(*1971) is born in Visp, lives in Basel and Riederalp.She speaks drawing, video, performance. She studies at the Ecole Cantole d'art du Valais. Since the beginning of her practice, she has been interested in interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists, curators, scientists, chefs and authors. After her art studies, she toured internationally with the project Artist on the road and the performance group GABI. At the exhibition space Kaskadenkondensator Basel she organises performative mediating projects, such as Galeriespiel, Galerie Helga Broll, At home a guest, Holiday and neither related nor related by marriage, on artistic practice and artists' images and conducts research in art space. Collaborating with Andrea Seamann and Chris Regn, she runs the independent art space Lodypop in Basel from 2004-2009, with the motto Performance without Pressure and Projects without Panic. She has been working as a lecturer in the master's programme in art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2015. She publishes the copy-writing KAP, the Neuland magazine or Monday 2 Monday, a communication project with Varsha Nair.

Helen Grace (b Gunditjmara Country) is an artist, writer and teacher, based in Sydney (Wangal Country) and (formerly) Hong Kong. She was the Founding Director of the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong and is now Associate, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney; in 2012-13 she was Visiting Professor in the Department of English, National Central University, Taiwan on a National Science Council Fellowship.
Helen is an award winning filmmaker and new media producer. Her photo media work is in the collections of Artbank, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and Art Gallery of South Australia as well as private collections nationally and internationally.
Her recent projects include Justice for Violet and Bruce, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2022, The Housing Question (with Narelle Jubelin), Penrith Regional Galleries, Home of the Lewers Bequest, 2019, Thought Log, SCA Galleries, Sydney (2016) and Map of Spirits, Gallery 4A, Sydney (2015). Her recent books include Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image (Routledge, 2014) and Technovisuality: Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of Technology. (Co editors, Amy Chan, Kit Sze and Wong Kin Yuen) IB Tauris, 2016)

https://www.helengraceprojects.com/
http://blog.womanifesto.com

Let’s talk about the weather

- the weather as a collective condition

For this issue of Ctrl+P Biennale, we made an open call to artists in the LASUEMO collective, inviting them to offer a video / moving images – a diary, a video sketch, a field recording, as a snap shot to talk about their weather.

Based on the principle of friendship we set up this project specifically to bring in our connections transgressing geographical borders to address weather as a collective condition.

LASUEMO is an informal meeting place on the LAst SUnday Every MOnth in the digital courtyard of the project blog set up following «Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings». Bridging distance to connect specially with many still in enforced isolation, the first gathering took place on Sunday 30 May 2021 and we have continued to meet ever since.

Every session starts by each participant, who come from different places from around the globe, telling about the weather in their location. It is an exchange of information about the overall reality of the day – of the place, the weather, the environment, the political horrors…. A core group of participants from previous Womanifesto projects are invited to each meeting and they are joined by new people with no previous direct connection, who become part of the ever-growing circle of different generations. Since 1997, the artist-organisers of Womanifesto have been instrumental in conceptualising projects that stretch beyond the traditional model of biennial exhibition-making to produce intergenerational and cross-disciplinary collaborations, workshops and networks.

LASUEMO is primarily intended as a decentralised space in the digital sphere to promote deep listening. It is about communication, making and maintaining connections, and bridging the gaps to find ways to do things together.

For Lets talk about the weather – the weather as a collective condition we present each person working from/about their location in their own frame, a take on how we appear in our zoom screen boxes.

Lena Eriksson and Varsha Nair

Videos by: Ann Noel (Berlin), Lena Eriksson (Basel), Anđela Rončević (Lucerne), Nitaya Ueareeworakul (Udonthani, Thailand), Ananya Patel (Baroda), Phaptawan Suwannakudt (Sydney), Rashmimala (Baroda, India), *durbahn (Lübeck), Karla Sachse (Berlin), Hannah Beilharz (Lucerne), Alana Hunt (Miriwoong country, Australia), Urna Sinha (Aldona, Goa), Varsha Nair and Maya Patel (Baroda and London), Sue Pedley (Sydney), Virginia Hilyard (Sydney), Lawan Jirasuradej (Bangkok), Helen Grace (Sydney).

