DIRECTOR

Wajid Yaseen is a Manchester-born, London-based artist whose work draws on an interdisciplinary approach to develop sound-based works encompassing installations, live performances, acousmatic music, graphic scores, and sound sculptures.

Wajid is the director of the sound art research cooperative Modus Arts, the co-founder of the destructivist Scrapclub project, and director of the Ear Cinema project.

Wajid holds an MA in Arts and Design with a focus on Sonic Arts, and his work has been exhibited and performed at the ICA Gallery, Arnolfini, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Whitechapel Gallery, Laban, and the Freud Museum

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Ana Godinho De Matos is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist. The foundation for her current work started in the improv dance/theatre scene in London. Her first collaborative audio-visual project was with the movement guru Suprapto Suryodarmo and artist Phyllida Barlow, exploring the body as a moving sculpture. Her current practice explores the possibilities and challenges of the audio-visual medium to create ‘live’ and immersive experiences for the viewer. In the last twelve years, she has been battling with the limitations of the moving image in coming close to the essence of live performance and the imprint it leaves in the memory of the viewer. Since 2006 she has documented and collaborated with around 500 international artists. Today, she remains committed to capturing the essence and journey of a story or an artwork, and finding a creative way to translate that into a film / immersive experience.

ACOUSTICIAN

Dr Matt Barnard is a composer and researcher engaged with music and spatial audio technology. He is currently focused on binaural and ambisonic techniques that harness natural reverberation and artificial sound-image authoring approaches. He is due to join the Music department at the University of York in August 2024.

URBEX ADVISOR

Since first exploring the dereliction of Sheffield’s East End in the late 1980s, Denzil Watson has developed a passion for secret spaces that once had a purpose – from Victorian factories to a post-war hotel, along with chapels and churches, railway yards and reservoirs, interiors that are now smashed and trashed, rusting and wrecked, but that have a desperate beauty all of their own.

MASK DESIGNER

Conny Prantera is a London-based multimedia artist whose work ranges from video art to performance and sound. She is a regular contributor to the fashion label Aries Arise, for which she creates illustrations, props and animations, and has collaborated with choreographer Cristiana Morganti on her award-winning performances since 2016. She is the creator of The Seer, a multi-media performance project based on the myth of Cassandra, for which she was nominated by Red Bull Academy as one of the “seven women audiovisual artists pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions.”

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHER

Simon Cole is an alternative tour guide and walking artist. He delves into the conventional, social and hidden histories of places in an attempt to make sense of their significance - and how they generate a response from us.

MOVEMENT ADVISOR

Dr Athina Vahla is an independent multidisciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer specialising in choreography and producing work internationally across the UK, Europe, South Africa, Mexico, and East Asia Arts. Vahla has created and managed large-scale, site-specific works supported by Arts Council England, and for the Infecting the City Festival in Cape Town, supported by the British Council, and the Creek Embassy. Commissioned works also include the Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, ICA, Science Museum, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Festival Hall, CandoCo Dance Company, the London Olympics 2012 and the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Japan. Collaboration is central to her work. Underpinning her process is a concern with humanism, and contemporary society. 

THEORIST

Dr. Rob Mullender-Ross is an artist, educator and researcher, and a director of The Birley artist’s studios and project space. He makes work in a variety of media and disciplines, but with sound usually involved somehow. Rob is a visiting lecturer at the London Film School and Spirit Studios in Manchester.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Muir Vidler is a photographer who lives between Edinburgh and London. He shoots mostly commissions for magazines and corporations, and self-initiated personal projects.

The work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Rove Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Colette, Mindy Solomon Gallery, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

He’s been published and commissioned by magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Vogue, Time, Tatler, Vanity Fair, VICE, i.D., Zeit Magazin.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Sanli Wang is an interdisciplinary artist, theatre maker, and technology enthusiast. Mainly focusing on how we understand the world and interpreting them in an artistic means from a sociological, and philosophical point of view. Based in London.

VIDEO EDITOR

John Cormack is a musician and film-maker who is fascinated by the notion of worlds within worlds, the beauty of the mundane and the pursuit of the unobtainable.  Whether through stop motion to AI animation techniques or choral process music to unabashed pop, John is constantly seeking forms of expression that both innovate and resonate

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Shazia Khan is currently working on multiple projects, including several sound art projects with Modus Arts, including Tape Letters and SoundHoppers. She holds an MA in social research and is working towards a doctoral degree, both of which she was awarded full scholarships. In addition to this, she has a strong background in the international development sector.