Sydney Alderman is an artist, writer and performer from Chelmsford, studying at London Metropolitan University. Predominantly sculptural, she mostly works with found materials and ready-made objects, often being more concerned with audience interaction and space than any object itself. Her practice emerges from and is underpinned by her negotiations of the body, what it means to be human and living with chronic illness. Through this she explores duration, rest, adaptation, labour, vulnerability and repetition as both lived experience and artistic method. The work engages with systems and spaces of control, using modular forms, such as simple cubes, to question ideas about order and stability. The body not as the human we think of but as a dysregulated, fleeting and adaptive system. She is currently working toward a new project that will re-imagine and disrupt the streets of Venice as a Fellow of the British Council, La Biennale 2026.

Emilie Amrein (they/them) is a scholar, artist, educator, and activist whose professional activities resist and unsettle the boundaries of academic disciplines. They locate their work in community practice, drawing on the revolutionary wisdom of abolitionist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist organizers and freedom dreamers from the Majority World. Widely regarded as one of the most progressive thinkers in the arts and social justice in the United States, Amrein’s professional life traverses a number of disciplines, epistemologies, and fields. They position themself in the confluence and trans spaces of arts education, community arts, community development, activism, and public practice in the arts. Amrein’s professional work has taken them to diverse settings, spanning professional arts ensembles, and engagement with incarcerated folx, refugees and asylum-seekers, LGBTQ+ communities, and justice-deprived locations. They have given numerous talks for national and international audiences and creative workshops with community groups. Their co-authored book, Empowering Song, is considered a ground-breaking pedagogical and epistemological frame. Amrein currently serves as Executive Director of UTSA Arts, Associate Dean for community engagement, and professor of community arts leadership, education, and practice at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Alessia Arcuri is an artist, designer and researcher interested in how language is made material through voice, body and text. This practice and research take the form of text-based experimentations, events and workshop formats, realised through both independent and collaborative processes. Alessia has presented work at Tate Britain, ICA (London), Mozilla Foundation, Chisenhale Dance Space and Nicoletti Contemporary. Currently, they explore the relationship between somatic practices, publishing and non-virtuoso performance as a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. They also work as an independent graphic designer and as an Associate Lecturer at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University.

Ektoras Arkomanis is an artist and writer. He uses film for its capacity to preserve and explore, but he is especially interested in what the medium omits, its inadequacy for describing things that are no longer there, and the narratives that are invented to fill these gaps. He is currently working on a series of films about the district of Eleonas in Athens; the latest one, work / memories of work, was released in 2024. Ektoras has published essays and articles on film, architecture, and art, and has edited a volume titled Migrations in New Cinema (Cours de Poétique, 2020). He recently co-created a collaborative installation titled Protea/Extraction (commissioned by the Anti-Apartheid Centre of Memory and Learning in London), which explored colonial histories of exploitation and commodification of natural resources in South Africa. Ektoras teaches history to architecture students at London Metropolitan University.

Edwina Attlee is a poet and a cultural historian. She teaches history to students of architecture at UCL and London Met. She is the author of Strayed Homes: Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public (Bloomsbury, 2021) and a great shaking (Tenement, 2024). She is part of the Fair Organ.

Sophie Barshall is a writer and artist from London. She is the founding editor of The Toe Rag, a print magazine concerned with contemporary culture, particularly visual art, performance, politics, philosophy and literature.

Sam Belinfante is an artist living and working in London. Along with filmmaking and photographic work, his practice incorporates curating, sound and performance. Recent exhibitions include I See a Voice, The National Festival of Making (2023); This is a Voice at MAAS Sydney and Wellcome Collection, London (2016–17) and To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, Radar at Loughborough’s Carillion (2018). Recent performances include On Falling Short, ICA, London and Museum Tinguely, Basel (2024–25), The Long, very long Journey with Laure Prouvost at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2023) and Feedback at Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2017). In 2021 Belinfante presented On the Circulation of Blood, a major sculptural and performance commission for Creative Folkestone Triennial. In 2023 he was the inaugural Artist in Residence at Sir John Soane's Museum, London. For over fifteen years Belinfante has been teaching art at a variety of levels, including as Assistant Professor of Fine Art at University of Leeds (2021–22). He is the director of Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (2016–) and a founding member of Musarc (2008–).

Lucinda Bell (they/them) is a composer and musician based in London and Oxford. Birds are a focus of their work which aims to gain appreciation of bird behaviour through their own perspectives and cognitive processes by mixing sound aspects of composition with other media types, most often poetry and photography. Combined with minimalistic tendencies and their experience of synaesthesia, used to create timbral, textural and harmonic frameworks, in their work birds can be understood authentically and with clarity. lucindabellcomposer.squarespace.com

Mariam Bergloff is a sound artist and music researcher based in London. Her work explores sampling, dissonance, and granular composition as ways of thinking through memory and perception. She is the founding director and curator of Raleigh Chapel, where she develops a programme spanning sound, art, and faith.

Biblioteka is an independent library of artists’ publications based at the Architectural Association in London. It holds a collection of over 10,000 books covering the last 30 years of art publishing, many of its titles are rare and out of print. The library runs a regular programme of readings, screenings, exhibitions and music events. It engages critically with the notion of library as a spatial, architectural, social and cultural project.

Celia Bickersteth (b.1998) looks at histories of making and craft: the production line, the product, material processes. Working across media and in collaboration. Most recently looking at the production of North Sea Fisherman’s jumpers. She currently is being trained as a shoemaker.

Mela Boev trained in performing arts with Thomas Leahbart, Pino Costalunga, Antonio Fava, Chiara Guidi, and Claudia Castellucci. She studied decorative arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and at ESDAC in Strasbourg. She has explored the idea of myth as a collective experience, a structural paradigm, a production approach, and, more recently, applied it to the writing of narratives for Comprehensible Input Language Learning and Augmented Language. She has collaborated with choral ensemble Musarc on projects that have informed the pedagogy and methodology of Field Studies since 2011, most recently on the production of The End of the World Service, Taranto, Italy, 2022. Since 2017, Mela has collaborated with the international dancing communities of DanceWell. There are three roots to my practice: Textiles, Stories, and Time. They are not intended to be strategies or devices, but rather imprints on a tortuous terrain where one can navigate imperfectly.’

Franziska is a German-born, London-based dancer, singer, performance-maker, lecturer, and researcher. She co-leads Oko Mar and co-directs Palpable, working collaboratively across performance, film, and research, alongside teaching Skinner Releasing Technique. She is currently a fellow at machinaloci space exploring collaboratively feedback loops, felt sense and ethical AI.

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

Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and teacher, living in Belgium. After having performed as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she started her studies on Electroacoustic Composition in 1992. Her work as composer is being developed through different media, widely diffused on international venues and festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. Her work has received important international awards. She is a lecturer at ARTS2 and KASK and Conservatorium Ghent.
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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.

Adam Cheltsov is an architect and graphic designer. He studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins and then Architecture Parts 1–3 at London Metropolitan University. He works at Studio Charlotte Harris, an architectural practice based in London, and teaches on the Architecture, Interiors and Product Design Foundation course at the University of East London.