Virginia Hilyard is a visual and media artist whose practice is grounded in an experimental aesthetic and an interest in the convergence of digital and analogue image-making – using technology and the hand-made mark. Producing film, video, sound and installation work since 1985, Virginia has contributed widely to moving image culture in Australia and overseas and has worked collaboratively with artists of other disciplines including composers, sculptors, poets, writers and performance artists.
Recent works include Remembering Yellow, a collaboration with my elderly mother who lives with dementia, for the Trans-southeast Asia Triennial, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, 2021; systems collapse, a sound performance on Remembrance Day for Lost Species at the artist-run-initiative Articulate project space, Leichhardt, NSW, 2019; Sonic Pressure, a drawing and sound installation exhibited at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in 2020, the result of a collaborative artist residency with Sue Pedley at the Bundanon Trust in 2016 and the centre is everwhere, 360 degree/VR video and sound collaboration with Fiona Kemp exhibited during ARC Artsweek, University of NSW, 2019. This work came out of an artist residency in October 2018 on Kotlin Island, hosted by National Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Other notable works include Lacuna (series) installed at Lake Macquarie and finalist in Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, 2017; Picture Start, using found 16mm footage and field recordings, Sydney, 2016; Static screened in London, Estonia and Poland, 2015; Ice Sound, developed from a field recording trip in Iceland, installed in Sydney, 2013; Room Tones screened in Melbourne and the Czech Republic 2012-13 and Memorial 77297 played in the British Library, London, 2012. Artist residencies include Hill End Artist Residency; Power Studio at Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris; Thailand and the Philippines on Asialink visual artist residencies and Gertrude Street in Melbourne.
www.virginiahilyard.com
http://blog.womanifesto.com

Alana Hunt makes art and writes, mostly from Miriwoong Country in the north-west of Australia. Her life here and her long-standing relationship with South Asia shapes her entanglement with the violence that results from the fragility of nations and the aspirations and failures of colonial dreams. Since 2010 she has been working on the evolving memorial Cups of nun chai, published in 2020 by Yaarbal Books (reprinted 2021). She is currently showing work in Growing Like a Tree: Sent a Letter at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts, and is working towards exhibitions with PhotoKTM, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2023.
https://www.alanahunt.net
https://www.cupsofnunchai.com

Sue Pedley is a visual artist living in Sydney, recognised for her multimedia installations, large scale drawings and collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring themes include the environmental degradation of water and its impact on communities and the natural world; colonisation, including addressing her family history as settlers in Tasmania.
Sue has worked in the Asian region for over twenty years – in Japan, China, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. She has participated in the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial (2006 & 2018) and Setouchi Triennial (2010), working closely with rural communities and volunteers.
Sue teaches drawing at Sydney College of the Arts and the School of Architecture, Building and Planning at Sydney University.
https://suepedley.com.au

Maya Patel is an architectural designer based in London. She studied Architecture at the Royal College of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where her work often considered the politics of technology and industry. She has most recently been assisting in the conservation of a 200-year-old timber and brick structure in Dharmaj, India. Working in collaboration with students from CEPT University, the project’s aim is to widen access to education in vernacular construction and conservation in the region.
https://ms.rca-architecture.com/2021/tearwear

Varsha Nair is based in Baroda, India, where she studied at Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University. Inviting multidisciplinary collaborations her work encompasses various approaches and genres, including Monday2Monday - the long-term and ongoing communication project with Lena Eriksson started in 2011. As co organizer of Womanifesto, Varsha has been instrumental in conceptualising projects that stretch beyond the traditional model of biennial exhibition-making to produce intergenerational and cross-disciplinary workshops and networks. She has exhibited extensively including at documenta 15, and has published her writings in n paradoxa, Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, and Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art of which she is Editorial Board member. Varsha is guest lecturer and mentor with the Masters of Arts Program at HSLU Lucerne, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
https://www.varshanair.studio
https://monday2monday.tumblr.com

http://blog.womanifesto.com

Nitaya Ueareeworakul was born in 1966 in Udonthani, Thailand, and studied Fine Arts at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Co organizer of Womanifesto since its inception, from 1996-2000 Nitaya also participated in International workshops, exhibitions and residency programs in Australia, France, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Austria, India, Vietnam & Kenya. Her paintings and mix media installations present personal experiences and focus on women’s emotional issues and social responsibility.
From 1994 to 2000 Nitaya founded and managed Studio Xang, a gallery and children’s art workshop space in Bangkok. She then moved to Si Saket and continued to conduct community art activities, such as with the Border Artists group, and to work on Womanifesto projects.
In March 2020, Nitaya moved back to settle in her hometown of Udonthani in N E Thailand after 45 years of being away. She now lives on a farm, land that belongs to her father, where she has started to establish Baan Womanifesto (Womanifesto House) as a center for women artists in Thailand, and set up an international exchange via workshops, residencies and education programs.
http://blog.womanifesto.com/launching-baan-womanifesto

