ParkinProgress (PiP) is a three-year, pan-European creative and cultural collaboration with five participating partners from cities across five European countries – Mons in Belgium, Pilsen in the Czech Republic, Saint-Cloud in France, Pannonhalma in Hungary and Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Submissions are open to artists from the age of 18-30 years.
Maya Brinner
Dancer & Choreographer,
Born in California, moved to Israel at the age of five and has since lived in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv.
David Bethell is a currently living in and working in Staffordshire Moorlands, UK. David has exhibited nationally and taken part in several international residences. His exhibitions include New Art Gallery Walsall, Harlech Biennale, Potteries Museum and art Gallery, and Lalin Museum and Art Gallery in Spain.
Hannah Silva is writer, performer and theatre maker based in Devon. She has a background in music (Purcell School of Music, Conservatorium van Amsterdam), an MFA in theatre practice from Exeter University (distinction) and a First Class degree in choreography and performance writing from Dartington College of Arts.
My career is a progression between three universes: theatre (as actress), landscape (training in ecology and landscape) and visual arts (since 2005). The leitmotiv of this career is the connection with the space: the stage area, the geographic space, the space where we live. I see a place as a body, written, in which I like detecting signs I will answer.
As a dance artist and researcher my existing practice has mainly been focused on understanding the creative process and our awareness of it. I am interested in questioning the idea of creativity and how it is understood. In the dance field, who is creative: the choreographer, the dancer, the audience? Why are these different roles attributed with varying degrees of creative input?
Belén's career could be described as a transdisciplinary one. Due to her training in Fine arts and professional career as an audiovisual creative, she has developed many different artistic projects, including pictorial, sculptural and photographic ones, along with multidisciplinary installations, audiovisual projects and sonorous art.
At 22, Deborah has taken her poetry from Camden to Shanghai working with organisations such as Chanel 4 (yeardot.co.uk), The Roundhouse and The British Council.
I am interested in exploring ways to challenge my existing concepts of performance practice and composition through both independent and collaborative work.
Ludwig develops a polymorphic work exploring our relationship to space-time, flux, cosmos and meteorology.
I am from Vilnius, capital of Lithuania.
I work as graphic design professional generally with print design and book design. Also I write, illustrate and design books for children.
I'm Irene, I'm Italian but London based. I come from a dance background, I consider myself first of all a dancer and choreographer. Together with laPeriferia, the company I'm member of, I have worked on site-specific and interaction, and on projects combining movement + live electronics.
A countries identity is forged through its landscape; it is the position of artists to establish these relations, ultimately creating a cohesive national identity. In the past landscape painters offered romanticised ideals, pastoral field and rugged highlands, today contemporary artists must explore the deeper complexities of societies’ affiliation with its land.
Coraline Grandin is theaterdirector, dramaturg and scenograph. From 2002 to 2005 she studied theory and practice of theater at the Université de Provence (France) and Universität Hildesheim (Germany). In 2005 she made her first German-French creation Comme si rien d’anormal ne devait survenir – Schöne Mädchen, blöde Lieder in Marseille.
I'm a Taiwanese artist currently living and working in The Hague,Netherlands. In 2006, I graduated in Classical Music Department, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan and continued studied in The Royal Art Academy, ArtScience interfaculty, Den Haag,Netherlands, graduated in 2010.
Claire Payement studied Art and obtained a Master degree in Interactive Scenography, a course led by Clarisse Bardiot and Samuel Bianchini from the University de Valenciennes in France.
Mafê Toledo is a London-based producer and dance artist. Originally from Brazil, she is particularly keen on facilitating cultural links through international exchange programmes. Collaboration is at the core of her practice as she is interested in challenging the boundaries between different cultures, disciplines and art forms.
Natalie develops work which confronts, challenges and ultimately subverts traditional, ‘institutional’ assumptions of the female body.
Pauline Lagache has played the cello since she was seven. After she had a graduate of the conservatory of music of Lille , she obtained a degree in musicology from the university of Lille and a master degree in acousmatic music from the university of Marne-la-Vallée (INA).
Marguerite Bobey is definitely a performer but does very different things (video, dance, concert, installation…) and like to mix them. Her purpose is to do poetry, poetry action.
My practice resides somewhere in the space between painting and sculpture. I studied in painting, but very quickly became interested in bending or even breaking the boundaries of that venerable art form.
