ARTISTS BIOS

guest tutors / project leaders at the PIET ZWART INSTITUTE, WILLEM DE KOONING ACADEMY, ROTTERDAM

Emil Hrvatin is theatre director, editor and performance artist from Ljubljana. His works has been shown throught Europe and United States. He is the author of the book Jan Fabre - Le chaos de la discipline, la discipline du chaos (Paris, 1994) and has edited several other book titles. Among others, he created peformances Camillo Memo 1.0 (Milan, 1998), Q&A. Very Private, Very Public (Ljubljana, 2001), Miss Mobile (Gent, 2001) and as co-author Collect-if (Gent, 2003) and installation The Cabinet of Memories (Ljubljana, 1998). He has been nominated for the European theatre prize. He is the director of Maska, institute for publishing, production and education based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Peter Šenk has studied architecture at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and The Berlage Institute, Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After working in several architectural offices he has established Studio Stratum, research and design practice in the fields of architecture and urbanism, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

students / participants at the FWC - MOBILE CAPSULE STUDIO PROJECT

Eveline van den Berg graduated from the art academy in Den Bosch (the Netherlands) in the year 2005. I made an installation piece involving photography and sculptures. I was interested in archiving and structuring the past and memories of nostalgia. During my final year I was trying to find a new way of working with photography and using images and text together.

Jeremie Boyard, born in Lyon, France. Works in Rotterdam.http://www.impala-utopia.org

Ruth Buchanan, 25, born New Plymouth, 'the death of ferdinand de saussure'

Deirdre M. Donoghue is a Finnish-Irish artist based in Holland. She has performed, directed and exhibited her works in all of Scandinavia, Ireland, Poland, Belgium and Monaco. She is currently participating in The Piet Zwart Institute’s Ma program in the Fine Arts.

Lina Issa has studied graphic design in the American University of Beirut, LB. After that she became a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL, at the Fine Art department, where she developed her work and research in the context of performance art. www.janvaneyckacademy.nl
At the moment, Lina is finishing her Masters degree in Art, at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, NL.

Saman Kamyab (b. 1981) works with video, photography and installations. His approach to projects are mainly about individuals within social frames, by using material from human geography and antropology. His newer works show fragments of human activity, that does not have a eventful or spectacular content, but situations were relational structure is in focus.

Ruth Legg, 26, born Barton-on-sea, 'hounds of love'