black:ECHO is an audiovisual project conceptualised by moonchile. Structured as thematic responses titled ‘variations’ the work gathers lived narratives, primarily of the Black experience and renders them resonant through sound collage, visuals, and spoken word. Each variation becomes archive; memory refracted, reverberated and held in echo.

AV Bridgwood is a poet based in London. Their debut pamphlet Snack is out now with ignitionpress and their work has been published in journals such as The Rialto, Oxford Poetry, fourteen poems, and Magma. They were highly commended in the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, won the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize and were commended in the National Poetry Competition. They are currently a postgraduate researcher in trans poetics at the University of Sussex. 

Cosima Bucarelli is a Swiss-Italian artist born in 1989. Based in London, she recently graduated from the Royal College of Art and is currently furthering her research with the Institute of Postnatural Studies. Working across sculpture, performance, drawing and photography, she explores transformation, reciprocity and cyclical return. Through embodied methods, including dance and hands-on experimentation, thinking and making become inseparable. The behaviours of materials ranging from metal to mycelium shape the work alongside her intentions. Informed by ecofeminist and new materialist thought, her practice considers how human and nonhuman bodies, materials and myths shape one another and co-create the worlds we inhabit. cosima.online

Josephine Carter is an artist, performer and poet. Their practice takes note of the spaces, materials, acts and affects of writing as opportunities for reproduction, rehearsal, and clown behaviour. TThey are a graduate of the European Fine Art Masters/DNSEP programme at The Margate School of Art and l’École Supérieure d’Art Tourcoing-Dunkerque.

Born in Taipei in 1971, Lin Chiwei is a transdisciplinary artist who received academic training in French literature, cultural anthropology and media art. Since the early 1990s, Lin has been involved in the Taiwanese counter-cultural scene. He was a founding member of noise band Z.S.L.O. and responsible for the programming of various alternative art festivals. At the same time, Lin explored the realms of religious music and art, notably temple sculpture and Taoist rituals, through intense research and field studies. These experiences, combined with his practice in noise performance and electronic music composition, developed into critical positions toward contemporary art practices. Since 2004, Lin has worked on the Tape Music and IDCM (Interhuman Dynamic Coordinated Models) series of works – synchronous protocols which allow individual autonomy in the forming of collective intelligence that leads to complex sound works. In his 2012 book Beyond Sound Art – The Avant Garde, Sound Machine and the Modernity of Hearing, Lin denies the term ‘Sound Art,’ and provides a holistic view blurring the boundary between human culture and technology. Lin’s art works were shown in various biennales and museums including Tate Modern, Pompidou Center, PSA Shanghai along with other non-art sites including local community projects, private residences, public schools, factories, churches, temples, bars and live venues in different countries around the world. Lin Chiwei lives and works in Shanghai, Taipei, and Paris.

Jon Davies is a musician, events organiser and irregular writer based in Liverpool. He produces music under the Kepla moniker, releasing albums on various labels including Purple Tape Pedigree, Chinabot, Entr'acte, Alien Jams among others. He has collaborated across disciplines with a wide range of artists including DeForrest Brown, Jr. (aka Speaker Music), Steven Warwick, Nathan Jones, Jade Montserrat and others. His practice is currently in long transition, moving into participatory group improvisations with audiences, theatre makers and other musicians, exploring the non-verbal negotiations of choreography and musicking, and dispersing the audience's gaze away from the singular stage. Along with composer and researcher Lola de la Mata, Jon also co-curates PEARL, a new sound art and performance series based in Liverpool.

Maite de Orbe is a Spanish, London-based artist working with photography, performance and moving image. Their practice is focused on the complexity of identity making, touching on otherness and belonging. Working collaboratively with dissident communities, de Orbe’s practice uses a documentary visual language at first that then lures into fantasy and world making to tell stories of real life through emotional textures, portraits and landscapes. As they examine rituals of contemporary culture, their work is equally raw and soft, deeply connected and fascinated with blending high vs low culture, intimacy and the sublime. In 2024, De Orbe started creating MOMOSTAR, an opaque character exploring violence, tenderness, gender, belief systems, mythology and contemporary symbols, it is a surreal exercise to really see oneself.

Lalu Delbracio is an artist working with performance, installation and photography. Her artistic practice unfolds through live action, material process and duration, exploring questions of time, transformation and embodiment, often shaped by ideas of queerness and ecology. Alongside this she is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the London College of Communication. She lives and works between the UK and Uruguay.

JJJJJerome Ellis is an artist and surfer who lives in Norfolk, Virginia, US. He and his wife Luísa Black Ellis live in a monastery on a creek.

