YOU ARE ALL WARMLY INVITED TO ELASTIC. First performance art festival at Oxford Brookes University.
Come along to enjoy a variety range of performance artwork. The Festival will host University of Oxford art graduates, Oxford Brookes University graduates and local and International performers.

Come along and share this exceptional experience with us!
Curated by Peta Lloyd and Veronica Cordova de la Rosa. Supported by The Oxford Brookes School of Arts and Aaron Williamson.

Date: 6 MAY 2016
FROM 10:30 TO 5:00 PM.

ARTISTS' BIOS AND WEBSITES!

Aaron Williamson
Over the last 25 years Aaron Williamson has created more than 300 exhibitions, performances, interventions, videos, installations and publications for galleries, museums and festivals including Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, The Venice Biennale, and Nippon Performance Art festival in Japan. He has lectured in numerous institutions in the UK and internationally, won a range of awards and published widely.
www.aaronwilliamson.org

Brian Catling is a sculptor, poet, novelist, filmmaker and performance artist. He is Professor of Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. He has been exhibition work internationally since the 1970’s. In 2001 he co-founded the international performance collective WitW.

Christopher Ansell
In performances Ansell negotiates the intricacies of verbal and bodily language. The gestures of language, the human body and the voice are choreographed in poetic compositions that disrupt the dominance of verbal communication. Influenced by a variety of theatrical practices, ranging from contemporary drag acts to eighteenth century mime, Ansell explores the technologies of verbal and bodily performance. Ansell lives in Oxford and is currently a graduate student at the Ruskin School of Art.

GG Awin is a fine artist born in Poland, and working in performance, video and image making. Drawing on lowbrow and camp aesthetic, his work focuses on establishing artificial environments and hierarchy with the means of a role imposition, absurd and (direct) confrontation.

Clare Carswell MA(RCA) works with performance and drawing to make works for the gallery and public space. She curates the work of others at AYYO Contemporary Art, a gallery and project space near to Oxford. She runs Art Pitch, a residential programme for UK and international artists and writes and lectures on contemporary art.
www.clarecarswellperformance.com

Shwanda Corbett

Veronica Cordova de la Rosa is an artist-researcher. Her research is a search for artistic growth, knowledge production and how thought is processed in the studio space. She loves the general art public to discuss the merits of her research over coffee, in the press or online.

Al/ice/ex Donaghy
I am interdisciplinary artist working mainly in performance with influences from Butoh dance, experimental writing/music and photography. My work often concerns political or social problems. Much my research and work focuses on restriction and restraint and it’s effect on mood/creation of performance and writing. I use this physical intervention in my work as a method of distraction from the actual act in hand.
www.adonaghy.com

Michael Dudeck is an artist and cultural engineer who decodes dominant cultural mythologies and re-codes them into contemporary fictions.
www.michaeldudeck.com

Sam Hall
Biography: Sam is currently studying and working in Oxford
www.instagram.com/sam_hall6

Victoria Karlsson is a sound artist interested in the emotional and subjective aspects of sound and art. Investigating sound as both an inner and outer experience, she explores how we think about, remember, dream about sounds, and how this influences our experiences of sounds in our everyday. She is currently undertaking a PhD Research Degree at University of the Arts, London. Her research investigates sounds in thoughts, asking if we hear sounds in our minds, what they mean to us and where they come from. Her work has been exhibited in the Barbican, the Institute of Contemporary Art and several other group and solo shows.
www.victoriakarlsson.co.uk

Peta Lloyd and Jemima Hall
Jemima is young, tall and blonde; Peta is not. This is their second collaboration. They are both students at Oxford Brookes University.
www.petalloyd.co.uk
www.instagram.com/jemimahall.art

Robert Luzar is an artist, writer and educator. He is Senioe Lecturer in Fine Art at Bath Spa University and holds a PhD from Central Saint Martins. He investigates notions of ‘event’ through performative drawing practices that are worked critically through video and installation. He exhibits globally in live-art events and art venues such as Torrance Art Museum (USA), Talbot Rice Gallery (UK), DRAWinternational (FR), Katzman Contemporary (CA), Red Head Gallery(CA) and Kunstlerhaus Dortmund (DE). His writing on art and critical theory are published in journals and magazines, such as Mnemoscape, Desearch and the book Nancy and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press 2016).
www.robertluzar.com

Kate Mahony makes live performances and films that appropriate existing frameworks to see, when placed upon a foreign body, what animates certain social groups, ‘societies’, individuals and herself to ‘perform’.
www.katemahony.com

Naomi Mishkin is an artist from New York. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Glass and is currently completing her MFA at the University of Oxford.
www.naomimishkin.com

Joseph Morgan Schofield is an emerging live artist working in body and task led performance art. He makes consecrated performative actions. He recently completed his MA Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London.

Nunu Theatre
‘Loneliness has made us express ourselves in another language’
The Nunu Theatre originated in Romania but is currently based in Bristol. Nunu is the only theatre company in the UK to work exclusively with professionals actors who use English as their second language in performance.

Tess Tallula is half way through her fine art degree at Oxford Brookes creating thoughtful and frivolous installations, performances and films.

Robert Ridley-Shackleton
The cardboard prince presents entertainment for 2016 and beyond.

Fay Stevens is an academic, curator, artist and writer. Her archaeological work, performance and art practice is a process of excavation; an unravelling of layers of time, memory and substance. It is a phenomenological enquiry and experience, concerned with trace, elements, the senses, inscription and corporeal interplay.
www.cargocollective.com/FayStevens

Austin Sherlaw-Johnson is a composer and performance artist who works in a variety of media. Recent work includes: Explicit Sounds (six actions for one performer), Making a Box as Quickly as Possible (video), Anti-Conceptualism, (installation), John Cage and Teeny Duchamp Play Chess in front of a Live Audience (theatre piece for two performers) and You’re Beautiful (three three minute pop songs for two performers).
www.austinsherlawjohnson.com

Alexandra Trott is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory at Oxford Brookes University. Her white cube is a lecture hall, and she regularly performs in front of Fine Art students and art historians, presenting her interpretations of Modernist history.
Emma Williams and Hannah Oram

Annie Wright
Coming from a Fine Art background, Annie enjoys working across disciplines and playing with socio-political issues. She is interested in exploring the use of spoken word in installation and performance art.
www.anniewright.co.uk

Zwann eï Collective
Faith «struggles insanely, if you will, for the possibility» as «without possibility it is as though a person cannot draw breath» (Sören Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death) Such is the existential struggle: believing despite inevitable loss and despite the impossibility of any help. Believing is what prevents from perishing. Drawing from the themes of faith and belief, the performance Endiosada (literally entrusted by God) explores freely the points of contact between life devoted to the permanent quest for help and transcendence.
http://co21840.wixsite.com/zwannei-colle...