Ilenia Cipollari works with voice as a living archive – part song, part ritual, part disturbance. Drawing from Mediterranean polyphony, myth, and embodied practice, she makes performances that sit somewhere between concert, séance, and soft rebellion.

Emma Clarke is a performance maker working primarily within the London-based artist duo emma + pj, a collaborative studio practice spanning performance, installation, multimedia, and co-creation. The collaboration explores humanity in extreme landscapes, creating cinematic, otherworldly environments that invite us to reimagine our place in the world. Her work has been presented across the UK at venues including the Barbican Centre, Summerhall, New Diorama, and The Yard. She was a Barbican Open Lab resident artist and has published performance texts with Bloombury UK/Methuen Drama. She recently made her Royal Court Theatre directing debut on Joel Tan’s Scenes from a Repatriation. www.emmaandpj.com

Anna Colin is an independent curator, educator, researcher and gardener. She is engaged with critical pedagogy, ecocentric social practice, institutional time and habitability, and social botany. Anna directs the MFA Curating and co-directs the Centre for Art Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was a co-founder and director, between 2013 and 2020, of Open School East, an independent art school and community space in London then Margate. Anna is the author of Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization (Villa Arson and Sternberg Press, 2025).

Grace Connolly Linden is poet and teacher. Her creative and critical work can be found in Prototype 5, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and Datableed Zine. Her pamphlet Well was published by Veer2. She is the convenor and a member of the creative research collective The Fair Organ whose pamphlets include Folk Critique (forthcoming), Wind the Bobbin Up, Recent Poems and She Moved Through the Fair. 

Rey Conquer is a writer and editor. They are the author of Conversation Time (2025), a book of translation and essays. Their debut novel, How to Live Together, is coming out with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2027. They are part of the Fair Organ, for which they co-edited the pamphlets Wind the Bobbin Up and Recent Poems by Hugh Foley among others.

Andy Cowton ‘I’ve been working as a composer and sound designer for many years. My main field of work has been writing for contemporary dance, cinema and tv documentary and fiction. I originally trained in dance and theatre at Dartington College of Arts. These studies were rooted in improvisation and collaboration, with a strong leaning towards site specific work: “technique” as such seemed a secondary consideration or rather something that was discovered and maybe self defined. It’s with this methodology in mind that I approached music composition. I was initially turned on to music/sound composition after attending a series of classes in electro acoustic music composition at Morely College London with composers Barry Anderson and Philip Waxman. I also joined agit-prop industrial noise group Test Dept with whom I toured and performed for 2 years. Over the years my work has led to long standing relationships with filmmakers , dancers and artists all of which invite new beginnings and new ways of working together. As a member of Musarc, I’m delighted to be able to extend these ideas and practices with other artists, singers and performers.’ www.andycowtonmusic.com

Martha Cruz is a design historian currently working as a Collections Researcher at Drawing Matter. Alongside researching the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice, she leads workshops for school and university students on drawings in the collection. Her personal research looks at the role of fashion in liberation and campaigning movements. She continues to engage in curatorial and editorial projects that explore social, cultural, and political histories of designing, making, wearing, living, and building

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.

Alex De Little is an artist and researcher working with sound and listening. His practice pursues listening as a practice for attuning to and relating across human and more than human domains, producing installations, live works, workshops, and long-form streams that engage specific sites and contexts, from woodland environments to hospital emergency departments. He often works through extended collaborations with ecologists, architects, and community partners, mobilising listening to attend to environmental change, institutional conditions or community organisation. His work has been presented internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Royal Academy and East Java Biennale. Alex is a Lecturer in Creative Practice at the University of Leeds and a certified Deep Listening practitioner.

Carolyn Delaney-Akande is a London-based artist who works with written and spoken word, sound and performance, currently studying at London Metropolitan University. Her practice engages with narrative and storytelling, using written word and voice to explore the intersection between identity, memory and nostalgia. A central focus of Carolyn’s work is the female ageing experience in Western cultures, and the question how toxic beauty standards and norms shape our perceptions of womens‘ bodies and identities in society.

Sandra Denicke-Polcher is an architect and National Teaching Fellow who brings over two decades of experience in Higher Education to her role as Assistant Dean (Education) in the School of Architecture at the RCA. As an advocate for inclusivity in architectural education, she champions interdisciplinarity and alternative pathways to engage with spatial practice and the profession. She has taught and published on the intersection of architectural education and practice, working with students on community live projects, involving participatory and community-led design processes to the benefit of students and community stakeholders in the UK and abroad. She has contributed to interdisciplinary research through initiatives like Crossing Cultures, which explores new pedagogical models through student residencies, fostering hands-on collaboration and blended learning. Sandra advocates for an ‘Architecture of Multiple Authorship’. Beyond academia, she is a founding partner of Public Works. Their urban regeneration project in Germany, Geesthacht an die Elbe!, was awarded first prize for exemplary building in the public realm (2003).

Svitlana Dovbush is a Ukrainian artist born and raised in Kyiv, now based in London. Working across moving image, sound, performance, and installation, she creates works that examine landscapes marked by war and the limits of representation. Her practice draws on media theory and explores the relationship between the body, the image, and the environment. She is graduating this year from BA Fine Art (4D) at Central Saint Martins and will continue her studies at the Royal Academy Schools.

John Levack Drever is a sound artist, acoustician, and researcher. He is Creative Director of the soundscape and ambiance consultancy Otoloci and currently a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge Digital Humanities, where he co-directs LAURA (Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub). He leads Working Group 1 of COST Action CA23145, Architectural and Urban Ambiances of European Cities, and is co-chair of the Inclusive Engineering Working Group for Noise Network Plus. For over two decades, as Professor of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art, John led the MMus in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-founded the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR). In 2007, prompted by his experiences as a new parent, John began investigating the soundscapes of public toilets, where the widespread adoption of so-called “ecological” hand dryers had created hostile acoustic environments. This work led him to articulate auraldiversity: a paradigm shift from an otological model of “normal” hearing to a socio-cultural understanding of how auraltypical norms are imposed. This inclusive framework is now influencing discourse and practice across music, sound studies, acoustics, and urban design. Notably, his research methods encompass both traditional acoustics and innovative techniques, such as co-composition. His latest project on dis-immersion foregrounds lived, asymmetric, embodied listening and prosthetic mediation, critically challenging the assumptions underpinning immersive media.

Aliya Ebo is a painter and performer, and her current favourite phrase is ‘generous ambiguity’. Her work as a Fine Art student at London Metropolitan University explores rich symbolism and layered allegory, engaging with social frameworks and philosophy across film, painting, sound, and performance. Her practice is increasingly drawn toward ritual and transcendence, with recent experiments in sound and cello extending her interest in duration and encounter. Having studied performing arts in Kingston, she continues to engage with the dynamics of performance through experimental choral work with MUSARC. Her work centres on the sensuous, the abject, and forms of excess, where opulence becomes strange.

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.

Damsel Elysium (they/them) is the solo project of UK-based multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Djenaba Davis-Eyo. Working across sound, video and performance, their intuitive and improvisational practice explores the body, space, object and the metaphysical, drawing on somatic techniques, ancestral knowledge and the subconscious. Their work moves between experimental sound, contemporary classical, electronics and performance, often approaching performance as ritual and the stage as altar. Their work has appeared at Tate Modern, Southbank Centre, the V&A and Fondation Beyeler.

