Way Beyond Program Laura Hyunjhee Kim Dallas, TX, USA Video, Performance, Multimedia Art www "Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who creates post-disciplinary performances to reimagine human and nonhuman interaction through embodied ways of knowing." Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who creates post-disciplinary performances reimagining human and nonhuman interaction. Kim's work has been exhibited around the world, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art, KADIST, Pioneer Works, Theatre of Digital Art in Dubai, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Vector Festival, and Athens Digital Art Festival. She has received the ArtSlant Award in New Media (2013), Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award (2020), Black Cube Video Art Award (2020), China Academy of Art's Prix City Digital Skin Art Award (2023), and Texas A&M's Creative Process Award (2023). She is the author of "Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs" (The Accomplices) and coauthor of “Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife” (Open Humanities Press). Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas, living and working in the company of neighboring songbirds, squirrels, coyotes, and wild rabbits of Texas. Jacqueline Turner Vancouver, Canada Experimental poetry, Collage, Autoconceptual writing www I’m a writer and an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. My research investigates the role of generous curiosity and relational gratitude in creating conditions for collaboration. My work moves between philosophy, literary criticism, biography, and poetry. Both personal and experimental, my writing seeks transformative forms as it explores memories of growing up in a small town, parenting a set of adventurous sons, travelling, and reading. At times my poems act like micro essays, at other times they are miniature memoirs or precise manifestos, and as they explore the tensions of contemporary cities, a difficult beauty often emerges. My books include: Flourish, The Ends of the Earth, Seven into Even, Careful, and Into the Fold all with ECW Press.

June Regina Roze Queretaro, Mexico Writing, Mixed Media, Concrete Poetry www Mexican Philosopher and Multidisciplinary Artist: An Exploration of Language, Trauma, and Oulipian Tradition in Latin American Contexts. Hsuan Chao Kaohsiung, Taiwan Touch-Body Based Interdisciplinary Co-Creating www "Lifelong Unlearning within Body Poetry" Main interests these years surrounded SEX / IMPROVISATION / BODY HISTORY / FAMILY. Keep doubting and questioning how "Professional dance cultivation have transformed me into an "unnormal body. Play and breaking through the limitation of "What is DANCE? in the theatre and also to the public. Experiment Co-create phase with all disciplines artists and perform in mostly non typical space. Collaborated with Kuabo dance theatre and Bare Feet dance theatre in Taiwan, participate in "Forbidden Move! and "The Shed this two pieces as a performer. Discuss the Martial Law period in Taiwan, through the point of view in Sexual Liberation, we embodiment and empower by the popular banned songs back then. In "The Shed we see the distance between Tradition and People nowadays, which have a huge chasm that hard or never reachable today. Finding creative process. Simplicity and pure movement motivation in a way I do not know yet. Creating a Field have plane of equality. Farmdreamingtaiwan, an Arty farm in Taiwan Miaoli created by my Life partner Brian. Hope we can welcome you one day. Shi Jun Gui Shen Zhen, China Video, installation , photography www "Sometimes we forget we are nature itself" Gui Shijun holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University. She currently lives and works in Shenzhen. Her artistic practice spans the boundaries of art, ecology, and sensory experience. Through immersive art practices, she engages with nature, inviting the audience to re-examine ecosystems and living organisms through active participation. Her works emphasize "ecological perception" and "bodily interaction", where she engages in direct contact with forests, plants, and natural environments, fostering a dialogue with nature. In her works, the relationship between humans and nature is transformed into a deep, experiential exchange. Gui’s practice encompasses video, installation, performance, and experience design. Her works have been exhibited at major events such as the Hong Kong Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Design Biennale, and the Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Leslie Wagner New York City, USA Painting, Drawing, Writing www The progression of my artwork began as an interest in human impact on the environment as reflected in the impermanence of life, decay and death in my native New York City. Urban ecology and human communities interact in a paradoxical way. This led me to Zen meditation and mind-body associations, including dreams, memory, and energy practices. When painting and writing, I often consider how the organic physical world of the senses converges with the mental world of symbolism through language and emotional expression. Nature offers diverse sensory wisdom. When perceiving the elements, provided is an understanding of aging and the passage of time. I'm deeply curious about mysterious experiences and how this relates to the brain-body connection. Through interacting with people from many cultures, and in multiple fields, and by discussing consciousness and imagination, I hope to discern new paths forward creatively, that encourage and inspire progress and harmony.  