Petra Johnson works collaboratively with artists and researchers on long-term projects. Between 2018 to 2020 she co-curated an artist residency programme in rural China with Jay Brown and He Jixing which inquired ‘What questions are better asked from here than elsewhere?’ Since her return to the UK, she has worked with the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, and has co-authored Dance & Silence (Bloomsbury) with Vipavinee Artpradid. She is currently a Fellow at Machinaloci Space, exploring movement, touch, and sound with Franziska Boehm and Carol Mancke.

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