Aisha Farr is an artist and writer who makes paintings, weavings, and poems that interrelate. Some of her miniature paintings, and ongoing details of her project on the presence of the Parsi in the British archive, can be seen on aishafarr.com

Tara Fatehi is a performance artist working across voice, dance, and text. Born in Tehran, her politically charged practice is entangled with everyday banality, unfolding through multivocality, unfinishedness, ambiguity, and play. Her work draws on histories, archives, found dance, and rebellious spectral voices. She has performed at Southbank Centre, V&A Museum, Nottdance, Cafe OTO, Montpellier Danse, ICA, and Oslo Dansens Hus, as well as in parks, streets, warehouses, and galleries. She is co-founder of From the Lips to the Moon, an ongoing experimental music and spoken word night; author of Mishandled Archive (LADA, 2020), a series of 365 public interventions; and vocalist with People of the Wind (Akazib, 2025).

Aranzazu Fernández Rangel is an architect whose practice centres around public realm design and placemaking. She holds an MA in Narrative Spaces from CSM and a PG Dip in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy from UEL. She is passionate about transforming environments, internal and external, through relationship building and participation.

Leopold Frey is a filmmaker, storyteller and researcher with an academic background in theatre, cultural studies, modern philosophy and cinema directing. He is currently pursuing a PhD in audiovisual art and ethical AI at LUCA and KU Leuven, where he is researching interactions and states of mind in human and nonhuman agents, while exploring a poetics of transformation for expanded cinema at the intersection of intuition as method, artistic collaboration, and creative media practices.

Imke Felicitas Gerhardt is a performer, writer, and researcher, exploring the spaces between movement, thought, and social relations. Drawing on her studies in politics, art history, and dance, she investigates choreography as an expanded field—one that shapes modes of encounter, knowledge production, and collective experience. Through the platform Moving Discourse, Imke develops formats that bring together artistic writing, performance documentation, workshops, and public events, creating spaces where embodied practice and critical reflection can generate new connections between ideas, bodies, and worlds.

Rani Geroult is a vocalist and educator whose work bridges performance, pedagogy, and research. Rooted in vocal jazz, her practice has grown into an experimental and participatory approach that invites collective creation through voice and listening. She has explored drama in education in China and music education in France, deepening her focus on children’s voices, the native tongue, and the role of sound in shaping identity. Central to her research is the metaphor of the house with a hidden ground, a space where memory, imagination, and inner voices find resonance.

Jawid Ghani ‘I was born in 1989 in Balkh, in the north of Afghanistan. In 2010 I left for India to study where I was introduced to ghazal music and learned to play the harmonium, which I accompany with singing. In 2016 I came to France to study for an MA in International Trade, and since 2019 I have been working at ASLC, a linguistic and cultural association in Paris. Persian culture in all its forms has always been central to me. In my work I share Persian poetry and Afghan music in Europe, and strive to preserve Afghan musical heritage by every possible means. My repertoire includes Persian ghazals, Afghan folk songs, and more contemporary works by popular Afghan singers such as Ahmad Zahir, while also drawing inspiration from Indian music. In recent years I have also composed original pieces blending Afghan traditions with French poetry (Ronsard, Éluard, Louise Labé, Baudelaire, Verlaine). With fellow musicians I perform regularly in France, in museums, theatres, universities, migrant centres, and embassies (Tadjikistan et Afghanistan). We also participate in local cultural events and, more recently, had the opportunity to share Afghan music with a wider audience on French television in Culture Box.’

Anastasia Glover is a British-Greek architect, tutor, soprano and linguist, and the founding director of Glover Architects. She is a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, co-running a third year Architecture studio. She is a founding member of Musarc, an avant-garde choir collective who perform all over Europe. She also speaks five languages and worked as a Japanese and Chinese interpreter for the BBC.

Tommaso Gorla is an Italian artist and researcher based in London since 2012. Trained in Fine Art in Italy, he obtained a PhD in Anthropology of Images in France. He is interested in image agency and affect, exploring how artefacts impact and govern thought processes and behaviours. His practice spans from drawing to editorial research, and has been exhibited internationally. He is a founder of the journal on space and place, Anima Loci and has worked as an editor for the Tokyo-based platform of research on contemporary drawing, Drawing Tube. Alongside his practice, Tommaso has taught at universities and institutions in the UK, the EU, and China.

Henrietta Hale is a movement and performance artist practicing across interdisciplinary fields, bridging somatic and kinaesthetic awarenesses to social sciences and history. She co-founded Dog Kennel Hill Project, (DKHP) in 2004, as a collective research laboratory. Their productions spanned theatre dance pieces, video works, site-specific productions in outdoor or unusual spaces, gallery exhibitions and installations. A recent example, Neurolive, 2023 was a collaboration with a team of neuroscientists interrogating Liveness as felt and imagined phenomena, as well as the use of various neuroscience technologies attempting to measure it. Heni is Lead Tutor and lecturer in embodied practices for an MA/MFA Creative Practice, a partnership between Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios and Trinity Laban. Her current post-graduate research is with the archive of Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and through the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. She explores how movement and embodied re-enactment can activate archives and reimagine past encounters with group relations, automation and industrial systems.

Anna Hart is an artist and coach. She seeks possibilities for expansive creatureliness as a consequence of ‘staying’ in public landscapes and spaces – making situated walks, performance, installation, and teaching projects. Anna is organiser of AiR, a project studio researching and supporting public practice in the local since 2006.

Francesca Hawker (born 1992, UK) lives in Brussels and is a Research Assistant at LUCA Ghent, where she is exploring embarrassment in performance art. She often works collaboratively within the ‘slapstick of ordinary relation’, defined by Lauren Berlant as a way of ‘trying to stay in the same enough conversation in order to build something together that neither of us could build by ourselves.’ francescahawker.net

Jan Hendrickse is an artist, performer, researcher and educator, receiving commissions for concert performance, installation works and dance scores. He has appeared with a range of artists from electronic and freely improvised musics, such as Ornette Coleman, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor and David Toop, as well as featuring regularly as a soloist on traditional instruments for major film scores. He designs, makes and modifies instruments for performance and workshop processes. He trained as a western Classical flute player, but has researched and studied many other flute traditions. He now performs mostly with self-made and traditional instruments including Turkish Ney, Tanzanian Filimbi, Chinese Xiao and Dizi as well as Rajasthani Satara and Alghoza. Jan has taught Turkish Ney at the Yunus Emre institute in London as well as in private classes. Jan teaches socially-engaged practice and practice-based research at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and has also led creative projects for in communities around the world including Gambia, Thailand, Germany and Gaza and the West Bank. His PhD research examined the epistemic models adopted in creative practice. He is experienced in facilitating conversations and interviews and has chaired discussions with the musicologist Georgina Born and artists Mark Fell, Michael Gordon and CC Hennix, amongst others.

With a practical curiosity and hands-on feminist learning approach, Hurley (b. 1994, London) is interested in DIY methods, support structures, acts of devotion with a focus on speculation, walking, non-literate archiving and evidence of existing. Her current work is collaborative and relational; an approach shaped by her life on a canal boat. After studying Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. Hurley joined the EMBASSY committee in Edinburgh. She is currently studying Curation at the RCA.

