Born in Taipei in 1971, Lin Chiwei is a transdisciplinary artist who received academic training in French literature, cultural anthropology and media art. Since the early 1990s, Lin has been involved in the Taiwanese counter-cultural scene. He was a founding member of noise band Z.S.L.O. and responsible for the programming of various alternative art festivals. At the same time, Lin explored the realms of religious music and art, notably temple sculpture and Taoist rituals, through intense research and field studies. These experiences, combined with his practice in noise performance and electronic music composition, developed into critical positions toward contemporary art practices. Since 2004, Lin has worked on the Tape Music and IDCM (Interhuman Dynamic Coordinated Models) series of works – synchronous protocols which allow individual autonomy in the forming of collective intelligence that leads to complex sound works. In his 2012 book Beyond Sound Art – The Avant Garde, Sound Machine and the Modernity of Hearing, Lin denies the term ‘Sound Art,’ and provides a holistic view blurring the boundary between human culture and technology. Lin’s art works were shown in various biennales and museums including Tate Modern, Pompidou Center, PSA Shanghai along with other non-art sites including local community projects, private residences, public schools, factories, churches, temples, bars and live venues in different countries around the world. Lin Chiwei lives and works in Shanghai, Taipei, and Paris.

Maite de Orbe is a Spanish, London-based artist working with photography, performance and moving image. Their practice is focused on the complexity of identity making, touching on otherness and belonging. Working collaboratively with dissident communities, de Orbe’s practice uses a documentary visual language at first that then lures into fantasy and world making to tell stories of real life through emotional textures, portraits and landscapes. As they examine rituals of contemporary culture, their work is equally raw and soft, deeply connected and fascinated with blending high vs low culture, intimacy and the sublime. In 2024, De Orbe started creating MOMOSTAR, an opaque character exploring violence, tenderness, gender, belief systems, mythology and contemporary symbols, it is a surreal exercise to really see oneself.

Lalu Delbracio is an artist working with performance, installation and photography. Her artistic practice unfolds through live action, material process and duration, exploring questions of time, transformation and embodiment, often shaped by ideas of queerness and ecology. Alongside this she is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the London College of Communication. She lives and works between the UK and Uruguay.

JJJJJerome Ellis is an artist and surfer who lives in Norfolk, Virginia, US. He and his wife Luísa Black Ellis live in a monastery on a creek.

Born in Lubumbashi, Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, curator and independent researcher. Since 1989, he has worked across the fields of noise, electronic and electroacoustic music, sound art and free improvisation. He runs the label and platform Syrphe, whose main focus is on sound art, electronic music, free improvisation and electroacoustic music from Asia, Africa and Latin America as well as his personal projects. Cedrik works as a solo artist and in numerous collaborative projects and bands across several continents. His tours and ongoing research have led him to perform and give talks in 72 countries across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. He also composes music for sound installations, theatre and choreography. Cedrik has written several essays, as well as the book Not Your World Music: Noise Music in South-East Asia, co-written with Dimitri della Faille. The book was awarded the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category. In 2024, he was awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 in Berlin.

A poet, writer, performer and activist, Edka Jarząb practices deep listening as a starting point for sound activism using the voice as a bridge between the public and private, and singing and improvisation as a practice of resistance. Edka co-creates the Warsaw-based community Radio Kapitał and is the author of poetic radio plays and interventions, such as the phantom protest Wielogłos [Polyphony] created in collaboration with Diana Lelonek. From 2020 to 2021 she was a resident of the experimental studio WORM in Rotterdam; and permanent collaborator of the interdisciplinary platform Q-O2 based in Brussels. Working with voice, radio waves, field recording and electronics, she creates atmospheres in, among other places, the Dance Theatre in Warsaw. Edka has participated in the exhibition Post-peace at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart; Gotong Royong; Things We Do Together in CCA Warsaw; Sound & Participation symposium in Belgium and many other events. She was the curator of the program Sirens’ Song at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Jarzab is co-author of Warsound/Warszawa published by U– jazdowski, collaborates with the magazines Glissando and Wakat, co-creates the sound collective Critical Band Ensemble and the feminist improvising group SYRENY, practicing extended voice techniques.

Bhanu Kapil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  For twenty years, she taught seminars on narrative and architecture, poetry, and performance at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Since 2019, she has been based in Cambridge, where she is now an Extraodinary Fellow of Churchill College. Kapil is the author of a number of full-length collections, including (in the UK): How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press) and Incubation: a space for monsters (Prototype). The recipient of the TS Eliot Prize, a Windham-Campbell Prize, the 16th International Poetry and People Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge), Kapil also collaborates with Blue Pieta, a choreographer, dramaturg, performer and artist. Their co-authored book of scores and essays, Autobiography of a Performance, is forthcoming in a new edition. Currently, in the Archives Center of Churchill College, Kapil is writing Novel on Yellow Paper, by hand. Her blog can be found here.