Micat Po Manila, Philippines Intuitive art, Painting, Land art www "Micat transmits images intuitively to raise collective consciousness and support healing of all life on Earth." Micat is an intuitive Filipina artist specialising in watercolour. She uses automatic painting – the practice of creating freely without plan or conscious control – to transmit images from realms beyond. Her work is informed by wisdom and guidance from compassionate beings, primarily spirits of nature and ancestors, who she communicates with directly through shamanic trance. By acting as a bridge, she instills her work with the healing energy of beings that she works with; her creations serve as offerings to our wounded world. Micat is currently exploring ceremony as a transformative energetic experience that can shift our consciousness into greater awareness so that we may remember who we truly are at the highest level. Her greatest hope is for the collective to realise that love is infinite and that we are all one. Mercedes McDermott San Francisco, USA Painting, Printmaking www I grew up within walking distance of the Atlantic Ocean. I’m inspired by our connection to the natural world, and to each other. My love for wild places and adventure has led me to experiences as a deckhand on a pilot boat, a wilderness guide, a fine art and documentary photographer, and traveling for a year around the Pacific Rim. I began my artistic exploration through photography, and often use my photographs for painting reference in the studio. During a photography fellowship in 2007 on an island off the coast of Maine, I was inspired to begin painting as a way to convey the unique energy present in each place. In 2024, during an artist residency in Ireland, I continued to explore making inks from foraged materials for use in my painting and experimental printmaking. I’m moved by the beauty, magic and dream-like qualities that exist in everyday moments, and aim to express these feelings and observations through my work. When I’m not creating images, I’m writing songs, and making field recordings both above and below the waterline.

Samuel Kim Sydney, Australia Painting, Drawing, Design www "Creator." Sam, a Korean-Australian artist, born and raised in the vibrant western suburbs of Sydney, has spent the last two decades perfecting his craft. Collaborating with graffiti and street artists as well as multidisciplinary artists, he has cultivated a distinct and original style. His extensive portfolio spans festivals, corporate offices, government councils, and universities. Drawing from his mathematical background and passion for nature and philosophy, Sam creates mesmerising works that explore the themes of logical paradoxes, the Absurd, and the nature of reality through primarily illustrative compositions. With background experience as a youth worker, Sam also dedicates his time to passing on his expertise to the next generation. Sam's unwavering commitment to both his art and his community makes him an authentic advocate for the arts in Western Sydney and beyond. Shawn K. Thompson Montreal, Canada Writing, Embodiment, Media www I am a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal. My practice — desirepleasure — is an experiment in joy and the bet that desire knows the way. The work moves through writing and its embodiment, not as separate disciplines but as different ways of meeting what is already there. At Arteles I'll be working on To Dwell With, a research-creation project exploring the four elements as a shared language across cultures and centuries. Peoples without contact, separated by oceans and millennia, arrived at the same conclusions about how the world is made. Not because they talked to each other, but because they looked at the same things. This project follows that gesture, curiously, slowly, not to miss what remains of it in us. The method is simple: field recording, photography, looking, walking, writing, sitting still. A practice of attention the way gardeners, mystics and children have always understood it: as the work itself. Tom Gurn Yartapuulti/Port Adelaide, Australia Writing, Poorly-drawn Comics www "Where does play end and art begin? - Agnes Varda" I tend to write about people I meet, things I see, or general happenings both in my life and at large. I love theatre and film and have delved into those mediums from time-to-time, but that's mostly borne in my belief that stories are stories are stories. I know that we are all born storytellers to some degree. Personally, I can't remember to put the bins out or to reply to emails in a timely manner, but if something strange or funny happens I've somehow got every detail down pat for decades. I just try to cultivate that in my work, and have a bit of fun with it. See the list of all the Arteles residents here