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Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola is a trans-disciplinary artist working primarily in time based art,

interactivity and performance.

Along with her artistic practice, Aderemi-Ibitola also works as a devised theatre practitioner, performance studies scholar and teaching artist. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, she immigrated to the United States in 2000. She returned to the Nigeria in 2014 where she is now living and working.

Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola earned her Masters in Performances Studies from Tisch School of the Performing Arts, New York University and a Bachelors in Communication Arts with a focus in Television/Film Production and a minor in Political Science from Allegheny College.

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Pirmin Breu is a Dogma Painter and a performer. His "filming" equipment consists of aerosol, airbrush or paintbrush; his paintings arise with the moment - no deception, no unnecessary special effects. The inner pressures, that move the artist and the world around him, are released during the act of spraying, as if the artist himself were the paint cans and the spray button his release valve. 

Breu is a street artist who has developed his very own spray and brush painting technique, inspired during countless trips within Europe and longer stays in the USA, Mexico, Argentina and Thailand. His spray cans release not just colour but life, in the shape of these lively and vivacious beings that Breu affectionately calls "my people". When they jump, dance, skip or stand head over heels they are bursting with the joys of life and have their own originality which, despite their reduced - detail, makes them so likeable.

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Anja Plonka is a multidisciplinary artist whose works shift between Performance and Choreography.

She studied photography and video at the ENSP in Arles and the FH Dortmund, scenography at the FH Dortmund and scenic research at RUB Bochum. Her performance works have been invited to the gallery MAAC Brussels, Actus Festival Liege, Performance Lab Cologne, 567h Sharing Galerie Koppelmann Cologne Germany, CROSSOVER Performance art Festivals Kiel and the Body&Freedom Festival Zurich. She worked for the internationally renowned artists Tobias Zielony, Strake&Seibt and Lukas Matthaei. In 2012 Anja Plonka founded KollektivNord, a space for artistic experiments in the fields of participation, film and happening in urban space. Since 2015, Anja Plonka has been part of the performance action laboratory PAErsche Köln.

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Gloria Godínez is a researcher and a performance artist. Both in his artistic creations and in research works he reviews notions that concern the theory of dance, body, gender and border identities.

He has a bachelor's and master's degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, (Norman Sverdlin Award 2003 for the best thesis in Philosophy), and an outstanding doctorate Cum Laude by unanimity in Literature and Theory of Literature from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2014). 

He has developed various artistic projects and choreographies in Mexico and Spain, as well as actions on the borders of Mexico / United States, Mexico / Guatemala and Senegal / Canary Islands with the "Mareas Migratorias" project together with Oscar Rodríguez. As a researcher and performer she has been in Cuba, Chile, Brazil and Switzerland.

She is currently an independent researcher and develops a community dance project on the island of Gran Canaria.

Since 2005 Tobias Marx has been living and working in Berlin, Germany as an interdisciplinary artist and musician.

Marx also works as costume- and props-designer, and illustrator on several theatrical performances, as well as graphics projects.

His visual art works draws inspiration mainly from elements of western capitalism and consumerist culture.

He critiques the productions and expensive advertisements which are never substantial to life itself. these mass products highly Marx create his pieces in a very unique and elaborate personal technique from silicone painting and sculpting of consumerist products which attempt to catch superficial, fast living symptoms of our culture and turn them into endearingly beautiful and fascinating, lasting objects – eye candy, so to speak.

His works over few years have transitioned into musical live performance

Taiwo Aiyedogbon graduated from the department of Fine Art (Sculpture). Yaba College of

Technology, Lagos, Nigeria in 2017.

Taiwo explores a variety of methods including painting,

experimental drawing, sculpture, installation and performance art. Her works often touch upon current issues related to politics and the environment in the city of

Lagos. She has participated in exhibitions and performances including African Time Restaurant (Malmo, Sweden), 'Ipele' at The National Museum (Nigeria) and 'Thresholds' as part of the inaugural Lagos Biennial.

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Rhine Bernardino is an artist, independent curator and researcher with a background in filmmaking. She is the first and currently the only Filipinoartist with an MA Fine Art degree (Sculpture) from the Royal College of Art, for which she was awarded the highly-regarded Abraaj-RCA Innovation Scholarship. She received a Distinction for her MA dissertation on exploring possibilities of contemporary art practice in the rural context and marginalised communities vis-a-vis urban practices. 

Rhine's exhibited her artwork internationally, lived in several countries, and worked with different types of communities. For her individual art-practice, She actively experiments with her body in order to draw out and possibly stimulate a higher understanding of it, as a physical and biological structure.

Born in Yaoundé to a large family, Ange Kayifa (whose real name is Yakan Mbani Linda Larissa) has artistic ambitions  since childhood to become singer, actress, decorator and supermodel.

Over the years, these desires have gradually materialised into her artist practice as performance artist using dance, theatre and music to express herself internal body.

her inspirations dwells on the Bantu culture. Her practice  is a homecoming, that explore and revisit the hybrid of performativity in contemporary and traditional values.

Romuald Dikoume was born in Doula, Cameron but currently living and practicing in Yaounde. Romuald has been described as self-taught visual artist who explores the concept of identity through photography, videos, performances and painting. His drawings and paintings are flows of lines and curves that reveals the labyrinth in which we all live daily. He transposes the same principles of experimentations, interactions and fluidity into photography, videos creating and performance art.

