Guy Baeten is Professor of Urban Studies at Malmö University and is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research. He has previously worked at the universities of Lund, Oxford, Leuven and Strathclyde. Guy Baeten is interested in urban development projects and urban sustainability. He is the principal investigator of the FORMAS Strong Research Environment CRUSH -- Critical Urban Sustainability Hub. He is involved in two research projects on smart cities with case studies in Toronto, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Antwerp that are running between 2018 and 2020. He is also part of a project that investigates histories of the sustainability concept in Malmö urban planning.
Ada Bronowski is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Lisbon, having published a book on ancient metaphysics, The Stoics on Lekta: All There is To Say (OUP, 2019), and an edited collection of philosophical letters, Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life (Bloomsbury, 2020). Her research focuses on the history of philosophy, with particular interest in the concepts of the body and the non-corporeal in antiquity.
Gabriella Calchi Novati is an Italian psychoanalyst, cultural philosopher, and critical theorist based in Zürich, Switzerland. She works at the intersections of performance studies, biopolitics, psychoanalytic theory and Anthropocene studies. Gabriella is a co-convener of [t]ERROR ON TOUR 2021.
Amy F W Corcoran is an artist, researcher and writer whose creative practice oscillates around human rights, ecology and interspecies dynamics, and incorporates film, photography, sound and installation. She employs these mediums to produce intimate spaces for reflection and embodied sensory experiences. Amy’s practice is partly informed by her PhD, which investigated art’s role in European migration solidarity movements. In the contemporary climate, she understands art to hold power when it opens up empathetic spaces, including those beyond the human. Amy is currently conducting an extended artist residency focused on relationships between humans and the biosphere.
Adriana de La Peña Espinosa is a research assistant at the Institute of Urban Research at Malmö University. She works in the Smart Cities for City Officials project, which aims to empower city officials with information to face the smart city planning market. She has a background in International Relations and a master’s degree in urban studies from Malmö University.
Sharon Feder is a performer, director and scenographer. She creates cross-disciplinary theatre, performance and installation. Her devised work explores the site of convergence of different artistic forms, new and old sound and image technologies, whether created for a stage, a gallery or site-specific, Sharon’s work puts the body on display in atmospheres of felt reflection, critical risk and inspired intensity drawing on both improvisation and structure, strategy and surprise. She has treated varied themes from the memory of the holocaust in Testing, to homesickness in Nostalgia Trip Tic, and the transformative process of creation in Destruction Etc. Her current work, live-stream voice performance, Same Same, was born of her experience as a mother of a non-verbal child.
Sara Federica De Matthias (AFRODIXIT) is an artist born in Burkina Faso and now living in Bergamo. She has a degree in Sociology and Masters in Social policy and African studies. She investigates the social, conflicting and intercultural relations between us and the Others; analyses African culture as ancestral element that influences the evolution of the personal identity of subjects living in social contexts other than their own. She is a black European woman , afro-futurist, performer artist.
Ada Xiaoyu Hao is an artist-researcher, born in China and currently doing a practice-based PhD in the Doctoral School of Art & Communication at University of Brighton. Her practice is situated within performance practice, using role-playing and fiction as methods to trigger and explore the emergences of spatial-temporal ‘heterotopias’ (spatial otherness), in relation to the futurity of human beings under the veil of “becoming multiple”. She is interested in exploring ways to renew individual subjectivity and to embody a speculative envisaging of what the human body could be or become. During such diffractive process of becoming, the performance space becomes a virtual site where social attitudes and cultural identities are negotiable. Her recent research output includes digital peer-reviewed visual essay for The International Journal of Creative Media Research’s Digital Ecologies: Fiction Machines (Issue 5), digital collaboration with British Art Studies’ Issue 13, and peer-reviewed article for the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 2021’s Special Issue: ‘The World, Two Meters Away’.
Jo Langton Hutton is a researcher and writer in electroacoustic musicology. Her creative sound practice focusses on finding a narrative within pure sound events, and developing musical sound from spoken narrative. Normally a music recordist for BBC radio programmes at various live events and conferences, during lockdown Jo is working for radio documentaries in science, current affairs and the arts, from which she takes inspiration. Jo is a committed environmental activist, currently involved in helping to mitigate HS2 damage on Wormwood Scrubs nature reserve.
