reconfigurations of The Body in its most expanded sense, across multiple spaces, scales and temporalities, often but not always, working with site, duration and context as generative elements. Since 1998 she has exhibited widely in contexts from visual art, performance art and live art, to interfaces of art, science and technology, and dance. She presents at conferences and symposia on performance and live art, science, art and technology. She has lectured in visual art, drama and dance departments, and in renegade skools. Fellowships include SymbioticA, School of Biosciences, University of Western of Australia, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham; Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London, and most recently as the Randall International Chair in sculpture/dimensional studies in the School of Art and Design, Alfred University, New York.

The monograph Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies), edited by Harriet Curtis and Martin Hargreaves was published in 2017 by Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Live in the series Intellect Live.

http://www.kiraoreilly.com

Robin Pourbaix is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. At the centre of his practice is the ‘context shifting’. With simple means, he questions social codes, tourism habits, our relations to Heritage, to museums and to the art market. The installations and performances he creates form spaces and times which are both reflexive, poetic and semantic. Whatever the place is (arts centre, gallery, public space), the audience is invited to take part. Some of his recent creations include Robin Pourbaix Showroom, art book published by La Lettre volée and performance/signature by the 44 artists participating. Ēt qwè, Carnaval doûci ? / the oranges' carrier, in the streets of Brussels, festival Signal #6, Cifas, Born to be, performance, Halles Saint-Géry, Bruxelles, Manöver / manœuvre, a duet with Anne Müller, Galerie vorn und oben, Eupen, Repeat, public space performance for festival Trouble #10...

https://www.robin-pourbaix.com/home

Darren Roshier is a cultural worker and a political activist and doesn’t make a clear distinction between his artistic and political activities. He directs political video clips for social media, performs and creates exhibitions in and out of contemporary art institutions, campaigns for cultural workers’ rights. He questions the relationship between art and politics and how they could be intertwined. He is interested in the notion of left-wing populism and dissensus.

He studied in édhéa (Sierre, CH) and KASK (Ghent, BE), participated in various exhibitions and performance festivals in Switzerland, France and Belgium. He was elected in Vevey (CH) town council from 2011 to 2017 and is now an active member of the PTB-PVDA (Brussels, BE)

PhD in Art History, art critic, curator, event coordinator, educator, university lecturer at UMCS. Member of the Curatorial Council of the Center for Culture in Lublin and the team preparing the Lublin ECoC 2029 application. Graduate of Graphic Design and Art History from UMCS and KUL. President of the Open Studio Art Association in Lublin and member of the board of the Foundation for Performance Art. Curator of exhibitions such as Capriccia (Wejman Gallery, Warsaw, 2019), Beneath the Superficies (Galeria Tabačka, Kosice/Slovakia, 2016), A Conscious Dream (Galeria Biała, Lublin, 2016) and Cold Gaze (Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw, 2013). Author of articles on contemporary art published in Poland and abroad. For ten years she has been coordinating and co-leading the interdisciplinary creative education program Carousel of Art. She leads a series of performative workshops called Odyssey of the Performer with Paweł Korbus at the Fabryka Sztuki in Łódź. Co-author of the award-winning book Penumbra Zone. She collaborates with numerous artistic institutions in Poland and Europe. Recipient of the Medal for the 700th anniversary of the City of Lublin and the international Joseph Beuys Research Prize.

Waldemar Tatarczuk, artist, art curator. Director of Galeria Labirynt since 2010 with a break in 2022 due to the lack of objection from the Minister of Culture. As a curator, he focuses on activities that respond to social and political reality. A few months after the elections to the Polish Parliament in 2015, which the right wing won, he organized an exhibition and gathering of the contemporary art community entitled “DE-MO-CRA-CY.” It was a reaction to the first anti-democratic actions of the ruling party. In 2020, he organized the exhibition "We Are People", which was the artistic community's response to the homophobic statements of the President of Poland. At the end of the same year, the ruling party banned abortion in Poland, which caused a large protest movement throughout the country. Tatarczuk then organized the exhibition "You WIll Never Walk Alone", documenting the protests and at the same time extending them in the gallery space. Active as a performance artist since 1988, since 2000 he has been curating international performance art events in Lublin (Performance Art Center, Galeria Labirynt), Warsaw (Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle) and other Polish cities as well as in Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv).

Mara Anjoli Vujić graduated from the Art History Department of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She is a curator and producer mainly interested in the visual and performing arts. Currently she works as a curator at Cukrarna Gallery.

Ruby Wallis studied at Galway School of Design and Creative Arts and University of Wales, and was awarded a practice-based PhD by the National College of Art and Design in 2015. Recent exhibitions including Whistling in the Dark, Galway Arts Centre (solo) This Rural, Lismore Castle Arts, Bones in the Attic, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Images Are All We Have, PhotoIreland Festival, Engage, Photomuseum Ireland, Post-Picturesque Ireland, Perlman Teaching Museum, Minnesota, I Know, but Only Just, Solas Nua, Washington, Exiles, The Lab, Futures, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Moving Stills, The Dock, Contact, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts. In 2022 she published the photobook A Woman Walks Alone at Night, with a Camera, selected publications also include The Journal of Artistic Research,The New Yorker, The British Journal of Photography, Winter Papers. Her work is held by collections at Rochester Art Centre USA, and University of Galway. Wallis was awarded residencies at the CCI, Paris, IMMA and TG.. She is the chair of the board of directors at Engage Art Studios, Galway, and lectures at The Burren College of Art, Co. Clare. She is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

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