Born in Lubumbashi, Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, curator and independent researcher. Since 1989, he has worked across the fields of noise, electronic and electroacoustic music, sound art and free improvisation. He runs the label and platform Syrphe, whose main focus is on sound art, electronic music, free improvisation and electroacoustic music from Asia, Africa and Latin America as well as his personal projects. Cedrik works as a solo artist and in numerous collaborative projects and bands across several continents. His tours and ongoing research have led him to perform and give talks in 72 countries across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. He also composes music for sound installations, theatre and choreography. Cedrik has written several essays, as well as the book Not Your World Music: Noise Music in South-East Asia, co-written with Dimitri della Faille. The book was awarded the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category. In 2024, he was awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 in Berlin.

A poet, writer, performer and activist, Edka Jarząb practices deep listening as a starting point for sound activism using the voice as a bridge between the public and private, and singing and improvisation as a practice of resistance. Edka co-creates the Warsaw-based community Radio Kapitał and is the author of poetic radio plays and interventions, such as the phantom protest Wielogłos [Polyphony] created in collaboration with Diana Lelonek. From 2020 to 2021 she was a resident of the experimental studio WORM in Rotterdam; and permanent collaborator of the interdisciplinary platform Q-O2 based in Brussels. Working with voice, radio waves, field recording and electronics, she creates atmospheres in, among other places, the Dance Theatre in Warsaw. Edka has participated in the exhibition Post-peace at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart; Gotong Royong; Things We Do Together in CCA Warsaw; Sound & Participation symposium in Belgium and many other events. She was the curator of the program Sirens’ Song at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Jarząb is co-author of Warsound/Warszawa published by U– jazdowski, collaborates with the magazines Glissando and Wakat, co-creates the sound collective Critical Band Ensemble and the feminist improvising group SYRENY, practicing extended voice techniques.

Petra Johnson works collaboratively with artists and researchers on long-term projects. Between 2018 to 2020 she co-curated an artist residency programme in rural China with Jay Brown and He Jixing which inquired ‘What questions are better asked from here than elsewhere?’ Since her return to the UK, she has worked with the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, and has co-authored Dance & Silence (Bloomsbury) with Vipavinee Artpradid. She is currently a Fellow at Machinaloci Space, exploring movement, touch, and sound with Franziska Boehm and Carol Mancke.

Bhanu Kapil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  For twenty years, she taught seminars on narrative and architecture, poetry, and performance at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Since 2019, she has been based in Cambridge, where she is now an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College. Kapil is the author of a number of full-length collections, including (in the UK): How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press) and Incubation: a space for monsters (Prototype). The recipient of the TS Eliot Prize, a Windham-Campbell Prize, the 16th International Poetry and People Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge), Kapil also collaborates with Blue Pieta, a choreographer, dramaturg, performer and artist. Their co-authored book of scores and essays, Autobiography of a Performance, is forthcoming in a new edition. Currently, in the Archives Center of Churchill College, Kapil is writing Novel on Yellow Paper, by hand. Her blog can be found here.

Joseph Kohlmaier (Wien) ist Künstler, Designer und Lehrender. Bis April 2026 war er Associate Teaching Professor für Geschichte und Theorie an der School of Art, Architecture and Design der London Metropolitan University. Er ist Gründer und künstlerischer Leiter mehrerer Kollektive, Organisationen und Bildungsprojekte, darunter Field Studies, das experimentelle Chorensemble Musarc (2009–heute), das Grafikdesignstudio Polimekanos (mit Stefan Kraus, 2000–2020) und das unabhängige Imprint Cours de Poétique. Durch diese Strukturen entwickelt sich Josephs Praxis, und hier hat sie ihre größte Wirkung entfaltet, indem sie Räume schafft, in denen Menschen mit neuen Ideen experimentieren. Als Kurator und Produzent hat Joseph aufstrebende und etablierte Künstler:innen beauftragt und mit ihnen sowie mit führenden Kulturinstitutionen im Vereinigten Königreich und in Europa an Projekten zusammengearbeitet, die die Landschaft von Bildung, zeitgenössischer Musik und Performance nachhaltig verändert haben. Josephs Arbeit ist vielschichtig und an der Schnittstelle verschiedener Disziplinen und Tätigkeiten angesiedelt, die zwischen individueller und kollektiver Praxis bewegen. Sie ist getragen von der Frage, wie wir lernen, wie Denken mit symbolischen Formen zusammenhängt, von der Prekarität und dem Potenzial kollektiver Handlungen, von der Ökologie des Chors sowie von marginalisierten Denkweisen, etwa der Rolle von Körperlichkeit und leiblich erfahrener Wahrnehmung (felt sense) in der Entstehung von Wissen. Joseph ist der Gründer und künstlerische Leiter von Field Studies. Er unterrichtet Figures of Eight in Wien.