Linda Lapina is a researcher, dancer and a migrant. She works as assistant professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University in Denmark. Grounded in feminist theory, her research focuses on race and whiteness, based on her own shifting migrant positions in Denmark; intergenerational loss and more-than-human embodied memory; as well as affectivity in contested urban spaces. She is developing affective, embodied methodologies as enablers for decolonial knowledge production, drawing on her earlier work with feminist, sensory and arts-based methods. She is affiliated with the research group Cultural Encounters at DCA, Roskilde University.
Milica Lapčević was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and studied art history, English language and literature. She graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy (Kongl. Konsthogskolan), Stockholm (Video and new media). She is one of the founders of the independent art association artterror film & video from 1989, as well as a member of Union of Artists of Serbia. She is author and editor of radio and TV programs about art and culture since 2001. Her work includes photography, film, video, installations and broader media, art criticism, editorial work, essays and poetry.
Rachel Lehr earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago writing a descriptive grammar of Pashai, a minority language of eastern Afghanistan. Lehr’s work addresses Afghan linguistics, poetry, gendered geographies, and diasporic narratives. Her latest book, The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan Entanglements, co-authored with Jennifer Fluri, explores everyday actions of international aid effort. Her current project with Ruth Mandel examines the work of the artist Gunter Demnig and his Stolpersteine initiative. Rachel Lehr is a Research Associate in the Department Geography at University of Colorado- Boulder and an Institute Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Philology.
Ruth Mandel is a Professor at University College London, and has carried out migration research between Turkey, Greece, and Germany. She produced a prize-winning book, Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish challenges to citizenship and belonging in Germany. Her subsequent research in Kazakhstan focused on media and development, and migration; her book Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of postsocialism emerged from this research. Mandel has collaborated with colleagues in Norway, Toronto, and the UK on the project Language, Legacy and Landey, highlighting diasporic Afghan poetry, spearheaded by Rachel Lehr. Lehr’s and Mandel’s current research addresses Holocaust memory and commemoration in Europe, focusing on artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolperstein project.
Katerina Maniou is an Athens-based soprano, performer and musicologist. She holds a PhD from the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens entitled “Aspects of Modernism and Postmodernism in Alfred Schnittke’s work” (State Scholarship Foundation). She holds a singing Diploma (First Prize) and degrees of Piano and Music Theory. She has published articles in musicological journals, participated in lectures, broadcasts, conferences in Greece and abroad. As a practitioner, she focuses on contemporary classical music, multimedia, improvisation and performance art. She collaborates with Greek National Opera, Onassis Foundation (S.g.t), “Song of the Goat Theater Company” (Poland) “Medea Electronique etc.
Anna Maris is an internationally known award-winning haiku poet based in Sweden. She writes haiku in Swedish and English. She lectures on haiku in schools and universities and holds a place on the panel of judges of the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for International poems. She is a board member of the Swedish Haiku Society.
Chris Maris is a Sweden-based director of photography. He is educated at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow and The Royal College of Art in London. Chris has shot a large number of films, tv-series, documentaries and commercials in the UK, US, and Europe, including the second world war film Enemy Lines (2020), Chernobyl - exclusion zone (2018) and Frostbite (2014).
Andrzej Marzec is a philosopher and film critic, assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Faculty of Philosophy). His research interests focus on speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, dark ecology and contemporary alternative cinema. He is the author of two books: Hauntology. Philosophical theory and artistic practice of postmodernity (2015) and Antroposhade. Philosophy and aesthetics after the end of the world (2021).
Fernanda Oliveira de Almeida has a degree in Geography from the University of São Paulo, where she was part of the Political Geography, Environmental and Territorial Planning Laboratory (Laboplan). Currently she is a scholarship holder for the master's degree Laglobe (Latin America and Europe in a Global World) organized by Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She develops research in the areas of Urban, Economic and Social Geography.
