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Immaginare T

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Immaginare T was created by Lucia Lorè, Naike Anna Silipo and Stefania Minghini Azzarello. The film was produced by the company SenzaFissaDimora Teatro which was founded by Patrizia Bollini, Lucia Lorè and Naike Anna Silipo. SenzaFissaDimora Teatro produced two acclaimed works: Three Sisters, winner of the Naples Fringe Festival, and Only God Knows, Scenario Award semi-finalist. Silipo directed Io non Sono Grande, finalist in the I LOVE GAI – Young Italian Authors category – at the Venice International Film Festival in 2016 and has worked as an actress in cinema and television. Silipo directed Immaginare T, which was written by and features Lorè and Stefania Minghini Azzarello. Lorè won the Young Actors’ grant from the Paolo Grassi Civic Academy in Milan and, in 2016, Ivana Chubbuck selected her for the Professional Actors’ grant at the Piccolo Eliseo Theatre in Rome. Minghini Azzarello’s performative works experiment with video, literature, sound and poetry. In the...

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Marianna Simnett

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Marianna Simnett is a London-based artist working with moving image, installation and performance. Her videos blend heightened documentary techniques, such as using non-actors playing versions of themselves, with hallucinatory shifts in setting and character that disrupt our ability to distinguish what is real from what is imagined. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions and screenings include: Worst Gift, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2017; Lies, Seventeen Gallery, New York, 2016; Valves Collapse, Seventeen Gallery, London, 2016; Park Nights, Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2015; and Blue Roses, Comar, Isle of Mull (Scotland), 2015. Simnett was a winner of the Jerwood/FVU Award in 2015 and is shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2017.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Holly Slingsby

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Holly Slingsby’s practice centres on performance and uses props, costumes and video. Slingsby has had solo exhibitions and performances at Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain; Tintype, London; and DKUK, London. She has exhibited and performed at museums and galleries including Katzman Contemporary, Toronto; Matt’s Gallery, London; Pump House Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Modern Art Oxford; the Freud Museum, London; FEM Festival, Girona; Art Licks Weekend, London; the ICA, London; and the Barbican, London. In 2016 she was commissioned to create new works by Kunst Vardo (Norway and UK) and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK). [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Raju Rage

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Raju Rage is an interdisciplinary artist based in London. They work in performance, sculpture, soundscapes and moving image, focusing on techniques of resistance and using everyday objects and life experiences to communicate narratives about gender, race and culture. They investigate history, memory and trauma with an emphasis on colonial legacy and its continuation and impact on the body and contemporary diasporan identity. Rage has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, and recently completed a Wysing Arts Residency (spring 2017). They are currently supported by a Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary, are part of the Holding Space programme at the Showroom London, and are the 2017-18 Tate Schools Workshop artist in residence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Jennie Pedley

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Jennie Pedley is a socially engaged artist who explores issues affecting the health of the body, society and environment. Her commissioned works include A Is for Ageing, a silhouette film installation that combines the routines of scientists researching human ageing with those of her elderly parents; and Memory Island, a virtual environment created for Camden Arts Centre, London, which explores the experiences of people with cerebral palsy within in a Giottoesque utopia. Pedley has been commissioned by a number of British organisations including the Natural History Museum, National Trust, Paintings for Hospitals, Olympic Cultural Legacy with Ignite!, the Wellcome Trust, and various Wild Life Trusts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Orlando Myxx

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Orlando Myxx is an Italian visual artist based in London, UK and Padova, Italy, who works with still and moving image. Myxx completed a MA in photography and video-making at the Fondazione Fotografia in Modena, Italy in 2016, and is currently completing a MA in Photography at the Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Their video In between is part of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena’s Art collection and Not-framed was shortlisted for the European Photography Award in 2016. Their works have also been shown at the Foro Boario in Modena, Italy; the visual art festival, SI Fest OFF, in Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy; the Nunnery Gallery in London; and a number of Italian queer festivals.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Mary Maggic, Mango Chijo Tree and The Jayder

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Mary Maggic (Mary Tsang) is a Chinese-American artist and biohacker originally from Los Angeles and now living in Vienna. They work at the intersection of biotechnology and civil disobedience. Maggic's most recent projects, Open Source Estrogen and Estrofem! Lab, generate DIY protocols for the extraction and detection of the estrogen hormone from bodies and environments, demonstrating its micro-performativity and potential for mutagenesis i.e. gender-hacking. Mango Chijo Tree is an artist from Tokyo working in film and focussing on sexuality issues. They had art exhibitions with Rakudenashiko in Tokyo and San Francisco in 2016. The Jayder is an artist and creative director originally from Los Angeles and now based in Tokyo who works in film, design, and computer graphics. He has previously collaborated with Gnarles Barkley, Beck, Metallica, Nike, Velvet Revolver, and on Star Wars Clone Wars.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Marne Lucas aka CuntemporaryArtist

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Marne Lucas, aka CuntemporaryArtist, is a New York based multidisciplinary artist who uses photography, video and installation for social justice-related projects. Lucas' investigations on nature, culture and the body present unique aesthetic or social philosophies. Lucas is known for stylistic photographic portraits and self-portraiture, and has received RACC project grants; participated in residencies including a 2016 Arts/Industry Kohler factory residency (Foundry, Pottery), the Land Art Mongolia 360 Residency and Biennial, and the Portland2010 Oregon Biennial. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Juliet Jacques and Ker Wallwork

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Juliet Jacques is writer and filmmaker who has published two books: Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (2007) and Trans: A Memoir (2015). Her short fiction, essays and journalism have appeared in many publications, including Granta, The Guardian, The White Review, Sight & Sound, Frieze, The London Review of Books. Jacques is currently a resident at Somerset House Studios. Ker Wallwork is an artist, sculptor and filmmaker whose work is concerned with failures in communication. Playing with symbolism, they (mis)appropriate elements from historical art, architecture and contemporary media to suggest alternative and disordered histories. Approach/Withdraw premiered at the BFI Flare Festival, London (2017).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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Sarah Homewood

[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_custom_font font_family="Montserrat" font_size="24" line_height="34" font_weight="700" letter_spacing="-0.4" text_align="left" content_custom_font="BIO" color="#222222"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Sarah Homewood trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, UK. She then went on to create dance performances on the subjects of self-representation and sexuality across Denmark and the U.K, and she often collaborated with interaction designers to integrate technology into her pieces. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen in which she uses speculative and critical design and performance-based techniques to investigate technologies that are designed to track our physiological processes, such as menstrual cycles, and exploring how these technologies effect our sense of self.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]    ...

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