Nina Claire  (b. 1975) in an interdisciplinary artist who uses photography, videos, mirrors and her body to question and examine self love, solitude and the relation between the body and cultural constructs and cultural productions. As an artist, Claire never find any ideal answer that best defines the feminine “white” European body. Her quest to find cultural placement for gendered bodies and to  claim ones love for their own self, triggered a series of self portraits photographs and videos that defiles her privacy and intimacy. Her photographs, and videos are experimental, ritualistic and therapeutical while focusing also on the aesthetics of space, light, speed and time that affect the beauty of human anatomy. 

She combine her experiences in sexually abused relationships with cultural taboo that rejects certain body types, oppress and silent the female voice in several forms violations. She currently lives and works in Norway. Claire use alternative spaces as ephemeral studios; hotel rooms , baths, wood, snows, homes, and any place she ever finds herself.

2012 marks the beginning of Ras Sankara's artistic expression by working alongside several artists (from several fields) and cultural centers (in Lomé Kpalime Notse Tsevie), production and studio labels of images and sounds. He became a key figure in the art of photography, being present on the majority of socio-cultural events in Togo, Benin and Ghana.

At the end of 2015, following a residency with Ghanaian performer Vaben Elikem, Ras Sankara develops the art of street performance to express his feelings and his points of view on the socio-political problems of his country, of Africa and of Africa. world.

Ras Sankara is an activist activist on current issues of poverty, environment and wars also of bad governance. Whether through photography and the visual arts (installations and performances) his works speak of the rebirth of Africa, slave trade, rape, ecology and education. The artist challenges the awakening of conscience and launches an urgent appeal to all Africans to come out of the shadows and be proud of their identities, asserting themselves objectively and humanly for a change, a revolution in matters of education, politics and culture and proposes to take out fantasies of others.

https://www.lenachen.com/

Lena Chen (b. 1987, San Francisco) is an artist and writer exploring intimacy, labor, trauma, and women’s identity. Her practice encompasses participatory art, durational performance, confessional texts and poetry, and interactive installations. Experimenting with her body and biography as primary media, her works function as exercises in vulnerability by confronting the thin line between victimhood and survival, connection and isolation, empowerment and objectification

Named a Progressive Women’s Voices fellow at the Women’s Media Center and a “new feminist leader” by More Magazine, Chen has presented talks at SXSW, re:publica, Yale, Brown, Stanford, and Oxford. She has been featured in international media (such as The New York Times, CNN, Glamour, Marie Claire, VICE) and funded by the Puffin Foundation and the Burning Man Global Arts Fund

Yohanna is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Brazil. She is a Master of Fine graduate from Performing Arts, UFBA. Her works investigate the

relations between affection, care and harmony of the elements that compose the universe, through a poetic enactments. She is inspired by movements of the sea, and the flow of human body. 

Participated in several collective exhibitions including Pisces, (Centro Cultural Ensaio, 2012); Atlas - Prints I and II (Ciranda Café Gallery, 2014/2015); Rain

(Galeria Nilda Spencer, 2017); 3rd Graphic Show (MAM-Ba, 2017); "S / Título" (Goethe-Institut,

2017); How to resist in today's world? (Galeria Cañizares, 2018 - part of the World Social

Forum); both in Salvador. He held the individual exhibition "To unclog the lungs and

respiratory tract" (Casa 14, 2015), in Salvador. It was selected at the 6th Ibema Print Award

(2016), participating in a collective exhibition at the Printing Museum - Solar do Barão, in

Curitiba / PR. Participated in the Mostra "Maré: Aesthetic Re-readings on the Sea" (CCBM,

Mexico City, 2018).

KRESIAH MUKWAZHI (b. Harare, Zimbabwe, 2991.) She is a graduate of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art School (known today as the National Gallery School of Visual Art and Design) and the Market Photo Workshop in South Africa. Mukwazhi is a multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice draws on personal experiences and observations of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse. Mukwazhi uses women’s undergarments and in her practice to make use of the material’s associative power to reference feelings of objectification, entrapment, and disembodiment. The artist uses her art and body to shed light on the abuse of power in churches, politics and spaces occupied by women, as well as on common—and yet less publicised—occurrences of sexual assault in her home country and the rest of Southern Africa. Recent exhibitions include Bedroom Interview at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, 2018; Not The Usual Suspects at Iziko Museums in Capetown, 2018 and Legitimate Expectations at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, 2018

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Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi also known as crazinisT artisT is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist living and practicing in Ghana. [sHe/it...] was born in Ho, Volta Region of Ghana in September 1981.

crazinisT got [sHe/it...]’s  Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts - BFA (Painting) in 2014 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.

Since 2012, [sHe/it...] began an endless journey of investigating, reevaluating and questioning social constructivism of human existence and its relationship with the "culturality" of gender stereotypes and sexual misrepresentation.

[sHe/it...]'s belief in unconditional love for humanity, regardless of one’s sense of belonging or identity, pushes [sHe/it...]'s  works to investigate and question our quest for socio-cultural supremacy over marginalised people, political injustice, violence, vulnerabilities, human sense of mortality and objectification.