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How might we negotiate through long durational performance the relationship between the Self and the Other, the performer and the audience?

Participating Artists: 
Jeroen Van Dooren
Despina Zacharopoulou
Luca Bosani
Guildor
Alice Jacobs
Luli Perez

Selected event & supported by the Royal College of Art Student-Led Event Competition. 

Jeroen van Dooren is researching contemporary notions of subjectivity, performativity and the role of the artist. He works under different names so called heteronyms. You can see the heteronyms as an act against identity and individualism that explores the nature of subjectivity. The subject is situated between fiction and non-fiction. Exhibitions include: Tulca Festival of Visual Arts 2016, Galway, Ierland, Fluorescent Arts Festival Soho 2015, Londen, No Time For Hysteria, The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland, Royal Academy Summer Show 2014, Londen, Royal College of Art Graduation Show 2014, Londen. Awards include: Young Talent Award 2015, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, RCA Riverlight Student award 2014, Thames Barrier Print Studio Graduate Award 2014. Jeroen's work is in collections of: St James - Berkeley Group, Royal College of Art Collection, Office of Public Works National Art Collection Ireland, National University Ireland Galway Collection. Jeroen is currently studying for his Mphil/PhD at the Royal College of Art. 

www.iamacollective.com

Despina Zacharopoulou is a performance artist focusing on experimental situations that negotiate our relation to alterity. Her recent practice and research explore notions such as: the monstrous, the abject and control exchange. The recipient of an Onassis Foundation scholarship, she is a practice-led research student at the Royal College of Art, supervised by performance artist Professor Nigel Rolfe. Apart from her artistic practice, Despina has been a subsidiary tutor at the NTUA School of Architecture (Sector III, Painting Department), and at the Athens School of Fine Arts ( Sculpture Department, Studio A). For the Academic year 2016-17 she will be leading the School Group "De Monstris" at the Royal College of Art. She has participated in various exhibitions in Greece, Belgium, Russia and the UK and has received scholarships and awards for her academic achievements. Her last large scale project was a seven week long durational performance entitled "Corner Time" commissioned by the Marina Abramovic Institute and the NEON Organisation (AS ONE, 10/03/2016 – 24/04/2016, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece). 

www.despinazacharopoulou.com

http://www.mai-hudson.org/durational-performances/2016/3/1/despina-zacharopoulou

Guildor - Born in Milan in 1983, I currently live and work in London, where I am also undertaking a postgraduate course in Performance at Royal College of Art. My work draws attention to the unfamiliar within the ordinary and constantly oscillates between opposite poles with the impossible task of their reconciliation. My practice revolves around the creation of stylised and 'almost unnoticed' impulses that aim at generating an intersubjective exchange with the recipient resonating with their unconscious.

Recent exhibitions: 2016 - I am NOT tino sehgal @ Nahmad Projects, London, Uk Curated by Francesco Bonami, 2016 - Performance festival @ Light Eye Mind, London, Uk Curated by Light Eye Mind, 2016 - Revolve festival @ Uppsala, Sweden

I don't like illeism in biographies I write for myself.

 www.guildor.com

Alice Jacobs (London, 1992) works within a performative practice, seeking liberation from cadged femininity and the restraints faced by female nudity. Her use of carefully constructed sculptural objects allows the boundaries between the viewer and space to transgress. Notable exhibitions include Remember When, Where and Then, Light Eye Mind Performance Festival. Being Doing, Asylum and Maverick Projects, London. Revolve, Performance Arts Festival Uppsala, Sweden. Domestic Violins, Royal College of Art Courtyard Galleries and The Artists Surround Sound Project, SoundScape Park, Art Basel, Miami Beach. Jacobs is currently undertaking a postgraduate Fine Art course in Performance at the Royal College of Art. 

www.a-vaj.co.uk

Luli Perez (Madrid, 1983) is an artist interested in the relationships between cognition, space and making, and as a result, artists' processes and drive. She makes live experiments in which she explores thinking-through-making and taking perspective. She graduated with a Fine Art MA (Performance) from the Royal College of Art in July. Recent shows include: It’s not the digging it’s the dirt (curated by Dirt), Art Licks Weekend, London, UK 2016; Show 2016, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2016; Follow, Lychee One Gallery, London, UK 2016; Performance Art Meeting Poznan-London 2nd Edition, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland 2015; Les Pieds Poudrés, Hors les Murs Yia Art Fair at Le Carreau du Temple (curated by Rosanna Puyol), Paris 2015; In The Moment of Doing, Testbed 1, London 2015. 

http://luliperez.com

Luca Bosani (Rho, 1990) is a visual artist that through his performative practice explores communication, pornography, coded behaviours and feelings. Creating unconventional situations he tries to shed the light on post contemporary excess and insatiable desire. Shows: Lime In Aid – Limehouse Town Hall, London 2016; Live import / Live export -The high park street reservouir, Liverpool 2016; Revolve Festival, Uppsala (Sweden) 2016; Progetto OutLab - Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano 2015; The difference between standing, sitting and laying - Iridescent in Void, Milano 2015. Currently undertaking a MA in Performance (Contemporary Art Practice) at the Royal College of Art, London. 

2014 Higher National Certificate in Fine Art, Kensington and Chelsea College, London; 2012 BA Interior Design, Politecnico di Milano, Milan.

www.luca-bosani.tumblr.com