Ivo Krankowski is a writer, director and film producer working and living between London and Warsaw. He is the Creative Producer of the Netflix series 1670 and the producer of the documentary film Such Feeling (2024). He recently completed filming his latest London-based short narrative film Once a Week, Wednesdays. Founder of the Warsaw-based production company LaCamera Independent. Ivo likes to sing with others and play the piano.

Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer, facilitator and journalist. Her debut pamphlet Appetite is out with fourteen poems. She won Magma Judge’s Prize and placed third in the Poetry London and London Magazine Prizes. An Adrienne Rich Poetry Award semifinalist, her poems were shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry, Bridport and Pat Kavanagh prizes, and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. She's been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition, among other awards. Her poems, translations and reviews are widely published, including in Poetry Review, Propel, And Other Poems and Wet Grain.

Claire Loussouarn is a movement artist, educator, filmmaker, herbalist, anthropologist, and writer. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her work draws on anthropology alongside movement, ecological practice and film to explore how bodies, cultures and environments shape one another. Her book How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body (Triarchy Press, 2024) invites us to unsettle human-centric perception, reclaim bodies shaped by cultural conditioning, and relearn movement as if we were creatures once more. Together with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal, she co-created We are grass, we are plants, we are Hackney Marshes — a four-screen immersive film installation with 3D sound, filmed monthly over six years of shared attention and conversation with Hackney Marshes, a common land in the heart of London which invites audiences to become the landscape itself. Her practice is rooted in a long-term commitment to place, shaped by over ten years of sustained relationship with the Marshes. Drawing on anthropology, movement and ecological ways of knowing, she explores how perception is shaped by culture, and how our relationship with land might change when we move beyond the habitual separation of nature and culture, subject and object. Through sustained attention and embodied practice, she approaches seeing not as a fixed or distant act, but as something relational, situated and ecological.

Maison Kim is a food project by Kim Kunn exploring food as a way of bringing people together. Rooted in seasonal cooking and shaped by Vietnamese flavours, French influences and years of hosting supper clubs and events, the food is generous, comforting and made for sharing. www.maisonkim.co.uk

Carol Mancke is an artist and architect who, after many years practicing and teaching architecture, broadened into individual and collaborative art practices. Carol brings time, objects, images, movement, humor, hospitality and conversation into play to prompt alternative ways of participating in everyday life. Her artwork has featured in shows in Britain, Australia, the US and Japan, and her PhD research (‘Thinking in Public: The Affordance of Hopeless Spaces’, RCA 2021) explored collaborative thinking as a public artistic practice that might build agency in the public sphere. In 2018 Carol founded machinaloci space, a place for playful research into alternative ways of being, thinking, and doing together which she ran in Berkeley California until 2022 and now in London since 2025. She has been singing with Musarc since 2022 and helping with the administration of the choir since 2024.

Maria Margaronis is a writer, translator, audio maker and radio documentarist based in London and on the island of Syros. As a writer she has published long-form reported pieces, review essays, poems and fiction, taught poetry to college students, and facilitated community writing workshops. Since 2011 she has increasingly worked in audio; her radio features for the BBC include The Ballads of Emmett Till (2018), Stitching Souls (2020), and Telling the Bees (2021). She is deeply interested in the wordless knowledge carried by voices and other sounds while remaining in love with words.

Ariana Mouyiaris is a Greek-Cypriot, Jamaican New Yorker based in London. She has always been interested in hybridity, identity, and self-expression through an interdisciplinary lens. Over the last decade, she has dedicated her research and practice to healing, trauma and grief work, presenting at the 2nd International Death Online Symposium (Kingston University, 2015) and featuring in the BBC 3 documentary Rest In Pixels (2016). Over the last few years Ariana has been practicing Family Constellations with Jill Purce and is training with Spark Academy, Zurich alongside writing a living memoir that combines cultural interrogation, ancestral archeology, auto-fiction and poetry. She looks to the land and the body as sites of inter-generational memory. Her interest is firmly rooted in somatics and the power of group work, the collective and the field, having studied Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem and Grief Studies with Fariha Róisín. She holds a BA in International Relations and Cultural Studies from Brown University and an MA in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University and the Design Museum, London. In 2026, she co-founded the charity Playrise with her husband, Alex, to champion children’s fundamental right to play, creating play structures for disaster relief and zones of deprivation globally.

