Alison Crocetta maintains a hybrid art practice that draws on her experience working within the realms of sculpture, performance art and the moving image. Her projects are often interdisciplinary and collaborative. Crocetta’s work has been performed, exhibited, and screened in Brazil, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with recent solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Ohio. 

Crocetta’s honors and awards include an Individual Excellence Award in the category of Interdisciplinary/Performance Art from the Ohio Arts Council in 2015, a 2011–2012 Franklin Furnace Fund award for performance art, and a 2010–2011 EMPAC DanceMovies film commission. She was an artist-in-residence at the Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India; Nordic Artists' Center in Dale, Norway; the Agora Collective in Berlin, Germany; the Film/Video studio program at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City. Crocetta was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) grant in sculpture. 

Crocetta is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and recently served as the Director of the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise at The Ohio State University. Alison’s work as an artist is informed by her engagement with meditation and integrative therapies such yoga and Reiki. She has established Open Channel Reiki as a platform for her practice and related research. Before joining OSU, she held teaching positions at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and served as the Associate Chair of the Foundation Department of the Parsons School of Design at The New School. 

Website Links:

• https://alisoncrocetta.com/
• https://www.openchannelreiki.com/

Amabilis de Jesus holds a Ph.D. in Performing Arts from UFBA, a master's degree in Theater from UDESC, and a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from UFPR. Since 1996, she has been a professor in the Department of Performing Arts at UNESPAR–FAP, teaching courses in Costume Design, Scenography, and Performance Studies. Currently, she is also a professor in the Master's programs in Arts and Visual Arts at UNESPAR-FAP. Additionally, she works as a costume designer in collaboration with various theater groups, puppet theater, dance, and music.

Cinthia Kunifas
Dance artist - researcher, educator, and performer. Master's degree in Performing Arts from UFBA and Specialist in Body Awareness-Dance from FAP/UNESPAR. Certified therapist in the Somatic Experiencing® approach, her work lies in the dialogue between dance, somatic education, and somatic therapy. She is one of the organizers of Conexão Sul - a meeting of contemporary artists. For 20 years, in partnership with Mônica Infante, she has developed creation processes in dance/performance: Corpo Desconhecido [Unknown Body], awarded by the Rumos Dança Itaú Cultural 2003, and Projeto Fenda.

Danilo Ventania Silveira - Born in Araçoiaba da Serra/SP. Scene artist, dance researcher, yoga teacher, art educator, trail runner, cyclist, mountaineer, and waterfall hunter. Ph.D. and Master in Performing Arts from USP. Bachelor of Dance from UNESPAR and Bachelor of Theater Education from UNISO. He is a faculty member of the Dance Education program at UNESPAR.

Site: www.elianabrasilperformer.com.br

Fabricia Jordão
Curator and professor in the Department of Arts at the Federal University of Paraná and in the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the State University of Paraná. Ph.D. and Master in Arts from ECA/USP. In 2019, she received the award for the best thesis from CAPES (Arts). Since 2019, she has been coordinating the Radical Imaginary Laboratory, where she dedicates herself to thinking about images, politics, and the political, of art in the context of the hegemony of the capitalist imaginary.

Fernando Ribeiro is Performance artist and curator. He began studying performance art in 1999 and has since established himself as one of the main exponents of this art form in southern Brazil. He holds a master's degree in Arts from PPGARTES/UNESPAR/FAP (2023), a specialist degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from UFPR (2010) and a bachelor's degree in visual arts from UTP (2002). He has presented his work at venues such as Grace Exhibition Space (New York, 2012), Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery (Chicago, 2012) and Mobius (Boston, 2012). Among the events he has participated in are MIP - Manifestação Internacional de Performance (Belo Horizonte, 2003); O Corpo na Cidade (Curitiba, 2010); Miami Performance International Festival (Miami, 2013); Performance no Memorial (Belo Horizonte, 2014), TERRA COMUNAL - Marina Abramovic + MAI (São Paulo, 2015), Poéticas do Corpo (Campinas, 2016); Corpus Urbis (Amapá, 2017) and Cada Vez Mais Perto (Curitiba, 2018). He has been the curator of the p.ARTE platform since 2012. He has also curated the Curitiba International Biennial (2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019), the third edition of CCBB música.performance (São Paulo, 2015), MIP3 and MIP4 (Belo Horizonte, 2016 and 2021 respectively). Fernando lives and works in Curitiba.

website: www.fernandoribeiro.art.br

Isis Barra Costa is a Brazilian-born scholar, instructor, poet, and elder in the Orisha tradition of Cuba. She earned her BA in English Literature with an Education major from Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo, Brazil, before receiving a scholarship for graduate studies at New York University. In her twenties, she moved to the U.S., where she obtained an MA in English Literature and a PhD in Comparative Literature. Under the mentorship of Caribbean and African professors, she developed into a transdisciplinary scholar with a focus on African Brazilian literature and philosophy. Since 2017, she has served as a professor in Contemporary Brazilian Cultural and Literary Studies at Ohio State University, having previously taught at Arizona State, Rutgers, and New York universities. She has co-authored anthologies in Argentina (on comparative studies of Brazilian and Argentinean cultures), Portugal (on media ecology, image studies, and digital knowledge-making), and the U.S. (on the African diaspora). Her forthcoming book, Imagining the Past Remembering the Future: Philosophies, Cosmologies, and Religious Traditions of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora, is under contract with Columbia University Press.