Malin Palani is an unaffiliated scholar and artist whose practice focuses on the aesthetics and politics of caring for nonhuman death and survival in spectacles of climate disaster. Her recent publications include the chapter “Performing Deathcare: Ignorance, Intimacy and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement” in the edited volume The Aesthetics of Necropolitics and the article “My Sweet Disposability, Oh, Bury the Living and Unearth the Dead: a postcard from nowhere” in Performance Research. Malin is also a theatre and performance creator: directing productions such Heiner Müller’s Die Hamletmaschine and performing durational site-specific walks.
Evangeline Payne is a second year PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Before undertaking her PhD, she published pieces in Mslexia, Litmus, and in Dr Alonda Alloway’s Lessons From Losers in Love. her paper is taken from the second chapter of her thesis, entitled “Nordic Gothic: an exploration of the nineteenth-century gothic castle space in twentieth and twenty first century Nordic Noir”, which focuses on Denmark and Greenland.
Lotta Petronella is an artist, filmmaker and curator based on the island of Ruissalo, Finland. She has made films on and about islands for the last 15 years. Her latest film SJÄLÖ - The Island of Souls is a creative documentary film, which had its world premiere at CPH:DOX Festival in Copenhagen in March 2020 and was awarded a Special Mention Prize. Petronella’s previous films include Land without God (2019) HOME. Somewhere (2015) and Skärikvinnor (2009). Together with Taru Elfving Petronella founded CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago in 2011. CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago is a curatorial collective supporting site-sensitive artistic work at the intersection of ecological, feminist and decolonial enquiries. CAA has been initiating and leading long-term multidisciplinary collaborations in the Turku Archipelago in the Baltic Sea since 2009. Petronella is trained as a fine artist at Chelsea College of Art in London (1998) where she worked and lived for 15 years working on numerous art, film and television productions. She holds a MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2017). She is currently studying herbalism under the mentorship of Virpi Raipala-Cormier, Frantsila
Virga Popovaitė is a PhD candidate at in Sociology at Nord University, Norway. Her research focuses of multiplicity of maps during Search and Rescue operations (SAR) – she is interested in various practices where maps are employed. Her interest in more-than-human interactions under critical conditions stems from living in Iceland’s highlands, where she occasionally observed SAR teams in action. She in trained in History and Anthropology fields, and has professional experience working with archaeologic projects in Lithuania and Canada.
Mark Riley is an artist, writer and Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of Roehampton. He presented Thinking Place – Reimagining Wittgenstein’s Hut at the Oxford House Gallery, London, in April 2016. He contributed a book chapter entitled ‘Place as Palimpsest: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger and the Haunting of Todtnauberg’ to the publication Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment and published by Rowman Littlefield International in November 2016. He exhibited work in the Machines à Penser exhibition at Fondazione Prada Venice (26 May – 25 November 2018) and wrote for the gallery publication. Most recently he showed work as part of the Auto//Fiction exhibition at the Royal College of Art, London (July 2019). He exhibited Thinking Place – Five Philosophers’ Huts, at the Oxford House Gallery in London (7 September – 6 October 2019). In Autumn 2020, Halina Taborska published her essay, ‘Places for Thinking – Architecture Biennale in Venice: Reimagined Philosophers’ Huts and Mark Riley’s Dioramas’ on Riley’s work in PUNO Notebooks (Academic Notebooks of the Polish University Abroad) series three, No. 8, ed. nacz. Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk. (London, 2020).
Francesco Sani was born in Vigevano, Italy, in 1995. Since September 2020, he has been conducting a PhD in Theatre Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. His research, which is predominantly practice-based in nature, focuses on the employment of the Brechtian Lehrstück (Didactic Play) in the contemporary cultural industry. He writes for the theatre and directs productions; his artistic work aims at the thematization of political economy in performance.
Robert A Saunders is a Professor in the Department of History, Politics, and Geography at the State University of New York (SUNY). His research resides at the intersection of popular culture, geopolitics, and national identity. Robert is a co-convener of [t]ERROR ON TOUR 2021.
Vladimir Šojat was born in Zemun, Yugoslavia, and graduated from the Faculty of Drama, Film and TV, Belgrade, (Dept. of Film and TV Editing, where he won the student award “Slavko Vorkapić”, and also attended postgraduate studies. He is a member of UFUTVS since 1988, as well as DOK Serbia since 2016. He is the founder and member of the independent art association artterror film & video from 1989. He worked as an editor and member of promotional team at RTV B92 since 2001. He is the founder and owner of Frakcija production house, since 2015. He lectures and writes about theory and history of film, and is the author of book about documentary films: “Survey of dramatis personae in contemporary documentaries” (DKSG, 2019).
