Meet the speaker-performer of #FormsOfActivism!
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Vivien Tauchmann is a designer and researcher, exploring sociopolitical relations through an embodied and kinaesthetic approach. By positioning the human body as communicative material, she seeks to expose the relational aspects of man-made infrastructures and subvert processes that seem to constitute social and cultural boundaries. She was trained as a fashion designer at the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg and graduated with a Master’s in social design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. Currently, she is living in Leipzig. Besides working on her own projects and collaborations, she is active as artistic lecturer and co-coordinator for public outreach at ENS e.V. and Clean Clothes Campaign Germany.



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Meet the moderator of #FormsOfActivism!
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Sarah Owens is an educator and researcher who focuses on the history, practice, and mediation of visual artifacts, as well as the social and anthropological aspects of design. She currently chairs the subject area and directs the graduate program in Visual Communication as well as research endeavours in this area at Zurich University of the Arts. She is a graduate of the University of Reading, the Royal College of Art in London, the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and in 2009, was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.



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Meet one of the speakers of #FormsOfActivism!
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Sepake Angiama is a curator and educator currently based in Europe. Her work focuses on the social framework and discursive practices. This has inspired her to collaborate with artists, architects, and designers who disrupt or provoke aspects of the social sphere through action, design, dance, and architecture. Angiama recently served as Head of Education for Documenta 14 where she initiated Under the Mango Tree: Sites of Learning In cooperation with ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), a project that gathers artist-led social spaces, libraries, and schools interested in unfolding discourses around decolonizing education practices. Previously, she was Head of Education for Manifesta 10 hosted by the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Angiama was recently a Fellow at BAK, Utrecht (basis voor actuele kunst), undertaking research on science fiction, modernist architecture, and intersectional feminism. Angiama holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London



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Meet two of the speakers of #FormsOfActivism!
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Squirrel Nation Studio creates memorable experiences and concepts that consider co-existence as an ethic. Our work spans installation and live events in a range of public settings, from an urban mushroom farm reimagining the future of food in climate emergency, to moving image; Nature's Switch, which was also exhibited in a forest clearing and explores human-plant relationships to red light. Leading through intersectional practices, Squirrel Nation is co-founded and directed by Caroline Ward and Erinma Ochu.
Caroline Ward is an artist, designer, and researcher whose practice spans moving image, performance, digital interaction, and installation. Her critical practice explores the public imagination as a contested site and care as an ethic, informed by architecture, human sciences and technology, and focused on posthuman perspectives. She has a Masters in Research at The Royal College of Art. She has worked as a designer and researcher at BBC, The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and currently, The Wellcome Trust. In 2019 Caroline was awarded a British Council research bursary and a Jerwood Fellowship at Manchester International Festival.
Trained as a neuroscientist, with a Ph.D. from The University of Manchester, Erinma Ochu worked in broadcast science TV before securing a Sci-Art fellowship to evolve her practice through scriptwriting, filmmaking and digital participation. As EAVE-trained producer and curator, she executive produced film slates for B3 Media and curates a public series of talks, films, and exhibits at Sheffield International Documentary Festival, inspired by the convergence of social, environmental and digital movements. In this regard, as a practice-based researcher and lecturer, she holds grants as Digital Society Fellow from Wellcome and in digital storytelling from UK Natural Environment Research Council.



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Meet one of the speakers of #FormsOfActivism!
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CLARA BALAGUER (Makati City, Pisces Metal Monkey) is a cultural worker. From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural and underserved communities in the Philippines through the Office of Culture and Design, a residency space and social practice platform. In 2015, she co-founded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz interested in horror vacui, thickening research on the post-(or de-) colonial vernacular, collectivizing authorship, and the value of the error. Currently, she coordinates the Social Practices course at Willem de Kooning Academy and teaches Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that intimate her service in a given project, the latest of which is To Be Determined.
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TO BE DETERMINED is an undocumented organization that has recently migrated to the Netherlands from the Philippines and other places, assuming a new name and identity. It is curious about models of collectivizing authorship (be it credited, anonymous, or divested), underground railroads (in plain sight) to institutional access, territory constructed between repose and transit (including languages spoken by any inhabitants), and the decolonization of cultural work through the lens of the contemporary (post-colonial) vernacular. It is currently molting or in the process of determining how it must operate within a foreign landscape. But what is clear, at this point in time, is that TBD is (still) comprised of sleeper cells and yet-to-be-determined networks that activate and deactivate in response to external factors: abundance to be distributed, urgencies to be addressed, or leisure to be. When prompted, TBD identifies as a social practice performance.



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