Leo Ashizawa learned his acting through Fringe theatre in Japan. He has performed in a multitude of plays and short films as well as being a featured model in fashion industry. In 2006 he came to England and performed with various theatre companies such as Station House Opera, and also short films and commercials. His main activity at the moment in his solo performance held in pubs and theatres e.g. Etcetera theatre and Camden head. In 2011 he also performed in IUGTE performance conference in Austria.
David Berridge is a writer who lives in London. He curates VerySmallKitchen. His book LEMONADE is published by LemonMelon. An essay “The Ears of Claude Cahun” – one part of his live reading for Cast & Figment – is published in Patricide 04: The Sounds of Surrealism and is one of a series of texts and talks towards an exhibition at The Wild Pansy Press Project Space, Leeds, in February 2012.
Claire Chard is a London-based actress. She has extensive knowledge of Shakespeare and recently played Banquo in River Productions’ Macbeth at The Scoop on London’s South Bank. Claire also takes an active interest in new writing and enjoyed being involved in devising The 9.21 to Shrub Hill (New Diorama Theatre) in which she played one part of the three-woman chorus, an eerie and highly physicalised presence. Claire’s film work includes the comedy Red or White (Letuknow Films) and absurdist Today I Did Nothing: Knock (Danger Productions). Working on Cast and Figment has opened up to Claire the possibilities of radio as a diverse medium, leaving her eager to do more audio work.
Sidsel Christensen is a London-based artist engaged in moving image, live-events and performance-based lectures. Currently her work investigates the possibility of immersion and ecstatic experience in contemporary spaces and how inner, emotive visions can be linked to the visual language of abstraction in art. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art. She has contributed to exhibitions at David Roberts Art Foundation, The South London Cultural Centre, Vilma Gold, Open Gallery and The Royal Academy; she is currently showing a more substantial body of work at KINO KINO, Centre for Contemporary Art in Norway.
Bridget Crone is a curator, writer and lecturer based in London and working across the UK and internationally. Most recently, she has been the Artistic Director of Media Art Bath (2006-11) and lecturer on the MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice, University of the Arts London (2007-10). Recent projects include: A theatre to address (Arnolfini, 2010), Gail Pickering, Brutalist Premolition (Institute Contemporary Arts, London and Arnolfini, Bristol 2008), A Sensible Stage (Whitechapel Gallery, Holburne Museum and various venues, 2007-8), The body. The ruin (Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 2005). Bridget currently convenes the monthly artists film and video discussion programme, The Film Exercise, at the Arnolfini, Bristol.
Carla Espinoza was born in Brussels, Belgium. After graduating from the Belgian Academy of Art in Theatre and Dance, she studied a BA in Drama (Performance) at Queen Mary University of London and graduated in July 2008. In 2009, she undertook a postgraduate in physical theatre at London International School of performing Arts, and successfully finished the course in June 2011. Since then she has been working for several contemporary artists and theatre companies as a dancer and performer.
Karen Di Franco is an artist and archivist based in London, UK.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a British/Lebanese artist based in London. his projects include Aural Contract Homeworks 5 Beirut (2010) and WYSPA IS Gdansk (2011), Model Court CCA Glasgow (2008) and Chisenhale Gallery London (2011). His hybridized practice means that he has written for Cabinet Magazine and the 10th Sharjah Biennial and is now developing a radio documentary trilogy produced by The Showroom London, Casco Utrecht and as part of a Phd at the Centre for Research Architecture Goldsmiths College. Abu Hamdan is part of the group running the arts spaces Batroun Projects, Lebanon and 113 Dalston Lane in London.
Homeland is an open thought-and-practice space in which questions concerning the relationships between art, politics, history and religion in late capitalist societies are explored and critiqued through theoretical discussion, political action and artistic production. Language and art are a crucial mediation of being and therefore occupy a central position in Homeland, which explores a dynamic tension between the past as myth and the future as utopia. Homeland is developed collaboratively by Cat Moir, researcher in languages and philosophy, and artists Charlotte A Morgan and No Fixed Abode (Robert Quirk and Terry Slater).
Simon King is a graduate of Goldsmiths College (MA Radio), an occasional voice over artist, a founder member of Cinetopia a south London-based pop-up cinema with a ‘mystery movie’, quiz and cabaret format (see ‘Pumpkino’ event at the Cinema Museum, Kennington on 28th October). He works at the RCA as an English for Academic Purposes tutor as well as a lecturer in art, media and design contexts at the London College of Communication and, from January 2012, at Central Saint Martins.
Katherine Lunney is a recent graduate of the Guildford School of Acting with a variety of screen and stage experience. Her favourite roles have been playing Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard at GSA and Stuttering Girl in a physical theatre devised piece with 2toned theatre company. Katherine’s other interests include reading, sewing, eating good food and drinking great rum.
Matthew MacKisack is a London-based artist and writer. He researches and teaches at Goldsmiths College, and is the curator of Cast and Figment.
Lauren McCullum graduated from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in 2009 with a First Class Ba Honours in European Theatre Arts. She is currently living and working in London on various creative projects; most recently modelling for Getty Images and is soon to appear in the new Heinz soup commercial and music video for Tim Wheeler and Emmy the Great’s christmas release.
Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. She is currently artist in residence at Modern Art Oxford. She has recently shown work at Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery London and Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, and readings include Manchester’s Other Room, the Maintenant poetry series and the London Word Festival. Her critical and experimental texts have appeared in a variety of journals; she is completing “Fitful Thing”, an artist book for the Chisenhale Gallery, London, and her forthcoming book “was” will be published next year by LemonMelon Press. Tamarin holds first class degrees from Oxford University (2004) and Central Saint Martins (2007) in Linguistics & Medieval Italian and Fine Art respectively, and gained her MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths (2010).
Dr Dan Smith is a writer and artist, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory at Chelsea College of Art and Design. His book Traces of Modernity is forthcoming with Zero Books, and he is currently working on a book on contemporary art and utopia. He publishes texts at the blog utopianimpulse.blogspot.com and edits the website altertopian.com.
Jonathan Trayner was born in 1978 in the UK; he received an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2007. He lives and works in London, where he is a regular contributor to the Communist Gallery and Propeller Island performance and screening events and involved in the post-education group Free School. Recent exhibitions include Communist Gallery Television, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (2011); Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (2011 and 2010); Lecture Hall, Free School, Five Years, London (2010); Peking Duck or Video in Time of Crisis, Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria (2009)
Andy Weir is an artist and PhD student at Goldsmiths College.
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Thank you: everyone who has given their time, effort and thought to the project … Helen and Andy at Soundfjord … Anna Gyoery … Johanna Mannerfelt Empson …
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