Jo Bannon

Jo Bannon is an artist working in performance, choreography and film. Her practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us, and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed.  Her work is informed by her identity as a disabled woman with albinism and attempts to unpick the ways we look, hear and sense our immediate environment in order to rethink or make unfamiliar these intrinsic human behaviours. Bannon’s work is led by form and so manifests in various mediums including intimate encounters designed for single or small audiences, staged performance, dance, film and installation.

Marisa Carnesky

Dr Marisa Carnesky is a British performance artist and Showwoman. She uses spectacular entertainment forms, including stage illusions and rare performance skills to create new esoteric feminist shows, from reimagined fairground rides to cyclical body cabarets that combine visual, spoken and sensory material. She has created 15 major touring performance works since 1994 including Carnesky’s Ghost Train, a large scale art-house theme park ride, (2004-2014) and Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman (2016-19), a 7 strong cast exploring menstrual rituals through stage magic and live art action.