Biographies
Emma Cocker (UK) is a writer-artist whose research attends to the embodied dimension of artistic process through a nexus of experimental, performative and collaborative language-based approaches (including reading and conversation). Her writing is published in Reading/Feeling, 2013; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018; Writing Choreography: Extending the Conventions of Dance, 2023, and the solo collections, The Yes of the No, 2016, and forthcoming How Do You Do?, 2024. She is an Associate Professor in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, UK. https://not-yet-there.blogspot.com/
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz (F/CH) works as an artist-researcher, as an artist-writer, as a writer-teacher, as a teacher-translator. Her field of research revolves around embedded and embodied practices of making sense, the po(ï)ethical potentials of language-s, and the exploration of meaningful relationalities in sensory entanglements. The development of a relational and performative practice of writing is at the core of her situated practice, which involves collaborative constellations of various kinds and making-thinking from a transversal perspective. www.dchapuis-schmitz.com
Laressa Dickey (US/SE) is a dance artist, writer, and bodyworker based in Stockholm whose recent projects explore the politics of care, the effects of state violence on the human body, and space junk. She’s the author of four poetry books including Syncopations and Twang. Together with sound artist Andrea Steves, she published Radio Graveyard Orbit, a speculative book about space junk. A longtime student of somatic practice and research, she researches the dancer's use of language and the writer's use to/for dance, and her artistic research has been supported by the Kone Foundation. She’s a member of the performative collaboration MISLEADING SUBJECTS and teaches occasionally at Stockholm University of the Arts. http://www.laressadickey.com/site/
Sabina Holzer is a body-based artist working in the field of expanded choreography and creates performances, dances, & texts in collaborative ways. She explores languages embedded in bodies and in the geo-historically located and informed memories & futures. Her investigations unfold in transdisciplinary performances and interventions in theaters, museums & site-specific events, such as in 2024: Publication at Varamo Press (B) in the edition of “gestures”; texts in the installation “testing grounds” in collaboration with Katrin Hornek at Secession Vienna; the choreographic assemblage “which dances – or how to imagine a future beyond extraction” at the museum for ethnology Vienna. www.cattravelsnotalone.at
Ines Marita Schärer (CH) works across poetry, performance, installation, sound art and experimental music. She is concerned with the precarities and vulnerabilities of diverse human and more-than-human beings within predominant power structures and explores voice and words as a means of establishing relationality and re-imagining their conditions and environments. Her practice is informed by the given context, permeable for various forms of knowledge, nourished and driven by thinkers, co-thinkers, collaborators and allies. https://www.inesmarita.ch/
Litó Walkey (GR/CAN) is a Berlin-based artist whose work operates collaboratively through writing and choreography. Her performance and publishing projects engage with how collective structures of (re-) writing and reading (-across) enable affective circulations that energize sense (and self) drifting. She performed and taught internationally with Chicago-based performance group Goat Island and held a long-standing teaching position at HZT (Inter-University Center for Dance) Berlin. She is a PhD candidate in Performance Practices at Gothenburg University. https://litowalkey.org/
