Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca – Fellow

Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca is Lector and Head of DAS Graduate School at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts in the Netherlands. 

Her books include: The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (Routledge, 2020) and Encounters in Performance Philosophy (Palgrave, 2014), both co-edited with Alice Lagaay; Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance (Palgrave, 2012); Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (Intellect, 2013), co-edited with Will Daddario; and Deleuze and Performance (Edinburgh, 2009).

She is a founding core convener of the international research network, Performance Philosophy, joint series editor of the Performance Philosophy book series with Rowman & Littlefield, and an editor of the open access Performance Philosophy journal. Laura originally trained as an artist at the Slade School of Art in London and presented performances internationally including Tanzquartier Wien (2015); ICA London (2008); Serpentine Gallery, London (2008, with the artists’ collective, SpRoUt); and TATE Britain (2003). Animals have been part of her work for a long time - from a piece about Medusa performed in the Reptile House at London Zoo to recent articles about “interspecies collaboration”. Her surname, 'Ó Maoilearca', ultimately translates from the Irish as 'follower of the animal'.

Rajni Shah – how to think podcast series and ICA Symposium

Rajni’s work as an artist leans gently but clearly across disciplines, countries, and thought structures. They are a quiet voice of change, creating invitations to gather, to read, to meet, and to listen.

Rajni has been making performances and leading creative projects since 1999. From 2005-2012 they worked with a group of other artists to create and tour a trilogy of works exploring moments of cultural identity and alienation: Mr Quiver (2005-2008), Dinner with America (2007-2009), and Glorious (2009-2012). Alongside these larger performance works, Rajni and other members of Rajni Shah Projects created a series of public interventions exploring ideas of gift and conversation. Initially entitled small gifts, this series culminated with two touring pieces made for public spaces: give what you can, take what you need which toured alongside Dinner with America, and Write a Letter to a Stranger which was at the core of Glorious. From 2013 to 2017, Rajni conducted research towards a practice-based PhD at Lancaster University, working with Professor Gerry Harris. The writing from this period has been published in July 2021 as a monograph and series of zines, entitled Experiments in Listening.

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Fevered Sleep - Collaborating artists

Fearless about experimentation and passionate about research, we develop brave, thought-provoking projects that challenge people to rethink their relationships with each other and with the world.

We thrive on risk – in the themes we choose to explore and the forms we choose to work in – and we balance this by working to meticulously high standards with a dynamic team and with a wide range of collaborators: from world-class artists, expert thinkers and researchers, to members of the public, schoolchildren and our audiences.

Our projects appear in very diverse places, across the UK and beyond, from theatres, galleries and cinemas, to parks, beaches and schools, and in the spaces of everyday life: in people’s homes, on phones, online. Whatever we make and wherever it’s experienced, we’re driven by an ambition to present outstanding and transformative art that invites people to think, talk and feel differently about the world in which we live.

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Every house has a door - Collaborating artists

Lin Hixson (director) and Matthew Goulish (dramaturg) co-founded Every house has a door in 2008. The Chicago-based performance company assembles diverse, intergenerational, project-specific teams of specialists, and has presented 12 performance works in local, national, and international contexts. Hixson and Goulish received honorary doctorates from Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth, in 2007. They shared the United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in 2009, and a fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2014. Their collaborative writing has appeared in the anthologies Small Acts of Repair – Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island (2007); Live – Art and Performance (2015);Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening (2016); Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage (2017);The Creative Critic – Writing as/about Practice (2018), and the journal Parallax. They both teach at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 
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Essi Kausalainen - Collaborating artist

Essi Kausalainen works in the field of international visual and performance art and in her works explores issues related to inhabiting a body, employing various forms of art such as performance, video, object installation and sound art. Kausalainen’s works have been exhibited around the world, from Europe to America, Asia to Africa. She studied performance art and theory in the pilot programme for performance art at the Turku Arts Academy (Turku University of Applied Sciences) and later at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. She is collaborating with Every house has a door on Scarecrow (2018) and “Carnival of the Animals”.

