Sandra Johnston is a visual artist from Northern Ireland working internationally since 1992 in the areas of performance, video installation, drawing and writing. The performance actions are improvisational and sparse in nature, working from a place of attrition and provisionality in regard to exploring context, materials and gestures. Each work is an imperfect attempt to search for fluidity and clarity in the present moment. Johnston frequently works collaboratively and has been involved long-term in the development of artist-led performance networks.

I’m interested in the image of my body, the structure of the space, the properties of the material. By putting those three elements into a relationship, I’m looking for unusual, somewhat minimal actions which stimulate the interpretation of the audience. I’m following my intuitions, in the belief that they will translate my way to live in this world now. I'm interested in the perceptions by the body and the creation by improvisation, because for art I trust body, intuition and improvisation more than mental reflexion.

Born in 1979, I live and work in Brussels. I studied theatre (graduating in 2004) and did some visual and experimental theatre in Belgium. My artwork has been mainly focused on performance and video since 2006 (queer performance then more visual and site specific performance), then also on drawing and installation with paper (since 2014). It has been presented in different countries.

Tomasz Szrama (b. 1970 in Poland) graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. Currently he lives in Helsinki, Finland. Szrama shifts between multiple disciplines, including photography, video, action and other time-based works. Regardless of the medium, a dominant thread, common in his work is the use of his own body and methods of performance art, which he has practiced since 1995. Characteristic features of his actions are the use of spectators, active participation of the audience and improvisation. Such a strategy embeds his presentations into the tradition of understanding performance art as a process art, where the very moment of creation is essential. His work touches on themes of travel, trust in interpersonal relationships, and the ever present potential for personal failure.
Szrama has been regularly performing internationally in numerous events and festivals across Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. He works both in institutional contexts, venues such as the Museum Reina Sofia, Göteborgs Konsthall, Scandinavia House NYC, Bangkok Art Centre, and in unique locations such as the deck of an aircraft, a ferry boat, a village in the Mexican desert, a yurt in the Mongolian steppe.
Further, over the past 16 years, he has been an active performance art event organiser. Szrama has worked as a producer, designer, technical manager and has been responsible for organising live art events at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.

Elisa Andessner lives and works in Linz, studied Experimental Art at the University of Art and Design Linz and Fine Arts at the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design Marseille. Elisa Andessner is a free lance artist and works in the fields of photography, video, performance and graphics. Since 2006 she works artisticly within residencies, festivals and exhibitions in Vietnam, Indonesia, Poland, Belarus, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, recently in Iran. She was honored with awards, scholarships and art purchases of public art collections. Andessner regularly organises exchange- and exhibition projects with local and international artists, lately in Northern Italy, Dresden and Brussels. She is a member of the artist association MAERZ and works as a lecturer at the Art University Linz. Elisa Andessner is a trained voice teacher and currently works on the topic „voice and gender roles".

Daisuke Takeya’s praxis is comprised of the exploration of nature and plausibility in contemporary society, and hinges on all kinds of double meanings. Particularly in performance artwork, he explores borderlands in between life and death. He is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator, and director of Responding: International Performance Art festival and Meeting

Alexander Del Re is an educator, curator, organizer and performance artist for more than 25 years; to this date he has presented his work in over 20 countries of Europe, Asia and the Americas. He was co-founder of PerfoPuerto, an independent performance art organization based in Chile, with which he organized 12 international performance art festivals from 2002-2008 in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, presenting the work of over 120 artists from 30 countries worldwide. Currently he is co-founder and director of PerfoLink, Latin American platform for performance art; since 2009 he has curated and co-organized 20 international performance art festivals and many smaller events in Venezuela, Mexico, Uruguay and Chile, presenting the work of over 200 artists from 33 countries worldwide.

I am interested in the relationship between myself and the others, and how I am the “other” of the “other”, with its implications in the construction of my own self as an artist, in an era where the image of the other is validated through the use of technology; in particular, I am interested in the use of surveillance technology as a media of exploration of our relationship with the perceived world of the “other”. From this point of departure, I am also interested in the analysis and reflection of the relationships of power between the perceived “male” and “female” ends, through the establishment of binary relations in all spheres of human activity. By this, I also seek to interact with the socio-political relations between the “dominant” and “dominated” poles of humanity.

Ali Al-Fatlawi is a visual artist, born in Baghdad, works in various areas. He makes Paintings, writes poems and plays, works as a performer and is a member of the Iraqi Writers’ Union. After an odyssey, Ali Al-Fatlawi reached Switzerland in 1997 and continued his artistic education at the F + F School for Art and Media Design in Zurich, where he graduated in 2002. In addition to his performance art work, he works as a filmmaker too. Ali Al-Fatlawi is founder of the «Urnamo» artist collective. He tours through numerous countries with his performance art and has already received several awards for his work. (e.g., Swiss Performance Award, 2011). And (Swiss Art Award, 2012). Ali speaks Arabic (first language), English and German.
Ali Al-Fatlawi creates performances that reflect his history. He presents a view from exile, combining a critical perspective with the hope of returning in his imagination back to the homeland. His art explores issues of confrontation and war. He looks for material that he combines with other substances or local conditions to create unique images. For him, performance art is a dynamic and experimental practice that can produce rich and unpredictable results. His work is sustained and renewed by the vast array of available material, variations of time and place, and diverse themes. With another art form, these perspectives would not be possible. His performances work to produce images at the moment, without translation into words. Images, moments, change, passing through a place and remaining in memory give form to his practice, and are the elements he hopes to communicate to viewers. His performance images a dress of the audience’s emotion rather than their intellect, making a pure exchange possible.

Artists, Curators, Founder of the OPEN international performance art festival. Graduated from the fine arts department of northwest normal university in 1987, majoring in oil painting.Now live in Beijing.Till now，have been engaged in performance art creation, art activity communication， and art research.
has been invited to participate in many international art festival exhibitions and exchanges in Finland, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, New York, Mexico, South Korea, Japan and other countries.
Have received a Reuters (Reuters), Sveriges Radil station (Switzerland), EllEMAN France, la television France (French television), Yleisradio Oy (Finland station), Beaux Arts (French contemporary ART magazines), ESSE Arts + OPINIONS (' ART and view ART magazine), Canada, ASIA ART ARCHIVE (AAA) Asian ART, Chinese and foreign media and overseas scholars such as access to communication.
Launched and curated: OPEN international performance art festival (19 sessions till 2018, namely 19 years), which invited more than 600 international artists from more than 50 countries to participate in the OPEN experimental contemporary art center in Beijing 798 art district in 2009. · planned the Chinese literature exhibition of performance art (1985-2010); Curated Beijing contemporary art documenta, Goethe institute. Planned numerous exhibitions and art activities, such as the performance art food workshop.

Emma Brennan (She/Her) is an interdisciplinary artist who works predominantly in performative practices to include multi-media installation, moving image and collaborative processes. Based between Dublin and Belfast, at the core of Brennan’s practice is the persistent draw of the material of dough. With the unyielding bond between it and she, her relationship with this material is not just physical, it is also emotional, spiritual and political. The incorporation of dough into Brennan’s work holds both ancestral and sentimental value. In capturing the processes of this material, in all of it’s alchemic, formal and sensory properties, she explores the complexities of the creation of a living, breathing thing.

Miná Minov is a Bulgarian artist, born and based in Sofia. After beginning as a sculptor, he continued studying and exhibiting in the Netherlands and New York. His work spans from purely conceptual to 3d objects, but mostly performative videos and interactive installations – contraptions, used to perform repetitive “exercises”. Most times this is done by himself, sometimes by participating audience. It suggests situations similar to a playground or a gym. Evokes connections between a body and the specific architectural or outdoor environment it inhabits. In his work the body is seen as a core for the accumulation of “prostheses”, which are meant not as artificial replacements for missing limbs, but as objects, surroundings, thoughts, (fixed) ideas, that alter and define the condition of the body. “I think it is very human to attach yourself, to become part of things”.

Monika Günther (* 1944 in Bad Hersfeld, Deutschland) und Ruedi Schill (* 18. Juni 1941, † 31. Juli 2020 in Luzern Schweiz) sind ein Performance Art Künstlerpaar. Sie tragen als Künstlerpersönlichkeiten bereits seit den 1980er Jahren durch ihre künstlerische und kuratorische Arbeit entscheidend zur Entwicklung, Förderung und Verbreitung von Performancekunst, in Luzern, der gesamten Schweiz und zu ihrer internationalen Wahrnehmung bei. Sie realisierten seit 1995 gemeinsam Performancekunst, Ausstellungen, Workshops und organisieren Festivals. Sie folgten weltweiten Einladungen zu Konferenzen und Festivals, führten ihre Arbeiten an öffentlichen Orten und im musealen Kontext auf und lehrten die Kunst der Handlung.
Monika Günther studierte von 1966–1971 an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf bei Gerhard Hoehme Malerei. Sie arbeitet mit Malerei, Zeichnung, Skulptur, Installation, Fotografie und Aktionskunst. Seit 1980 stellt sie aus, realisiert Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und zeigt Performances. Monika Günther hat Lehraufträge und Gastdozenturen für Performance Art an verschiedenen Kunstschulen und Universitäten.