Luana Navarro (Maringá/PR, 1985) develops projects with photography, video, performance, readings, and texts. In 2016, she organized and released the publications "Corpo sem sinônimo" and "Biblioteca para corpos em expansão." In 2018, she published "Estalactites na garganta" by the publisher Urutau. Her recent artistic production stems from specific political contexts and proposes a play based on the image of the artist and the possibilities of displacing discourses and presences. In 2022, she was one of the selected artists in the XI Victor Meirelles Salon, held at MASC, in Florianópolis. She was a member of the Advisory Council of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná from 2019 to 2023 and was the manager of ALFAIATARIA, an art space in Curitiba from 2017 to 2023. She has a special interest in words, reading aloud, and the image of the body as a creation device. She sees her work enhanced in the relationship between art and context. She holds a master's degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Santa Catarina and teaches at PUCPR.

Marco Paulo Rolla, born in São Domingos do Prata, Minas Gerais, in 1967. He lives and works in Belo Horizonte.

He earned a Master's degree in Arts from the School of Fine Arts at UFMG in 2006 and completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1998 and 1999. He is the creator, coordinator, and editor of CEIA - Centro de Experimentação e Informação de Arte in Belo Horizonte. He has held solo exhibitions in Brazil, Germany, Argentina, and the Netherlands. He has participated in group exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, Rohrbach Zement in Dotternhausen, Germany, Muu Gallery in Helsinki, Finland, and Foundazione Pistoletto in Italy. He participated in the Performance program of the 29th São Paulo Biennial in 2010. He is the recipient of the Acquisition Award from the National Salon of FUNARTE in Rio de Janeiro and the Edgard Gunther Painting Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo. His works are included in collections such as those of the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, ITAU Cultural Institute in São Paulo, Museum of Art of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, Inhotim Cultural Center in Brumadinho, and FUNARTE in Rio de Janeiro. As a performer, he has stood out by participating in festivals in Brazil and abroad. He is the founder and coordinator of CEIA – Centro de Experimentação e Informação de Arte, where he served, among other events, as curator of the MIP – Manifestação Internacional de Performance [International Performance Manifestation], in 2003 and 2009.

Miro Spinelli is an artist, researcher, and resides between Brazil and New York. He is a doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at NYU, the same department where he completed his second master's degree. He also holds a master's degree in Philosophy from NYU and in Performing Arts from UFRJ. He works at the intersections of performance, writing, visual arts, and theory. His artistic and intellectual practice is engaged in anti-colonial strategies developed through a radical kinship with things, materials, and the invisibles produced in the relationships with and between them. His writings are published in the book "Janelas Abertas: conversas sobre arte política e vida" (ed. Cobogó, 2023), "Textes à lire à voix haute" (ed. Brook, 2022), and in the journals TDR - The Drama Review (Cambridge Press, 2021) and Poiésis (UFF, 2022), among others. Since 2014, he has been developing the performance series "gordura trans," a continued and serialized artistic project with a central focus on performance and developments in various media. In 2018, he initiated the installation series "tudo que você toca você muda tudo que você muda muda você." Among his other performance works are "Inventário" (2012), "Chupim Papers" (2017), "Reinventário" (2019), and "nossas vidas impossíveis de manifestam umas nas outras" (2019), as well as the experimental videos "poesia como método de pensamento prático experimental" (2022) and "mas então eu decidi nadar" (2021)

Ricardo Nolasco is a director, performer, actor, buffoon, and professor of performing arts. He holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts from UNIRIO and a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from UNESPAR/FAP. He is a co-founder of Selvática Ações Artísticas and ULC (Universidade Livre Cabaretera). He is a national reference in the study of cabaret and variety theater. He advocates for artistic exercise as a space to invent new worlds, an adventure that has taken him to different countries in Latin America and Europe. His current research is situated at the intersection of cabaret and the city, which unfolds in the research project "Cidade Cabaré" (Funarte Theater Revival Award 2023) and in the solo research "Alomorfia - neobaroque mutations in process," where the artist puts his body at stake through routes guided by an original deck of cards created in partnership with the artist Thalita Sejanes. Art and life on the verge of liquefaction

Vitória Gabarda is a transdisciplinary artist who articulates her practices at the intersection of visual languages and the body. Her research intersects issues related to gender disobedience, race, and affirmative policies from an anti-colonial perspective.