Irina Souch is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is the author of Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of the contributed volume Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2020). Her current work addresses narrative, aesthetic, and political functions of landscape in television drama and film.
Joel Spiegelberg obtained his M.A. in art history and modern history at the University of Zurich in 2020 with a dissertation on the medium of virtual reality in the field of fine arts. In addition to obtaining his B.A. in the same field at the University of Zurich, he worked as a tutor and student assistant in the field of modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Art History (2017-18). Besides, he worked at the Kunsthaus Zurich (2018), in the Archives of Contemporary History at the ETH Zurich (2017), and the Collection Centre of the Swiss National Museum (2015). Further research interests lie in digital art history, postcolonial theories, archival turn, and the curation of independent art exhibitions.
Camilla Storskog is Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Milan. Her main research interests include intermediality, visual studies, and adaptation theory but she has also worked on issues such as travel writing, the historical novel, autobiography and autobiographical poetry, science and technology in literature. Among her recent publications is a monograph on literary impressionism, Literary Impressionisms. Resonances of Impressionism in Swedish and Finland-Swedish Prose 1880-1900 (2018), and articles such as Into the Blue. The Visualization of Building Walls and Crossing Borders in Scandorama by Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and Catherine Anyango Grünewald (2021), Stripping H.C. Andersen. Peter Madsen’s Historien om en mor (or, what a graphic novel adaptation can do that its literary source cannot) (2018), Songs about Iron and of Iron. Henry Parland and the Poetic Potential of Technology (2017). She is currently working on a monograph on the adaptation of Scandinavian classics into comics.
Adèle Weers is a Switzerland-based producer who is certified for community multi-media art methods (expressive arts) at inArtes Zurich. She especially engages with haiku poetry and aims to bridge the work of scientists, artists and ecoActivists for the purpose of exploring new ways for connecting with the environment. She is founder of ecoArtes and found cultural knowledge during extensive journeys in Asia, Pakistan and the USA.
Andrew Wilford is a co-founder of Terror on Tour and a co-convener of [t]ERROR ON TOUR 2021. Andrew's research operates in the interstices of terrorism, tourism, trauma and theatre. Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Chichester.
Ada Bronowski is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Lisbon, having published a book on ancient metaphysics, The Stoics on Lekta: All There is To Say (OUP, 2019), and an edited collection of philosophical letters, Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life (Bloomsbury, 2020). Her research focuses on the history of philosophy, with particular interest in the concepts of the body and the non-corporeal in antiquity.
Gabriella Calchi Novati is an Italian psychoanalyst, cultural philosopher, and critical theorist based in Zürich, Switzerland. She works at the intersections of performance studies, biopolitics, psychoanalytic theory and Anthropocene studies. Gabriella is a co-convener of [t]ERROR ON TOUR 2021.
Amy F W Corcoran is an artist, researcher and writer whose creative practice oscillates around human rights, ecology and interspecies dynamics, and incorporates film, photography, sound and installation. She employs these mediums to produce intimate spaces for reflection and embodied sensory experiences. Amy’s practice is partly informed by her PhD, which investigated art’s role in European migration solidarity movements. In the contemporary climate, she understands art to hold power when it opens up empathetic spaces, including those beyond the human. Amy is currently conducting an extended artist residency focused on relationships between humans and the biosphere.
Adriana de La Peña Espinosa is a research assistant at the Institute of Urban Research at Malmö University. She works in the Smart Cities for City Officials project, which aims to empower city officials with information to face the smart city planning market. She has a background in International Relations and a master’s degree in urban studies from Malmö University.
Sharon Feder is a performer, director and scenographer. She creates cross-disciplinary theatre, performance and installation. Her devised work explores the site of convergence of different artistic forms, new and old sound and image technologies, whether created for a stage, a gallery or site-specific, Sharon’s work puts the body on display in atmospheres of felt reflection, critical risk and inspired intensity drawing on both improvisation and structure, strategy and surprise. She has treated varied themes from the memory of the holocaust in Testing, to homesickness in Nostalgia Trip Tic, and the transformative process of creation in Destruction Etc. Her current work, live-stream voice performance, Same Same, was born of her experience as a mother of a non-verbal child.
