Facilitating Artists

Season Butler

she/they

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.

@season_butler

Joey A. Frenette (Bourgeoisie)

they/them

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.

@onlybourgeoise

Justin Hunt

he/him

Dr R. Justin Hunt is an artist, curator, coach, and strategic consultant based in London. He is an Honorary Reserach Fellow at the Mile End Institute (Queen Mary University of London), Visiting Lecturer at Rose Bruford College, and Curating Producer for I’m With You. Until 2024 he was a Senior Relationship Manager at Arts Council England. 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.

@rjustinhunt

illyr

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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.

@illyrxxii

Johanna Linsley

she/her

Johanna Linsley  is an artist, writer and researcher working across performance, text and sound. A founding producer of I'm With You, she is now based in Scotland working as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. She had a decade-long collaboration with the late artist Rebecca Collins exploring the idea of 'sonic detection' as a method for site-responsive creative practice. Their album Stolen Voices001 (2021) was shortlisted for a Scottish Award for New Music. Their book Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Art and Performance is forthcoming from punctum press in the summer of 2025. Johanna currently has a grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a project titled Listening to Scotland's Performance Archives where she is charting an alternative sonic history of experimental performance and Live Art.

@jhlinsley

Brian Lobel

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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.

@Blobelization

Luke Pell

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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.

@lukepellmakes

Owen G. Parry

he/him

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.

@_fanriot

Liz Rosenfeld

no pronouns

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.

@liz.rosenfeld

Claudia Palazzo

she/her

Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. Her work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street, and focuses on the live experience and a place to be able to shift through, let go and sit/deal with. It is often poetic, feral, meditative and violent in its structure, influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city concrete dwellings and psychophysical training. She seeks to establish charged connections and subliminal feedback loops of understanding with an audience in order to process and harness our collective and individual sense of joy, sadness, resistance, power and endurance. Current research is around absorbing impact, damaged support structures, what can represent us in our absence and repair and rebuild.

@claudiapalazzo

Daniel Oliver

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Daniel Oliver is a performance artist, lecturer, and researcher. He makes raucous, dyspraxic-led  performance worlds with mysterious and complex back stories that audiences are drawn into and take roles in. These worlds can be raucous, deceptively layered and complex, loud, unpredictable, and rude, but also kind, attentive and adaptable to audience experience and actions. His work has been platformed throughout the UK and overseas for over 20 years, including at the Barbican; Tate Modern and Tate Britain; The Yard Theatre, CAC Glasgow, Forest Fringe, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; University of the Arts, Helsinki, and Texas A&M University. He is currently an associate artist at Cambridge Junction. He is a lecturer on the Experimental Art of Performance degree at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has published writing on neurodiversity, audience participation, and the value of celebrating awkwardness, including a book called Awkwoods, published by the Live Art Development Agency.  

@canibedaniel

Zbigniew Kotkiewicz

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Zbigniew Kotkiewicz is a lens based artist and educator. He is interested in exploring common denominators across different genres. Zbigniew has been photographing queer techno, indie and fetish scenes since 2013. Over the years he documented many club nights in London and Berlin, such as Blanc, Dirty Diana, Gegen, Kaos, Papa Loko, Pink Glove, Klub Verboten and a literary salon Naked Boys Reading. His focus has also been on documenting social movements and demonstrations as well as theatre and dance productions. Zbigniew’s photographic work has been shown in several group exhibitions including Physical Distancing, London Alt-Nightlife in a post-covid era, Electrowerkz, London (2021), Blueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ London, Octagon Gallery, University College London (2023), and At Home in Hackney: A community photographed 1970s-today, Hackney Museum, London (2023-24). Zbigniew’s photographs are also included in Bishopsgate Institute’s LGBTQ+ archives. He gained his educator experience while performing as Folkestone Triennial’s artist in residence, a sessional tutor for Photography in Film module at Canterbury Christ Church University, a guest speaker for The Business of Nightlife module at Syracuse University and a guest artist at Garde-Robe Records’ residency programme on Rinse France. Zbigniew’s current nightlife photography publications include Pornceptual Magazine, Docu Book: Vol 19 Best of Documentary & Street Photography and roughcast magazine.

@zbigniew.kotkiewicz