Biographies
In order of appearance
Rebecca Hilton is an Australian born dance person, BODIES co-leader and professor of choreography for the profile area Site, Event, Encounter at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).
Hanna Husberg is a visual artist and researcher, co-leader of BODIES, and assistant professor for performative and media-based practices at SKH where she is also the research education coordinator.
Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh is teacher, researcher co-leader of BODIES, and head of the binational artistic PhD program at the University of Arts in Bremen (HfK), Germany where she also coordinates the research funding context.
Petra Bauer is an artist and researcher in the field of documentary film making, she is professor of film and media for the profile area Art, Technology and Materiality at SKH.
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm, currently director of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Giron/Kiruna.
Ilse van Rijn is a writer, researcher and head of third cycle at the Institute for performing arts and film (IPF) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), she is a BODIES core researcher.
Sher Doruff PhD is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, theorist, BODIES core researcher and emeritus professor in artistic research at SKH.
Egija Inzule is a curator, 2019–25 she was director of Nida Art Colony (NAC) a department of Vilnius Academy of Arts, and organiser, together with tutors from partner institutions, of Nida Doctoral School.
Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam-based independent curator, dj, and researcher who develops ongoing experimental and collaborative research practice, public programs, and projects on global spatial politics, archives, colonialism, counter-culture, oral histories, and popular culture.
Mick Wilson, artist, educator, researcher, professor of arts and director of doctoral studies at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm)
Daniel Israelsson Casta from Vår Lokal & Allas Kafé, is a chef and researcher with a commitment to sharing, making and eating as both social and artistic practices.
Anne Gry Haugland is a writer, educator, researcher, and vice rector for research at SKH, where she is a guest professor in performative and media-based practices. She is also a member in the Steering Committee for VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research.
Michael Francis Duch is a musician, educator, and researcher, he is an alumni member of the Young Academy of Norway and on the editorial committee for VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research.
Tale Næss is a Norwegian playwright, author and poet, also an artistic researcher she recently co-edited edition #14 of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research.
Heidi Möller is a Communications officer at SKH and the Editorial project manager for VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research.
Alexander Skantze is an Assistant Professor at SKH, specializing in writing and dramaturgy. He works with novels, film and TV scripts, and performance, exploring character, genre, structure, and narrative development.
Márcia Nemer is an actor, performer, and theatre director from Brazil. She is a doctoral student at SKH, researching Staging Absence and exploring possibilities for the actor’s work beyond acting.
Alessandra Di Pisa is an Associate Professor and Head of Division at Linköping University. She is an artist with a focus on transdisciplinary artistic research and visual communication.
Robert Stasinski is an artist, curator, and writer whose work has appeared in Art Papers, Flash Art, Paletten, Glänta, Konstnären, and Contemporary.
Helene Berg works with moving images, creating animated scenographies for stage productions and concerts, live visuals for music collaborations, as well as experimental films and music videos.
Elina Koivisto is an architect, doctoral researcher, and educator at Aalto University. Her work focuses on how natural building materials can encourage care for and agency over the built environment.
Hito Steyerl (participating online) is a filmmaker, moving-image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary whose principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images.
Ester Martin Bergsmark is a Swedish film director, artist, and artistic researcher whose practice works to widen the sensory register in both the creation and the experience of film.
Taru Elfving is a curator and writer, whose practice focuses on nurturing transdisciplinary encounters and site-sensitive artistic investigations with a long-term commitment to the critical discourses on ecology and feminism.
Eva Weinmayr is an artist, educator, researcher and writer, her work investigates the border crossings between contemporary art, radical education and institutional analysis by experimenting with modes of queer knowledge formation.
Rudi Loewe is an artist and researcher visualising Black histories and social politics through painting, drawing and text.
Saul Garcia Lopez aka La Saula, is a queer multidisciplinary performance artist and researcher, professor of performance at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, and co-artistic director of the internationally renowned performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
Sebastian Dahlqvist is an artist and educator, working as Artistic and Executive Director for Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, he coordinates a national network for self-organised cultural houses in Sweden: The collective brain.
Kultivator is an independent art practice, as well as an experimental project platform that initiates and executes projects, exhibitions and workshops investigating our relationship with the landscapes that feed us. Kultivator is founded and run by Mathieu Vrijman and Malin Lindmark Vrijman.
Kopparbergs Folkets Hus is a motley crew of entrepreneurs, cultural workers, association members, skaters, weavers, carpenters and pensioners, coming together to make Folkets hus once again a place to meet, to exchange, to learn a new skill or share an old one, a place to create and celebrate community.
John-Paul Zaccarini is a practitioner in theatre, dance, mime and circus with a focus on spoken word poetry and professor of performing arts for the profile area Bodily and Vocal Practices at SKH.
Kent Olofsson is a composer, sound designer, researcher, professor of performing arts for the profile area Concept and Composition, and head of research education at SKH.
Stacey Sacks is an artist researcher traversing the fields of live stage arts, critical whiteness, clowning, animation, visual and cultural anthropology, decolonial praxis and current Professor of subject area acting at SKH.
Harm Coordes is a freelance fashion designer, costume designer and scenographer, undertaking PhD studies in the Binational Artistic PhD Program at HfK Bremen in cooperation with University of Groningen.
lambert is a non-binary, trans artist whose practice is a polydisciplinamory entanglement of making, writing, curating, collaborating, and performing, they are a PhD candidate at Konstfack.
Chrysa Parkinson, dancer, performer, pedagogue, writing and drawing person, is professor of dance and head of the subject area dance at SKH.
Christina Koch is an artist working across circus, theatre & opera, Professor of Circus and Head of the MA Contemporary Circus Arts at SKH.
Savaş Boyraz is a Kurdish film maker, writer, and researcher currently undertaking PhD studies in performative and media based practices at SKH.
BamBam Frost is an artist and researcher working through different mediums to create performance, choreography and spatial installations, she is a BODIES core researcher.
