Title: Someplace Else
Collaboration with Frans van Lent
Photo credit Jamie Gannon

About Adrian Wood
Adrian Wood creates soundscapes, videos, transmissions, and live works that emerge from sonic collisions of identity and landscape. Their works have disinterred queer histories, investigated environmental injustices, and carved out spaces for sonic intimacy. Adrian’s work centers the ear, drawing listeners in using sounds of water and wind, howls, whispers, seismic vibrations, and archival audio to explore invisible forces and histories that shape our social, ecological world.

Title: Someplace Else
Collaboration with Adrian Wood
Photo credit Savic Sharp

About Frans van Lent
The work of Frans van Lent can be described as a concept-driven research process which is guided by personal experience. Little or no material products are created during the work. Sometimes, an audio recording, or video, or some photographs remain, but very often a work ends in just a text, in which the process is described. These texts evoke an image, with which to make the process concrete, palpable and imitable. A presiding formal aspect to most of these works is a symmetry in time, a beginning and an ending: a process starts with nothing and ends again with nothing. An activity has taken place, an image has been created, and it has also disappeared.Collaboration with other artists and the curating of events are important and consistent aspects of his artistic practice. In 2014 and 2016 he organized the Unnoticed Art Festival in the cities of Haarlem and Nijmegen. In 2015 he initiated TheConceptBank.org, a free online database for performance scores. Frans van Lent is initiator and editor of the website UnnoticedArt.com, and co-initiator/curator of 222lodge. He published two books, Unnoticed Art (2014) and TheParallelShow (2018), distributed by Jap Sam Books.Frans van Lent studied Art Education at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg (1979) and completed his MA in Fine Art at MaHKU in Utrecht (2014).From 2000 to 2020 he taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.He lives and works in Dordrecht, the Netherlands and in Hautefort, France.

Website with document: Someplace Else

Title: Survivor’s Syndrome
Collaboration with Ratri Notosudirdjo
Photo credit Jamie Gannon

About Carlos Salazar-Lemont
Carlos Salazar-Lermont (Caracas, 1987) is an awarded Venezuelan artist whose practice is focused on performativity and socially engaged art. His recent work addresses subjects relevant to Latinxs, more specifically, Venezuelan immigrants. By addressing the issues and challenges his community faces, Salazar-Lermont seeks to create empathy toward the immigrant population, hoping to cultivate a more welcoming environment for them. In other aspects of Salazar-Lermont’s work, he attempts to disclose the underlying Catholic origin of Latin American cultural burdens, such as glorifying poverty, guilt, and self-humiliation. Because of Salazar-Lermont’s practice emphasis on the expressive potential of performance, he expands his works from live pieces to photography, and video, among other time-based media.In 2016, he moved to the United States from Venezuela due to a massive migration wave caused by the humanitarian crisis in his country of origin. He received his MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis through the Danforth Scholarship (2022); and a Dual MA in Arts Administration & Policy and Modern and Contemporary Art History in the School of the Art Institute (SAIC), with the support of the New Artists Society Full Tuition scholarship. Salazar-Lermont’s work has been featured in many museums, institutions, and galleries in over a dozen countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, and Venezuela, to name a few. He is a Part-time Lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. He lives and works in Chicago, IL, and St. Louis, MO, United States.

Title: Survivor’s Syndrome
Collaboration with Carlos Salazar-Lermont
Photo credit Savic Sharp

About Ratri Notosudirdjo
Ratri Notosudirdjo (b. Jakarta 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist and Indonesian diaspora. The places she was brought up (USA, Canada, Singapore and Indonesia) have been crucial in her practice where she create artefacts and contemporary tales through live performances. Now based in Rotterdam Netherlands, she first arrived in 2016 where she studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with organizations such as MaMA, Roodkapje and Worm. With projects that combine performance and sonic art, social sciences, score-writing, poetry, writing plays, textiles and installations, she explores how a story can be experienced and revisited. The works borrow from magic realism, folklore and dreams, they are vessels to present and archive the realities of diaspora during a moment of rapid globalization. She is currently a resident artist at the Ijzerblok Studios, and is an active performer in the avant-grade theatre collective, wetdreamszZz.

