Irma has recently embarked into new territory; the exciting overlapping area between arts and technology. She was the co-curator for Jakarta Biennale 2015: Neither Forward Nor Back. She is currently a Senior Programme Manager responsible for building relationships in the arts and creative industries for British Council Indonesia, a freelance lecturer at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts’ Department of Photography, and curator of the Water Connections project in Liverpool.
Jack studied French with International Relations (University of Warwick), movement (Lecoq, Paris) and Theatre Directing (MFA Birkbeck, London) and is currently working towards an MSc Water Security and International Development (UEA). Since 2008, he has been artistic director of curious directive, a Norwich-based devising company exploring life through the lens of science.
James Cousins was the inaugural winner of Matthew Bourne͛s New Adventures Choreography Award in 2012, and since then he and his company have gone from strength to strength, performing across the globe.
Jamil Massa, a writer/poet based in Gorontalo, is one of the selected poets to participate in the Poets Exchange Programme between the UK and Indonesia in 2019.
Jane is a writer for film and theatre, with an eclectic portfolio of working in the charity sector (Mencap, Mind), working as a freelance creative producer and collaborating with other artists and organisations.
Jane began to use technology as an alternative method of communication, her first piece In My Shoes: Waking in Slough It helped to break the boundaries between her and her family and friends, it became both a performance and an educational tool, it has taken her on many adventures.
Hopkinson is a Welsh ceramic artist with a keen exploration in ceramic bodies. Among his works, he is able to convey the medium into coarsely textured masses, resembling artifactual relics seemingly discovered in archaeological sites. He graduated recently in 2015 with an MA in ceramics from the Cardiff Metropolitan University. He has been his JCCB4 Residency program in Timbul Rahardjo – studio, Kasongan, Yogyakarta, October 2016.
Josette Chiang is a Chinese-British artist. Her work includes drawing, sound, text, performance, video, installation and sculpture. Referencing geology, mythology, Chinese cosmology and systems of measurement, her recent work is about the perception and nature of change within the built and natural environment. She creates narratives that communicate the interplay between culture, science and landscape. She explores ways that social interaction contributes to emotional experiences of place.