Anna Pakosz is a London-based painter from Budapest. Her practice unfolds through embodied gesture and material experimentation, often using large, unstretched fabrics shaped by dye, rust, bleach, weathering and time. Balancing control and surrender, her paintings emerge as layered surfaces that register touch, movement and transformation. Pakosz completed the Tracey Emin Artist Residency in Margate in 2024 and an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2025. 

Bianca Pina is a poet, object maker and ideator. Her practice spans writing, spatial design, energy work and group facilitation, held together by an ongoing inquiry into perception, meaning-making, and the movement between inner and outer worlds. She is the founder and programmer of Present Tense, a community space in Newington Green dedicated to poetry and poetics. Present Tense envisions a world where poetics is a practice that transcends disciplines, where the affordances of poetry are present in every creative endeavour, well-prepared meal, and thoughtful conversation.

Ania Poullain-Majchrzak is a rapper, writer and filmmaker. After graduating with an MA in Interactive Multimedia from London College of Communication and spending a decade covering everything from show business and crypto to the Holocaust for outlets such as Reuters, BBC, Huffington Post and VICE, she gave birth to herself as an artist while giving birth to her daughter. She co-founded PUShY PUShY PUShY, a postpartum punk band and movement that pioneers untethered creativity, thriving in chaos, and living by the motto that it’s never too late. PUShY PUShY PUShY performances blur the boundary between band and audience through participatory rituals, from punk mother choirs to ovulation raves, turning gigs into spaces for collective release and reinvention. The band has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker and ARTE. Ania was invited to the Chaos Communication Congress, Europe’s largest hacker conference, to speak about her experience and postpartum punk. There, she led an audience of 5,000 through a participatory ritual involving sperm-guided anti-meditation, self-impregnation manifestation, fetus aerobics, birth-canal passage massage and alter-ego haikus. She is currently developing Carrot Cards, an absurdist alternative to tarot built around technological, occult and bohemian archetypes. Rather than telling people their future, Carrot Cards invites them to playdough their future using absurdity, creativity and collective ritual.

Carolyn Roy is a freelance dancer, writer and teacher. A practitioner channelling the somatic processes and understandings we use as dancers through dance and other art forms, her body of presented/published work includes poetic and critical texts, sound narratives, film and photographic projects as well as live performances and political actions. Recent work has focused on examining philosophical concepts and social issues through the materiality of bodies. Interconnectivity is its underlying theme. Her PhD in dance examined the affect and compositional potential of resonance in the space between human (and non-human) bodies. Her primary interest now is in situated and relational practice and process, moving between public performance, small scale interventions and collective experiments in workshop and residency settings. Recent performance and text projects have explored what it is to be with others in this world, what it is to be-with as dancers, the politics (and pleasure) of dancing, with reference to Jean-Luc Nancy’s Being Singular Plural and Anne Dufourmantelle’s The Power of Gentleness. Currently supported by an ACE grant, she is developing a collective listening project, Receivers, working with open-wave radio receivers, VLF listening, live audio streams and attuned bodies. Working within the independent dance sector for 30+ years as an improviser, choreographer, collaborator, writer and teacher, she has shown her work in theatres and galleries in the UK, Japan and Europe. Alongside, she has collaborated with choreographers and artists including Gaby Agis, Anouk Llaurens, Sarah Dobai, Kiera Greene, Florence Peake, Tino Sehgal and Rajni Shah. Commissions and events in 2025/26 included, in The Power of Gentleness, Chisenhale Dance Space and Siobhan Davies Studios, Interval and Touching Words, Chisenhale Dance Space, Why speak of a Rose in Winter, the Wash Houses, Bête Noire cabaret, The Blue Posts, Towards; proximity and distance and Civil Twilight: Listening between day and night (part of Live Editions), in the South Downs National Park. Carolyn has been a member of Musarc choir, a part time lecturer at Trinity Laban, teaches regularly at Independent Dance and is on the Artists Committee of Chisenhale Dance Space.

Agat Sharma is an artist, theatre maker and educator. His multidisciplinary theatre practice works with poetry, story and song, through embodiment and voice. He works from a situated position, in response to his experience of the world, approaching decoloniality as a close, intimate and political process and using embodied practice to bring individual experience and the state of the world into relation. The complexity of the relationship between land, body and voice is a theme often present in the work. He is currently beginning work on a new theatre project about coloniality, love and non-dualism. Agat grew up in India and moved to Amsterdam in 2020 to study at DAS Theatre. He is the founder of Intimidation Tactics, a theatre company and research studio. Agat lives and works in Amsterdam.

