Enrique Encinas (they/he) is a design researcher exploring the patterns and textures formed by (other than) + humans and technologies through creative, critical and collaborative practices. He works as Associate Professor in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). They have co-lead projects involving governmental, artistic and educational institutions such as the European Union Policy Lab, the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB) or SpeculativeEDU.

Rolf Gerstlauer is a Swiss-born architect, filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His teachings and artistic research works investigate Body & Space Morphologies in a more-than-human world. Working with performing arts including dance, choreography, live-installations, land art and earthworks, he uses mainly video and photography as the tools to explore environmental and socio-cultural conditions and phenomena. The collaboration with Julie Dind resulted in their participation in all three previous International Ecoperformance Film-Festivals, several articles and essays as well as a new teaching format on ecoperformance in architecture.

Markéta is a practice-based researcher experimenting with co-creative, embodied and sensory experiences, often in multispecies contexts. Her recent work has focused on ferality and feral eco~systems, exploring what relations, intuitions, and ways of knowing can emerge in the liminal spaces between the wild and the domesticated, the familiar and unknown, the serendipitous and intentional. She is also an Assistant Professor at The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she acts as the Head of the Doctoral Research Department, and is finishing her postdoctoral research fellowship at Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture (2020-24). She co-founded several art & design research initiatives, including the Uroboros festival, the Open Forest Collective, the Feeding Food Futures network, and the Fermentation GutHub. In 2020-22, she worked with the CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures, where she led the Laboratory of Experimental Productions and co-researched the role of the arts in fostering eco-social change.

Julie Dind is a butoh dancer, a multidisciplinary artist, and a PhD candidate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Her artistic and scholarly work autistically explores autistic modes of performance. She dedicated over a decade to the study of butoh, both in Japan and abroad. Since 2012, she collaborates with Rolf Gerstlauer on an a(u/r)tistic research-creation project titled “Drawing NN Inside Butoh.” As part of this collaboration, she has performed internationally in over 40 site-specific performances. Her work has been presented at various locations, including Sørlandsutsillingen (Norway), The Invisible Dog (New York) and Ós Textile Residency (Iceland).

Professor of Spatial Practice Julieanna Preston has devoted the past thirty or more years towards artistic research especially towards the value of embodied knowing and more recently as an agent of intuition, a latent pre-knowing in sensorial-centric bodies of all kinds. Her performance writing practice and live art works (including sound and vocalisation) are devoted to durational experience, intimacy as entanglement, and material constitution including entropy. Recent publications include “Being Under, WITH this room” (Interiors, 2021), “Sounding Out Vacancy: Performing (anything but) Empty Space” (JAR 2019) and “Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré” (with J. Archer-Martin 2018). Performances include Tryst (with Johanna Lock 2021), RPM hums, choral, viral (2020),murus (2020) and ‘restless manoeuvers” (PAWA, Adam Art Gallery, 2023). Recent and forthcoming publications include “motor-mouthing” (Routledge, 2023), “DD: Holding Up the Girls” (Journal of Architecture, 2023), “Pleural Space” in Embodied Awareness and Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), “Flotsam: Retelling the story The Huts that Jules Builds” in Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands (Routledge, 2024) and Performing Punctuation (edited and designed with Anna Brown, Intellect, 2025). Julieanna lives and teaches in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. 

Linda Luke has worked across multiple platforms in the performing arts industry for the past 20 years: as a performer, choreographer and director. In her work she aims to deepen sensitivity and excavate the subtle undercurrents we experience in relationship to self, each other and the external environment. Linda is invested in exploring ideas around diminishing the ‘human-centric’ and focussing on the rich diversity of non-human elements that exist in our environment.

Linda's practice is grounded in the methodology BodyWeather. Founded by Min Tanaka in Japan throughout the 1980s and 90s, BodyWeather draws on both Eastern and Western dance forms, Eastern philosophy and avant-garde performance practices. A central premise of BodyWeather is that the 'body' (human or otherwise) is a never fixed, de-centered, always transforming entity. Linda has been a dancer for BodyWeather Sydney based dance company De Quincey Co since 2004 and has performed in numerous productions for the company (2005 – 2021). 

Linda has taught extensively through public workshops and facilitating artist residencies such as BORDERS (2022 - 2024). She initiated and taught ongoing weekly BodyWeather classes for De Quincey Co in Sydney (2005 - 2019). Linda has been a guest lecturer for Newcastle University, Sydney University and Hanoi Academy of Performing Arts and Cinema, and she holds a tenured position teaching at the University of Wollongong.

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In the performing arts community, Martin Fox has collaborated as video artist with many artists, including: Dean Walsh, DeQuincy Co, Margie Medlin, Ros Warby, Ruckus, Raghav Handa, Sandra Parker, Linda Luke and Victoria Hunt.

For broadcast, Martin Fox's recent directing credits include William Yang's  My Generation, Bloodlinks and Friends of Dorothy, and recent editor credits for the acclaimed, feature-length documentary “The Last Goldfish”.