Sara Federica De Matthias (AFRODIXIT) is an artist born in Burkina Faso and now living in Bergamo. She has a degree in Sociology and Masters in Social policy and African studies. She investigates the social, conflicting and intercultural relations between us and the Others; analyses African culture as ancestral element that influences the evolution of the personal identity of subjects living in social contexts other than their own. She is a black European woman , afro-futurist, performer artist.
Ada Xiaoyu Hao is an artist-researcher, born in China and currently doing a practice-based PhD in the Doctoral School of Art & Communication at University of Brighton. Her practice is situated within performance practice, using role-playing and fiction as methods to trigger and explore the emergences of spatial-temporal ‘heterotopias’ (spatial otherness), in relation to the futurity of human beings under the veil of “becoming multiple”. She is interested in exploring ways to renew individual subjectivity and to embody a speculative envisaging of what the human body could be or become. During such diffractive process of becoming, the performance space becomes a virtual site where social attitudes and cultural identities are negotiable. Her recent research output includes digital peer-reviewed visual essay for The International Journal of Creative Media Research’s Digital Ecologies: Fiction Machines (Issue 5), digital collaboration with British Art Studies’ Issue 13, and peer-reviewed article for the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 2021’s Special Issue: ‘The World, Two Meters Away’.
Jo Langton Hutton is a researcher and writer in electroacoustic musicology. Her creative sound practice focusses on finding a narrative within pure sound events, and developing musical sound from spoken narrative. Normally a music recordist for BBC radio programmes at various live events and conferences, during lockdown Jo is working for radio documentaries in science, current affairs and the arts, from which she takes inspiration. Jo is a committed environmental activist, currently involved in helping to mitigate HS2 damage on Wormwood Scrubs nature reserve.
Linda Lapina is a researcher, dancer and a migrant. She works as assistant professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University in Denmark. Grounded in feminist theory, her research focuses on race and whiteness, based on her own shifting migrant positions in Denmark; intergenerational loss and more-than-human embodied memory; as well as affectivity in contested urban spaces. She is developing affective, embodied methodologies as enablers for decolonial knowledge production, drawing on her earlier work with feminist, sensory and arts-based methods. She is affiliated with the research group Cultural Encounters at DCA, Roskilde University.
Milica Lapčević was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and studied art history, English language and literature. She graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy (Kongl. Konsthogskolan), Stockholm (Video and new media). She is one of the founders of the independent art association artterror film & video from 1989, as well as a member of Union of Artists of Serbia. She is author and editor of radio and TV programs about art and culture since 2001. Her work includes photography, film, video, installations and broader media, art criticism, editorial work, essays and poetry.
Rachel Lehr earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago writing a descriptive grammar of Pashai, a minority language of eastern Afghanistan. Lehr’s work addresses Afghan linguistics, poetry, gendered geographies, and diasporic narratives. Her latest book, The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan Entanglements, co-authored with Jennifer Fluri, explores everyday actions of international aid effort. Her current project with Ruth Mandel examines the work of the artist Gunter Demnig and his Stolpersteine initiative. Rachel Lehr is a Research Associate in the Department Geography at University of Colorado- Boulder and an Institute Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Philology.
Ruth Mandel is a Professor at University College London, and has carried out migration research between Turkey, Greece, and Germany. She produced a prize-winning book, Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish challenges to citizenship and belonging in Germany. Her subsequent research in Kazakhstan focused on media and development, and migration; her book Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of postsocialism emerged from this research. Mandel has collaborated with colleagues in Norway, Toronto, and the UK on the project Language, Legacy and Landey, highlighting diasporic Afghan poetry, spearheaded by Rachel Lehr. Lehr’s and Mandel’s current research addresses Holocaust memory and commemoration in Europe, focusing on artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolperstein project.
