Ishaq investigates themes of migration, embodiment, transformation, displacement, and memory. Ishaq reimagines the experience by weaving memories and imagined time, place, relationships and resurrection of lost time.
Through hybridity or hybrid forms, just as he navigates through his hybrid cultural experience and identity. Ishaq works with sculpture, sound, images, text, language, moving image and installations to communicate his ideas. NC artist Asuf Ishaq has been selected as the recipient of New Contemporaries residency opportunity. She is currently carrying out a project called β Le monde du silence β where she explores the capacity of the images to question and confront us with ourselves.
Through her practice she looks for opportunities where spending time with images and have time and space that allows her to identify the unexpected , from a phenomenological perspective, from a disposition to be attentive and available to what is being formed.
Maite is a visual artist which her practice and interest are linked to the development of modes of attention. In this time of deep ecological crisis it is crucial to consider the interconnectedness of the life of the land and the life we live in and with it. AJ has exhibited in various galleries across the UK. Dan Robinson is an artist, writer and educator from Leeds.
He has published short fiction and art-writing with Valley Press, Goldfish and Ikon. He has taught in art schools in the UK and France and is a consultant in art education and partnerships. Jo Hauge is a Glasgow based live artist working with performance, installation and moving image. They make slimy loud work about being a fan, taking a shameless and obsessive approach to their material and positioning the audience as fellow fans rather than outsiders needing to be won over.
