Born in 1982 in the Novosibirsk region, Natasha Ergens currently lives in St. Petersburg, Russia where she is an arts manager and a curator. Since 2009 she has focused on the contemporary arts. Her recent curatorial project was the “Library of Book Graphics.” Among the many projects in which Ergens has been involved are “100 Beautiful Dead”, “Invisible Border: Seasons of St. Petersburg Arts in Moscow,” “Luda Express,” “New Archive,” and the Art Prospect Public Art Festival.
Artist and curator Lera Lerner practices socially engaged art. She focuses on interdisciplinary and hybrid projects connecting scientists, artists, museum workers, and people from the public places in the participatory art practices. She also researches the processes and ethics of spontaneous communication in an urban environment through performance and installation.
Lera graduated from the Pro Arte Program for contemporary artists and completed the MA program in Curatorial Studies at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University. She participated in the Manifesta 10 International Biennial, IV and V Moscow International Biennial of Young Art, 4th and 5th Art Prospect Festival, V International Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, VI Ural Industrial Biennial, the 14th Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum Festival, and the XIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale. Lera was nominated for the Innovation X prize and for the X and XI Sergey Kuryokhin Prize for contemporary art.
Tom Pearson is an award-winning American multimedia performance artist, poet, and choreographer whose projects are often site-specific, immersive, and interactive. He is best known for his movement-based theater works as the co-founder/co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects and the director of the Global Performance Studio. Tom’s work combines material culture and audience-centered narratives using theater, art, poetry, film, technology, and choreography to investigate identity and belonging, loss and reclamation, exile and refuge. His artistic inquiries frequently reckon with the complexities of queerness, environmentalism, indigeneity, and social and psychological patterns. His poetry has been described as both “vastly panoramic and deeply personal” (Kirkus Reviews), and his works for theater have been lauded for their ability to craft “dreamscape[s] where the judgments and classifications of the waking mind are inoperative” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times). Tom holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. Awards, commissions, fellowships, and more at tompearsonnyc.com.
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