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Artists BIO Extended 2019 in English

Sandra Johnston
Sandra is a Northern Irish artist working since 1992 in the areas of performance, installation, drawing and writing. Her work is motivated by a desire to experiment with improvisation as a distinctive method of communication that applies non-linguistic understandings through movement. Works are often created as responses to an environment using sparse or found objects. Gestures are offered as ‘provisional behaviours’, existing as irrational, incomplete and mutable encounters.

Johnston’s ongoing research has involved exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration that exist as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. She has held several teaching and research posts since 2002, including an AHRC Research Fellowship at the University Of Ulster in Belfast, investigating issues of ‘trauma of place’. In 2007, she was the ‘Ré Soupault’ Guest Professor at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. Currently, Course Leader of the BxNU MFA at Northumbria University in England. In 2013, Johnston published a PhD research project entitled, Beyond Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into Concepts of Doubt, Risk and Testimony Explored Through Consideration of Performance Art Processes in Relation to Systems of Legal Justice, with LIT Verlag, Germany. Several artworks have developed through intensive collaborative relationships and she has been committed long-term to the advancement of performance art networks.

MuDA
Hyper performance group ”MuDA” was founded in Kyoto, Japan in 2010, centered around QUICK (Dancer·Director). The purpose of MuDA is embodying and propagating the activity of life to rise such as continuing to stand up, continuing to start to collide, converting a load, circulation and development movement. MuDA carries out performances, exhibitions, work-shop using various media such as body, objects, sound, video image and body preparation, “SEITAI”(manual therapeutics), in Asian countries including Japan. Every activities of them are composed with ”collision dance” which always collide with others, objects and the earth, and also ”construction-recovery-circulation movements” based on MuDA philosophy of the activity of life to rise.
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● QUICK/Director·Dancer
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1982. Quick is a dancer and artistic director. He started dancing based on breakdance in 1997, and formed a breakdance crew ”Ichigeki” in 1999. His achievements include the 2nd prize and Best Show in ”Battle of the Year Final 2005” (Germany). He won several awards, and has been invited as a guest dancer domestically and internationally.
In 2007, he started a dance community, ”e-dance”, with a art director, Shigemi Iida, who is an ex assistant of Kazuo Ono. He acted as a performer and chief choreographer for all pieces. He performed stages of e-dance at seven cities in Japan, Spain and Italy. In 2010, He established a hyper performance group ”MuDA”, as a director, dancer and representative of MuDA.

● Kazushige UCHIDA/Dancer
Born in Kagawa, Japan in 1980, he lives in Kyoto Prefecture. Actor, performer.
Started playing as an actor when he was in Kyoto Buddhist University. Appeared in many theatrical works such as ”Karasuma Stroke Rock” and ”Toriko A”.
In 2007, he started a dance community, ”e-dance”. He acted as a performer and choreographer in all domestic and overseas works.
He moved to Tokyo for 1 year from 2010, and learned the method of kinesiology, to know deeply the relationship between subconscious mind and body. In 2011, he came back to Kyoto and participated in ”MuDA” .

● MuDA
Hyper performance group ”MuDA” was founded in Kyoto, Japan in 2010, centered around QUICK (Dancer·Director). The purpose of MuDA is embodying and propagating the activity of life to rise such as continuing to stand up, continuing to start to collide, converting a load, circulation and development movement. MuDA carries out performances, exhibitions, work-shop using various media such as body, objects, sound, video image and body preparation, “SEITAI”, in all over the world. Every activities of them are composed with ”collision dance” which always collide with others, objects and the earth, and also ”construction-recovery-circulation movements” based on MuDA philosophy of the activity of life to rise.
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2018.2-3 MuDA PERFORMANCE + EXHIBTION ” Trash falls from the sky” @ former Kodama Gallery/Kyoto
2017.2 SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL BUTOH FESTIVAL 2017 “SEMEGIAI Random 03” @ Concarino The Tower Place 1F/Hokkaido
2016.12 Festival Theater Jakarta 2016 “SEMEGIAI Random 02” @ Taman Ismail Marzuki/Jakarta, Indonesia
2016.12 Bedog Arts Festival 7 “SEMEGIAI Random 02” @ Banjarmili Studio/Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016.10 Setouchi Triennial 2016·Takamijima Project “MuDA UMIOTOKO” @ Takamijima Hama/Kagawa, Japan
2016.7 Setouchi Triennial 2016·Inujima Performing Arts Program “MuDA IRON” @ Inujima Seirensho Art Museum/Okayama, Japan
2015.12 Children International Art Festival·Fantasy Kids 童趣藝世界 “MuDA WS + SEMEGIAI Random 01” @ Jingming 1st street /Taichung, Taiwan
2014.8-9 MuDA Bulgaria – Croatia tour 2014 “Rites of circulation” @ Sofia, Bulgaria @ Dubrovnik-Zagreb, Croatia

