Ly Hoang Ly is a Vietnamese visual artist and poet whose work explores the cycle of life and death; inside and outside. Human introversion and extroversion conflicts, traditions versus modernity are also present in her installations and performance art works. Sound is a crucial factor in her works. Read more →

Dolores Wilber grapples with the cultural exhaustion that the broken promises of empty language and meaningless images create in our lives. Her work addresses questions of vulnerability, the ability to abide despite travails suffered, issues of crime and punishment, and a loss of place in the world. Read more →

Ana Mendes  is the recipient of this year’s Act-Arriaga Prize from the ACT Performing Arts Festival, in Bilbao, Spain, with her performance of ‘Self-Portrait’.  “For the originality, for the economy and simplicity of the staging, for the style and mode of delivery, for the dramatic writing, and the efficacy and clarity of the concept.” Read more →