WITH-NESS

Gesa Piper is a German dance-artist who has worked in many different European countries in the fields of dance-, interdisciplinary - and performance art. She is based in Helsinki since 2011 where she graduated from the Theater Academy with a Master degree. She had finished her Bachelor studies in 2008 at the Dance Academy ArtEZ in the Netherlands. Her interests lie within the field of the multiplicity of the human existence in its social and environmental context and her artistic work seeks to investigate those through means of physical expression.

Markus A. Castor studied Art History, Philosophy and Classical Archeology. Since 2006 he is Research Director of the Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris.

Jude Walton was born in Manchester, UK, and now lives and works in Melbourne, where she founded the BA in Performance Studies at the College of Arts, Victoria University. Her art practice includes interests in writing, philosophy, dance, spatial design, architecture, video, and all sorts of ephemera. She uses various 'things' to construct a temporal poetics of space - compositions of songs, people, actions, objects, films, dance and so on arranged in space and time as physical 3D poems.