Alexandrina Hemsley
Alexandrina has been performing and choreographing in London internationally since 2009. Alexandrina believes in dance & the body as a site for expressing felt & embodied politics. It is a life long project. The forms her artistic work takes frequently morph in order to present her concerns within shifting frames and contexts. She make dances, videos, self-produces and writes. She is interested in liminal spaces, connectivity, fracturing, displacement and emotionality. She is continually attempting to conjure intersecting, gentle noise amidst oppressive silencing – a process of attempting to undo structural and internalised marginalisation and colonialism.

Alexandrina’s works have intercepted live art, dance, dance for camera, dance criticism and visual art.

She collaborates with Jamila Johnson-Small as part of Project O (2011 onwards), Rosie Heafford and Helena Webb (2012 onwards) on Dad Dancing and Seke Chimutengwende (2016 onwards) on a new piece of work Black Holes. Her work has been commissioned by and presented at Sadler’s Wells, Battersea Arts Centre, Southbank Centre and The Yard Theatre amongst others.

Anita Cheng
Anita graduated from The Master of Arts in Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her artwork has various forms and medium including performance and mixed media. City (Hong Kong) and its residents’ interaction is Anita’s concern issue. From 2015, she starts a continuing artwork series of a cat lady interact with different Hong Kong environment and issues, which creates impact of the city–residents–environment. Recent artworks focus on personal development.

Monique Yim (b.1984, Hong Kong)
Monique Yim is a Hong Kong based interdisciplinary artist, art educator and independent curator, mainly engages in performance art, installation art, site-specific art, public art, social engaged art, film and theatre art direction. She is currently studying her Master of Arts at Central Saint Martins. Since 2006, she has organized or participated in over 150 local and international exhibitions, festivals, projects or artist-in-residence programmes. Her works and lectures have been presented in Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Cyprus, Taiwan and more than 10 cities in China. Her works focus on social issues, themes of body, gender, lgbt, queer, and reflections on life, death, presence, freedom, love, pain. https://sites.google.com/site/moniquewkyim/

Wiency Wong (b.1992, Hong Kong)
Graduated from City University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Studies in 2015, Wiency Wong is a Hong Kong based creative writer. During her study, she was assigned to a charity community supporting fund-raising campaign and served as art director during her tenure. She also worked as an editor for an art and culture bilingual magazine in Hong Kong. After receiving her education, she has become a digital creative that combines aesthetics and text creation in forms of visual art, advertising, and performance. Since 2016, she has been actively collaborating with Monique Yim with text creation, visual art and performance art, in international exhibitions and festivals in Hong Kong, London, Berlin, Dusseldorf, etc. Homepage

Takashi Morishita/Hijikata archive
Morishita is the director of Tatsumi Hijikata archive in Tokyo. It is located in Art Center, Keio University. The archive keeps and research on the Japanese choreograher and founder of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata´s work and artistic legacy. In the collection we can find the original notes, some costumes and props, books, photos and videos.

Agustín Ortiz Herrera
Herrera studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and later he studied film at the New School University of New York. After a period as a fiction screenwriter he returned to artistic production after passing through the Master of Fine Arts program at the Konstfack school in Stockholm. He has exhibited his art work in several galleries of Stockholm, Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid, Uppsala and Tromsø. He also participated in the Örebro Open Art Biennial 2015 in Sweden and he was part of several group shows in places such as Centrum för Fotografi, Supermarket Art Fair, Platform Galleri Stockholm, Uppsala Konstmuseum and Konsthall C.

Andrew Lam (not present in Uppsala)
Lam is the curator of Museum of Site. He is an artist-curator based in HK. He studied theory of art in Hong Kong and England. He is director of Crossing Border Border Crossing_International Festival of Intermedia, advisor of Public Art in the National Theatre, Xian-China. He participated in the biennales and triennials if Gwangju, Guangzhou, Tashkent, UABB, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Thailand, etc. His works interweave open-sourced sonic, body and installation form of expression and concerns with cross-national cultural issues. He chaired arts education committee of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.