jury 2022
Robin deacon (UK), Chair of jury
Robin Deacon. Photo: Guido Mencari.
Robin Deacon is a British artist, writer, educator and curator.
His art work and research explores questions of memory and fiction, with an ongoing shift in his role from biographer and academic to storyteller and unreliable narrator.
He graduated from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 1996, going on to present his performances, lectures and videos at conferences and festivals in the UK and internationally in Europe, the USA and Asia.
He has received a variety of awards and fellowships from organizations such as Artsadmin, the Delfina Foundation, British Arts Council, Live Art Development Agency and Franklin Furnace Inc. He is also a MacDowell Fellow. His writings on the practice and ethics of performance reenactment and documentation (along with contributions to monographs on artists such as Baktruppen, Stuart Sherman and Joshua Sofaer) have been published by Routledge, NYU press and Intellect Live.
After a decade in the USA as a Professor and Chair of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Robin returned to the UK in 2021 to become the Artistic Director and CEO of SPILL Festival, an international biennial of art and culture based in Ipswich, Suffolk.
ANNA teuwen (DE)
Anna Teuwen, born in Aachen, Germany in 1983, has been working as a dramaturge/curator at Kampnagel – International Center for Finer Arts in Hamburg since 2010. She studied German language and literature and philosophy at the RWTH Aachen for one year and moved on to the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen in 2003, where she graduated in 2009. In 2006, she studied at the University of Bergen (Norway) at the Institute of Theater Studies and in the Department of Scandinavian Studies during a stay abroad. In 2009 and 2011 she worked for the Impulse theater festival. Since 2006, she has also occasionally written as a freelance cultural journalist and taken on teaching assignments.
Anna Teuwen. Photo: Maximilian Probst.
Gabi Ngcobo (ZA)
Gabi Ngcobo. Photo: Javett-UP.
Gabi Ngcobo is an artist, educator, curator and curatorial director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) 2021-present. Since the early 2000s Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. Recent curatorial projects include Handle with Care (2021) and All in a Day’s Eye: The Politics of Innocence in the Javett Family Collection (2019), both at the Javett Art Centre- University of Pretoria (Javett-UP), Mating Birds Vol.2 at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban (2019). In 2018 Ngcobo curatorially directed the 10th Berlin Biennale titled We don’t need another hero and was one of the co-curators of the 32nd Sao Paulo Bienal titled Incenteza Viva (2016). She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised (2016-) and the Center for Historical Reenactments (2010–14).
Ngcobo’s writings have been published in various publications including the reader Uneven Bodies, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand (2021), The Stronger We Become the catalogue of the South African Pavillion, Venice (2019), We Are Many: Art, the Political and Multiple Truths, Verbier Art Summit (2019) and Texte Zur Kunst September 2017.