Liesel Zink is an award-winning choreographer of Ukrainian and German descent interested in collective bodies as a tool for social change. She has developed and presented work around Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe. Liesel’s practice explores the intersection of contemporary dance and community engagement seeing her create performances in public-space and use her creative process as a means for artistic, cultural, and intergenerational exchange. As an Independent choreographer Liesel is most well-known for the creation of large-scale public space performances, most significantly ‘The Stance’ which won the 2017 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance.

Lawrence English is an artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, agency and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches, including visceral live performance and site-specific installation that invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening, place and embodiment. Over the past decade, he has worked with sound as a medium for embodied experience sharing his interests in the transformative and sensorial transgressive possibilities of sound. In 2022, he was appointed the Annual Honouree by the Institute Of Modern Art.