Grace Gloria Denis’ work converges agricultural research with interactive installation, incorporating edible material, sound, and image to propose a convivial and comestible approach to critical inquiry. Implementing the meal as both a medium and a pedagogical tool, her work refers to participatory action research models, engaging in collaborations with actors in local food systems.
Read MoreChristopher Danowski (PhD) is a theatre and performance artist. He has written over fifty plays, directed, and performed in living rooms, galleries, and unusual spaces (sometimes in theaters). He was artistic director of Theater in My Basement from 1999-2013, and now serves as a founding member of Howl Theatre Project. He is based in Phoenix and his work has been shown locally, in New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, Yucatán, Mexico City, Dublin, Laval, Vienna, Berlin, and Kraków.
Read MoreRachel Dagnall is a visual artist based in Norway working predominantly with sculpture, sonic scenography, performance and film. She holds a BA from Glasgow School of Art and Masters in Fine Art from Oslo Art Academy and a Masters in scenography from Norwegian Theatre Academy.
Read MoreLeah Decter is an inter-media artist and scholar based in Winnipeg; Treaty 1 territory. Her artwork, research and writing focus on contested spaces, largely contending with histories and contemporary conditions of settler colonialism and systems of white dominance from a critical white-settler perspective. Her current artistic/research-creation projects address social-spatial dynamics of settler colonial contexts and consider the ethics of being-in-relation in spaces of Indigenous sovereignty. Her current research and writing focus on arts-based critical white settler methodologies that aim to contribute to the goals of decolonial, non-colonial and anti-racist movements.
Read MoreJean-Ulrick Désert is a conceptual and visual-artist. He received his degrees at Cooper Union and Columbia University (New York) and has lectured or been a critic at Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Humboldt University and l’école supérieur des beaux arts.
Read MoreFayen d'Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Djaara country, Australia
Read MoreSpelman Downer has worked as a visual artist since 1977, with studios in New York City, Santa Fe, NM, San Francisco, CA, Anchorage, AK, Hoboken and Jersey City, NJ. Lives in the Mojave Desert in Yucca Valley, CA where he is director of Gallery Turquoise South.
Read MoreGina Dominique is a New York based artist-academic. She has had 13 solo shows, most recently 'Skin Deep- On Abstract Painting & the Nature of Beauty' at Greenspring Gallery, Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD. Her art has been shown in more than 50 group exhibitions across the US and in England.
Read MoreDeborah Dudley is founder and artist in residence of Mehitable Blish Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Dudley specializes in curating, cataloguing, and reimagining a person's relationship to the art and artifacts within their daily lives, extracting the oral histories of individuals and families through their most treasured and mundane possessions.
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Co-PhD Programme Leader
Admissions and Partnership Development
Steve Dutton is an artist, researcher and curator who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He is developing a new body work under the working title of “industry” which is including drawings, sound works, animations, objects and texts. His work is difficult to classify, as it moves between various media, materials, processes and forms.
Read MoreAnthony Dunne & Fiona Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.
Read MoreDavid Dunn is a composer and artist who primarily engages in site-specific interactions or research-oriented activities. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. Dunn is internationally known for his articulation of frameworks that combine the arts and sciences towards practical environmental activism and problem solving.
Read MoreSarah Jane Eaton is an artist who works with portraiture, costuming, collage, and performance. She received her undergraduate degree of Fine Art from Utah State University in 2011 and began her MFA with Transart Institute in 2018. Her artistic practice explores the relationships she finds with her family, her models, the materials and herself. She lives and practices in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Read MoreJoanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, award winning curator, writer, photographer, producer, art director, designer, and public speaker. Her work explores the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, the objective and subjective, the living and the inanimate.
Read MoreDane Eissler is a theater maker, visual artist, and educator based in Philadelphia. 2024-2025 Queer Revolutions season curator with EgoPo Classic Theater. 2024 Independence Foundation Arts Fellow studying puppetry with Papermoon Puppet Theater, and performing and showing art at Pesta Boneka, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Adjunct Professor at Rowan University.
Read MoreMandu Ekpenyong is a Senior Lecturer in the MPH Global Health Programme at Manchester Metropolitan University. Mandu received a BSc in Medical Physiology from the University of Port Harcourt and an MPH in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health from the University of Ibadan, all in Nigeria. Mandu received her Doctoral Degree in Public Health and Epidemiology, with specialisation in Maternal and Child Health, from the University of Wolverhampton.
Read MoreDr. Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist art historian printmaker book artist professor and mother of three. She holds a PhD in art history and an MFA in creative practice. Much of her artistic, written, and curatorial work has addressed the maternal body and feminist care in contemporary art contexts. Her current writing and artistic research explores slow practices, such as walking and stitching, with a particular focus on letter-writing as an act of relational care and a radical intervention into practices of academic scholarship.
Read MoreSophia 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.
Read MoreDr Christine Eyene is an art historian and curator. She is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.
Read MoreNicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally
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