lo bil (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who generates felt research through risk-based performance-making. Actions integrate spontaneous utterance, impulse-based scores, object manipulation, unexpected humour and inter-relational proposals. lo won a Kathy Acker Award in 2019 and the FADO Live Art Award at Summerworks 2015. lo teaches at Sheridan College and has presented/performed at: Universities of Toronto, Concordia, and Northwestern, Luminato Festival Online, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Centre de Création O Vertigo, Out of Site-Chicago, School of Making Thinking-Montreal, Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro, Performance Philosophy-Amsterdam, Panoply Lab-NYC, Sick Theories Conference and Harbourfront Centre. Published writing “Performing Assemblage/Self as Guest” (www.linebridgebody.com) and upcoming “Performance Methods Towards Understanding Trauma” (asapjournal.com).

Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse artist. Her family is from Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiitt (displaced from Lenapehoking) and European settlers. In her art, she employs porcupine quills, Wampum belts, and menstrual blood to reveal the complexities of what defines a body physically and culturally. She seeks knowledge embedded in materials and techniques, and finds reprieve from the colonialism and ableism of the English language in embodiment and visual art. Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University and a Masters of Fine Arts in performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Nicola Fornoni (Brescia, Italy; b. 1990) is an Italian artist, who graduated in visual art from the Fine Art Academy in Brescia, Italy, focusing on body art. He began to create live performance actions in 2013, and his current artistic practice includes both live performances and video documentations.  Marked by scleroderma, he initially conceives many of his actions based on strength, health, joy of life, ideas against wrong patterns of seeing disability. For example: sex, force, movement and joy are often found in his works. His performances have an international following. He works by himself, and also collaborates with other artists such as VestAndPage. His performances have been presented in festivals and galleries in Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and USA.  His video performances have received exhibitions in Brazil, Columbia, France, India, Latvia, Mexico.

Carron Little (Chicago, USA) creates solo and ensemble interactive experiences that fuse poetry and performance. She is the founder & organizer of Out of Site (OoS), a public performance program dedicated to working in Chicago since 2011. During the pandemic this has expanded into a network and a platform to sharing public performance from around the world. More recently, Carron has presented her performances in Chicago, Detroit, Maryland, Michigan in the USA, Lucerne, Switzerland, Ireland, Riga, Latvia, Liverpool, U.K. Girona, Spain, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sofia, Bulgaria and was author of the 50 | 50 Initiative, a cultural policy initiative on equity for CAA and sits on a Public Arts Committee in Chicago since 2010. 

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Dimple B Shah (Bangalore, India) is a practicing multidisciplinary artist from Bangalore, studied in MS University, Baroda. She is practicing Live Performance art for the last 20 Plus years and has widely performed in International performance Festivals and Biennales in Zurich, Paris, Munich, Gothenburg, and Lagos, Colombo, and Dhaka, and many places in India. She has been honored with National & International awards among them International Residency Wakefield UK 2019, Villa Waldberta residency Munich 2017 Germany, IFA grant 2014, Afiriperforma residency, Lagos, Nigeria2013, First Gold Prix in 7th Engraving Biennale, Versailles, France 2009, National award Govt. 2008, Commonwealth award, UK 2005 and Junior Fellowship Govt.2000/2.