Team

Emerita Professor Suzie Hanna
Norwich University of the Arts

is a practitioner and researcher in the field of animation. Her experience includes making animations for use in theatrical performance and architectural projection as well as for tv broadcast, exhibition, commissions, and festival screenings. She collaborates with dancers, poets, academics, musicians, and sound designers and curates reels for public shows.

Dr Iuliana Gavril
Norwich University of the Arts

is an anthro-architectural historian, creative and senior lecturer in Architecture (Part 1 and Part 2). In her PhD, Iuliana has dealt with sacred spaces in Byzantium as ‘archi-texts’ for contemplation. She pursues interdisciplinary research interests that lie between architectural history and anthropology of making. As part of the Created and Contested Territories research group (2020-2023), she focused on contested architectural narratives and displacement. She has instigated and led the collaboration within Invertlight and its curation.

Dr Philip Archer
Norwich University of the Arts

is a musician and artist who explores ideas around nature and technology. Blending primitivism, folk traditions, and handmade electronics, he makes music and objects that respond playfully and poetically to our relationships with the natural world. Past projects have involved creating musical instruments out of skulls and antlers, making electromagnetic sonic fireflies, and pouring water onto live circuit-boards.

Dr Roter Su
Norwich University of the Arts

is Film lecturer in BA & MA, and an artist-filmmaker whose main practice involves finding and telling stories about humanity, regardless of whether they are factual, fictional, or experimental. Drawing on Deleuzian philosophy, and through Postcolonialism and Postmodernism methodologies, Roter’s work explores the rhizomatics of intangible connections and examines the “liminal space” to challenge the binarism and hierarchy.

Marian Saunders
Norwich University of the Arts

is PhD candidate and artist whose core interest concerns moving image as live performance. Informed by hand-made cinema, she has developed an analogue-digital hybrid approach to her practice. Made in the moment, her visuals express physical and emotional responses to sound, space, and audience.

Cat Jones
Norwich University of the Arts, alumna

is an audio-visual artist who studies biodata through bio-sonification and cymatics processes. During her MA study in Moving Image and Sound she began developing the methods based on audio-visual processes to collect and interpret mycological data. Her regular collaborations with Marian Saunders, host live audio-visual performances to further integrate bio-sonification and public interplay. She is now looking to continue her studies on a PhD.

Izac Tsai
KBITA and THE EMBASSY BÜRÓ

Is an artist, photographer, researcher, architectural designer, theorist and director of Architectural Design studio Atelier KBITA and THE EMBASSY BÜRÓ. For Invertlight, he collaborated with Shu-Yi Chou, choreographer and Dancer First Prize Winner of 2009 Global Dance Contest by Sadler’s Wells Theatre, and Shu-Ang Yeh, Lighting Designer and Stage Manager, Lighting Design at Taiwan National Theatre, The Coronet Theatre, and National Experimental Theatre).

FEATURED ARTISTS

Hannah Perowne

Hannah enjoys a diverse career as an orchestral leader, chamber musician and soloist throughout Europe. She performs regularly as guest leader with orchestras including the Britten Sinfonia, BBC Philharmonic, the Halle Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She has led and co-led orchestras in Germany and Europe such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Bergen Philharmonic and the Komische Oper Berlin. As a chamber musician, Hannah has performed worldwide as a guest artist with ensembles such as the Henschel Quartet and the Mozart Piano Quartet. She has been broadcast as a soloist and chamber musician by the BBC, Classic FM, SWR and NDR Radio, Germany and ABC Australia and has enjoyed performing in concert halls throughout the world such as the Philharmonie Berlin, the Musikverein, Vienna, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall, New York. Her concerto performances include those of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, Philip Glass, