Lois Weaver is an artist, activist, facilitator, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Lois is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Fellow for 2016-19. She was awarded the WOW Women in Creative Industries ‘Fighting the Good Fight’ award in 2018. In 2019 she was awarded an International Chair at Artec Paris 8 University at the National Institute for the History of Art, Paris, and the Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement Hawking Award for Developed Understanding of Public Engagement.
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Dominic Johnson is a world-renowned art historian whose research is generally artist-focused, and is always concerned with the cultural politics and historiography of experimental and/or marginal practices of art, including (but not limited to) contemporary performance.
He regularly publishes and presents research on live art in the UK and was guest-editor of a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on ‘Live Art in the UK’ (2012), which includes articles on major figures in the field, interviews, and artists’ pages; it was subsequently republished in an revised and expanded version as Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK (2013), with a new foreword by Carolee Schneemann.
He has also published four edited books on major individual artists: Franko B (2006), Manuel Vason (2007), Ron Athey (2013) and Adrian Howells (2016).’
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