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Participants<br />

experience of a moment, an idea,<br />

or a place. He then manipulates<br />

these plastic environments: slowing<br />

down or speeding up flows to<br />

explore all the events that exist<br />

in-between. Recently, Warwick was<br />

an artist in residence at the Villa<br />

Aurora in Los Angeles where he<br />

staged a performance and released<br />

an accompanying soundtrack,<br />

‘Reengineering Villa Aurora’,<br />

which depicts the strangeness<br />

of LA, edged between the expanses<br />

of the Pacific Ocean and the Mojave<br />

Desert. Heatsick has performed<br />

at MoMa PS1, Unsound Festival,<br />

Mutek, V&A Museum, Berghain<br />

and Musee de Quai Branly, Paris.<br />

Eyal Weizman is an architect,<br />

professor of spatial and visual<br />

cultures and director of the Centre<br />

for Research Architecture at<br />

Goldsmiths, University of London.<br />

Since 2014 he has been a global<br />

professor at Princeton University.<br />

In 2010 he set up the research<br />

agency Forensic Architecture (FA).<br />

The work of FA is documented in<br />

the exhibition and book forensis<br />

(Sternberg, 2014). In 2007 he set<br />

up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro<br />

Petti, the architectural collective<br />

DAAR in Beit Sahour, Palestine.<br />

This work is documented in the<br />

book Architecture After Revolution<br />

(Sternberg, 2014). Weizman<br />

is on the editorial board of Third<br />

Text, Humanity, Cabinet and<br />

Political Concepts and he was on<br />

the advisory boards of the ICA in<br />

London and B’Tselem in Jerusalem,<br />

amongst others.<br />

Kim West is a critic based in<br />

Stockholm. He is a member of the<br />

editorial boards of OEI (oei.nu) and<br />

SiteMagazine (sitemagazine.net),<br />

and was formerly the Swedish editor<br />

of Kunstkritikk.com. He is currently<br />

writing a PhD thesis on progressive<br />

and techno-utopian exhibitions and<br />

institutional projects in the 1970s,<br />

at the department of Aesthetics at<br />

Södertörn University, Stockholm.<br />

Holly White is an artist living and<br />

working in London. She graduated<br />

from MA Material and Visual Culture,<br />

at the anthropology department,<br />

UCL, London, in 2014. She works<br />

in digital media, sculpture, text,<br />

performance and video and is one<br />

half of music project Goth Tech.<br />

Her recent exhibitions include<br />

I’m always lazy when I miss you,<br />

AND/OR, London; No One is Going<br />

to Go There Anymore, Evelyn Yard,<br />

London; Young London 2013, V22,<br />

London; Ocean Living, Arcadia<br />

Missa, London; Net Narrative,<br />

Carlos Ishikawa, London; and The<br />

New Deal, LimaZulu, London.<br />

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