Ruedi Schill absolvierte von 1962–1963 die Grafische Fachschule Biberach und von 1971–1972 die Gestaltungsschule, heute F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, in Zürich. Er war seit 1979 im damals neuen Bereich Aktionskunst aktiv, praktizierte aber auch Land Art und arbeitete mit interdisziplinären und experimentellen Ansätzen mit allen neuen Medien und Aktionen. Seine grosse Präsenz als Performancekünstler in Museen und auf internationalen Festivals wird immer beschrieben.
1971 gründete er die Galerie Apropos die jetzt, gemeinsam mit Monika Günther seit 1995 organisiert, als Projektraum Apropos in Luzern existiert. 1982 kuratierte er im Palazzo Liestal in Liestal das erste Performance Art Festival in der Schweiz.[5] Erst als Gastdozent und dann im Lehrauftrag unterrichtete er von 1995-2007 Performance Art an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern (HGKL).

Yadanar Win is a multimedia artist based in Yangon, Myanmar. With an early interest in international exchange, driven by her university studies in English, she joined New Zero Art Space as a collaborative member in 2009, after that she involved in the culture scene for 9 years not only as an artist but also organized and coordinated several cultural projects and exchanges. Her unique ability to seamlessly join her own body, to the document of her performance, and bring them together into an art object is reflective of her generation’s willingness to experiment with all mediums and abandon the traditional painting and sculpture so common in the Myanmar art scene. Her performances are passionate and critical, often citing the plight of Myanmar’s peace process or personal struggles as a young female artist in Myanmar.

Stein Henningsen is a visual artist from Norway living and working on Svalbard. He has presented his work at various biennials and festivals in Europe, North America and Asia since 2005. Henningsen is influenced by photo as traditional media, often thinking of his performances as vivid images. His works addresses political issues in a contemporary context. Recent works have focused on climate change and the challenges we face. Henningsen tries to create strong, provocative and clean images that resonate with audiences over time - to get them to reflect on their complicity with regard to global issues. To achieve this he very often put himself under heavy physical stress.
When home in the high north he does performances in the Arctic wilderness without any audience. Works documented reappears as documentation or new artwork.

Boris Nieslony studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and Hamburg. Exhibitions, performances, lectures and teaching activities as a freelance artist, theorist and mediator since 1977 and worldwide. Organises one of the best-known performance art archives in Europe.
The basis of my research is the ethnographic and anthropological conditions of culture and the resulting questions of presentation and representation in art.For myself, I cannot and will not claim a style. Each precisely formed question demands its own medium and shows itself in this light.Thus designations such as painter, sculptor or performer are not relevant to me. The media spectrum in action art or performance art is so broad that I find myself in it.
Performance - Because nothing is older than the avant-garde passing by.
The decision as to how the frame should be formed, which will give rise to the image, which will give rise to the performance, is usually made by me directly on site. Given are at least three coordinates a - the choice of material according to a pictorial idea b - the choice of a substantial action likewise according to a picture which uses me for its appearance.

The choice of a certain overall circumstance, a view of the situation.

Olga Prokhorova is a performance artist, based in Finland, originally Russian. She works internationally since 2009 after finishing a two-year education in a Swedish school for Performance. The focus of Olga’s work is on a human, discovering self in the environment of urban spaces, society, nature, and own myths. Olga also studied Dance and Somatics, so she includes the research on a body and behavior in her artistic practices. She is interested to create phenomena - alternative situations that could be observed.

Wathiq Gzar Al-Ameri is an Iraqi visual artist based in Switzerland. He has worked internationally since 1997 in areas of performance, video installation and drawing. Al-Ameri won the Performance Art Award Switzerland in 2011 followed by the prestigious Swiss Art Award in 2012. Internationally and regularly he performed with Ali Al-Fatlawi (Urnamo) in numerous events and festivals across Europe, Asia, North and South America.
The actions of the performance are improvisational and reflect my reaction experiencing political conflicts. It allows me to take a critical stance. Dealing with the issue of violence is always includes an examination of the artistic medium.

