 | B E A N Bean is an artist of nomadic nature. Currently based in London she is founder of ]performance s p a c e [. Bean’s artistic practice stems from obsessive, paranoid, scientific and anthropological research. Her work has been described as deliberately “accidental, scattered, scuffed, blurry and incomplete”. Oscillating the poles of violence/meditation, power/control, movement/home; it revels in the feral actions, inscriptions and fringe existence of the nomadic body. Currently focused on the inscription of her flesh, as an act of both reclaiming and disowning her body as material. The marking of the tattoo acts as the work and its documentation; questioning notions of performance as a bracketed event, the lines between art and life, the durational and the temporary. She has presented work in Europe, Australia and Asia. In Autumn 2011 she will be making work in the USA. |
jamie lewis hadley Jamie's practice utalises his former career as a professional wrestler and uses it as a departure point to create live art performances, actions and installations that explore, both aestheticaly and thematicaly: detereation, endurance, pain and violence. Jamie is was recently awarded a full AHRC grant and is completing an MRes in Theatre and Performance at the University of Plymouth. He is also currently creative director with the Old Vic and an Associate Artist of ]performance s p a c e[. photo: Joe Starbuck |  |
 | Benjamin Sebastian Benjamin is a founding member of The Greestone Group, Tension/Intervention/Restraint, ArtEvict and an Associate Artist of ]performance s p a c e [. His practice is multidisciplinary in approach and navigates the dialectic relationships between intimacy and solitude, security and vulnerability, along with individuality and the communal - logic and the irrational. Benjamin has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Australia and America. |
Eva Roovers Photographer - MA London College of Communication In a charity shop my heart can skip a beat when I come eye to eye with a random item that sometimes I can't identify, but glares at me with possibilities of representation and otherness. Like a rag picker or raven, I collect my new gems and bring them to life in the (safe) domain of the studio. Stripped even more from any context apart from the photographic set and its art historical connotation to the still life. This is where the game and art of Bricolage is being played, new classifications build and the perception stretched or triggered. A warrior to me, is a mindset, not taking things as a blessing or a curse but rather as challenge. The mode of resistance is a brave battle against self-ignorance and prevailing an open view with possibilities. The Warriors share the same working process of collecting and re-assembling the discarded. Resulting in a colourful non confirming work with recognizable but benign objects and characters, that can reference without a singular linear signal. |  |
 | Li E Chen Li E Chen's practice is interdisciplinary and it includes installation, performance, visual arts, dance, theatre, new media, digital design for performance, and art curatorial work. Li E Chen’s current work focus on contemporary arts and performances that express a “nothingness” similar to being a state of deep sleep. Her artistic approaches are around numberical and textual arts through movement. |
Dani Ploeger Department of Performance and Digital Arts at De Montfort University in Leicester. Dani makes performance installations which explore interactions between his body and technological commodities and play with cultural stereotypes concerning the relationship between digital technologies and social and gender identity. Dani's artwork has been featured in galleries and museums in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, United States, Russia, China and the UK and his writing has been published in journals in the field of cultural studies and digital art. In a previous life, dani was a musician. he worked as a music teacher in Ramallah, Palestine for a few years and performed as a trombonist with symphony orchestras such as the Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. He also appeared as a chamber musician and soloist at new and experimental music festivals around the world. Once, he even won the sixth prize in a competition. www.danielploeger.org Photo: (c) Martin Popelář, OCNM Archive
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Marco Berardi Marco is a photographer primarily working with the documentation of performance, live and body-based art.
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