Mød kunstnerne // Meet the artists

Lydia Cottrell (UK)

Lydia is a dancer and choreographer based between Leeds and York who creates multi-disciplinary performance. She makes performance, curates, produces, writes and interrogates culture and technology through her work. Her practice is informed by a background in dance, live art and music.

This has led her to create work that provides a social commentary and contains elements from altered disciplines. Lydia’s main areas of research focus on the Performance of Self in online spaces and the magic healing potential of memes. Lydia specialised in contemporary, ballet and flamenco, performing for many people including: Gary Clarke, Ann Liv Young and Jamie Fletcher and being awarded the Hull Dance Prize, the FLINTsparks Prize, the IDEA Assembly and was shortlisted for the Vantage Art Prize. Lydia has received commissions from Skimstone Arts, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Playhouse and The Place to name a few.

Alongside her performance work Lydia is the director of SLAP (Supporting Live Art & Performance) a hub for artist development in the city York and further afield.

See more on Lydia Cottrells website here.

Humira Imtiaz (UK)

Humira is a Playwright, Director, Facilitator & Creative Technologist; they are the Assistant Producer at ARC Stockton, Co-Facilitator for My Life Productions working on Northern Stage’s 50th Anniversary film project, Schools Project Co-ordinator for One Tenth Human and member of the Women in Immersive Technologies Europe through their Metaverse Creation Lab 2022.

Humira produced NE Culture Social, a digital Open Space with Creatives in the North East and been the Creative Technologist for Feral Bird’s digital production of Rabbit Hole which was showcased at Living Record Festival 2022. Humira has recently worked with Complicite as a Digital Stage Manager, produced the digital commission What’s On Your Mind at ARC, and has worked with Young Vic’s Accessing New Technologies cohort; exploring accessibility with digital and virtual programmes including Virtual Reality.

Humira has directed for Workie Ticket Theatre Company, Playing Up and VAULT Festival as part of their first New Directors Programme in 2021.

See more on Humira Imtiazs website here.

Rozi Fuller (UK)

A love of photography, optical machines and early cinema enticed Rozi to begin working with film and animation during a Foundation course in Art & Design. This led to further study of time-based media on a BA Hons in Fine Art, followed by an MA in Film Production.

Since then, Rozi has built a freelance career applying animation to a variety of contexts: in commercial and broadcast animation in Toronto and UK, making kids tv, short films and screen-based content; in participatory projects with schools and community groups; for stage performances; and installation works.

Recent collaborations with sculptor Jim Bond and Naburn Court day centre for adults with learning disabilities, has resulted in two co-created expanded animation pieces, showcased during Light Night, Leeds in 2019 and 2021.

This shift to expanded animation has led to some work funded through Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice award, into extending my use of animation further. Rozi has been exploring projecting onto 3D forms, using AR, staging projections within a space, and using interactive technology to enable audiences to participate directly with the artwork.

Pernille Kofoed (DK)

Pernille Kofoed works primarily with interactive installation art, where the technology is used as material to create works that enter a dialogue with the surroundings, the contemporary and the audience.

She focus on creating context specific works that are poetic yet shrouded in melancholy. Experimenting with new materials and technology, testing and exploring them in new ways. These works are based on current societal challenges, abstract design and experiment with expressions.

See more on Pernille Kofoeds website here.