Sunny Pfalzer (they/them) is a performance and visual artist. Their methodology builds on embodied and representative attributes of protests and on the possibility of turning “being together” into a tool for empowerment. Through performance, video and textile sculpture, they investigate the strength and perils of anonymity, communal bodies and collective identity in public space and how we can embody sensitive ways of relating to our surroundings, informed by its political and historical complexity.

Lucia Bricco (Turin, 1988) is an Italian artist based in Athens (GR) since 2018. Her work, mainly related to performance art and drawing, is focused on space. Rather than aiming for a synthesis, it is composed of multitude, multiplication, changeability and opposition, making space itself difficult to identify in a single possibility. Since 2015 she has taken part in residencies, exhibitions and performance festivals in Italy, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Greece, France, Czech Republic and Belarus. She is now organizing BEDS, a performance art event taking place in Athens in 2021 and 2022, that intends to intersect the “structure” of a performance festival with the human facts concerning the nature of the place and that of the people involved by including changeability and care of exceptions.

Antoni Karwowski (b. 1948) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at University in Torun (Poland). He is an intermedia artist, associated with performance art for forty years, an organizer, a curator and an independent lecturer, author of the book “SECRET BLACKNESS OF MILK - performance”. He began his artistic activity in the late 1970’s, with the program of which was an artistic response to the socio-political situation of the period. Since 1982, he has been associated with Szczecin’s art circles. He was a co-founder and curator of many international projects and festivals. In performances, he explores issues of identity, according to his thesis: Reality makes sense, standing in the “light of memory.”
Performance allows me for a fascinating game with time. It gives the feeling of capturing it and “influencing” the course of past events, modifying them, reversing, detaching them from their archetype, building new configurations and transferring them into real space. This multidimensionality gives me the feeling of functioning simultaneously in the past and present.

Body “I- Body”
It is expression and embodied consciousness. “I-body” in the space of performance encounters other bodies, bodies-things, bodies-materials. The infinity of its features touches and penetrates the tissue and becomes the tissue; it is the process of exchange and the “embodiment” of performance.
Touch
Embodiment of the performance space is the result of touch, which I understand as a “channel of exchange” – the spiritual and the physical transfer of energy, meanings and sensations between bodies. The body touches and it is touched. This is a simultaneous act of reading and writing – touch-reading / touch-writing.
Materials
I usually use simple, elementary materials: salt, water, stone, earth, ash, wax, wood, fabric, photographs. In their universality, I see the potential and richness of associations. Their features, surrounded by past contexts, activate my sensual sphere – “memory of the body.” Closed in the structure of performance; described by the poetics of gestures and rituals, they take on a new dimension.
Continuum
I perceive reality as a spiral: coils of experienced “now” unwind in the light of “the past.” That’s how I understand continuity. They are dynamic, multi-threaded processes, which take place at the point of contact between the two entities: the amorphous world of memory and the real world resonating with it.
From this condensation of the "inexpressible" emerges the content and the "body" of the performance.

Monica Klingler has been working internationally in the areas of performance art and dance since 1984. To explore the human being, the world by means of the human body, this body which we have and which we are, has always been the basis of her work.
The human form as a part of the textures of this world. Texture as a source of understanding and knowledge. In this context each performance arises out of the moment, place and situation.

Samuil Stoyanov (1975) is a visual artist born in Dobrich, Bulgaria. Currently he lives in Arusha, Tanzania. In 2001 he graduated from the National Art Academy, Sofia as MA in Ceramics and the same year he made his first solo show with paintings. Since then Samuil uses a big variety of media in his art practise.
(Thinking while looking or looking while thinking - thus looking evolves into seeing, or into what Samuil Stoyanov is interested in - "thinking vision". This is a theme which lately, periodically and persistently, appears in his works, yet it has nothing to do with visual experiments or optical effects, but is fully associated with conceptualizing the visual action. - Daniela Radeva - curator and art critic)

Husband and wife, Chakkrit Chimnok and Pattree Chimnok live in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Both are visual artists. which has creative work with techniques and a wide range of processes on issues related to perspectives from experience, way of life, culture, society, politics, and environment, including issues related to gender and human rights. Chakkrit and Pattree were invited to attend the live performance art festival. both within Thailand and at the international level which is an exchange of knowledge make experience And always new perspectives, both single and double invited to create creative events such as Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, China, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Norway, South Korea, Taiwan.