Jo Hutcheson (they/them) is a medical practitioner working in Medicine for the Elderly at UCLH, with a focus on acute medicine, dementia, major trauma, and gender-affirming healthcare. They are interested in how large institutions are constrained by heteronormative and hierarchical systems, and advocate for underrepresented communities and improved access to care. A former professional footballer with a background in teaching and physiotherapy, Jo's work is grounded in an understanding of the body as both functional and contested – shaped by cultural, institutional and social pressures around performance, sexuality and gender. Their research explores dance, environment, and communal practice as means of reducing social isolation and supporting preventative health in later life.

Nina Ijomone is a Polish multidisciplinary artist based in London, working across photography, installation and design, with curatorial experience supporting artistic projects. Rooted in autobiographical experience, Nina’s practice explores memory, identity, relationships and neurodivergence through themes of migration, psychology and the body. Influenced by music, sound and performance, her work reflects on how people adapt to new environments while reshaping spaces through familiarity, ritual and personal experience. Colour, texture and spatial organisation play a central role in her practice, functioning both as emotional language and as a way of constructing immersive visual experiences that speak to universal emotions.

Maddalena Iodice (Italy) is an artist based in London. Her practice frames the body as a living site of knowledge, a porous threshold where histories, desires, and sensuous modes of being converge and transform. Drawing from poetry, somatic research, and intuitive voice-making, Iodice’s work unfolds through immersive performance scores. Experimenting with the acoustic possibilities inherent in language, she articulates expansive verbal landscapes where semantic meaning collapses into movement and vibration.

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.

Yiannis Katsaris is an artist and educator. His practice is rooted in documentary, using photography, creativity and visual arts. His work moves beyond personal narratives to explore the broader cultural context. His current research proposes a relational model of portraiture that moves beyond likeness as the primary marker of identity. Yiannis’sphotography has featured in solo and group exhibitions. He has also created video art installations and lighting design for theatre and opera productions in venues across the UK and Europe. Yiannis often works on commercial, editorial and creative commissions. He is also the video editor at Panos Pictures, a photo agency specializing in global social issues. Yiannis is currently a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.

Barbara Kaucky is an Austrian architect who studied in Vienna and Berlin before moving to London, where she co-founded Root And Erect with Susanne Tutsch in 2003. Barbara serves on multiple design review panels and for several years chaired the RIBA Small Practice Group. She is passionately invested in regenerative, living systems design and trains with Regenesis Group, a forerunner in the field of regenerative development. Outside her professional life Barbara volunteers with Core Landscape, a mental health and gardening charity.

Adam Khan is an architect, activist and singer based in London, exploring the weaving of these together in practices of collective intimacy, presence and empowerment. These have been projected at a large and public scale with a commitment to social housing and urban co-design, and on a more intimate scale as places of emotional nurture for people experiencing trauma and vulnerability. An intersectional position on resource economy, social equity and healing underpins a deep interest in the as-found, extending to urban repair, radical retrofit and joyful improvisation.  

Torange Khonsari is Reader in Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Empowering Society (CARES), where she leads interdisciplinary research addressing civic transformation and socio-ecological urban futures. Her work positions architecture within wider debates on democratic governance, investigating how commons-based frameworks can reshape relationships between citizens, institutions and the built environment. Combining practice-based inquiry with participatory action research, she develops experimental design methodologies that translate grassroots knowledge into spatial, institutional and policy innovation. Alongside her academic role, she is Founding Director of Public Works, a practice widely recognised for advancing participatory urbanism and civic design. Khonsari has held senior advisory roles with organisations including the Design Council, Greater London Authority and the Design Museum, and previously worked with UN-Habitat. Her forthcoming monograph Commons and Public Partnership: Legitimising a Commons Political Sphere (Bloomsbury, 2026) consolidates two decades of interdisciplinary research into new models of civic infrastructure and urban governance.

Dan Knight trained as a sculptor at St Martin's, making large kinetic sculptures and sound machines — works that allow the viewer to interact, interrelate and explore, to be immersed in sound. As well as making objects, he uses his body's movement and his voice, sometimes combined with his constructions, sometimes independently. Working always between several dimensions, for some years Dan has been making a series of oil paintings portraying the inner workings of a being who is part plant and part human. This has led him to perform as a plant being, expressing natural cycles of growth, death, decay and resurrection through improvised movement and song.

Łukasz Kopeć is a technologist and a builder. He is interested in boundaries: between quiet and loud, real and artificial, between systems and places.

Annelie Kops studied architecture and urbanism in Berlin, before settling in London in 2006 to develop her practice as an architect and teacher. In 2011 she joined experimental choir Musarc and has since participated in the inception, development and performance of most of its projects. As an architect working at a leading London firm, she specialises in buildings for work and education, but has also delivered a theatre building, worked on homes and residential projects, and developed meanwhile use and placemaking strategies. As a lecturer she has taught architecture at the University of Bath, the University of Greenwich, and Central Saint Martins where she is currently teaching a module on ethical practice. Annelie’s private practice as a designer and maker is driven by a curiosity in how things are made and the processes and techniques involved. In 2025 she co-founded Kaufman Studio, a ceramic workshop and gallery in Stoke Newington, with a focus on sustainable practice.

Yü Kops-Chow is a final-year BA English Literature student at King’s College London. He is a writer, photographer and filmmaker working frequently on short film projects, street photography projects, and prose pieces. His dissertation is directed towards the philosophical and literary implications of the journalistic novel and other creative non-fiction pieces.

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.

Mara Lamatic is a writer and visual artist from Bucharest, Romania. In her work, she often reflects on themes such as belonging, interiority and the uncanny, drawing inspiration from her childhood in Eastern Europe and her experience as an international art student in the UK. Her bilingual writing practice mainly consists of diaristic reflections, place-writing, modernist-inspired poetry, and short academic essays, while her illustrations function as extensions to her words, a means of further articulating feeling and thought through visual narration.

Ava Lang is a final year MA Sociology and Politics student at the University of Edinburgh. Having attended School21, a student-centred state secondary school with a range of alternative pedagogical approaches (ie, co-designed curriculums, project-based, cross-subject, Oracy classes etc) gave her an early appreciation for diverse ways of learning. Contrasting this with traditional sixth form and university experiences led her to the belief that the education system needs urgent rethinking, which now drives her dissertation.

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.

Indigo Leveson-Gower is an architectural designer and artist working in public realm and landscape with a focus on participatory design processes. Her interests lie in collaborative creative thinking and making practices, having recently co-run a two-week workshop in Finland that explored collective drawing and thinking through natural-dye making and site-specific installations. Other interests and previous work include founding an art and events collective that held non-profit art, music and poetry events, aimed at creating an accessible space to make and display art.

Ang Li is a curator and researcher based in London. Working across experimental writing, speculative design, and embodied practices, she explores how knowledge emerges through encounters between bodies, technologies, and environments. Her work investigates the distance between observer and observed, and how technologies reshape the body as vessel, avatar, and site of relation. She is interested in embodied forms of attention, intimacy, and collective experience that remain porous, unruly, and open to transformation.

