“So come with me where dreams are born and time is never planned. Just think happy things and your heart will fly on wings forever in Never-Never Land” (Peter Pan) Born in the late great summer of nineteen eighty something Spike displayed an aptitude for making and creating at a young age primarily through his [...]

Gasser-Kochan-Øgrim Trio is: Clementine Gasser (5 string cello) Jacek Kochan (drums/percussion) Tellef Ogrim (fretless guitar/electronics) Potted Biographies: Clementine Gasser Born in Switzerland. Studied in Lucerne and Vienna. Among others she plays with Michael Zerang and Mikolaj Trzaska and is an active performer at avant-garde and jazz festivals in many countries (Austria, Spain, Ireland, Poland, Albania, [...]

Selected Performances: – “Make-Believe” Manchester and UK-Tour, production with Quarantine – “Which one would you like?“, Choreography: Paul Julius invited to “International Contemporary Dance Festival Almada”, Lisbon – “Not the right kind of light for a magic act” Choreography: – Philip Bergmann (travellight), Director: Arne Forke (co>labs), at i-camp München, Tafelhalle Nürnberg – Movement-Sound-Installation-Performance at [...]

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO AND COLLECTIVES) 1/12/2009 al 30/12/2009: Solo exhibition, retrospective, curatded by Aus-Galerie (Rome). 15/09/2009: collective in Berlin: Mit den Augen der anderen. www.artandprison.com 20/11/2009 al 29/11/2009: Foyer of Theatre G. D’ annunzio, Latina (Roma). Solo exhibition on “Post-Stencilism”, curated by Aus-Galerie e rappresented by Foundation of culture of the city of Latina (Rome). (articles [...]

Composer Graham Fitkin’s work is known internationally. Performances by companies such as Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Random, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet, London Chamber Orchestra etc and collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott, Shobana Jeyasingh, Will Gregory, Wayne McGregor, The Wilson Sisters, Ruth Wall etc are a few examples of Graham’s [...]

Iannis Xenakis (Greek: Γιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was an ethnic Greek, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game [...]

Action Hero make live art and performance that seeks to use audiences as collaborators and co-conspirators. We are interested in creating work that links audiences together and unifies them as part of the live event, building a temporary community. Our process has been defined by necessity: a raw aesthetic has become central to our work. [...]

I am primarily interested in sculpture. My work more often than not includes some if not all found materials. Travelling is a huge passion of mine, be it round London, or further a field, it is these trips which provide me with exciting structural ideas and the chance to collect disowned, often overlooked objects. These [...]

EXHIBITIONS 2011 Washington Gallery, Penarth Nichola and Sarah Hope. 2011 Drawing Welsh National Opera: A Retrospective Nichola and Sarah Hope. Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff 2010 Theatre Clwyd, Clwyd Group show: Nichola Hope, Sarah Hope, Liam O’Connor 2010 UWIC Emerging Artists, Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff 7 Sept – 4 October 2010 Eisteddfod 2010 | The National [...]

EXHIBITIONS 2010 Theatre Cymru Clwyd – On Performance Nichola Hope, Sarah Hope, Liam O’Connor 2010 BIG RESIDENCY WMC Group show 2009 PEOPLE IN WALES Group show at Denbigh Library Gallery, Denbigh 2009 WELSH ARTIST OF THE YEAR selected artist at St David’s Hall, cardiff 2008 ACCESS ALL AREAS Group show at Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff [...]

SD is a fine double bassist and composer born in Cagliari, Sardinia. His music is highly informed by a strong sense of melody and attention to textural details. The double bass has often a prominent role in his research and elements of improvisation permeate his compositions. He started to play piano and cello when he [...]

Born: Culiacan, Mexico Lives: and works in Mexico City Education 1994 First place: XVI Salón de la Plástica Sinaloense, organized by Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa 1995 Diploma in forensic medicine and science of communication at Universidad Nacional de México 2002 First place: VII Bienal de Pintura de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador 2002 Honorary mention at the [...]

The work of Lawrence Malstaf can be situated on the borderline between the visual and the theatrical. After having studied industrial design, Lawrence Malstaf [moves into] theatre. He designs scenographies for choreographers and directors such as Benoît Lachambre, Meg Stuart and Kirsten Delholm. He soon develops more into installation and performance-art with a strong focus [...]