Álvaro Terrones is a poetry and performance artist and researcher from València, Spain. Ph.D. in Fine Arts, professor of the subject of action art by the Polytechnic University of València, Spain. His research thesis is developed around the graphic planning of performance art, field studies of Québec (Le Lieu) and Köln (Das Konzil and Die Schwarze Lade-Black Kit by B. Nieslony). In his artwork, the concept of time, the operational and finite processes are a constant theme, working about the difference between relation, relative and relationship; performs poetry as an interdisciplinary and polytechnic process in which there are a series of relationships between the artist and daily life objects.

Andriy Helytovych is a visual artist from Lviv, Ukraine working in performance art since 2015. For Helytovych is important a situation of live performance, spatial aspects of a location. His sometimes minimalistic work is based on a paradoxical creed: ”To work to the last moment, never stop working – never work at all”. Except of solo practice also takes part in grope performances and the organization of performance events.

Anette Friedrich Johannessen is multidisciplinary artist, working with performance, video, drawing and text-based work. Working from Bergen (Norway), Anette is today artistic director of Performance Art Bergen and one of the co-organizers of public performances in Bergen and the district around the city, called Open Sessions.
The core element in Anette Friedrich Johannesen’s artistic practice is an investigation on sensory experience, repetition, minimal gestures and place identity. She seeks to define different types of systems and how they relate chaos and order. This process is about understanding human rituals, and to which extent they are a part of our nature. In her work, she discusses mankind’s relationship to nature, social structures, and technology. How should we as humans relate to our ever-changing environment, and how can we as individuals adapt while at the same time figuring out how to balance our instinctive nature and technological progress?

Boyet de Mesa, lives and works in Sta. Ana Manila, Philippines. Boyet is a son of a jeepney driver and a church lay worker. He is currently an instructor in the College of Arts and Letters at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila and taking up Philippines Studies in University in the Philippines.


He is a visual/performance artist and a cultural worker. His involvement and practice in performance art (from late 1990s) led him to emphasize the need for solidarity among artists and the society, especially in the era of globalization. He initiated SIPA International , an annual performance solidarity event in the Philippines, started in 2016.


In his work he emphasizes images, gestures and allegory that aim to leave a huge impact on the viewer, as well as the desire to have a collective experience or memory in each performance through collaboration and public involvement in the performance.. He addresses the challenges of the times, especially the issue of violation of human rights, labor, landlessness, colonialism and history and solidarity.

Enrica Arbia was born in Rome on July 4th 1997, she graduated at the San'Orsola artistic high school in Rome. In October 2020 she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, with the thesis focused on television and cinematic imagery in contemporary art. During her studies in Rome she spent a semester in Lisbon with the focus on sculpture and performance art. After her bachelor degree she worked as an assistant for different artists based mostly in Rome and Berlin. In that time she experimented with combining performance art with playing instruments while using her body as a communication tool. Most recently she has used her body attempting to investigate the role of women in the artistic field throughout history. Now she started her master in Interrelational Art Practices at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen.

ason Lim’s repertoire of works encompasses ceramics, photography, installation art, and performance art. He has organized and created various platforms for alternative art practitioners to meet and collaborate. In 2010, Lim was invited as guest artist to join performance art collective Black Market International in their 25th anniversary celebration tour of Poland, Germany and Switzerland. As a performance artist, he has been invited to present performances in more than 30 countries.

Michael Barrett's research highlights performance art as a pedagogical tool. He is currently living on 10 acres of land in Central Montana while teaching and performing extensively around the world, including the United States, Austria, Czechia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Barrett's research investigates Western masculine narratives while addressing and interrogating key constructs of gender. Having served in the U.S. Marine Corps, received a collegiate athletic scholarship, and survived a battle with testicular cancer, Barrett embraces feminist theory and utilizes new masculinities, as critical lenses for analyzing hypermasculinity and how it empowers and disempowers.

