We currently are a core team of curators, artists and scholars collaborating across disciplines within a European context.
Berit Fischer (PhD) is a curator, researcher, artist, writer, and an editor with focus on experiential and socio-ecological knowledge formation, critical spatial and transformative emancipatory practices. She is the founder and curator of the (Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures festival that critically engages with the human-centred ontology and the dualism between nature and culture at the Floating University, Berlin. 2016 she founded the Radical Empathy Lab, an on-going nomadic socio-ecological and research laboratory for experiential knowledge formation. Berit is a founding member of the Urbane Praxis e.V. and holds a practice-based Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art. She has been working and publishing internationally for over two decades. Previously based in New York and London, she now works from Berlin, Germany. http://www.beritfischer.org https://floating-berlin.org/programmes/re-gaining-ecological-futures/
Minou Tsambika Polleros (MA) is a dance artist and researcher, curator and producer based in both Vienna and the South West of England. Her works are outdoor choreographic interventions and site- specific research projects. She is a founding member of the Movement Network South Wes dedicated to dance and ecology practices, she is an external reviewer for the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and she acts as new regional director for the Institute of the Study of Somatic Communication in Europe. Minou was the convenor of the Sentient Performativities symposium and acted as former co-director of art.earth. Minou is dedicated to the study and development of eco-embodied knowledges, practices and its wide applications. www.minoutsambika.com
Insta: @minoutsambika photo: Alice Bell
Raffaele Rufo (PhD) is a somatic dance practitioner, a mediator and facilitator of artistic and cultural processes, and an independent scholar working with eco-embodied arts as a vehicle for individual and social transformation. His background is rooted in socially inclusive practices and cultural community development. Across twenty years of professional experience, Raffaele was involved as teacher, researcher, choreographer and performer in a wide range of participatory artistic and pedagogical projects in Europe and Australia. Raffaele currently collaborates with Teatro del Lido in Rome where he facilitates eco-oriented citizenship participation processes and where he has recently co-directed ‘La Selva’ International Ecological Arts and Eco-Somatic Residency, funded through Intercultural Roots “Human-Nature Connect” programme (UK). He is co-editor of the special issue of the Journal of Embodied Research on Ecologies of Embodiment. www.raffaelerufo.com Photo: Valentina Vitolo
Thomas Kampe (PhD) has worked as a performing artist, researcher and somatic educator across the globe for 40 years. He has participated in and directed intimate installations and large-scale participatory site responsive performances since the early 1980’s. Between 2012 and 2022 he worked as Professor of Somatic Performance & Education at Bath Spa University, UK, where he co-directed the Creative Corporealities Research Group. Thomas is a practitioner of The Feldenkrais Method® and guest-editor of the IFF research Journal Vol. 6 (2019): ‘Practices of Freedom: The Feldenkrais Method and Creativity’. He recently co-edited JDSP Vol. 13.1 &2 (2022): ‘Embodying Eco-Consciousness: Somatics, Aesthetic Practice and Social Action’. www.thomaskampe.com https://thomaskampe.wordpress.com/
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