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Co-convened Perform: State: Interrogate: Perfor-
mance Studies international X, Singapore; curated
the performances of the Werkleitz Biennale 2000,
and co-curated the Satu Kali International Perfor-
manceArt Symposium, Kuala Lumpur.
Writings appear in Oxford Dictionary of Per-
formance, Mediating Malaysia: Media, Culture
& Power in Malaysian Society (Yeo, Routledge
2010), Rigorous and Compassionate Listening,
DialogicalWriting on Site-SpecificArt (Kantonen,
KUVA, 2010), Contesting Performance: Emerging
Sites of Research with Paul Rae (Palgrave 2009),
Inner Voices, 21
st
Century Museum of Contem-
porary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2011) and various
journals. He serves as Professor of Performance
Art and Theory, LiveArt and Performance Studies
MAProgramme, University of theArts Helsinki.
Roberto De La Torre (Mexico)
Born inMexico in 1967, Roberto De La Torre lives
and works inMexico City. He studied visual arts in
La Esmeralda, National School ofArts, where he is
presently teaching. He has participated in several
national and international art festivals and his work
has been shown in seventeen countries around the
world in North and South America, Europe and
Asia. Throughout his career he has obtained differ-
ent recognitions, supports and scholarships and has
participated in many artist residencies. His projects
have been published in local and international me-
dia. He has participated in the support programme
of the Ministry of Culture in Mexico, the Sistema
Nacional de Creadores (National System of Crea-
tors) in the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las
Artes (FONCA) in alternative media, (2012-2015).
He also participates in the Artist Pension Trust
(APT) programme.
Santiago Contreras Soux (Bolivia
)
Santiago Contreras Soux was born in La Paz, Bo-
livia, in 1986. He studiedArchitecture and graduated
with academic excellence in 2010. He is currently
studying the MFAprogramme “PublicArt and New
Artistic Strategies” at the Bauhaus University inWe-
imar, Germany. He participated in theV, VI, andVII
versions of the SIART Biennial and in the 15
th
and
16
th
Santa Cruz Biennial in Bolivia. He exhibited in
different galleries both with solo and group exhibi-
tions in La Paz, Santa Cruz in Bolivia; NewYork in
the USAand Belo Horizonte in Brazil.
He was invited to participate in the 2
nd
and 3
rd
Fes-
tival of PerformanceArt, Cimientos, in Cochabam-
ba Bolivia; the 4
th
Deformes Biennial of Perfor-
mance Art in Valdivia and Santiago, Chile; the 1
st
Nómades Performance and Urban interventions
Festival inArgentina. He took part in the Basticafo
Artist Residence program in La Habana, Cuba; the
KioskoArtist in Residence program in Santa Cruz,
Bolivia; and was a resident in Can Xalant, Mataró,
Spain. He won in 2011 the YoungArtists Award in
the SIART Biennial of La Paz.
His work is mostly related with the crossing of ar-
chitectonic and artistic practices, elements and ma-
teriality in order to reveal newways of approaching
the space.
Zierle &Carter (Germany &UK)
Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter live and work in
London, UK. Interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and
often site and context responsive, Alexandra Zierle
&Paul Carter’s practice spans performance, photog-
raphy, sound, video and installation. Through their
collaborative practice, Zierle & Carter critically ex-
amine different modes of communication and what
it means to be human, addressing notions of belong-
ing, dynamics within relationships, and the transfor-
mation of limitations. Their work cites an embodied
investigation into human interactions and encoun-
ters, acting as an invitation to venture into the spaces
in-between the external and internal, permanent and
transient, spoken and unheard. The work fundamen-
tally explores society’s conventions, traditions and
rituals, often flipping them on their head, reversing
orders, and disrupting the norm.
Their work has been widely exhibited internation-
ally throughout Europe, Canada, United States,
South America, Australia, in Asia and Africa; for
example, the inaugural Venice International Perfor-
mance Art Week, Federation Square in Melbourne
and Grace Exhibition Space, New York. Twice re-
cipients of Arts Council England grants, including
support for a residency at the Banff Centre in Can-
ada, Zierle & Carter’s work is featured in
Personal
Structures Time – Space – Existence
from The
GlobalArtAffairs Foundation andManuel Vason’s
new Double Exposure publication. Currently, they
are In Between TimeAssociateArtists.
