Facilitating Artists
Season Butler
she/they
Image by Christa Holka
Season Butler is a writer, artist, dramaturg and lecturer in Performance Studies and Creative Writing. She thinks a lot about youth and old age; solitude and community; negotiations with hope and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. Season’s current work-in-progress explores bodies and identities in constant motion, crossing borders, heading from crash to crash. Her recent artwork has appeared in the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Tate Exchange, the Latvian National Museum (Riga) and Hotel Maria Kapel (Netherlands). Her debut novel, Cygnet, was published in spring 2019 and won the Writer’s Guild 2020 Award for Best First Novel. She lives and works between London and Berlin.
Joey A. Frenette (Bourgeoisie)
they/them
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Joey A Frenette, aka Bourgeoisie, is an American costume designer and drag queen. They run Cut A Bitch Design, a bespoke costume service designing for queer performers, burlesque artists, and other cabaret sensations. They studied at a tiny school you never would've heard of in North Carolina before moving to London in 2011. They've designed Xnthony's award winning Douze for Edinburg Fringe and a few note-worth pantomimes. They also perform via their drag persona across London and internationally.
Justin Hunt
he/him
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Dr R. Justin Hunt is an artist, curator, coach, and strategic consultant based in London. He is a Senior Relationship Manager for Arts Council England, an Honorary Reserach Fellow at the Mile End Institute (Queen Mary University of London) and Curating Producer for I’m With You. He has been a univeristy lecturer for 20 years and is a certified coach and faciliator. Justin’s research interests are in archives of performance, queerness, and club cultures.
illyr
he/they
Image by Daniele Fummo
I am a queer, POC, working class, interdisciplinary artist. I am currently an associate artist with Clod Ensemble and supported by Hackney Showrooms. I am half of DragonT with my partner Xavia. My debut audiovisual EP [Scrolling Subconscious] launched via NTS and Dazed.
As a choreographer I have made music videos for Tirzah, Goldfrapp and Harvey Causon and I have collaborated with Rebook, Vivienne Westwood, Dazed, Nowness and Jools Holland. I have worked on numerous projects with director and choreographer Holly Blakey, including a film adaptation of Francis bacon Triptych for the Francis Bacon Institute coming in 2021 and ‘Cowpuncher My Ass’ at Southbank Centre.
Johanna Linsley
she/her
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Johanna Linsley is interested in performance documentary, sonic fictions, queer domesticity. She is a professional eavesdropper. Johanna is a co-founder of I’m With You and a founding partner of the documentary arts organisation UnionDocs. Her five-year-long project Stolen Voices, in collaboration with Rebecca Collins, is a slowly unfolding eavesdrop on the east coast of the UK. She is Lecturer in Creative Practice at the University of Dundee.
Brian Lobel
he/him
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Brian Lobel is a performer, teacher, curator and trainee celebrant who is interested in creating work about bodies and how they are watched, policed, poked, prodded and loved by others. His work has shown work internationally in a range of contexts from Harvard Medical School, to Sydney Opera House, to the National Theatre (London) and Lagos Theatre Festival, blending provocative humour with insightful reflection. Last year, his book Theatre& Cancer was published by Red Globe Press. Brian is a Professor of Theatre & Performance at Rose Bruford College, and the co-founder of The Sick of the Fringe.
Luke Pell
he/they
Image by Tiu Makkonen
Fascinated by detail, nuances of time, texture, memory and landscape Luke Pell is an artist based in Scotland who makes work across forms, through conversation with people and place. Luke imagines alternative contexts for performance, participation and discourse that might reveal wisdoms for living.
Working with words and/as movements to draw together seemingly unrelated constellations of bodies and thought their poetic-choreographic practice takes form as intimate encounters in print and in person.
Deliberately collaborative, deeply dyspraxic, unashamedly tender, radically soft, unapologetically gentle and quietly queer Luke’s work has appeared throughout the UK and internationally. As a maker, curator and dramaturg Luke is often a companion to other artists and organisations thinking through practice to navigate processes of emergence, creation, re-imagination and change.
Owen G. Parry
he/him
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Owen G. Parry is and artist and researcher working across contemporary art, theatre practices and the web. He is an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and Researcher on the Staging Decadence project at Goldsmiths.
Owen has an expansive performance and visual arts practice synthesising avant-garde and pop culture with the creation of fictional artefacts and fake occultist techniques. He creates playful situations and experiences (often with others) for the production of new imaginary languages, communities, worlds and images. He stages projects and publications internationally.
Liz Rosenfeld
no pronouns
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Liz Rosenfeld (USA/DE) aka RIV is a Berlin based artist who works in film/video, performance, and personal discursive writing practice. Liz explores the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, and both past and future histories related to the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work approaches flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focusing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, approaching questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Departing from the personal, Liz's writing contends with how queer ontologies are rooted in both political and personal variant hypocritical desire(s). Liz is one of the members of Berlin based film collective nowMomentnow. Liz’s films are represented by Video Data Bank and LUX Moving Image.