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Ryan Hughes

Coventry Biennial, UK

I am an artist, curator and independent researcher interested in DIY cultures, collaboration, community and what was briefly called the post-internet. I have previously presented projects at MK Gallery, ICA London, Midlands Art Centre and in places of worship, botanical gardens and on the slopes of Cader Idris. I have spoken at events organised by the British Council, Kunsthal Gent, Eastside Projects and a number of colleges and universities. I am the founder and Artistic Director of Coventry Biennial – a social, political and critical platform for Contemporary Art in the UK. Throughout the SPACEX project I will seek to build international relationships and knowledge in support of Coventry Biennial’s impactful work with artists and communities.

Secondment Destination: 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: September / October 2022

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Marley Treloar

Coventry University, United Kingdom

Marley Treloar is a first year PhD researcher at Coventry University exploring the development of participatory community practice between digital and physical spaces within cultural organisations. She graduated from Kingston University MA Museum and Gallery Studies in 2019 and has worked across the arts and heritage sector working as a freelance curator, public programmer and education officer. Marley is the creative director of Co-Curation, artist run curatorial collective exploring participatory, community and digital collaborative artistic practice.

Secondment Destination:
Sirius Art Centre, Ireland: TBC


https://www.co-curation.co.uk

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Sevven Kucuk

Coventry Biennial, UK

I am an artist and curator interested in learning and collaboration.  I am the Founder and Director of T Street Gallery, an artist-led gallery space in Birmingham, Uk which was born out of research into the lack of equality in the arts industry in the region. The space was created as an act of rebellion to the societal ‘normalities’ of the industry and producing an egalitarian environment for artists.

I am also Operations Director at Coventry Biennial – a social, political and critical platform for Contemporary Art.

My artistic practice explores concepts of identity through linking mortality and memory into narratives, using experiences and cultural nuances to sculpt themselves into the outcomes.

I have exhibited in places such as Eastside Projects, Ikon, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, The Herbert Art Gallery, the Barber Institute, Birmingham Grand Central Station, Grande Mosque of Rome & Palazzo Comunale E.Gagliardi, Vibo Valentia.

Throughout the SPACEX project I will seek to build international relationships and knowledge in support of Coventry Biennial’s impactful work with artists and communities.

Secondment Destination:
Universita Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia: May/June 2023

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Barbara Holub, Dr.

University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Barbara Holubartist, researcher, based in Vienna founded transparadiso with urbanist Paul Rajakovics as transdisciplinary practice between art, architecture and urban intervention (1999); president of the Secession, Vienna (2006-2007); Austrian National Art Award (2018); directed the aBarbara Holubartist, researcher, based in Vienna founded transparadiso with urbanist Paul Rajakovics as transdisciplinary practice between art, architecture and urban intervention (1999); president of the Secession, Vienna (2006-2007); directed the artistic research project “Planning Unplanned. Towards a New Positioning of Art in the Context of Urban Development (2010-2013), Vienna University of Technology/ Institute of Art and Design) and published “Planning Unplanned. Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society” (2015, Verlag für Moderne Kunst); External Examiner at The Bartlett for “Situated Practice”, London (2019-2022); member of the jury of the “Innovation Fund for Culture in Public Space”, Stuttgart (2018>); Austrian National Art Award (2018); Research Award of the Austrian Chamber of Architects (2022). Currently she directs the flagship project “WE PARAPOM!” (weparapom.eu) for the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Forthcoming publication: Barbara Holub. Silent Activism (de Gruyter/ edition Angewandte, 2022).

Secondment Destinations:
van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL): TBC
NN Contemporary, Northampton (GB): TBC


www.barbaraholub.com

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Jitka Hlaváčková

Prague City Gallery (Galerie hlavního města Prahy), Czech Republic

Mgr. Jitka Hlaváčková, Ph.D., is an art theoretician working since 2006 at the Prague City Gallery, where she curates the Photography and New Media Collection. She has prepared around thirty exhibition projects so far, including Divination from a Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds – The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age (2022); Sounds Codes Images – Acoustic Experiment in Visual Art (2019), etc. She also curated the Start Up series for emerging artists and the Projector, online video art gallery. She is involved in the preparation of the Art for the City programme. In 2021, she was the curator of the m3 – Art in Space Festival and theinitiator of the Gestures of Emancipation symposium focused on public space strategies. In her research, she focuses on the theory of acoustic art, photography, video art in post-media contexts of contemporary life in general. She also explores the “public language of art”, i.e., current urban and environmental art strategies in relation to social, gender and community issues.