Lawan Jirasuradej joined Womanifesto in 2001 with a video installation Hands in the Coop. Her experimental film la vida: the strength within won New Vision Golden Gate Awards and Mama wa Hunzi documentary received Audience and Merit Awards.

Ananya Patel is a designer with an interest in exploring the interdisciplinary perspectives that create social change. In this pursuit, she has worked as an illustrator, researcher, writer, programme designer and facilitator, and briefly as an archivist reframing colonial narratives between Britain and Vadodara, where she is based. Her projects often fall in the intersections between gender, cultural identity and ecology, and look at systemic issues through a creative lens.
She currently runs an independent creative practice and facilitates workshops on communication. She co-founded Vadaavaran Collective, a group that mobilises climate action and creates green jobs in Vadodara, and provides strategic and design support for the groups's initiative educating and employing women in climate justice work. She works with 10-in-10 and Complexity University on the Gigatonne Challenge as a Team Coach, as well as supports the core team in design and storytelling.
Since studying multidisciplinary design at Goldsmiths College, Ananya has presented work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, South London Gallery, Lakshmi Vilas Palace Vadodara, Dutch Design Week, and the first Trans-South East Asia Triennial in Guangzhou as part of Womanifesto Art Exchange.
https://goldsmithsdesignblog.com/2018/05/31/2018-ba-design-show-mod-reclayming-territory-by-ananya-patel/
www.heartfulnessmagazine.com/climate-action-initiatives http://blog.womanifesto.com/

Anđela Rončević, born 1994 in Zadar, Croatia, is an illustrator, printmaker and author. She is particularly interested in community arts. She studied in Italy at the United World College of the Adriatic and in USA at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, Major in Human Ecology. "I Will Swim, and My Daughter Will Swim Too" is her Masters thesis for MFA (Art in Public Spheres) at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Design & Art). She currently lives in Lucerne, CH.

https://www.andelaroncevic.net/
https://www.instagram.com/andela_crta/?hl=en

Hannah Beilharz is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher, and their practice involves large-scale installations incorporating video, sound, sculpture, print and textile, alongside written texts from critical essays to poetry. They are interested in how art as a transdisciplinary mode of working can intervene and have an impact in the world through the combination of visual strategies, critical perspectives, and storytelling. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Beilharz is currently undertaking an artistic research project on the transformative potential of ecological grief within the climate crisis through a Master of Art in Public Spheres in Lucerne, Switzerland.
https://www.instagram.com/hannahbeilharz

* durbahn, born 16.09.52 in Hamburg, lives and works in Hamburg and Lübeck (Germany) as an artist, archivist and curator with video productions, cross-genre media experiments, drawing and cultural-political actions and reference systems to expand artistic influence - all this against the background of Bildwechsel - the umbrella organisation for women+/media/culture in Hamburg.
Studies: 1974 - 1981 at the university of fine arts Hamburg - graduated as visual communicator.
early teaching activities in the field of analog video at the hfbk Hamburg / the German film and television academy, Berlin 7 at the university of Bremen /University of applied sciences Dortmund
Fields of activity: Co-founder of the medienladen Hamburg (1975 - 79)
Since 1979 continuous engagement with Bildwechsel, the umbrella organisation for women+ / media / culture www.bildwechsel.org
Founding member of the Hamburger filmförderung / since then in charge of the video archive since 2000 editor of the infotelegram "die LOTSIN" hersg. Bildwechsel.
Since 2006 responsible for the Bildwechsel video museum with its analogue video archive http://videomuseum.bildwechsel.org/
Since 2012 member of the academy of arts Hamburg media section.
Since 2014 member of the team for the development of a virtual archive for the audiovisual holdings of bildwechsel https://durbahn.net/videoschloss/
Video productions: Since 1975 - over 50 documentaries, narrative and media experiments parallel to everything *durbahn draws - since 1990 almost exclusively digitally in the computer with drawing tablet and drawing software.
Exhibitions: Since the early 80s solo and group exhibitions with experimental photography, video installations, video cabinets, video think tanks
Since the early 90s regular exhibitions of digital drawings
http://dd-tagesnotizen.blogspot.com/ and publication of drawings in social networks.
Curatorial formats: mostly in collective authorship with focus on the development of presentation formats such as videothek 1975 / videokabinett 1985/ hochformatfestival 2010 / schwarmsichtung 2013 videoschloss 2014 /

