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Published on Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:04
Dr. Dubravka Sekulić is an architect, theorist, and educator. She is interested in how power is inscribed in and by spatial relations across different scales, and how solidarity and anticolonial struggle are spatially informed when using non-alignment as one of the lenses for this inquiry. Dubravka holds a PhD from the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich (CH), with her thesis analysing the relationship between the Yugoslav construction industry and the Non-Aligned Movement. Before joining the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London (UK) as a Senior Tutor in 2020, she was an assistant professor at the IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz Technical University, Graz (AT). She is the author of several books, including Glotzt Nicht So Romantisch! On Extralegal Space in Belgrade (Jan van Eyck Academie, 2012). Recently she also collaborated with artist and filmmaker Ana Hušman on Don’t Trace, Draw! (2020), a film that explores the spatial legacy of the Yugoslav pedagogical reform. Dubravka was a founding member of the Parity Group at ETH and continues collaborating with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes on the Curriculum Revolution.
Dr. Henna-Riikka Halonen is a visual artist and researcher. She is a Senior Lecturer of contemporary Art at Turku University of Applied Sciences and a Post-Doc fellow at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Her recent projects and research are concerned with how relations and spaces are conditioned by technological, ecological, and political developments and are often initiated by a physical encounter with a specific context or a site. She develops systems within systems that seek to subvert perceptions and evoke forms of resistance using fiction and the site’s materiality as catalysts.
Dr. Jyoti Mistry is Professor in Film at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg and works in film both as a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. Mistry’s films are presented at film festivals as well as museum exhibitions. Recent film works include: Cause of death (2020), When I grow up I want to be a black man (2017). She has published extensively on topics pertaining to research, practice and pedagogy. Her research and practice include topics on archives, site specificities and the relationship between film aesthetics and its politics.
Dr. Nduka Mntambo is an image-maker working in the interstices of urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and pedagogy. He holds a PhD in Film and is currently the Head of Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Dr. Rūta Spelskytė works mainly with living organisms in the hope to find the balance between usage and appreciation, imagining intra-active relationships, scenarios of learning from non-humans, and future alchemy. She is a lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts and a post-doc fellow at the Institute of the Art Research in VAA on human magnetoreception and magnetite.
Prof. Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius, writer and curator of artistic research projects in various contexts, is the author of Mapping Artistic Research. Towards Diagrammatic Knowing (2018) and Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination (together with Lina Michelkevičė, 2019). He is the head of the Photography, Animation and Media Art Department and PhD in Art Programme at Vilnius Academy of Arts and co-organiser of Nida Doctoral School.
Dr. Hanna Husberg is third-cycle research coordinator at Stockholm University of the Arts, and has previously worked as assistant lecturer of the Collective Practices Postmaster course at Royal Art Institute, Stockholm, having formerly worked as lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts. Through a focus on air and atmosphere, her research looks at how humans sense, perceive, relate to, and imagine their immediate, and expanded, surrounding.
