Uncommon Nature

Martina Amati is an Italian film director and artist. Her films studies the human body crystallised in movement and the limits of its strength and fragility. She grew up close to the sea in Italy and water is a recurrent theme in her work. She lives and works in London.

Rä di Martino is a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and of the Slade School of Art. After spending a few years in London and New York she now lives and works in Italy. Her films, installations and photos have been shown in many institutions and film festivals including: Moma-PS1, NY; Tate Modern, London; MCA Chicago; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Magasin, Grenoble; Fondazione Sandretto, Turin and HangarBicocca Milan; Artists Space, New York; NiMK Netherlands Media Arts, Amsterdam; the Busan Biennial; Manifesta; the Turin Triennal, Locarno and Torino International Film Festival, Viper Basel and Transmediale Berlin. With the medium length documentary The Show MAS Go On she has participated to the Venice Film Festival 2014, winning the SIAE award and Gillo Pontecorvo award, a special mention at Salina DocFest, and a Nastro d’argento for best doc-film 2015 and in 2017 has participated again at the Venice Film Festival with her first feature film CONTROFIGURA.

Jonathas de Andrade lives and works in Recife, Brazil. He uses photography, installation and video to traverse collective memory and history, making use of strategies that shuffle fiction and reality. Jonathas collects and catalogues architecture, images, texts, life stories and recomposes a personal narrative of the past. Past solo museum exhibitions include Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2016-17); The Power Plant, Toronto (2017); New Museum, New York (2017); and MCA Chicago (2019). Group exhibitions include 32a Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2016); Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York (2017); and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2018).

Panisk Organisk Kompagni Panisk Organisk Kompagni is a dance collective and an active choreography company founded by Viola Dröse and Stisa Søgaard in 2010. The concept of the company is that all the performances are a collaboration of artists from diverse art fields in order to experiment with stage performance. It is mainly working with movement, words, sound and space in different contexts. This collective cross-art work is displayed both on stage as well as in other constellations in possible or impossible sites and spaces.

Marjolijn Dijkman is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. Her works can be seen as a form of science – fiction; partly based on facts and research but often brought into the realm of fiction, abstraction and speculation. Solo shows include NOME, DE (2018), Munch Museum, w/ Toril Johannessen, NO (2018); Fig. 2 at ICA, UK (2015); IKON Gallery, UK (2011); Berkeley Art Museum, US (2008). Group shows include Contour Biennale 9, BE (2019); 21st Biennale of Sydney, AU (2018); 11th Shanghai Biennale, CN (2016); 7th Mercosul Biennial, BR (2009) and the 8th Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2007).

Berit Dröse Berit Dröse (DK / D), lives and work in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a multidisciplinary visual artist. From 2017-2019 she was one of eight danish artists chosen to represent Denmark at the JCE Biennale (Jeune Creation Europeénne).The JCE Biennale is a network linking different European cities with focus to promote young artists. The Biennale was shown in seven different european cities such as Le Beffroi Montrouge, Paris, Science and Art Center "Bruzis", Cesis, Latvia and Intact Foundation, Cluj, Romania. Dröse is educated from Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, Germany and the The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark. She works with visual spaces, sculptures and installations that point to other dimensions. Circles around the connection between a physical and a mental reality.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an award-winning media artist, composer, researcher, and writer; he holds a PhD in artistic research and sound studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Leiden University, The Netherlands. Currently, Chattopadhyay is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut. Prior to the PhD, he has graduated from India’s national film school, and completed a Master of Arts degree in new media and sound art from Aarhus University, Denmark. Focusing on sound as primary medium, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance broadly dealing with contemporary social and political issues.

Lucie McIntosh is an artist, curator and writer with a deep commitment to the independent arts community. She is currently a Director and Program Curator of Blindside, an independent, artist–run space based in the City of Melbourne. Lucie’s exhibition and research based practice explores process of signification and, more specifically, in how the process of signification might be made visible through the content of an artwork. Her practice emphasises the inherently plural and personal nature of meaning—reminding us of, and celebrating, our agency in its creation. Lucie is interested in the many ways that ‘the image’ can be expanded and consumed in political and philosophical contexts. Her practice relies on plurality and intertextuality—each artwork compulsively referencing its many varieties of self, content, history and maker.

Dario Vacirca creates and facilitates solo and collaborative art projects and programs working across borders, art forms and models of creation. His multiplatform projects bring together artists and non-artists in the creation of aesthetically rich and politically charged interdisciplinary artworks. Dario was Artistic Director of OSCA & Well Productions, designing and directing international touring works and setting up platforms of exchange and collaboration across Oz and elsewhere. He is currently a PhD candidate, undertaking practice led research into modes and methods of critical dreaming, embodied resistance and transformation of geo-politics to geopoetics.