Irene Mansoldo is a multidisciplinary designer and artist interested in language and the practice of publishing in its expanded form. Working within visual and sonic practices, she is interested in exploring ‘ways of listening’ through experimental approaches to text and sound-making. Creating work that is physically tangible, audible or visible – consciously forming a contemplative experience. Themes underlying the work concern intimate sensitivities between ephemerality and temporality, spaces, actions and environments; employing processes of translation, intuitive association, observation; making, listening (to), learning (through), emotional expression and curiosity through process based exploration.

Emily Johnston is a multimedia artist. The visual art practice is process driven and material focused. The means of praxis is through a careful arrangement of object based assemblages. The work employs acquired materials, including domestic and industrial ephemera, analogue and low resolution imagery and borrowed words. The generative processes of gathering, combining, disassembling and rebuilding; repeatedly create new thinking that propels the unlearned form of making forward. The presented works act as models for new ways of thinking about one’s surroundings. The work focuses on models, empty space, poems, thinking through making, mapping, site responsivity, objects acting as vessels for memories and autofictious world making; with a focus on the speculative power of fiction.

Elysia Tuohy  is a multidisciplinary artist and collaborative practitioner. Her practice consists of material experimentations that often take shape as objects, digital and moving imagery and more recently sound. She has also worked collaboratively with others to create moments of togetherness through projects in spatial design and art engagement facilitation. In everything she makes there is a continuous consideration of materiality and perception; challenging the material qualities of what we physically see, to explore the often invisible structures in which these objects exist. There is a steady process of collection and cataloguing of materials, imagery and sound that runs in tandem to her practice, the maintenance of this archive allows her to apply her research in an experimentation driven approach to production. Previously explorations into the body, food and digital and physical space have all arisen from these modes of experimentation.

Mariana is a vocalist/songwriter, recently relocated from Prague to Berlin. With her solo project ‘maryland’, she produces and performs within the framework of classical songwriting with an emphasis on the voice and experimenting with vocal harmonies. Being a member of a Prague-based women’s folklore choir, she has experienced the collective power of the human voice, as she finds that group singing creates a unique space for spiritual/emotional alignment, as well as the opportunity for dialogue, mutual understanding and self-expression. Changing locations once again sparked an interest in creating this sort of artistic environment to be able to experiment and collaborate with other artists and explore and deepen new-found connections.