Martin's interests lie in the dialogue between the audience and the work, and how this communication can be nurtured and formed, such that the audience bring much of themselves to the story being told. Martin completed his Bachelor in Fine Art Honours at Sheffield Polytechnic, UK in 1985.

*United against colonization: many eyes, one heart* is an audiovisual and performance springboard for the self-representation of Indigenous peoples. Learning with our human and more-than-human relatives, we listen to forest secrets, and collectively conjure magical actions for liberation of land and beings.

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Juma Pariri is an Indigenous artivist nomad based in Abya Yala. Gender-defying and “inhuman”, they also is part of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Serra do Catolé (Ceará/BRAZIL), an associate researcher at the Hemispheric Encounters Network (YorkU/CANADA) and is developing the postdoctoral project “BIOMECHANICS OF PLANTING: a project towards Indigenous inspired body-earth cultivations against the colonial training of the performing artist” (Unesp/BRASIL).

Sebastian Wiedemann is a Colombian filmmaker-researcher and philosopher, or as he likes to say a practitioner of cinematic modes of experience.

His works investigate liminal intersections animated through experimental cinema and philosophy, aware of a possibility for thought-cinema as living poetic ecology, as a possible surface for the affirmation of a Cosmopolitics of Image.

His films have screened in venues around the world and have received retrospective shows in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Ireland. In 2015 his film "Los (De)pendientes" was included in Artforum Magazine's list of the best films of the year and in 2017 he won the Special Jury Prize at the Fronteira Film Festival (Brazil). In 2017 his film "Abismo" was included in the series Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America - Los Angeles Filmforum (USA). During 2019-2020 his film "Obatala Film" won several awards in Brazil. And during 2021 his film "Deep Blue" won several awards in Colombia.

He is also editor and curator of the online platform Hambre | espacio de cine experimental which focuses on critical experiments seeking dialogue with new tendencies in Latin American avant-garde cinema and where he has edited the books “La Radicalidad de la Imagen. Des-bordando latitudes latinoamericanas. Sobre algunos modos del cine experimental.” (2016) and “Migrant Thoughts. Cinematographic Intersections” (2020). As an author he published the book "Deep Blue: Future Memories of A Livings Cinematic In-Between" (2019).  

Jatun Risba (they/them) is a migrant transmedia artist from Slovenia. Their work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, conceptual art, relational art, and practices of abjection, détournement, and art intervention. Their practice cultivates interspecies reciprocity by altering and awakening sensory awareness through Vajrayana Buddhist practices and deviant uses of contemporary technologies. Their research explores the essential role and artistic potential of six “life matters” on Earth: air, water, carbon, soil, chlorophyll, and (menstrual) blood. Risba’s art is profoundly informed by their lived experience of radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012–2019). They are the founder and co-facilitator of the global Live Art project Be-coming Tree. Risba holds a BA (Hons) degree from NABA–Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan (2009), and a PG Cert in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins–University of the Arts London (2020).

Profile Photo by Franco G. Livera.

TTC Studios is an artist studio based in Taipei, founded in 2019 and run by artist Ting-Tong Chang. The studio focuses on the critical aspects of gaming and art. The studio's projects create immersive gaming experiences that attract both players and art audiences through interactive interfaces designed to engage multiple senses, allowing them to enter unique narrative environments with simple controls. By exploring the relationships between human individuals, technology and society, they embody an aesthetic stance that critiques conventionalisms in commercial games—an ideology that inevitably allows consumerism to outshine the dialogue between the player and the artist or game designer.

The studio's works have been exhibited in multiple countries and have received several international awards, including Compton Verney Art Gallery(UK), Wellcome Trust(UK), Anyang Public Art Project(KR), Guangzhou Triennial(CN), Taipei Biennia(TW) and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(JP). The studio’s major awards include the Taishin Arts Award(TW), Taipei Art Award(TW), Art Central RISE Award(HK), VIA Arts Prize(UK) and Gilbert Bayes Award(UK). The studio’s works can be found in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum(TW), Hong Foundation(TW), Aura Contemporary Art Foundation(JP), Hertzog Da Silva Collection(ES) and private collections in Europe and Asia.

Credit line: photo by Liu Che-chun

Coreógrafa de dança contemporânea e Performer Lara Dau Vieira. Realiza trabalhos relacionados ao elo do corpo com a natureza.

Contemporary dance choreographer and performer Lara Dau Vieira. Perform work related to the body's development and nature.

Lara will present the video-dance Aonde habitamos? that questions the possibility of survival on a planet exhausted by Man. It explores the body's connection with the mangrove, a natural environment it cannot dominate. The video shows two bodies immersed in a habit of liquid density habitat and exploring sensory and poetic states that vibrate beyond death and life. We can hear the heartbeat of the bodies and their lack of breath. In this habitat the bodies float and peel off between being human, animal and ancestral memories.

Location: Mangroves of Jabaquara, Parati- RJ, Brazil and soundscape captured in Istanbul, Turkey

 
Goran Sergej Pristaš is dramaturge, co-founder and member of BADco. performing arts collective and professor of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. Program coordinator in Centre for Drama Art (CDU) from 1995 till 2007.