Phillipa Longson is an architecture and design educator and researcher, working with themes around place-attachment, participatory design, everyday place-making, and practices of queering. She is currently an artist in residence with The Fieldwork Project in South London, developing a community studio space with marginalised groups that explores the potential for collective design and making practices to foster sense of place and agency.

Rachel (she/her/they) is a creative practitioner with over 25 years’ experience as a dance artist, choreographer, movement director and facilitator. She works as an artistic collaborator with the performance collective Dog Kennel Hill Project. Her practice spans performance, choreography and embodiment, informed by the study of Eastern embodied philosophical systems and Living Anatomy training. Following an MA in Creative Practice at Independent Dance/SDS/Trinity Laban, she has developed an ongoing inquiry into slime as a material for contemplation, communication and composition. Her work engages context-specific, collaborative research across performance, pedagogy and lived philosophy.

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.

Neil Luck is a musician based in the UK. Neil’s work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself. Neil’s work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings. Neil is the founder and director of the music-theatre ensemble ARCO, and a co-founder of artist cooperative squib-box. He performs with artist Jennifer Walshe in the duo WACK. Independently, he has also worked with and written for people and ensembles in the UK and abroad, and presented work at music venues, festivals, and galleries internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern,  Venice Biennale, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (NYC), BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), in Vilnius and Aarhus Capital of Culture festivals, and Tokyo Experimental Festival. His music has been released on several labels including Entr'acte, Nonclassical, Accidental Records, and squib-box. Neil has been recent resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), Mahler Lewitt studios (Spoleto, Italy), and at Kinosaki Arts Centre (Japan).

Hannah Machover is an artist and poet from London. Her work is often rooted in oral tales, myths and anecdotes; stories are translated into small-scale intricately pieced drawings, ceramic objects, writing and prints. She teaches workshops and classes at the newly established StudioLino, a print workshop in central London, and over the past eight years has been coordinating the workshop series and project Stories in Transit, created by writer Marina Warner.

Lize Maekelberg ‘I create objects and textiles that picture my dreams, allowing my imagination run free on how I would love the world to look. Clinging on to feelings of nostalgia, happiness, loneliness, optimism, and uncertainty, I’m currently working on an ever-growing installation series of beach towels. I took an optimistic approach to my own doubtful artistic and personal quest after graduating from art school. Why do I make this (art)work? What drives me? How do I feel when I create this work? In search of playfulness, collectivity, fun, pleasure, beauty, festivity, freedom, and a place to land, I wash, card, spin, and dye wool for a farm just outside of Ghent. The work serves as an invitation for a collective, peaceful moment of relaxation. In my practice, I perpetually balance between what is beautiful and kitsch, between the heritage of domestic textiles and my own, queer, playful little life. I swing between performing caring rituals and a reckless painterly etiquette, pingponging between my imagination and encounters with the real world. By turning away from the horrors of today and reflecting on them, I aim to create playful, colorful, and intimate work. The long process of washing, carding, dying, and spinning the wool, beginning from a raw material, is a time-consuming, all-consuming waltz of care. When working with wool, I always imagine the sheep as close friends of mine. I make something out of their beloved winter coat. In the beginning of 2023, I started a long-lasting residency with Manoeuvre, a Ghent-based co-creation collective. Working with people of different atmospheres, we cook, sing, knit, crochet, felt, and weave to make art that intertwines craft and daily life. It is a joy to work, cry, laugh, and dance collectively, together, horizontally.’

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.

Paul Martin Art School: Painting, Reliefs, Sculpture, Environment & Performances with fellow students including electronic tape. Sculpture: Tape Pieces (with fan) Film: River Film, Mist on Mountains etc. Competitions: Botanic Gardens Station, Glasgow; Bellevor Tor, Dartmoor; River Crossings, London. Book: Spirals through Eye. Exhibition: Along the Roman Wall – LYC Museum, Banks (photographs). Sound: Crossness Pumping Station. Field Studies 2012 and following with Davide Tidoni, Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki, Joseph Kohlmaier and others. Musarc Choir since 2013. Unbuilt roads. 

Hugo Max is an artist-filmmaker and musician based in London. His films have been programmed by the Austrian Filmmuseum, TIFF Cinematheque and Modern Art Oxford and are distributed by sixpackfilm. He performs live scores to silent films on solo viola, regularly soundtracking screenings at London's Prince Charles Cinema and Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK. Max studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and Film at the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film, Vienna.

Jane McAllister is an academic, illustrator, and architect educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and Cooper Union in New York. She is currently the co-BA Architecture Course Leader at AAD, where she also leads practice-based teaching through live community projects in the UK and internationally, collaborating with universities and NGOs. Her work often explores participatory design and cross-cultural exchange. She previously co-ran a design atelier focused on “crossing cultures,” investigating how migration shapes settlement, identity, well-being, and systems of self-governance. Her practice-based PhD examines City Farms as resilient, self-governed urban entities, presented as a graphic novel. McAllister’s publications include research on Belmonte Calabro and collaborative sustainable development, as well as writing on City Farms as models for growth and resilience. Her work has appeared in Environmental Science & Sustainable Development, ORO Editions, and ARQ, contributing to discourse on rurality, suburbia, and community-led urban futures.

Ed McKeon lectures on Music Management and Curation at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a curatorial producer and researcher, he is concerned with untangling relations between gallery arts and post-experimental musics. His work addresses the meaningful articulation of time in artistic practice and production, and how musical and more-than-musical practices create time-bound public spheres or communities of relative strangers. His book Heiner Goebbels and Curatorial Composing After Cage is available from Cambridge University Press. 

Lucia Medina is an architect based in Zürich. She is interested in the intersection between culture, language and form, and their capacity to respond to the contemporary world. Lucia is currently working on a book about alternative education as a means of rethinking extractive systems within architectural practice, which builds on her experience curating a large international assembly through the decentralised organisation European Architecture Students Assembly.

A multi-disciplinary artist based in Essex, Isis currently specialises in conceptual art that appropriates pop cultural iconography, often endeavouring to synthesise collective experiences that invite audiences to have an embodying experience through the work. The process typically involves multiple artists, as the ‘fun’ of making in a community is prioritised. Fundamentally, Isis believes in living as a form of research, and ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’.

Saori Miraku is a pianist-composer, improviser, and performer based in London. Her music is an invitation to transcend, to reach beyond the everyday world and into a place of stories, memories, imagination, dreams and transformation. Blending elements of neoclassical composition and ambient piano textures, her music opens into immersive sonic landscapes of sound, space, and atmosphere, evoking a sense of the infinite. She collaborates with musicians and artists from different fields, where music unfolds intuitively in the moment. Her work also extends into film, where she composes and performs live scores for screen. Alongside her solo work, she performs in duo, trio, and larger ensembles, and is active within improvisational music scenes. She also appears in short films, music videos and photographic projects. Saori released her piano solo album Many Times on Earth in December 2023, composed and performed by her, and has collaborated on recordings with other artists. New solo works and collaborations are currently in the making.

