Marte Aas

Marte Aas (b. 1966, NO) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Oslo. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. Different subjects of interest are realised in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives. Her work often starts from a contemporary or historical narrative. Research is processed through different formats and media, although the work always remains strongly grounded in the theory and material qualities of photographic practice.

Aas is educated at The School of Photography at The University of Gothenburg and has had a number of exhibitions and screenings in Norway and abroad. Her last major exhibition was Francine (was a machine) at Kunsthall Trondheim in 2019. Aas has published several books and catalogues including Marte Aas – Photography and Film, 2010, Torshovtoppen, 2008 and On the Subject of Body and Space, 2013 and is also one of the founding members of the independent publishing house Multipress.

Jonathan Armour

Jonathan Armour is a trans-media artist who is fascinated by the human body, the person within and the skin which mediates between us. His practice which revolves around instinctive exploration and scientific experimentation often touches upon age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and body adjustments. Born in Coleraine (NI), a first degree in engineering steered his early career into IT and business, but life-events provoked a Foundation Course in Art in 2012-3 which led straight to an MA in Fine Art from 2013-15, marking the birth of his creative career.

Armour often works collaboratively with his subjects to explore aspects of them which usually confront aspects of himself. Invoking a range of media across drawing and oil painting, digitisation, direct body work to time-based digital work, he brings an off-piste approach to examining the human condition. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA.

Trinley Dorje

Trinley Dorje is a Toronto-based mixed-media artist. Her artworks are visual, anthropological explorations of the human experience which are inspired by her previous work in anthropology and her current career in healthcare. She intends her art to encourage discussion around racial, gender, and sexual biases and provide an opportunity for reflection into the importance of humans taking responsibility for their place on the Earth. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. She has been featured on CBC Arts: Exhibitionists television series and published in magazines, medical journals and on book covers. Her artworks are included in the permanent collections of Toronto General Hospital, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

Saleh Kashefi

Saleh Kashefi (born Tehran, 1999) is an Iranian filmmaker. He has made 12 short films which have been included in over 100 film festivals around the world and have won 26 awards. His first feature film, Mammad, is one of six projects selected by Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation Residence.

Kashefi writes; “Being judged by others is a big issue in Iran and I have made many films on this topic. The human body and its significant place in society has always fascinated me—especially as I come from a country where we always hide our bodies and are ashamed of them.”

LAB

Louis Alderson-Bythell is an artist working under the name LAB. LAB engages with the relationships between human and non-human ecologies, genetics and biological technology, environmental observation through deep time, bio-politics, and the interplay between stability and plasticity in ecological systems. These areas are used as lenses to explore, interrogate and showcase the poetry and interdependence in more-than-human systems and to build critical narratives around them.

LAB works with living matter, and has previously worked with Costume, Performance Art, 3D Scanning and digital fabrication technologies, having exhibited in group shows at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Spring Exhibition (2020) at Art Night London (2018), Rotterdam Art Week (2018) and Fashion Clash Festival (2019) with Schuit Collections and at MOMA NY for the Biodesign challenge (2017).

Adam Peacock

Adam Peacock (UK) is a post-disciplinary artist, architect, academic and consultant living in London. Adam’s experimental lens, The Validation Junky, developed on his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art (2012-14), focuses upon investigating the effects of the internet upon contemporary identity expression and self-perception within photographic communication; straddling fashion academia, experimental architectural methodology, fine art practice, consumer psychology, genetic technology, cybernetic theory, and social anthropology. The most notable project developed under his lens, The Genetics Gym, primarily developed within the 2016 Design Residency at the Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion, was featured in the BBC Radio 1 Stories documentary DNA+ Beauty (2018), and was presented as the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Product Innovation Apparel conference in Milan. The project has been exhibited at the Science Gallery Melbourne and Science Gallery Dublin as part of Perfection (2018-2019). It was awarded the Robert Garland Treseder Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (2018), and published as a chapter in ‘Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications’ by Bloomsbury (2020).

Erika Stöckel

Erika Stöckel (SE) holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Her work has been shown Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Galleri MAP, Oslo, Galleri Nos, Stockholm, and Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg among others. She writes about her practice:

“My thought process is rooted in the physicality of my own body - at the pool, in the mirror or in bed. In previous work swimming pool changing rooms have been a dominant inspiration. Thoughts take form in ceramic sculptures often presented together in installations. My aims are to question the mainstream notion of beauty, and to empower bodies generally considered non-normative. Through my ongoing work I am researching structural mechanisms behind the oppressed body, starting from the practice of eugenics on Sami people in the 1930’s, and facial recognition technology in use today.”

Lior Tamim

Lior Tamim is a project-based artist living in Tel Aviv-Yaffo. His works are performative actions of body, sound, and space. The works are site-specific and often examine existential states, transcend conventional limits of self-construction, and blur the distinction between art and life. His performances are often rooted in transformation. He often transforms himself into different characters, fully adopting their way of life. In recent years, he has lived as a hunter, a soldier, a nomad, and a body-builder. 

Tamim has exhibited his works in The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel; at the Givon Art Forum in Tel Aviv; Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater in Tel Aviv; Academiae Biennial in Italy; State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, among others. In 2015, Tamim was an artist in residence at Triangle Arts Association in New York. His upcoming solo show at Givon Art Forum is an architectural intervention based on sound and technology. Tamim holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School for Design, NYC (2015) and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2019).

Bobby Yu Shuk Pui

Bobby Yu Shuk Pui is a visual artist who was born in Hong Kong and is now living in Oslo. Her conceptual artworks, sculptures, and performances create scenarios that break audience passivity by borrowing/hiring others’ bodies, their utterance or skills.  Her China-Hong Kong bi-cultural background inspires her to always see things from an alienated perspective. She often transforms roles / identities / appearance in her daily life. Her works act as simple games, ‘dragging’ complicated interpersonal relationships. Her interest in the female body and gender politics has recently led to research into scientific fortune telling using big data, and the idea that genetic engineering offers possibilities to determine the future—and the risks these subjects hold.

Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is currently studying MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art (2021). She has exhibited her works at Listhus Gallery (Iceland); A Place Gallery & Studios (Florida); Youkobo Art Space Gallery (Tokyo); Swatch Art Peach Hotel (Shanghai); Parasite,100ft. Gallery, starprojects, 1a Space, Tomorrow Maybe Gallery (Hong Kong). Bobby has completed residencies at 3331 Art Chiyoda (Tokyo), 435 Art Studio (Taiwan), Listhus Space (Iceland), and Athena Standard Residency (Athens).