The body is the site of perception and production. Image agency or its creation always belongs to the body. The body is the actual site and maker of art. Whether it is the artist or the audience, the generator or the receiver, we all make, look and feel as experience. Using each participant’s physical presence, while translating it into the virtual one, signified by an image on the screen, curator Agata Kik and artist Luli Perez explore these issues through their performative talk, which will situate the body and embodied practices at its core, for each of the participants to experience the virtual and the physical and see ourselves seeing.
Luli Perez is an artist living in London. Perez makes live experiments questioning behavioural and conceptual definitions, often using the processes of filmmaking as a way of framing perspectives. She has exhibited in Chisenhale studios, Chalton gallery and Guest Projects in London, MAAT museum, Lisbon, Labirynt gallery, Lublin, and Le Carreau du Temple, Paris.
She has an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art and BA in History of Art from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
Carlos Jiménez is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in London. Jimenez graduated in photography at the Royal College of Arts in London and he studied Fine Arts between Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Camberwell School of Arts in London and the University of the Arts in Kyoto, Japan.
Recently Carlos has been commissioned a new film for the exhibition ”Fashioned from Nature” which will be shown at that museum until January 2019 in London. Jimenez also have directed commissions for the British Council on Phyllida Barlow´s exhibition at the 57th Venice Biennale for the British Pavillion, a series of films about David Shrigley’s touring exhibition “Lose your mind”as well as the Swiss Pavillion ”Women of Venice” exhibition for the 57th Venice Biennale.
Jimenez´s primarily lens base practice focuses on the analysis of what an image represents and what it is telling us about our position as viewers. Working across fiction and documentary, building narratives through the construction of highly staged photographs of actors and/or real scenarios populated by non-actors. The representation of the real and its further reconstruction are key elements of his field of enquiry. These fictional images sit alongside documentary work to produce narratives where the line between realism, fiction and the theatre of life is blurred, questioning his white male western perception of the "other" and himself. In researching power, control, gender and their performativity Jimenez has structured a body of work that plays upon the artifice of the traditional models of hierarchy, the white male position and its translation into imaginary.
Concepts such as otherness, nature, ecology, dualities, exoticism and sexuality are recurrent themes in his work.
Group shows include Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2019), Royal College of Arts (London, 2018), NOW Gallery (London, 2016), Offprint Tate Modern (London, 2015), KCUA Gallery (Kyoto, 2014), Gallery f5,6 (Germany, 2014), RCA Secret (London, 2014), FilmLab Film Festival (Italy, 2013), London Fashion Week (London,2013), LOOP Video Art Festival (Barcelona,2012), In-Sonora (Madrid,2012), Battersea Arts Center (London,2012), National Library (Madrid, 2008), amongst other. Jimenez has been awarded the Labyrinth Award for his show at the Royal College Show 2015. Residencies and Awards include the RCA Kyoto University exchange grant (Japan) 2014, Cité Internationale des Arts Residency (Paris) 2014, St. Giulia FilmLab Award 2013 and Nordic Culture Point Award 2008.
Chantal Yzermans is a Belgian choreographer/researcher, currently living in Paris. After her studies at the Royal Conservatory Antwerpen, Chantal moved to New York City in 2000.
As a dancer she studied daily for 6 years with Merce Cunningham and his company in New York. In 2009 Jan Fabre offered Chantal an artistic residency, in his venue Troubleyn/Laboratorium in Antwerpen. There she created Radical Low, the performance ensemble; continuing a permanent search of cooperation and presentation context for dance. Some artistic collaborators : Kurt Ralske (USA), Hrvatski (USA), Kota Yamazaki (JP), Jean Paul Lespagnard (BE) Carlos Aires( ES), MADmoizel (FR). Until now Chantal Yzermans /Radical Low has produced 6 performances: An Angry Boy/Act one (2009), ONR- I/Act two (2010), Arena/Act three (2011), Guns/Roses (2012), Partner/You (2014), NOBOLERO (2016).