Saurabh Shivakumar is a composer, guitarist and improviser whose work moves between notated music, free improvisation and live electronics. Born in India and raised in Singapore, he lives in London, where his practice centres on listening as a shared, embodied act: feedback systems built from electric guitar, modular synthesis and the room itself, in which performers, sound and space shape one another in real time. With singer and electronic musician Anastasija Stanojevic he forms the improvising duo Red on Gold. A PhD candidate and Manson Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, he researches experimental, improvised and electronic practices within composition. His music has been performed by Riot Ensemble and The Hermes Experiment, and he has collaborated with choreographers Adhya Shastry and Jessica Ridge, Neil Luck and Ushara Dilrukshan. He has performed at LSO St Luke‘s, Music We’d Like to Hear and the 840 Series, and won The Musicians' Company Priaulx Rainier Composition Prize in 2026.

Martin Sigler is a Berlin-based writer specialising in culture, philosophy, and identity. His work focuses on the everyday, offering pragmatic approaches to how Black individuals can emancipate themselves today. After completing a Master's degree in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, he published I Am the Performative Object, a book exploring the articulation between performative objects and the construction of Black identity.

Anastasija Stanojevic is a Swiss-Serbian vocalist, composer and improviser based in London. Her work moves between jazz, free improvisation and contemporary composition, often combining voice with live electronics. Alongside Red on Gold, she performs solo as Krš, drawing on Serbian and Bulgarian vocal traditions and is one half of the Swiss duo UNSERE ELTERN. She studied Jazz Voice and Free Improvisation at Hochschule Luzern and holds an MA in Jazz Voice from the Royal Academy of Music.

Marf Summers (b.1991) is an artist and architect whose work is primarily sculptural and performance based. Their current body of work uses neolithic pre-history as portal to explore contemporary trans experience within a deep-time landscape. Their sculptural work is site-specific, using vernacular architectural ‘failures’ as sculptural methods to conjure up pictographic bodies and symbols that recall chalk hill figures, ancient cave art and late 20th century graphic languages. Past performances have celebrated the ancient craft of flint knapping, with the artist home cooking 4kg boulders from sugar, which are then knapped into sharp tools, and eaten.

Jane Tankard is an Architect, Educator, Artist and Writer. Using film, projection and drawing as a mechanism for speculations on the  space between alienation and delirium, her work situates the city as a contested political field where activation and intervention reveal complex relations with the unheimlich.   Jane currently teaches and researches at the University of Westminster, London where she teaches a Masters of Architecture design studio (DS17) with Jake Parkin. 

Sadie Tankard Bowkett is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, writing, film, print and performance. Her practice examines health and illness, focusing on the Western medical gaze and the ways institutional systems categorise, commodify and alienate the body. She is particularly interested in how these structures intensify the experiences of marginalised and ‘othered’ bodies. Central to her work is skin as a threshold between internal and external terrains. Drawing parallels between human skin and the surface of the earth, she considers how both carry visible traces of hidden histories. Her own experiences of allergy, chronic skin conditions and medical intervention become bodily palimpsests, explored through mapping, aerial archaeology and hospital architecture. Through light, perforated surfaces and medical motifs, Sadie transforms clinical markers into organic, topographic and celestial forms. Her work seeks to move experiences of illness beyond institutional definitions, proposing more interconnected, empathetic and holistic models of care.

Zoe Tankard Bowkett is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, textiles and movement-based research. Drawing on a background in dance and lived experience of chronic illness, she explores disability, body autonomy and embodied knowledge. Through collaborative improvisation, wearable sculpture and material experimentation, her work investigates how bodies adapt, negotiate space and relate to one another through processes of care, experimentation and collective exchange.

Tereza Vrabcová is a textile conservator, writer, and independent researcher who is interested in the tensions between live performance and its material artefacts, what we save and how, and the restricted capacities of formal institutions in 'saving' queer and deliberately liminal/temporally limited live art. She is interested in exploring the fruitful cross-disciplinary connections between the fields of art restoration and contemporary art/performance studies fields, exploring embodied and collective cultural remembering. Her reviews and critiques have been published in Outhouse Magazine and Repair Magazine. She has worked extensively across London and the Middle East. Her fiction writing, meanwhile, occupies itself with the surreal and magical realist.

Rushika Wick (she/her) is a poet, writer, facilitator and cultural programmer interested in experimental and multidisciplinary poetics. She has collaborated in performance with dancers and musicians and produced ekphrastic work including for the National Gallery. She is interested in ecology, erotics, philosophy and speculative fiction.

Phoenix Yemi is a British-Nigerian poet and artist writing at the intersections of body and earth, myth and memory, desire and dissent. Rooted in a surrealism of liberation, her creative practice dismantles imposed realities to summon new ways of seeing and being.