Ann Noël was born in Plymouth, England, in 1944 and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980. Her wide-ranging talents as painter, graphic designer, printmaker, photographer and performance artist bear witness to a rare combination of creative ingenuity, bold experimentation and up to date technical skills. In addition, she has had the good fortune to know and work with some of the more interesting artists of our time, such as the founding members of the FLUXUS group.
Ann Noël worked at the California Institute of the Arts, at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was a Visiting Artist at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally.
www.ann-noel.com

Phaptawan Suwannakudt, born 1959 in Thailand, lives and works in Sydney, Australia since 1996. Phaptawan trained as a mural painter with her late father, and led a team of painters that worked in Buddhist temples throughout Thailand during the 1980s-1990s. She has exhibited extensively in Australia, Thailand and internationally including the 18th Biennale of Sydney; Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand 2018; Asia TOPA, Art Centre Melbourne 2020; The National at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 2021; Jakarta Biennale 2021, Line Work: The River of the Basin, Penrith Regional Gallery 2021; most recently is the project Leave it and Break no Hearts, 100 Tonson Foundation, Bangkok 2022, her work Cast off memory was included as part of Womanifesto archive presented by Asia Art Archive at the documenta 15, Kassel 2022.
http://www.phaptawansuwannakudt.com 
http://blog.womanifesto.com

Karla Sachse lives and works in Berlin and Herzfelde, Germany. She holds a doctorate in art education and her artistic practice includes mail art and visual poetry, room installations, street actions and memorial signs in public spaces. She has realized countless national and international exhibitions as well as contributions to publications, some as curator. In 2022 she was present at Documenta 15 as part of Womanifesto.
https://karla-sachse.de/en/
http://blog.womanifesto.com/

Rashmimala (b. 1975) did her post-graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda.
Inspired by the genre of Botanical illustration, her work includes information borrowed from Natural History resources, Visual dictionaries, Medieval Herbals, Medicinal manuscripts, Colonial text on flora, and Textbooks of Structural Botany. Documenting local plants, the urban flora around her, she paints the minor plants and believes to rebuild a space that can reconnect us with the lost ecological values and forgotten indigenous knowledge.
Rashmimala has participated in several camps and workshops, including ‘Voices from the Courtyard’, Baroda, for Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings, which was exhibited at the Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial (2020) organized by the Art Museum of Guangzhou. She has done three solo shows so far, has participated in many group shows, and is working on her upcoming Solo Show. She regularly conducts workshops. Some of the latest ones are a Cyanotype Workshop for the artist’s collective Remembering Nasreen in Baroda, (2022), Documenting the Ephemeral for The Art Room, a collateral event for Kochi Muziris Biennale (2019), and paper-making workshop for Eco Artists Residency organized by Green The Blue Charitable Trust, Baroda (2019).
She lives and works in Baroda where, besides her art practice, she has worked on extensive archiving projects of artists such as Jyoti Bhatt and Nilima Sheikh.
https://rashmimala.tumblr.com
https://www.guildindia.com/SHOWS/Rashmimala/SoloprojectbyRashmimala.pdf

http://blog.womanifesto.com/

Urna Sinha was born 1996 in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Her practice revolves around three segments, collecting-looking & thinking. She completed her Masters degree from the Department of Printmaking, M.S. University of Baroda (2018-2020). Previously, she gained a
Bachelors degree from Department of Printmaking, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan (2014-18). During that period, she also completed a spring semester at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts TALM, Angers, France, as an exchange student (2017). In 2020,
she was selected by MHRD and China Scholarship Council for an International Masters program in Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China. She has exhibited in Delhi, Baroda, Goa, Kochi and China. Currently she lives and works from Goa, India.
https://www.goaopenarts.com/interview-urnasinha
https://instagram.com/flyingorgans?igshid=NzAzN2Q1NTE=
http://blog.womanifesto.com/