Michael Hart is an American photographer and producer living in Barcelona, Spain. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1981 and grew up in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas.
Hart’s photography has been published in Art Forum, The Boston Globe, Contact Quarterly, El Pais, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Juilliard Journal, Les Inrockuptibles, L'Officiel Hommes, The Miami Herald, Mouvement, The Movement Research Performance Journal, The New York Times Style Magazine, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Time Out NYC, The Village Voice, Volt Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.
From 2003-2009 he lived in New York City producing music concerts, dance performances and art exhibitions at Chez Bushwick, The Center for Performance Research, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Gallery
138, Jacob’s Pillow, The Juilliard School, The Kitchen, The Park Avenue Armory, The Ronald Feldman Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, The Spectrum, The Watermill Center and most recently at the Abrons Arts Center in
January of 2017.
In 2008 he was introduced to Mx Justin Vivan Bond by film maker Charles Herman-Wurmfeld and has assisted Vivian since in producing performances at the Abrons Arts Center, Frieze London, The Hudson Lodge, Joe’s
Pub, The Oasis: San Francisco, The Skirball Center at NYU and most recently in February of 2018, at the Appel Room at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Since 2008 he’s been touring internationally, working as the assistant to American Choreographer Trajal Harrell, producing performances and performance exhibitions at The Barbican Centre, CCS Bard Galleries, Centre
National De La Danse, The Hammer Museum, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Montpellier Danse, MUDAM Luxembourg, Museu de Arte do Rio, New York Live Arts, Palais De Tokyo, Sala Hiroshima and The Walker Arts Center.
In Barcelona he’s produced performances and events at Espai Erre, Espacio Práctico, Sala Hiroshima, Monkey Town: Barcelona, La Poderosa, and is currently producing art exhibitions, music concerts and performances full
time at Bar Rufián in Poble Sec.
Dr Sylwia Serafinowicz is a Curator at a/political, a London-based non-profit organisation supporting politically and socially-engaged artists, and a regular contributor to Artforum magazine. She curated numerous exhibitions, including Shikeith: This Was His Body/ His Body Finally His (2017), Ewa Axelrad: Shtamah (2017), Wild at Heart (2018), Labor Relations (2016), Punxdefektuozoz: Dr Lakra and Laureana Toledo (2015). Prior to a/political, she collaborated with the festival Art Night 2017, The Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Whitechapel Gallery in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and was a Collections Curator at the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2014 – 2017) in Poland.
She received her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2015 and an MA in History of Art from the University of Warsaw in 2009. She is a member of the AICA UK.
Fito Conesa studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, the city where he lives and works. With a multifaceted work that encompasses installation, video and sound exploration, some of his works are conceived as an exhibition of the artist himself and his geographical context of origin; others incorporate different elements of cultural history and the contemporary world; and others dissect the everyday.
Since 2008, he has exhibited in spaces such as the Aparador del Museu Abelló in Mollet del Vallès (2008), CaixaForum in Tarragona (2009), Centro Cultural Español in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2014), La Naval in Cartagena (2015) and Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (2018). His work can be found in collections such as the Fundació Banc Sabadell, the University of Granada, the City Council of Valls and MACBA in Barcelona.
Charlotte Ginsborg is an independent filmmaker whose films interweave documentary and fiction to explore people’s psychological relationship to their work and social environments. Working with composers, choreographers and spoken-word poets, she collaborates with documentary subjects to develop performances that are woven into the fabric of the films. Her work has been screened and exhibited in galleries and festivals nationally and internationally, including the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery, the Pompidou Centre, and the Walker Arts Centre, USA. Her film, Over The Bones, was in competition in the Tiger Shorts at Rotterdam Film Festival, and her lastest film, 22:22, commissioned by Film London, premiered at the London Film Festival 2017. Her films have been commissioned by Channel 4, the UNHRC, Arts Council England and Poetry in the City. Recently she has been working with the Trojan Women Project following the experinces of Syrian refugees to the UK, and also for Breakthrough Media filming with families whose children have turned to extremism.