Secondment destination/s:
TBC

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Alex Parry

Coventry University, UK

Alex is an artist doing a practice based PhD at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University exploring how art workshops act as a form of world building and speculative fiction – in terms of ideas, social relationships and materials produced. She has an interest in creating structures to support group work and is part of Studio Yea with Eva Freeman and Youngsook Choi who are a group of artists exploring how to support each other in these precarious times. Alex has an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere course from the Royal College of Art, and a BA in Social Anthropology and Media from Goldsmiths University. She has worked with the Pumphouse Gallery, FACT, and Hackney Council. Recent journal articles include ‘Structures within structures: Examining alternative cultures of learning in the institution’ (2021) with Sadie Edginton and Cicilia Östholm.

Secondment Destinations:
Home for Cooperation, Nicosia, Cyprus: TBC

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Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Prof. Dr.

University of Amsterdam

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Amsterdam and has led the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. Until 2014 she was Professor of Iconology in Belfast. She studied in Heidelberg, London and Cologne, where she gained her PhD in 2000. She held an Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, UCD.

Rooted in Joseph Beuys studies, she is interested in social art practices, art in public, performance, post-War art histories and art research. She also focuses on word and image studies, visual legacies of (Irish) writers, the historiography of art and curation.

Her books include: Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique (ed., Valiz 2017); Post-War Germany and ‘Objective Chance’: W.G. Sebald, Joseph Beuys and Tacita Dean (Steidl 2011); James Joyce als Inspirationsquelle für Joseph Beuys (Olms 2001); and Joyce in Art (Lilliput 2004). She has curated internationally.

Secondment Destinations:
Project Arts Centre, Dublin: April/May 2022
Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh: TBC
Mayday Rooms, London,: TBC
Lisbon: TBC

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Giorgia Rizzioli

Coventry University, UK

Giorgia Rizzioli is an AHRC – M4C PhD candidate at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures.

Her areas of interest revolve around media experimentation and cultural valorisation in film and media studies. In specific, in her doctoral project she is engaged with film curation as a method to investigate the connections between the cinematic dispositive and the urban space. Recently, she has collaborated as curatorial assistant and researcher in the setting up of the Coventry Biennial Hyper-Possible 2021. She has curated a practice-led project Screening Coventry: Past is Now an outdoor experimental cinematic event in Coventry, UK with the aim of investigating the bond between cinema, cultural programming and Coventry’s site-specificity.

Secondment destination:
Festival Dei Popoli, Florence, Italy: November 2022

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Kevin Walker

Coventry University, UK

I am Associate Professor of Immersive Media, also leading a research theme on AI and Algorithmic Cultures at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures. My research draws from natural and computational systems, which I explore through both theory and practice. This includes AI, computational and systems thinking, pervasive technologies, physical computing, temporality and environmental sustainability. These are investigated through programming of software, exhibitions, events and performances, as well as academic and creative writing, drawing on my background combining anthropology, art and technology.

Current projects include: conducting a visual ethnography for Nine Earths; and undertaking technical R&D for Respiratrees.

Before joining Coventry I launched and led the Information Experience Design MA programme at the Royal College of Art in London from 2012-2019, and the Information Environments MRes programme at University of the Arts London in 2011-2012. I was a researcher at London Knowledge Lab from 2004-2010.

Secondment destinations:
Reserva na Fabrica, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
Festivale dei popoli, Florence, Italy, 2023

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Carolina Rito

Coventry University, United Kingdom

Dr Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), Coventry University; and leads on the centre’s Critical Practices research strand. She is a researcher and curator whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an investigative practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields of curating, visual arts, visual cultures and cultural studies. For SPACEX, Rito is launching the second iteration of the interdisciplinary research project Institution as Praxis, investigating the epistemic capacities of curatorial programming in the expanded field of exhibition practices beyond the neoliberal imperatives of growth and entertainment.

Rito is co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg, 2020), Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020), and FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the post-truth era (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming). Rito is editor of “On Translations” (2018) and “Critical Pedagogies” (2019) issues (The Contemporary Journal). From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, leading the institution’s research strategy with Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham.

Secondment destination:
VanAbbe Museum, The Netherlands: May/June 2022


https://carolinarito.com/

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