Kuba Modrzejewski’s choral practice now approaches its 20th anniversary. He performed in venues as diverse as Royal Festival Hall, Alpine ruins, Tonhalle Zürich, and Milton Keynes shopping mall. In 2018 he devised an experimental performance for Musarc, bringing questions of national pride and competitive collaboration into the group’s Odrathek festival. By day Kuba is a software engineer making public transport easier to use.

Calum Montgomery lives and works between the UK and Sweden. He studied engineering and architecture and works across building, design, and education. Recent building work includes the restoration of a sixteenth-century farmhouse for a performance artist in France and recent design work includes furniture for an exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (with Jägnefält Milton AB). Last summer, together with Indigo Leveson-Gower, he designed a student workshop in Finland. He is currently studying his Masters in Architecture at London Metropolitan University.

Chloé Monti is a Swiss-born, queer artist currently studying at London Metropolitan University. Their practice is grounded in the restructuring of media as substance to disrupt harmful social, economical and environmental systems. Chloé is currently searching for the space where digital aesthetics become tangible and where matter becomes code. They are also founder and part of a collaborative podcast which practices learning through meaningful social interactions.

Matilda Moors is an artist and academic based in London who works in sculpture, print, writing and installation. Her practice and research focus on; the material quality of flatness, depictions of the cartoon body and the relationship between cuteness, violence and abjection. In her work she deploys languages associated with youth culture to create pieces with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness that probe contradictions in contemporary pop culture. Moors is currently making a series of sculptures that struggle with their own volume for an upcoming show at The Sweet Shop (Lewes). As well as continuing to write about the idea of hyenic polyphony informed by her time at Praksis Oslo and collaboratively developed at the Antivoid Alliance residency in Newhaven. She was a founding member of School of the Damned, and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. Previous shows include Blusher Transition Gallery (Leicester), The Horror Show Somerset House (London), Serpent and Shadow The Royal Academy (London), Auto Aim Geidai (Tokyo) and The Amber Room Matt’s Gallery (London).

Alice Motta works across screen and stage as an actor, movement director, and is an intimacy coordinator. She trained at LISPA / Art-Haus Berlin, specialising in Jacques Lecoq’s pedagogy with a focus on embodiment. Her solo work Sacred Bath was shortlisted for “Most Surprising Movement Performance” at the South East Awards and has toured internationally. Alice has performed and choreographed music videos including The Antagonist – Observe (2023) and Purple Rose (2026), and appeared in TV series and short films. As an intimacy coordinator, she has worked on productions currently in post-production. Her poetry has been award-winning and widely published.

Amélie Mourgue d’Algue’s practice focuses on artistic mediation and collaborative art, with a keen interest in the experience of linguistic plurality. In 2021, she co-founded the artistic research group Bureau des Heures Invisibles (bhi), located in Aubervilliers, Greater Paris. She is the initiator of Ensemble Plurilingue, produced by the bhi, that has brought together professional and semi-professional artists, actors, singers and musicians living in and investing the soundscape of Aubervilliers and Greater Paris for collective and participatory compositions since 2022.

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.

Robert Mull is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Limerick, a Visiting Professor at Umeå University, Sweden, and a Director at Publica, London. Robert was previously Director of Architecture and Dean of The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, and Head of Architecture and Design at Brighton University. Robert now leads the Global Free Unit, a transnational educational structure with academic, research, NGO and institutional partners focusing on live projects within areas of displacement and war, and institutions including prisons, schools and communities. Robert is currently working with partners in Ukraine in support of the Kharkiv School of Architecture, in Cairo in support of displaced Gazan students and academics, and building for Syrian families returning to the city of Homs.

Annja Neumann is a theatre-maker, curator and digital media artist who creates site-specific and immersive mixed-reality performances that both embed systems change and enable participants to experience the dynamics they face in the systems they inhabit, especially as AI-mediated technologies are increasingly being given social roles. This practice, crossing the fields of arts and organisation, socio-technological systems design and systems psychodynamics, shapes Annja’s work as Principal Artist-Researcher and Organisational Consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’s Futures Lab in London. At the heart of Annja’s work is FAUST SHOP, developed as Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge and as part of her performance-based research project Re-staging Public Spaces. It asks questions about agency and what Faustian pacts we make with digital technologies in our daily digital lives. Annja’s – including Dr Tulp and the Theatre of Zoom, Waiting Room and The Great Wurstel – has been commissioned for national and international audiences with the latest productions running at the Cambridge Festival (2022-24), the British Computer Society in London (2025) and as part of the Tavistock’s Consulting and Change programme in China (2026).

Michael O’Hare is a musician and artist whose work focuses on blurred states and dangerous emotions. Their latest performance project Erotechre examines lust, body envy and on-stage uncertainty with recent performances in Jauna Muzika, Counterflows Festival, Cafe Oto and Hanoi Bedroom Shows. 

Professor Jason Allen-Paisant, FRSL, is a Jamaican scholar, award-winning poet, and writer. His work explores how Afro-diasporic artists and communities shape their futures through embodied philosophies, focusing on the intersections of poetry and philosophy. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry. His debut poetry collection Thinking with Trees won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize, and was an Irish Times and White Review book of the year. Self-Portrait as Othello, his sophomore book of poems, won the UK’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023 — the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize; it is one of the rare books to have accomplished this feat. His other books include the philosophical treatise Engagements with Aimé Césaire and The Natural World, a collaboration with photographers David Hartt and John Edmonds and curator Nathaniel Stein.

He has edited various publications and his work is widely anthologised. His latest publication, The Possibility of Tenderness, turns toward land, earth, memory, and history, asking how tenderness—amidst histories of violence—might become a mode of survival, a practice of care, and a way of imagining new futures. Jason holds a doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. He has received fellowships from Colombia University, the University of East Anglia, and the Leverhulme Trust. His recent art collaborators include British painter Chris Ofili, the Manchester Art Gallery and the Cincinnati Art Gallery. Jason is Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and an associate editor of Callaloo Literary Journal. He lives in Leeds with his partner and two children.

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. 

Scout Parks is a Canadian writer and musician living in London for the last four years. He trained in classical voice at the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavik, studying music in Icelandic. Following that, he completed a Bachelor in Creative Writing and English Literature at the London Metropolitan University. His focus there was in horror, especially body horror. He currently works as an event coordinator and bookseller for Waterstones and enjoys performing folk and country music around London.

Shamoon Patwari is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and urban practitioner with ARCSR (Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources). His work focuses on learning through making and has developed through long-term involvement in community-based projects and research in contexts of urban change. He has been involved in a range of live projects that bring together students, practitioners and NGOs, supporting processes of design, building and collective engagement. His work often operates at the intersection of education and practice, exploring how knowledge is shared, adapted and developed through working with others. He has co-edited publications including Learning from Delhi (2010) and The Architecture of Three Freetown Neighbourhoods (2013). He is interested in how small-scale architectural interventions and collaborative processes can open up alternative ways of learning and making in the city.