Currently starting my third year studying Architecture at the University of Nottingham, I enjoy creating spaces and interventions that challenge the relationships between the influences and interactions of living creatures and their surroundings
Agnieszka Pokrywka (born 1984 in Poznan/Poland, lives and works in
Prague, Czech Republic)
Rachel Parry is a multidisciplinary artist, emerging curator and educator. She is currently a studio member of BACKLIT Artist Studios and Gallery, Nottingham and most recently she has been appointed as the Art Director for I’m Not From London events.
Inspired by movements like free culture, D.I.Y., noise and experimental music, experimental cinema, documentary and videoart, feminism, etc., my work in dance and videodance is focused on the body in all its dimensions: from the inner sensations and movements, to its projected image or the thoughts about it.
(French b1975) – His work is based on field recording, electroacoustic composition, radio pieces and site-specific installations or performances.
From 2008 onwards he began developing a personal approach towards bioacoustics and phonography. His interest in anthropology and biodiversity has increasingly led him to question how human activity impacts our environment.
Sam Cook is a southwest born artist now based in London, graduating from Chelsea College of Art in 2011. His work and research stems from a human understanding and experience of landscape and of environment. His sculpture and video works translate dialogues that exist in and between design, architecture, ecology and landscape. Recently he has been involved with art/science organisation Cape...
In my work I try to make a reflection about construction of the reality, writing of the history and possibilities of alternatives histories and realities. The meeting between different points of view, cultures or disciplines and the realities generated by this occupy an important place in my work. Collaboration and confrontation with people who have other practices are essential for me.
Anna Mawby is a Derbyshire based visual artist who creates contemplative pieces that explore the nuances of life.
I create public artworks and sculptural installations and urban interventions in a variety of materials for both interior and exterior spaces. My installations use materials ranging from wicker to stone, from bread to bronze, and to give viewers and participants a heightened sensation of the sites in which they are located. I aim to both draw the public in, and to expose problems in our everyday...
Helen Stead is a recent graduate from the University of Salford with a B.A Hons in Visual Arts. Her work is predominantly photography based but also experiments with digital projections, sound and motion sensor cameras.
She is currently based in the North West of England and since graduating has been working on a number of commissions to complete site specific work. She has exhibited her work...
Sam Spreckley is a British visual artist based in the North East of Scotland. The artist specializes in the moving image, creating works based upon various themes but more often than not concentrating on the relationships found between sound and image. Spreckley was educated in Dundee at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where he would receive an Honors degree in Time Based Art and a...
Currently, I am living and working in Velké Popovice, a small village close to the Capital City of the Czech Republic- Prague.
In my work I mostly focus on drawing, especially illustration and graphic design. I am going to study this artistic form in my master´s degree at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem.
Intervention to space, either by drawing or by any other way...
Magdaléna Gurská was born in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in 1989. At the age of six her family moved to the Czech Republic. She started to live and study in Prague and after some time graduated the Secondary Graphic School Prague. She continued her artistic path by completing the bachelor studies of Classical Animation at the University of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín. Currently, she is working on her...
Through questionning light as a media, my artistic work tries to identify the purpose of science today. Therefore, the new media, which are my main tools, reveal the fact that light itself is a media. I am using digital technologies differently in each of my creations, in order to adapt the media to the work, without limit of its kind. Thus his work jumps successively from installation to...
I graduated from the Video Department of Moholy - Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest in 2003. I make video-installations and performances. My work is strongly determined by my attitude to the medium I work with. Therefore space and live presence are equally very important. What differentiates video from all other media is the ability of creating real time image. This is the speciality of...
Born in Milan in 1977, Claudio is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brussels. He first trained as a jazz musician at the music school 'Scuola Civica Jazz' in Milan. Later he worked for the street theatre company T.A.E. in Bergamo. After these experiences he travelled and worked for many years as a street performer and decided then to train as a circus artist at the...
Holly Hopkins is a poet, living and working in London. Her work has been published in Poetry Review, The Rialto, The North, Magma and Agenda Broadsheet. She has also been anthologised in Birdbook (Sidekick Press), The Captain’s Tower (Seren Books), Herbarium (Capsule Press), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets For Oxfam (Cinnamon Press). Her work is forthcoming in Coin Opera II (Sidekick books, due...