Katerina Maniou is an Athens-based soprano, performer and musicologist. She holds a PhD from the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens entitled “Aspects of Modernism and Postmodernism in Alfred Schnittke’s work” (State Scholarship Foundation). She holds a singing Diploma (First Prize) and degrees of Piano and Music Theory. She has published articles in musicological journals, participated in lectures, broadcasts, conferences in Greece and abroad. As a practitioner, she focuses on contemporary classical music, multimedia, improvisation and performance art. She collaborates with Greek National Opera, Onassis Foundation (S.g.t), “Song of the Goat Theater Company” (Poland) “Medea Electronique etc.
Anna Maris is an internationally known award-winning haiku poet based in Sweden. She writes haiku in Swedish and English. She lectures on haiku in schools and universities and holds a place on the panel of judges of the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for International poems. She is a board member of the Swedish Haiku Society.
Chris Maris is a Sweden-based director of photography. He is educated at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow and The Royal College of Art in London. Chris has shot a large number of films, tv-series, documentaries and commercials in the UK, US, and Europe, including the second world war film Enemy Lines (2020), Chernobyl - exclusion zone (2018) and Frostbite (2014).
Andrzej Marzec is a philosopher and film critic, assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Faculty of Philosophy). His research interests focus on speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, dark ecology and contemporary alternative cinema. He is the author of two books: Hauntology. Philosophical theory and artistic practice of postmodernity (2015) and Antroposhade. Philosophy and aesthetics after the end of the world (2021).
Fernanda Oliveira de Almeida has a degree in Geography from the University of São Paulo, where she was part of the Political Geography, Environmental and Territorial Planning Laboratory (Laboplan). Currently she is a scholarship holder for the master's degree Laglobe (Latin America and Europe in a Global World) organized by Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She develops research in the areas of Urban, Economic and Social Geography.
Malin Palani is an unaffiliated scholar and artist whose practice focuses on the aesthetics and politics of caring for nonhuman death and survival in spectacles of climate disaster. Her recent publications include the chapter “Performing Deathcare: Ignorance, Intimacy and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement” in the edited volume The Aesthetics of Necropolitics and the article “My Sweet Disposability, Oh, Bury the Living and Unearth the Dead: a postcard from nowhere” in Performance Research. Malin is also a theatre and performance creator: directing productions such Heiner Müller’s Die Hamletmaschine and performing durational site-specific walks.
Evangeline Payne is a second year PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Before undertaking her PhD, she published pieces in Mslexia, Litmus, and in Dr Alonda Alloway’s Lessons From Losers in Love. her paper is taken from the second chapter of her thesis, entitled “Nordic Gothic: an exploration of the nineteenth-century gothic castle space in twentieth and twenty first century Nordic Noir”, which focuses on Denmark and Greenland.
Lotta Petronella is an artist, filmmaker and curator based on the island of Ruissalo, Finland. She has made films on and about islands for the last 15 years. Her latest film SJÄLÖ - The Island of Souls is a creative documentary film, which had its world premiere at CPH:DOX Festival in Copenhagen in March 2020 and was awarded a Special Mention Prize. Petronella’s previous films include Land without God (2019) HOME. Somewhere (2015) and Skärikvinnor (2009). Together with Taru Elfving Petronella founded CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago in 2011. CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago is a curatorial collective supporting site-sensitive artistic work at the intersection of ecological, feminist and decolonial enquiries. CAA has been initiating and leading long-term multidisciplinary collaborations in the Turku Archipelago in the Baltic Sea since 2009. Petronella is trained as a fine artist at Chelsea College of Art in London (1998) where she worked and lived for 15 years working on numerous art, film and television productions. She holds a MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2017). She is currently studying herbalism under the mentorship of Virpi Raipala-Cormier, Frantsila
Virga Popovaitė is a PhD candidate at in Sociology at Nord University, Norway. Her research focuses of multiplicity of maps during Search and Rescue operations (SAR) – she is interested in various practices where maps are employed. Her interest in more-than-human interactions under critical conditions stems from living in Iceland’s highlands, where she occasionally observed SAR teams in action. She in trained in History and Anthropology fields, and has professional experience working with archaeologic projects in Lithuania and Canada.