Title: Gestures of Water
Collaboration with Kathrin Wolkowisz
Photo credit Jamie Gannon

About Regin Igloria
Born 1974 Manila, Philippines. Lives and works in Chicago, IL.Regin Igloria is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago. His drawings, artists’ books, sculptures, and performances portray the human condition as it relates to the natural environment and inhabited spaces. With several years of arts administration and teaching experience, he founded North Branch Projects, an organization that builds connections through the book arts. He works with various communities to create crossover between disparate populations and cultures, aiming to broaden the roles of both artists and non-artists. Igloria has taught at places such as Marwen, RISD, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Snow City Arts, and Carthage College. He received a 3Arts Individual Artist Award as well as local, national, and international grants, support through artist residencies, and has exhibited internationally. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Title: Gestures of Water
Collaboration with Regin Igloria
Photo credit Savic Sharp

About Kathrin Wolkowicz
Kathrin Wolkowicz’s work spans from performance, installation, objects and books to film and video, and is usually kindled by self-written or adapted texts. It is a proposal of time- based or spatial situations that invite for re-reading one’s relationships with objects and bodies; how we dwell, spend our time and share the space with others. For some of her recent works the artist has exchanged the studio for the street to lay out common grounds with inhabitants of areas affected by city development. Kathrin Wolkowicz studied at Kunstakademie Münster, University of Art Braunschweig and holds an MA Fine Art degree from the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. A substantial part of her practice is working collectively, as founding member of Sils Projects, programmer for Suburban Video Lounge, part of 004-collective and Borgerstraat publication collective. Her self-published book “Re Relating in art practice” was released in 2021. Currently, she is co-curating the exhibition series Passages-en-passant at Goethe-Institut Niederlande and co-producing W1555-collective´s neighbourhood zine. Kathrin lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Collaboration with Contemporary Glory
Photo credit Jamie Gannon

About Sarah Beth Woods
Sarah Beth Woods is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist. Cultural influences derived from formative years spent living and teaching on the South West side of Chicago manifest in the content and aesthetics of Woods’ work, specifically Black material culture, and women’s conceptual spaces as sites of possibility and transformation. Woods’ process and modes of research are collaborative and evolve communally, emphasize exchange and shared histories, move across time and cultures, and relate to the human body. Woods’ current collaborative project in Northern Poland is based around family heritage, cross-cultural histories, and erasure. Woods exhibits and performs locally and internationally. Woods has recently exhibited work at NYU Florence, Florence Italy, Genesis Cinema, London, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si South Korea, Galerie Bei Koc, Hannover Germany, and in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Threewalls, Arts Incubator at The University of Chicago, and the Design Museum of Chicago.

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Collaboration with Sarah Beth Woods
Photo credit Savic Sharp

About Contemporary Glory
This artist collaborative is made up of Charlien Adriaenssens & Louis van der Waal. Charlien is a visual artist, writer, curator, and program maker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Together with Louis van der Waal she runs Contemporary Glory Contemporary Cash, an artist collective that focuses on performance in public space, as for example the 2020 street exhibition and opera "Slopera" in collaboration with Opera Days Festival and City In The Making, involving 40 households in a social housing street that was soon to be demolished; and the 2019 science fiction video work “(There is no) Planet B”, on invitation by SMAK Museum Ghent, involving students with a difficult learning path. In 2018 and 2019 they were guests in Kinshasa during the KINACT performance festival, led by artist Eddy Ekete, with whom they started the “KINACT Collective” to initiate projects and collaborations with performance artists from the Congolese Diaspora, such as the 2018 founding of the safe space and artists' house "Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle" in Kinshasa, the 2019 small-scale Rotterdam version of the KINACT festival "DamNedAct", the 2021 exhibition Congoville at Middelheim Museum Antwerp.Since 2016, Charlien has created the visual art and performance program of WORM Rotterdam, an arts center for experimental stage productions. From 2018-2020 she initiated the Not For Profit Art Party, the off-fair of the Annual Rotterdam Art Fair, where every edition 15 non-profit art initiatives from the Netherlands could present themselves. Charlien is a guest lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, a member of several boards of directors in the Belgian and Dutch cultural field and advises the Generator Fund to support underground culture in the Twente region.