Loïs Pluymers is an artist and saxophone player working at the intersection of sound, movement, and materiality. Her artistic practice moves between the individual and the collective, between the visual and the musical, between fixed form and improvisation. Central to this is a desire to blur the boundaries between disciplines: to understand music as movement, image as sound. Her practice is grounded in listening: not just to sound, but to what materials, environments and objects have to say. I search for moments where different systems – musical, physical, social – overlap, break open or rub against each other, where patterns unravel. In search for the tension between the mechanical and the personal, the coded and the chaotic, the structured and the improvised.
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Michael Poole is: breaking and mending, rocking on a chair, framing things, measuring potholes with his ex-girlfriend’s tape measure, flossing (almost) daily, oversimplifying the complex, trying to kick the habit, overcomplicating the simple, usually quite softly spoken, often found sitting on the fence, smiling with all his teeth, learning how to become part of the street. He prefers straight lines drawn without a ruler, goes round the roundabout twice and is finalising a delicate arrangement with an awkward tree.

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.

Becs Rainey is a producer, arts programmer and facilitator who works across fashion and advertising and runs the organisation Girls in Film UK. Girls in Film is a volunteer-run organisation that champions, represents and connects the new generation of women, trans and non-binary creatives. They have partnered with institutions like Tate Modern & Britain, BFI, and Barbican. The work is focused on widening access, redistributing resources and designing programmes that respond to structural barriers. Becs’s work crosses systems - working with institutions, brands, artists and communities. She leads through influence, facilitation and change by enabling others and creating environments for people to thrive.

Red on Gold is a voice and guitar duo formed by guitarist Saurabh Shivakumar and vocalist Anastasija Stanojevic. Blending voice and guitar with electronic effects, the duo explores the meeting point between composed form and spontaneous creation. Drawing on their distinct cultural and musical backgrounds, they shape soundscapes that move between intimacy and abstraction, lyricism and texture. Red on Gold seeks to create an open dialogue where every performance unfolds as a new conversation, balancing structure and freedom, familiarity and surprise. Their music invites listeners into a shared space of reflection and discovery.

Kate Rogers is a London-based designer and researcher. Her practice is shaped by an interest in the structures surrounding how we learn and share knowledge, and how these structures are sustained across both physical and digital spaces. She holds an MSc in Digital Anthropology from UCL and a BA in Communication Design from Portsmouth University. In addition to her own practice and work as a sessional lecturer in graphic design, she has led workshops in primary schools to foster engagement with creative practices through tactile and collaborative learning. In 2024, she established Sundries Press, a community-situated publishing platform.

Júlia Rúbies Subirós (she/they) is a graduate of P.A.R.T.S. She has worked with choreographers including Alix Eynaudi, Georgia Vardarou, and Mette Ingvartsen, touring across Europe as a performer. She has been involved in collective research through Cascades, which she initiated in Barcelona, and in Brussels through her participation in MOTA000 and as co-initiator of Accompany Class. She has been entering a new phase in her work, where the voice becomes central to her choreographic practice, unfolding as both subject and medium in the creation of her upcoming piece She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore. jurusu.cargo.site

Shamica Ruddock is a London-based artist-composer thinking through film, live improvisation, recorded musics, collaborative research and glass. Research interests encompass vernacularity, (techno)creolisation, transferral and legibility. Shamica is inspired by detours and tangents, mishaps and accidental arrivals. www.shamicaruddock.com

Jacek Ludwig Scarso is Reader in Art and Performance at London Metropolitan University, where he is Deputy Director of CREATURE (Research Centre in Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement), leads the MA Public Art & Performative Practices and is University Teaching Fellow. He is Senior Curator at Fondazione Marta Czok (Rome/Venice), developing international partnerships exploring new strategies in art and social engagement. Jacek is a regular speaker on public art, performance and contemporary museum practices, recently hosting the Inaugural Symposium for London Sculpture Week, in partnership with The Line, Frieze Sculpture, Fourth Plinth and Sculpture in the City. He serves on the Excecutive Board of City Space Architecture, is Member of the Steering Committee of Public Space Academy, Member of the British Art Network, Research Associate for Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna and Trustee of The Line, London’s first dedicated public art walk. His artistic and curatorial research projects have been presented worldwide, including Tate Modern, Pratt Institute in New York, Museo MACRO in Rome, ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) and RMIT University in Melbourne, and the British Council in Hong Kong.

Anna Schabel is an architect and director of Wilton Studio Ltd. She is a writer for architecture magazines and visiting university critic. She produced a film about women architects and chaired Women in Architecture UK. She is a school governor and trustee of the Hackney School of Food.

Nic Seuren is a systemic coach and constellation practitioner based in the UK. Originally from New Zealand, she gathers people together to explore the questions that matter – trusting that what's personal is often collective too. Systemic work starts from the belief that we are always part of something larger – families, organisations, histories – and that understanding those wider forces can shift everything. Constellations bring this to life through the body, through the knowing field: a different way of knowing that sits at the borders of the known and unknown, and is, at its heart, a collective creative practice for these times.

Oindrilla Sinha is a user experience (UX) designer and multidisciplinary creative studying at University of the Arts London. With a background spanning healthcare and education technology, her practice sits at the intersection of design, culture and technology, focussing on how emotions and contexts shape engagement. She is now exploring more material and spatial forms of experience design at UAL. Her current work explores decolonized approaches to design that foreground epistemic justice and cultural plurality. She is also developing a creative project as a 2026 Venice Biennale Fellow with the British Council that investigates how people communicate nonverbally through touch, gestures, proximity, movements and shared attention, and how these subtle interactions create moments of connection that transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries.

Listening, sounding, performing, choreographing & facilitating, Tanya Soubry (she/they) works with the body, voice, place and matter, tending to the choreographic, the sonic and the ecological. Rooted in decoloniality, political ecology and environmental justice, Tanya researches, imagines and creates with, following tensions, curiosities, desires and care, so as to process the past and present and create possibilities, through sensuousness, humour, collaboration, collectivity and solidarity. As a choreographer and artist, Tanya has created, performed and toured work in Europe, Canada and Hong Kong, from stage performances, to immersive and participatory projects, to gallery installations, and now site-sensitive land-based work. www.taniasoubry.com

John Stephens is a teacher and trade union organiser based in East London. He is the co-chair of the NEU New Professionals and Young Workers Section for London and the convenor of the Education in a Capitalist Society reading group. His writing has appeared in rs21 and Red Pepper.

Axel Stockburger is an artist who works as Associate Professor for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He studied Visual Media Arts with Peter Weibel at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and Art History as well as Philosophy at the University of Vienna. In his PhD from the University of the Arts, London, he researched the spatiality of digital games in the context of contemporary art. In his art and research, Stockburger focused on a wide range of different phenomena, tracing the paradigm shift in how culture is produced and consumed that emerged with digital technologies. He produced artworks engaging with global forms of fan culture and cosplay, as well as digital play and games. In his theoretical work he began to focus more specifically on questions of canonization and the critique of the canon, in contemporary art. His videos and installations have been exhibited internationally. He is a member of the research group Technopolitics and, since 2020, a member of the board of the artist association Secession, Vienna.

