Ilana Mitchell Ilana is creative director of Wunderbar, a festival of “contemporary performance, visual art and extraordinary happenings that puts audiences at the heart of the experience.” Involved from its earliest inception in 2007, Ilana led the research, development and delivery of the inaugural Wunderbar Festival in 2009, which completed its second edition in Newcastle 31st Oct - 6th November 2011. For Wunderbar, Ilana looks to work with artists who are interested in people, in audiences, and in creating dialogue, intrigue and action. She is interested in spontaneity and immediacy in a festival and works that have cultural and political urgency. www.wunderbarfestival.co.uk
AUDITEUR IN RESIDENCE Gillian Dyson Gillian Dyson makes live, video and installation art that address issues of site, body and memory. Her research is concerned with sense of place, and location of meaning in action or object. She is often commissioned to respond to the specifics of international performance festival, and frequently works in a site-specific condition; responding to the history and ambience of particular spaces and sites. Her international reputation includes commissions for ANTI Festival Finland, Visualeyez Canada and Vivid Birmingham. Her work is also informed by her professional engagement with members of the public in community contexts, with students, and in event management. She is based in Hull, is a Senior Lecturer in Performance with Leeds Met’ and member of the Board of Trustees for New Work Network. She undertook the role of Auditeur in Residence as part of her academic research as Senior Lecturer in Performance at Leeds Metropolitan University. www.gilliandyson.co.uk
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