The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art

T. J. Bacon (she/they) publishing under the name T. J. Bacon and creating artwork using the moniker tjb, Dr Tomei June Bacon is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies and phenomenology, alongside queer theory, crip theory, disaster studies, and futures to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years with a practice rooted in the elemental and esoteric. She is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure, which produces and supports international visual art, performance art and sonic art. She is currently Resident Researcher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) London, PhD Advisor with the Trans Art Institute and PhD Supervisor with GSMD. She is the lead on the Queer Acts of Hope line of enquiry at the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice & Research. She is the founder of the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence, an international group of scholars who have formed an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and advocacy group. This is her second major book about phenomenology and performance art. She lives and works in London.

Chelsea Coon (she/her) is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She considers limits of the body and the enduring effects of frameworks as conceptual and literal forms that force the body to act and react through photography, video, performance, painting, sculpture, installation, and text. She has exhibited and performed extensively in galleries, biennales and festivals across North America, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, Australia and the Middle East. Recent solo exhibitions include Heavy Metal at Meno Parkas Gallery, Lithuania; The Probability of All Possible States of the System at Arka Gallery, Lithuania; and deathless at Galleri Kronborg, Norway. Chelsea Coon's writings on contemporary art, performance and philosophy are included in experimental and academic publications, magazines, and journals in the US, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. She lives and works in Los Angeles.