CASA: Lines of Flight

Aileen Gavonel (Lima, Peru) is a visual artist whose practice explores the poetic and ritual dimensions of clay as a medium for listening, care, and resistance. Working across ceramics, installation and visual poetry, she investigates the relationships between material, territory and memory, imagining more sensitive and situated forms of coexistence. She holds a BA in Art from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art, London.

Lucia Pizzani, born in Caracas and based in London, Lucia Pizzani works across sculpture, ceramics, drawing and performance. Her practice explores the relationship between the body, materiality and the natural world, with a particular focus on histories of women and processes of metamorphosis. Her work is held in the collections of Tate, the UK Government Art Collection, Magasin III, ESCALA, and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, among others.

María Helena Toscano (b. 1987, Colombia) is a Venezuelan-Colombian multidisciplinary artist based between London and Berlin. Her practice spans sound, sculpture, installation, performance, and mixed media, investigating ritual technologies, extractivism, migration, and ecological memory through decolonial methodologies.She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, London, and trained in modular synthesis for live performance at the Berlin School of Sound. Recent exhibitions include Peluche Express (Somers Gallery, London), Collectivism x Cellulite (The Bomb Factory, London).

Mena Guerrero (b.1996) is a Guatemalan transdisciplinary artist. Her practice aims at developing transdisciplinary projects based on investigation and experimentation related to her personal account and environment and relationships. She was a resident at Fondation Fiminco artist in residence program in 2024. In 2022, she earned Beca Flotador for emerging artists from Teorética, Costa Rica and the first prize for the Galería Abierta by El Centro Cultural Municipal in Guatemala City. As of September of 2026, she will begin her Master’s degree program at The Royal College of Art in London.

Sebastián Espejo (b. 1990, Viña del Mar, Chile) currently lives and works in London. Espejo’s work centres on the practice of painting as a way of exploring and interpreting life, perception and knowledge. The transience and beauty of everyday life shape the narrative of his works, which follow everyday environments while intentionally lacking any single event. This translation of environmental experience into painting connects his work to the Chilean pictorial tradition of ‘descriptive realism,’ defined by its direct sensory capture and the act of describing as an openness to transient moments. 

Maren Ellermann is Arts, Displacement & Mental Health Producer at Counterpoints Arts and Creative Director of Rain Crew. A dance artist turned producer, she develops participatory arts projects that bring together artists, communities and mental health practitioners. Her work explores the role of collaborative artistic practice in strengthening wellbeing, fostering belonging, and addressing systemic inequalities through collective creative processes.

Miguel Altunaga is a Cuban-British choreographer, Movement Director, and dancer whose dynamic career spans leading international companies, including Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Rambert, Hofesh Shechter Company, Akram Khan Company, and Lost Dog. He has performed in acclaimed works by some of the world’s most renowned choreographers, earning recognition for his powerful presence and versatility on stage. Miguel has created work for a wide range of organisations, including: Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Rambert, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Royal Ballet and Opera, Birmingham Royal Ballet, among others.

Raul Reinoso is founding member of Acosta Danza and a former First Soloist of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Reinoso has performed and choreographed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including the Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, Royal Albert Hall, New York City Center, Kennedy Center, and Théâtre National de Chaillot. His choreographic portfolio includes notable works such as Satori (recipient of the UNEAC National Choreography Award and the Villanueva Award), Liberto, Nosotros, UBUNTU, and Apparatus. 

Asafe Ghalib (b. 1990, Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artist working primarily in photography in collaboration with LGBTQIA+ communities. Self-taught, Asafe explores his identity and relationship to the environments he inhabits, using photography as a means of survival and to tell neglected stories. Raised in a religious family, his work embraces rebellion to reclaim identity and history, challenging dominant ideas about masculinity, gender, sexuality, and representation of LGBTQIA+ people. 

Dre Spisto is a queer, autistic Venezuelan artist working across live performance, film and multimedia storytelling. Their practice embraces unpredictability, softness and embodied disruption to dismantle normative performance structures. Their neuroqueer approaches value sensory immersion and fragmentary, affective dramaturgies over linear narratives. Works include 50 Ways to Kill a Slug, El Dizzy Beast (Filipa Bragança Award nominee), Butch Princesa (Best Cabaret & Best Artist nominee), Miss Venezuela, and Taylor and Vincent.

Joana Nastari is a queer, Brazilian-British writer, performer and dramaturg. Her multi-award-winning show Fuck You Pay Me saw sell-out runs across London and the UK. She was the writer in residence for Offie-award-winning smash hit My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar.

Studio Lenca: Studio Lenca is the working name of artist Jose Campos – ‘Studio’ referring to a space for experimentation and constantly shifting place; ‘Lenca’ referring to the name of the artist’s ancestors from El Salvador.

Studio Lenca (Jose Campos) was born in La Paz, El Salvador and like many had to flee the country during its violent civil war during the late 1980s. He travelled to the US by land, illegally with his mother and grew up in the gaze of a strictly conservative administration – an ‘illegal alien’. Studio Lenca is focused on ideas surrounding difference, knowledge and visibility. He works with performance, video, painting and sculpture.

Audrey Markel is a London-based contemporary art writer and researcher who works between the intersection of craft practices, ecologies, and the Global South. Since graduating from the Courtauld Institute in 2025, she has developed a practice that follows art as it travels across geographies and disciplines, centering on how decolonial thought and contemporary art can reshape our understanding of landscape and visibility. Currently working as a contributor to Not The Owners and FEMINIST, her research strives to foster spaces for thinkers and makers whose work operates outside of traditional structures.

Ivicore is an explosive DJ and MC hailing from Venezuela. Her style of DJing weaves together Afro-Caribbean and Latin American dancefloor heaters, across salsa, reggaeton, dancehall, moombahton, baile funk, afrobeats, and more. Skillfully mashing up songs, Ivicore likes to take dancers on journeys of joy with her sets. She’s reliably energetic, always playing with dancers in mind.