Joseph Kohlmaier is an artist, designer and teacher. Until April 2026, he was Associate Teaching Professor in history and theory at the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University. He is the founder and creative director of several collectives, organisations and educational projects, including Field Studies, experimental choral ensemble Musarc (2009–present), graphic design studio Polimekanos (with Stefan Kraus, 2000–2020), and independent imprint Cours de Poétique. It is through these frameworks that Joseph’s practice evolves, and where it has had the greatest impact by creating spaces for people to experiment with new ideas. As a curator and producer, Joseph has commissioned and worked with emerging and established artists, and collaborated with leading arts organisations in the UK and Europe on projects that have transformed the landscape of education, contemporary music and performance. Joseph’s work is multifaceted, situated at the intersection of different disciplines and activities that oscillate between solitary practice and collective performance. It is animated by the question of how we learn, how thought is related to symbolic form, the agony and potential of collective acts, the general ecology of the chorus, and marginalised ways of thinking such as the role of embodiment and felt sense in the production of knowledge. Joseph teaches the Vienna chapter of Figures of Eight.

Bianca Pina is a poet, object maker and ideator. Her practice spans writing, spatial design, energy work and group facilitation, held together by an ongoing inquiry into perception, meaning-making, and the movement between inner and outer worlds. She is the founder and programmer of Present Tense, a community space in Newington Green dedicated to poetry and poetics. Present Tense envisions a world where poetics is a practice that transcends disciplines, where the affordances of poetry are present in every creative endeavour, well-prepared meal, and thoughtful conversation.

Carolyn Roy is a freelance dancer, writer and teacher. A practitioner channelling the somatic processes and understandings we use as dancers through dance and other art forms, her body of presented/published work includes poetic and critical texts, sound narratives, film and photographic projects as well as live performances and political actions. Recent work has focused on examining philosophical concepts and social issues through the materiality of bodies. Interconnectivity is its underlying theme. Her PhD in dance examined the affect and compositional potential of resonance in the space between human (and non-human) bodies. Her primary interest now is in situated and relational practice and process, moving between public performance, small scale interventions and collective experiments in workshop and residency settings. Recent performance and text projects have explored what it is to be with others in this world, what it is to be-with as dancers, the politics (and pleasure) of dancing, with reference to Jean-Luc Nancy’s Being Singular Plural and Anne Dufourmantelle’s The Power of Gentleness. Currently supported by an ACE grant, she is developing a collective listening project, Receivers, working with open-wave radio receivers, VLF listening, live audio streams and attuned bodies. Working within the independent dance sector for 30+ years as an improviser, choreographer, collaborator, writer and teacher, she has shown her work in theatres and galleries in the UK, Japan and Europe. Alongside, she has collaborated with choreographers and artists including Gaby Agis, Anouk Llaurens, Sarah Dobai, Kiera Greene, Florence Peake, Tino Sehgal and Rajni Shah. Commissions and events in 2025/26 included, in The Power of Gentleness, Chisenhale Dance Space and Siobhan Davies Studios, Interval and Touching Words, Chisenhale Dance Space, Why speak of a Rose in Winter, the Wash Houses, Bête Noire cabaret, The Blue Posts, Towards; proximity and distance and Civil Twilight: Listening between day and night (part of Live Editions), in the South Downs National Park. Carolyn has been a member of Musarc choir, a part time lecturer at Trinity Laban, teaches regularly at Independent Dance and is on the Artists Committee of Chisenhale Dance Space.

Agat Sharma is an artist, theatre maker and educator. His multidisciplinary theatre practice works with poetry, story and song, through embodiment and voice. He works from a situated position, in response to his experience of the world, approaching decoloniality as a close, intimate and political process and using embodied practice to bring individual experience and the state of the world into relation. The complexity of the relationship between land, body and voice is a theme often present in the work. He is currently beginning work on a new theatre project about coloniality, love and non-dualism. Agat grew up in India and moved to Amsterdam in 2020 to study at DAS Theatre. He is the founder of Intimidation Tactics, a theatre company and research studio. Agat lives and works in Amsterdam.

Martin Sigler is a Berlin-based writer specialising in culture, philosophy, and identity. His work focuses on the everyday, offering pragmatic approaches to how Black individuals can emancipate themselves today. After completing a Master's degree in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, he published I Am the Performative Object, a book exploring the articulation between performative objects and the construction of Black identity.

Marf Summers is an artist, architect, and leatherworker whose work explores themes of trans identity, domesticity, and class, working in mediums including silicone, sandpaper, and hard candy, turning a subversive eye on the mundane through butch-camp sensibilities. Their current body of work ‘Standing Stone Butch’ collides the unknowable landscape of prehistory with 20th century constructs of queer identity, incorporating performances that reveal the urgent intersection of trans embodiment and manual craft practices. Marf’s work has been exhibited internationally and they are currently a member of the Conditions Studio Programme.