Since 1997, Zhou Bin turned exclusively to performance art. Zhou Bin’s work emphasises the body’s experience in performance artworks, giving absolute substance to the idea, whether expressing some slight feeling or dealing with life’s contingencies. His works arrive at the epistemological and linguistic root of performance art, stressing: What you say is important, but how you say it, even more so. The body’s language, interaction of various media, spatial penetration, spontaneity, and the event are all in medias res, ready to be freely employed.
Zhou Bin has travelled extensively abroad with his performance art。Conducting artistic creation, resident research, academic lectures and workshops. He has developed performance art, constantly active in events and organizations as well as with academic work. In 2008, Zhou Bin and Liu Chengying created Up-On International Live Art Festival, It will be the ninth this year. From 2012 to 2016, Zhou Bin has been invited as Lecturer to Sichuan Fine Arts Institute where he gives classes on performance art. This is the first time a Chinese university has offered a course in performance art.he has also been invited by Germany’s Berlin Free University and the University of Applied Arts Vienna Etc to Short-term teaching of performance art courses.In 2021, ZhouBin published his book "TEACHING AND LEARNING OF PERFORMANCE ART“ (SDX Joint Publishing Company).

ESTHER FERRER, San Sebastián (Spain) 1937 ESTHER FERRER is best known for her performances, which have been her principal form of artistic expression since 1965, both as a soloist and as a member of the group ZAJ, until its dissolution in 1996. Her work has always been oriented to ephemeral artistic action rather than to permanent artistic production. She created, in collaboration with the painter José Antonio Sistiaga the first "Workshop for Free Expression," in the 60s, an activity that was to inspire other similar groups in Spain.
Beginning in the 70s, she has also been quite active in the plastic arts: reworked photographs, installations, canvases and constructions based on the prime number series, Pi and so forth. Her work is a very particular kind of minimalism, which she sometimes terms "rigorous absurdity".
Esther Ferrer has performed throughout Europe (Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungry, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Cheek Republic, Spain etc.), as well as in Cuba, México, the United States, Mexico, Japan, Thailand and Korea, Palestine ...
In 1999 she was one of the two artist representing Spain in the Venice Biennale, in 2008 she recived le Spanish National prize for the Arts and in 2012 the Gure Artea Prize of Basque Government in 2013 MAV Prize (Mujeres en las Artes Visuales) and in 2014 the Price Marie Claire et the Velazquez Prize ( International prize in Spain).

Melati Suryodarmo (b. 1969, Solo, Indonesia) graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunscheweig, Germany under the tutelage of Marina Abramović and Anzu Furukawa with a Meisterschüler qualification in Performance Art. Her practice is informed by Butoh, dance and history, among others. Her work is the result of ongoing research in the movements of the body and its relationship to the self and the world. These are enshrined in photography, translated into choreographed dances, enacted in video or executed in live performances.
Suryodarmo is interested in the psychological and physical agitations that may be from the self or the world but somehow result in lasting change the individual. This belief in change or growth through bodily action belies her early induction in meditation, which she continues to practice. The body is the home for memories and the self, rather than the individual itself, and the body’s system.
Suryodarmo has presented her work in locations all over the world, including Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea; Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; National Art Centre Tokyo, Japan; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Para Site, Hong Kong; Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia; Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Festivals include 5th Guangzhou Triennale (2015), Guangzhou, China; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (2009), Incheon, South Korea; Manchester International Festival (2009), Manchester, U.K.; and Manifesta 7 (2008), Bolzano, Italy.
Since 2007, Suryodarmo has been organizing an annual Performance Art Laboratory and Undisclosed Territory, a performance art festival, in Solo, Indonesia. In 2012, she founded “Studio Plesungan”, an art space for performance artists to use as a laboratory. In 2017, she served as Artistic Director for Jiwa, the 17th Jakarta Biennale. She currently lives and works in Solo, Indonesia.

Roberta de Lacerda Medina is 36 years old. She comes from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lives in Essen. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Communication / Media Studies (Advertising in major) in 2008 in Pontíficial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. After her studies she gained a lot of experience in audiovisual production for advertising and television programmes. In Germany (since 2011) she has also worked with video production, online marketing, social media, theatre and organising festivals. In September 2015, she started her Master's in Professional Media Creation at the SAE-. Institute (Bochum) in cooperation with Folkwang University and passed her exam at the end of September successfully passed her exam at the end of September 2017. But she does not only want to stand behind a computer and decided to use her own body as a means of expression and to work together with PAErsche. During her studies she developed the project Nobis Conecta, in which she works as a media artist together with other artists and art forms to create multi-media performances.