HannanJones
Artist
Hannan Jones is an artist of Algerian and Welsh descent, raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in Western Australia, and based between Glasgow and Marseille. Her practice, grounded in research and process, sits at the intersection of moving image, installation, and sound.
Hannan explores in depth the notions of hybridity, language, and rhythms linked to cultural and social migrations, as well as psychogeography. Sonically, her approach is based on improvisation, electronics, musique concrète, and analog recordings. By using sampling and layering sound materials to create other possibilities, she reactivates parallel histories and reimagines the connections between them.
A graduate of the Sculpture and Environmental Art department, she was an artist-in-residence at Open School East between 2020 and 2021.
Her previous presentations include: Triangle, Marseille; Artes Mundi and the National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon; CCA Annex; Café Oto, London; Edinburgh Art Festival; New Radicalisms, Rotterdam; Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London; REWIRE, The Hague; and La Chunky, Glasgow.
Winner of the 2023 Oram Award, Hannan is currently in residence at the Wysing Arts Centre.

SamirKennedy
Artist
SamirKennedy is a British/Algerian queer artist based in Marseille, working at the intersection of choreography, performance, sound, and video. He discovered performance during a choir concert in elementary school, when, according to him, a voice came out of his mouth that did not seem to belong to him. He then turned to musical theater before finding his calling in contemporary dance, which he studied at Laban (UK), graduating in 2013. He also graduated from the Exerce master's program at the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier in 2023.
Since then, he has developed an interdisciplinary and diverse practice, working internationally in multiple contexts and roles—as a performer, choreographer, director, sound designer, and dramaturg—in renowned theaters as well as experimental spaces, clubs, and galleries.
His work engages in critical reflection on the themes of class, race, otherness, queerness, and abjection. Placing the body at the center of his research, he uses it as a place to explore and subvert archetypal figures—such as the devil, the zombie, or the clown—to question collective consciousness and cultural symbolism. These figures serve as a framework for examining intersectional identities.
His approach combines aestheticized sociological markers with speculative narratives, destabilizing conventional representations and proposing alternative realities where queer existentialism and liminal identities can be explored and reinvented. His formal interests are multiple and adapt to each project, but are always understood as choreographic in their treatment of sound, visual, and temporal dimensions.