Derek Owens is a professor of English at St. John's University, New York, where I direct the Institute for Writing Studies.
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Beth Krensky is Area Head and Professor of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist working in the border zone between social issues and the sacred who creates objects and performative gestures as a contemplative act.
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Syowia Kyambi
MFA Programme Leader
Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enjoys performing characters within her performance installations to tell stories, an alternative layered narrative about history in an attempt to disrupt mono-cultural violence. The connection between the psyche, history and the entanglement that exists within non-stagnant identities is ever present in her creative process. Her practice probes issues of race, perception, hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya.
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Sarah Bennett is a practicing artist and academic. She has exhibited regularly in the UK and Europe. Bennett has 35 years experience in Higher Arts Education – previous posts include Head of Fine Art, and Head of the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University.
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Dr Tracey M Benson is an Australian based artist, academic and researcher. Her work focuses on issues related to belonging, place, wellbeing and pro environmental behaviour change. Specialising in online and screen based art, user experience design, locative media and site specific installation, her work has been extensively presented internationally in media arts festivals and exhibitions.
Sean Clute is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and performer. Clute’s creations embrace hybridization of media and interactivity to explore forms of interdisciplinary expression. By developing custom software and hardware, Clute experiments with technologies and methodologies to construct audiovisual instruments, sensor-based interfaces and computer generative processes. Collaboration, a key element in his work, is employed through partnerships with choreographers, musicians, scientists, writers and artists.
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Laura González is an artist, writer, yoga teacher and an Athenaeum Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also faculty at Transart Institute. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she teaches art and psychoanalysis at various institutions in Europe and the US. She creates intimate durational performances for galleries and festivals, including Unfix, Buzzcut, Glasgow Open House and Market Gallery, and, in 2019, her work was shortlisted for the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance.
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Caden Manson is an artist, curator (Contemporary Performance and Special Effects Festival), and educator. Through the company Big Art Group, their performance work creates radical queer narrative structures and embodiments to construct and aid transitory generative critical space for participants and audience. Their work is dense, fast, multi-layered, and traverses multiple genres and forms, often using interference, slippage, and disruption strategies. Manson has presented throughout 14 countries and over 50 cities in Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Andrew McNiven was born in Edinburgh in 1963 and studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, graduating in 1987, a contemporary of many of the artists who rose to international prominence during the 1990s. He received his MA from Goldsmiths' in 1995. Since 1990 his work has been shown nationally and internationally by, amongst others: the Lisson Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, and the Neue Galerie, Dachau. Recent projects include ‘The First Night of Experimental Boredom’ at 222Lodge, Dordrecht (NL), ‘Visual Art by Verbal Means’ at Kunstal Rotterdam (NL); 'The Understanding Gaze': Perre Bourdieu/Andrew McNiven, White Box, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, (DE). He completed an AHRC-funded, practce-led PhD at Northumbria University in 2011. Previously a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, he is currently Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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Lorenzo Sandoval works as an artist and curator, and produces spatial devices that work as narrative machines. Since 2015, Sandoval runs The Institute for Endotic Research, which opened as a venue in 2018 in Berlin, co-directed by Benjamin Busch, and recently by Amouefa Amoussouvi too. His recent research deals with divergent genealogies of the connections between image production, textile making and computation.
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Valerie Walkerdine (PhD) is an artist and academic. As an academic she has taught, written and researched in the fields of critical psychology, affect studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, artistic practice and theory, social theory, class, gender and feminism, community and de-industruialisation and neoliberalism.
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Sophia Wright Emigh (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, queer mother artist and movement filmmaker working in the emerging field of somatic ecology via performance, installation, film, photography, mark-making, social practice, writing, and action. Through camera, body, sound, and embodied ritual, she traverses and transmits the dance of life around the ineffable.
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