Still House serves as a collective for multi-disciplinary, cross-platform performance projects, rooted in the principles of play, generosity, instinct, irreverence, vulnerability, bravery and diving into the unknown. They make films, live performance work and events. They aim to create work that reaches out to a non-elite audience and to offer art that is instantly felt [...]

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Barak is the son of acclaimed dancer, choreographer and musician Margalit Oved. Since his accidental entrance into dance in 1995, Barak fast established himself as one Israeli dance’s most innovative and unique voices. Barak’s first work Aunt Leah won first prize in Suzanne Dellal’s 1995 Shades of Dance [...]

Stef Conner is a composer and performer in contemporary vocal music and jazz. Her work has been performed in York Minster, at York Spring Festival and on BBC Radio 2. She has collaborated with various classical, jazz and folk artists, including the Chimera Ensemble, the Unthanks, the Julian Arguelles Octet, John Potter, Juice, Trydydd, Bright [...]

Patrick Sims is a theatre director. Formerly creative director of Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes whose Armature of the Absolute was a sold out hit at the London International Mime Festival in 2009. He is now director of his new company, Les Antliaclastes. (Dec 2010)

Justė Janulytė (b. 1982/Vilnius) studied composition with prof. B. Kutavičius, O. Balakauskas, H. Tulve, L. Francesconi, A. Solbiati and others at the M.K.Čiurlionis Art School, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Milan “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatoire and in various masterclasses. Janulytė’s music was performed in Europe, USA and Canada, by Lithuanian National Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro [...]

Stephen Irwin is a graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design. He has received commissions from the UK Film Council & Film London, BBC New Talent, Warp Films and Animate Projects (Channel 4 / Arts Council England). His film ‘The Black Dog’s Progress’ won the Best Short Film award at the British [...]

Mauricio Kagel, born in Buenos Aires on 24 December 1931, is among the most distinctive composers of contemporary music. From the very beginning his name has been associated above all with music theatre, the genre in which he has perhaps exerted the greatest impact. Besides his radical innovations in this area, however, he has also [...]

Frances is an artist and illustrator currently working from the vibrant Hamilton House studios in Bristol. Frances graduated in 2005 with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration from the University of The West of England, She has since worked on numerous private commissions including portraiture and experimental work. She has exhibited widely and is [...]

Edward Caine (MA) was brought up in Scotland, attended Ackworth School, West Yorkshire with a joint Art and Music scholarship, then completed a BA in Music at Durham University where he studied composition under Dr. Paul Archbold and worked with compsosers Fabrice Fitch and Martyn Harry. Edd then moved to York, where he completed an [...]

Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. His first award-winning collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers was published by Stride Books in 2005 and won an award. He has worked as regional editor for Succour, a biannual journal of poetry and short fiction based at the University of Sussex and as [...]

Larry Jordan is an independent filmmaker who has been working in the Bay Area in California since 1955, and making films since 1952. He has produced some 40 experimental and animation films, and three feature-length dramatic films. He is most widely known for his animated collage films. In 1970 he received a Guggenheim award to [...]

Matthew is a composer/pianist/poet/teacher and events organiser living and working in London. Large scale happenings include “The Nothing & the Nothingness” 2007, “Around This House” 2009, “For the Birds” 2008 & 2010 (collaboration with Neil Luck, performed in London & Sardinia), “sixty_six_events 2010 (collaboration with Andy Ingamells, Global performance) & “Street Scenes” 2010. Compositions include [...]

J.R. Dooley studied composition with Peter Reynolds at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and is currently studying with Lamberto Coccioli at Birmingham Conservatoire. In October 2009 he completed his Master’s and began his Ph.D. exploring spatialisation in music. As well as being an active, multifarious artist, he is a private tutor in [...]

It started out innocently enough, doing photoshoots for local bands. a hobby-born from his passion for music and his fascination with photography. but as his experience grew so did his ambition. he wanted to get bigger bands in front of his lens-people he looked up to and exciting new talent, and if he was going [...]