One of the initiators of the project Zagreb – Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000. With his projects and collaborations (BADco., Frakcija) participated at Venice Biennale 2011 and 2016, Documenta 12, ARCO and numerous festivals and conferences. He is/was mentoring and teaching at DOCH (Stockholm), JLU (Giessen), Statens Scenekunstskole (Copenhagen), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), KhiO (Oslo) etc. Teaching courses in performance dramaturgy, writing for performance, analytical writing, dramaturgy and choreography, collaborative practices etc. First editor-in-chief (1996-2007) of Frakcija, a magazine for the performing arts. Together with Bojana Cvejić co-edited Parallel Slalom. A Lexicon Of Non-aligned Poetics TkH, Belgrade / CDU, Zagreb, 2013, and with Tomislav Medak co-edited Time and (In)Completion: Images And Performances Of Time In Late Capitalism, BADco., Zagreb, 2014.

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BADco. is a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the collective are Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec.

As a combination of three choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and one philosopher, plus the company production manager, since its beginning (2000), BADco. systematically focuses on the research of protocols of performing, presenting and observing by structuring its projects around diverse formal and perceptual relations and contexts. Reconfiguring established relations between performance and audience, challenging perspectival givens and architectonics of performance, problematizing of communicational structures – all of that makes BADco. an internationally significant artistic phenomenon and one of the most differentiated performance experiences.

Sandrine Schaefer is an artist, writer, independent curator, and educator. Using a site-sensitive approach, Sandrine’s work offers opportunities to gather and proposes ways to share time not accessible elsewhere in life. Sandrine is a co-founder of The Present Tense, an art initiative that produced and archived live art events and exchanges in transient spaces from 2004-2014. In its history The Present Tense produced and collaborated on 26 live art festivals, exhibitions, artist exchanges and co-founded the award winning gallery, MEME in Cambridge, MA. Sandrine also served as a member of the seminal artist group, Mobius. Independently and through The Present Tense and Mobius, Sandrine has exhibited hundreds of contemporary artists at various stages in their careers from around the world. Their writing on contemporary art has been published internationally in numerous online and print publications. Sandrine is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art in 3D + Expanded Practices at Coastal Carolina University and serves on the Artist Advisory Council at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. This site gathers Sandrine’s writing, teaching and curatorial endeavors.

ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist. Living and working in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Since 2011, her artworks have continuously evolved as she has come to place a greater emphasis on the conventionally hidden, inconspicuous side of universal dualisms such as feminine and masculine, interior and exterior, subconscious and conscious, metaphysical and physical. She is inspired by Mongolian ancient perception of NAGA | NATURE-EARTH.

Anunaran. J has developed her unique mix of techniques such as embroidering, sewing, appliqued, and photo-based work combining various materials such as fabric, pens, thread, acrylic, oil, printing, felt, etc.

ANUnaran.J is currently an Artistic Director at Blue Sun, CACM. Her work has been exhibited in Biennials in Mongolia, Taiwan, Korea, Peru, and Spain. She has been recognized with International recognitions, such as the Environmental Dance Prize at the International Eco Performance Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Finalist at the International Print Biennial R.O.C in Taichung, Taiwan, and the Artist Prize at the Open Arts Merge Space International Residency in Busan, Korea.

Her solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the National Gallery of Modern Art in Ulaanbaatar, The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar, the V.Bronshtyen Art Gallery in Irkutsk, Russia, Open Arts Merge Space in Busan, Korea and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Hong Kong. 

Leonardo Campo Menco is a Colombian visual artist, a migrant within his own country. His work focuses on what exists in between: in the spaces created between one time and another, between one territory and another, or between one action and another. Originally from Barranquilla, he lives and works in the Moravia neighborhood of Medellín, an informal settlement inhabited by people from all five regions of the country.

Leonardo says: "When migrating, there are things you carry with you, but there are also things you leave behind. That’s why customs related to food and the process of finding or building a home are present in my research, to prevent these ways of doing things from being lost."

In her explorations, she carries out ethnographic processes through videograms, performative and pictorial gestures, which reveal the body as a place of experience. These works narrate, in a reflexive and contemplative way, landscapes, territories, memories and rituals, focused on the cities of Barranquilla and Medellin (and the municipalities in between), located respectively in the Caribbean and Andean regions.

Inga Chinilina is a composer, improviser, and pianist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work includes music for acoustic instruments from solo to orchestra, electronic music, and a mix of both. In addition to stand-alone music pieces, Inga also makes installations, music for dance and film.

Ensembles that have performed Inga C’s music include Either/Or, The Empyrean, Dal Niente, Jack Quartet, ICE Ensemble, line upon line percussion trio, Loadbang, Longleash Trio, Lydian String Quartet, Neave Trio, No Exit, Sound Icon, Russia State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble, Splice, Talea, and Yarn/Wire.

Inga is a PhD candidate in “Music and Multimedia Composition” at Brown University. Her research explores how composers represent sound entities that bare emotional meaning and posses complex timbre through the use of Western-European instruments. Inga holds a BM in Composition and Performance from Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University.