Bo Tang is Director of Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources (ARCSR) and Reader at London Metropolitan University, where her work brings together teaching, research and live civic practice. Her work focuses on participatory and practice-based urban methodologies, exploring collaborative city-making in contexts shaped by marginalisation, displacement and uneven development. Her projects explore how learning and making unfold through ongoing engagement with communities, often beyond institutional frameworks. Working in the UK and internationally, she has developed long-term collaborations that foreground participation, resourcefulness and collective knowledge. She is co-editor of Learning from Delhi (2010) and The Architecture of Three Freetown Neighbourhoods (2013), and co-author of Loose Fit City (2018). Her current work focuses on extended studio models, festival-based practices and cultural activity as a form of infrastructure. Through ARCSR, she continues to investigate how architectural education can operate as a living, evolving practice embedded in place.

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.

Siobhan Tate has taught art in London state schools since 2003. For her master’s dissertation she used Pedagogy as a Performative Practice and Lacan’s Psychoanalytical Discourses to investigate the dynamics of authority and agency in the art classroom. Currently a second-year participant in MASS sculpture (mentoring and peer development) programme, Siobhan is developing Sputnik: a durational sculptural choreography that thrives on public encounter. Through a sustained physical negotiation between the artist’s body and the resistance of materials, the sculptural form of Sputnik emerges intuitively. Formed across articulated steel (which is wrestled and repositioned until an equilibrium is reached) clay is pushed to collapse and reformed. This bodily work regenerates both itself and its maker: material circulates into new form, while the creative act builds the artist’s physical and conceptual agency.

The Fair Organ is an independent research collective, responding to 'folk' culture in solo and collaborative works across text, performance and visual art. The emphasis is on process and on mutual exchange between scholarly and creative ways of working, including oral history, social history, translation, ceramics, typography, printmaking, poetry and fiction.

Sophie Turner is an artist, researcher and founder of Lore Archive, a collection of over 2,000 garments and objects built over the last decade. Her work explores material culture and the possibilities that emerge through close observation, handling and making. Her practice uses garments, objects and material encounters as starting points for research, writing, making and collective inquiry.

Olivia Tusinski received a BA in Sociology from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, and an MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics. She has spent significant periods of time in post industrial Pennsylvania, Mali, Germany and London as a student of life, working in architecture practice as an urban strategist and writer, and later as a regeneration and partnership specialist. More recently, life has found Olivia renovating an abandoned church in Western Massachusetts, close to where she grew up, into a hybrid and experimental home and community space. Understanding how people create, express and share culture in place is ultimately her interest.

Marketa Uhlirova is an art historian, curator and co-founder of the Fashion in Film Festival, where she has been director since 2006. With an interest in the intersection of fashion, art and moving image, she has curated film programmes for venues such as Tate Modern, Barbican, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. In 2017 she and Rollo Smallcombe co-created the film experience The Inferno Unseen, a reimagined version of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film.

Aga Ujma is a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Poland. She grew up around folk music from the mountain village where her mother is from. At the age of eight, she signed herself up for music school to study classical piano and music theory. Later, she studied Renaissance and Baroque music analysis while also being fascinated with punk and noise. In her twenties, she became obsessed with gamelan and moved to Java to study traditional music and singing at the Indonesian Institute of Arts. There, she joined an experimental music collective, touring extensively across the Indonesian archipelago. She now learns the harp, lives between London and Poland, and has recently toured the world with Black Country, New Road; Hinako Omori; and Crack Cloud. She performed the theme song for Resident Evil: Village and plays with various music projects, including folk collective Broadside Hacks.

Charlotte van Berckel’s practice spans sculpture, intervention and mark making, using space, context and the everyday as material. Monumental yet subtle, her work examines value, commodity and the performance of society. She sculpts and activates space through gesture and context, creating canvases of modern life that elevate the everyday to the spectacular – work concerned with encounter, experience, and the tension between the ephemeral and the legacy. Charlotte completed her fine art degree at the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2022. She was selected by Ryan Gander as one of five emerging artists for the inaugural Chester Contemporary in 2023, a biannual event that took over the streets of the city for three months. She is currently studying on the Mass Sculpture Programme. Charlotte lives and works in London.

‘I am jorre vandenbussche (b. 1975, Bruges, Belgium). I graduated in 1997 as Master in Drama from the Conservatory of Antwerp. I have worked as an actor, theatre maker and writer with companies large and small in Flanders and the Netherlands. In 2015 I co-founded theatre company MAELSTROM. I have been searching for my own voice for as long as I can remember, and that quest is still going on, both in my work as an actor and as a teacher.’

Hlib Velyhorskyi is an artist whose practice navigates community building, education and architecture. He is the founder and director of Biblioteka — a library of artists’ publications.  Together with Arnaud Desjardin he has co-curated 2025 Art and The Book season at the Warburg Institute and started Biblioteka Art Book Fair. In the recent years he has lectured at the RCA, Bartlett, Chelsea School of Art and participated at international conferences including Books Are Bridges at PrintRoom Rotterdam and CAC Librarians at Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius. He has curated readings and events at the ICA London and South Parade gallery. Hlib co-runs Chequers gallery, where his personal curatorial project Whatever Anderson is based.

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.

Joanna Ward is a composer, performer, and writer from Newcastle upon Tyne, based in London. Her music practice revolves around experimental score-making methodologies, improvisation, and repetition. She is currently doing a PhD in composition, researching labour, idleness, and ethics, and how these concepts manifest in composition practice. As vocalist, she mostly performs contemporary, experimental, and improvised musics, including with Musarc. Alongside her practice as a composer and performer, Joanna works part-time as a charity fundraiser.

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.

Sarah Kate Wilson is an artist based in London. Her expanded painting practice spans, painting, performance, tapestry, drawing, printmaking and costume. She has exhibited work at; BALTIC 39, (UK), Bauhaus Museum, (Dessau, DE), The Cervantes Institute, (New Delhi, IN), Newlyn Gallery, (UK), The Armory Centre, (California, US) and most recently within the 2026 Biennale Internazionale Donna, (IT). Working collaboratively with Musarc, one of the UK’s foremost experimental choirs, her work has been performed at; Palais de Tokyo, (Paris, FR), Royal Academy of Arts, (London, UK) and The Museum of London. Sarah Kate received her MFA in Painting, from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2008-2010), and Practice Based PhD (AHRC) from University of Leeds (2017). Ssarah is a Senior Lecturer of Painting at Camberwell, UAL, having previously taught at University of Leeds, Bath Spa University, University of Brighton, TOMA, Into The Wild and in 2023 led a workshop at Whitechapel Gallery, (London) in relation to, ‘Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70’. Alongside her studio practice, she regularly presents her research internationally; CAA 2019 (Chicago, US), AAH 2019 (UK) and delivered the Keynote for ‘Painting in the Expanded Field’, 2024, MTU, (IRE). She is a chapter author for The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Painting, (forthcoming 2026), whilst her text ‘Painting’s Liveness’, 2024, published by the Journal for Contemporary Painting, led to a public in-conversation with Catherine Wood (Interim Director, Tate Modern). In May 2026 Sarah will co-convene the symposium ‘Painted Garments; Conversations Between Painting, Fashion and Textiles’, UAL, London.

Hannah Zafiropoulos is a researcher, designer and curator. As a Design Principal at TPXimpact her work focuses on participatory and place-based research and design for public policy and services. Before moving into design, Hannah worked as a curator for over 10 years, designing and delivering research-led learning and community programmes in the UK and internationally. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the RCA and a BA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.