Mark Riley is an artist, writer and Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of Roehampton. He presented Thinking Place – Reimagining Wittgenstein’s Hut at the Oxford House Gallery, London, in April 2016. He contributed a book chapter entitled ‘Place as Palimpsest: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger and the Haunting of Todtnauberg’ to the publication Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment and published by Rowman Littlefield International in November 2016. He exhibited work in the Machines à Penser exhibition at Fondazione Prada Venice (26 May – 25 November 2018) and wrote for the gallery publication. Most recently he showed work as part of the Auto//Fiction exhibition at the Royal College of Art, London (July 2019). He exhibited Thinking Place – Five Philosophers’ Huts, at the Oxford House Gallery in London (7 September – 6 October 2019). In Autumn 2020, Halina Taborska published her essay, ‘Places for Thinking – Architecture Biennale in Venice: Reimagined Philosophers’ Huts and Mark Riley’s Dioramas’ on Riley’s work in PUNO Notebooks (Academic Notebooks of the Polish University Abroad) series three, No. 8, ed. nacz. Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk. (London, 2020).
Francesco Sani was born in Vigevano, Italy, in 1995. Since September 2020, he has been conducting a PhD in Theatre Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. His research, which is predominantly practice-based in nature, focuses on the employment of the Brechtian Lehrstück (Didactic Play) in the contemporary cultural industry. He writes for the theatre and directs productions; his artistic work aims at the thematization of political economy in performance.
Robert A Saunders is a Professor in the Department of History, Politics, and Geography at the State University of New York (SUNY). His research resides at the intersection of popular culture, geopolitics, and national identity. Robert is a co-convener of [t]ERROR ON TOUR 2021.
Vladimir Šojat was born in Zemun, Yugoslavia, and graduated from the Faculty of Drama, Film and TV, Belgrade, (Dept. of Film and TV Editing, where he won the student award “Slavko Vorkapić”, and also attended postgraduate studies. He is a member of UFUTVS since 1988, as well as DOK Serbia since 2016. He is the founder and member of the independent art association artterror film & video from 1989. He worked as an editor and member of promotional team at RTV B92 since 2001. He is the founder and owner of Frakcija production house, since 2015. He lectures and writes about theory and history of film, and is the author of book about documentary films: “Survey of dramatis personae in contemporary documentaries” (DKSG, 2019).
Irina Souch is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is the author of Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of the contributed volume Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2020). Her current work addresses narrative, aesthetic, and political functions of landscape in television drama and film.
Joel Spiegelberg obtained his M.A. in art history and modern history at the University of Zurich in 2020 with a dissertation on the medium of virtual reality in the field of fine arts. In addition to obtaining his B.A. in the same field at the University of Zurich, he worked as a tutor and student assistant in the field of modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Art History (2017-18). Besides, he worked at the Kunsthaus Zurich (2018), in the Archives of Contemporary History at the ETH Zurich (2017), and the Collection Centre of the Swiss National Museum (2015). Further research interests lie in digital art history, postcolonial theories, archival turn, and the curation of independent art exhibitions.
Camilla Storskog is Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Milan. Her main research interests include intermediality, visual studies, and adaptation theory but she has also worked on issues such as travel writing, the historical novel, autobiography and autobiographical poetry, science and technology in literature. Among her recent publications is a monograph on literary impressionism, Literary Impressionisms. Resonances of Impressionism in Swedish and Finland-Swedish Prose 1880-1900 (2018), and articles such as Into the Blue. The Visualization of Building Walls and Crossing Borders in Scandorama by Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and Catherine Anyango Grünewald (2021), Stripping H.C. Andersen. Peter Madsen’s Historien om en mor (or, what a graphic novel adaptation can do that its literary source cannot) (2018), Songs about Iron and of Iron. Henry Parland and the Poetic Potential of Technology (2017). She is currently working on a monograph on the adaptation of Scandinavian classics into comics.
Adèle Weers is a Switzerland-based producer who is certified for community multi-media art methods (expressive arts) at inArtes Zurich. She especially engages with haiku poetry and aims to bridge the work of scientists, artists and ecoActivists for the purpose of exploring new ways for connecting with the environment. She is founder of ecoArtes and found cultural knowledge during extensive journeys in Asia, Pakistan and the USA.
Andrew Wilford is a co-founder of Terror on Tour and a co-convener of [t]ERROR ON TOUR 2021. Andrew's research operates in the interstices of terrorism, tourism, trauma and theatre. Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Chichester.