Abi Weaver - Filmmaker

Abi Weaver is an award winning producer/director who has worked across a range of visual media from independent feature documentaries and online shorts through to programming for major UK broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5). Her latest film About a War explores violence and social change through the testimonies of ex-fighters from the Lebanese Civil War. Abi is also a TECHNE researcher at the University of Surrey working on the voice in the filmed documentary interview through the lens of Levinasian philosophy. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Lebanese Studies at LAU in Beirut.

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Amelia Ideh - Website Design

Based in Barcelona, Amelia Ideh is the head of communications at London based arts organisation Fevered Sleep, tutor and artist mentor at Serious UK and The Roundhouse, a PRS Foundation adviser, and freelance consultant. Following a degree in contemporary dance, Amelia became and remains music enthusiast. She founded the music blog, putmeonit.com, and currently writes for own blog ameliaideh.com and as a contributor for The Dancing Times, The Independent Theatre Council, and The British Council. Organisations and labels she has worked with as a communications consultant include Accidental Records, Parlophone, Ninja Tune, Warner UK, Nonclassical, Saatchi, BBC Blast, Sadler’s Wells, Glastonbury Emerging Talent and many more. Amelia has also worked as a promoter and producer for Soundwave Festival Croatia, Deviation, Tobago Jazz Festival and PMOI Live. She is a former governor of The Place and a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow, and has been featured in or on The Economist, Cosmopolitan, MU Magazine, Okayplayer, Spine TV, BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra, BBC 6 Music, Rinse FM, and NTS Radio.

Astrid Korporaal – Co-curator of ICA Symposium

Astrid Korporaal is Research and Symposium curator for the Frames of Representation film festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. She is completing an AHRC-funded PhD at Kingston University, researching experimental collaborative practices in contemporary moving image production and presentation. Previously she was Curator of Education Partnerships at the ICA, Co-Founder and Director of Almanac Projects in London and Turin, and Assistant Curator of nomadic curatorial collective FormContent. She has also worked as an educator and lecturer. She has written articles for Art Monthly, Arte e Critica and Kaleidoscope.

Henrietta Hale – Co-curator, Performance Philosophy workshops

Henrietta Hale is currently co-director of Independent Dance (ID), an artist-led organisation working responsively to support and fuel dance artists in all roles, at all stages of their career, and of all physicalities. Alongside ID, she is a choreographer and co – founder/director of Dog Kennel Hill Project, a performance and research collective with Rachel Lopez de la Nieta and Ben Ash since 2004. They have been commissioned and presented by various festivals, companies and venues including Brighton CCA (2019); Dance4 (2010-2018); Modern Art Oxford (2016); Nottingham Contemporary (2016); and The Barbican (2015). Works have tended to inhabit the span of larger themed research projects encompassing philosophical, socio-historical and political investigations but rooted in movement practices, which include People Working Project (2009-15) Etudes in Tension and Crisis (2014-18) and Wayfaring Encounters (2018-19). Henrietta has also been a performer and collaborator with several choreographers and visual artists for 25 years including Rosemary Lee (2002 – 2019), Angela Woodhouse (2006 – 2017) Daria Martin (2005), and Matti Braun (2006). She is also a teacher, mentor and facilitator in higher education and with independent artists working mainly with embodied relational practices. Teaching and guest lecturing posts include Trinity Laban (2001 – 20013), London Contemporary Dance School, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, among others.

Sarah Fine – Co-curator, Forum for Philosophy events 

Sarah Fine is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London and a Fellow at the Forum for Philosophy. She specialises in issues related to migration and citizenship. Sarah is the co-editor (with Lea Ypi) of Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (Oxford University Press, 2016). Recent publications include 'Refugees, Safety, and a Decent Human Life', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 119, no. 1 (2019) pp. 25–52. Sarah is also interested in work at the intersection of philosophy and the arts. She has been collaborating with human rights theatre company, ice&fire, on a play about freedom of movement and the politics of exclusion, and with choreographer Sivan Rubinstein on projects exploring borders, migration, and climate change through music and dance.

Sarah Grange - Co-producer of D&D satellite event, Improbable

Sarah produces the D&D satellite programme, facilitates Open Space events, and is a PhD candidate at University of Brighton where she’s exploring improvisation as a way to understand the life of Mary Frith / Moll Frith / Mal Cutpurse, for which Improbable is her research partner. She also makes her own work – live and text-based, and sometimes in drag. slgrange.com