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Ngo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong-born artist living and working in London. His practice works with moving image, text, installation and lecture performance, critically engaging with the historiography of decolonisation, the production of technological and cinematic images, and the hauntology of diasporic experience. In 2024, Chun was a part of Peer-to-Peer, an artist support programme convened by Metroland Cultures.

Mark Farid is an artist, researcher and Fine Art lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His work explores how new technologies shape identity and selfhood, focusing on privacy, surveillance and data rights through hacker ethics. Farid critically engages with social, legal and political systems. His projects have been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, the Pompidou Centre, Sundance Institute, and featured by BBC, Fox, Arte, France24, The Guardian and The Telegraph.

Lydia Newman is a multidisciplinary artist exploring how colonial legacies and global systems shape how we move, relate and survive. Her practice – spanning performance, painting and sculpture – is rooted in soul-led expression as a form of resistance. Lydia uses image, body and sound to explore personal reckoning and social critique, reclaiming space emotionally, physically and spiritually. She wants to invite audiences to pause, witness and remember that other ways of being are possible.

Claudia Palazzo is a London born artist working at the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation and alternative cabaret. Often poetic, unmanageable, meditative and violent in its structure. Influenced by roots in club culture, inner-city structures and psychophysical training.Her work often exists in a place of tension using the interplay between inherent strength and the impact of damage.Claudia is currently looking for things to represent her dancing body in her absence and wonders how we can challenge ableist ideals of mobility without succumbing to soft control that is disguised as care.

Pianka Pärna is a non-binary post-Soviet performance artist from Estonia working across body-based practices, exploring Baltic/Slavic mythologies, queer grief/futurity and gender non-conformity. The works intertwine folklore, ritual, mythological storytelling and endurance to challenge hegemonic heteronormative narratives and cultural silencing while engaging in un/worlding – balancing creation, disintegration and collective transformation through bodily autonomy. Further, Pianka creates sculpture and installation of various scale, reflecting and re-using performance remnants and generating re-imagined activations of humanness in all its liminal forms.

Proposal to write an artist bio: Josh Philpott (b. 1994, Birmingham, UK) works from Conditions Studio Programme in Croydon. Proposal to make site responsive work to frustrate the infrastructures which govern social movement; to tease poetry from the mundane and the chaotic; to establish parameters from which unexpected connections and interesting failures emerge. Proposal to not quite fulfil any of these proposals but fulfil something in between and around them instead.

Shuwen is a London-based queer artist and independent director working across performance, text and movement. They are soon to graduate from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Fine Art. Their work activates overlooked, transitional spaces through devised theatre and site-responsive practice. Using a ‘character switch’ method, they blend Eastern and Western vocabularies to explore queerness, displacement and collective memory, creating immersive environments where performer and audience co-exist within unstable, shifting structures.

Angel Zinovieff completed their MFA in fine art at UCLA in Los Angeles in 2019. Since then they have presented their work in New York, London and Los Angeles. They are fascinated by the question of how time is inherited through the body and in the task of living through the present haunted by history.