​Traci Kelly

​Rita Marhaug

​Nisa Ojalvo

Traci Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, installation, sculpture and text. Her research investigates intersubjectivity and ideas of skin, often through performative processes of un/touch but more recently through sculptural materiality. Embodied knowledge and perception are key aspects of her interest in improvising gestures in the landscape, where the air has flavour, the ground taste and the skin responds to prevailing conditions. Kelly resides in Stuttgart, Germany and retains close links to her hometown Nottingham, UK.

Rita Marhaug has been making provocative work in response to the Norwegian economy and the threat of oil and gas production off Lofoten’s coastline in the Arctic. Her work spans photography, print, installation and performance. Marhaug is co-founder of Codex Polaris, which seeks to expand publication-as- artwork, and of Performance Art Bergen, an organisation at the forefront of developing the vibrant cultural landscape of Bergen, Norway, where the artist lives and works.

Nisa Ojalvo is an internationally published photographer from New York. Ojalvo has been observing and distilling the essence of performance art since early 2000, and has photographed retrospective performances at the Tate Modern Tanks and ICA Boston, as well as five Performa Biennials. The artist has lived and worked for over a decade in China and Japan, and co-curated the Beijing Live art festival in 2012.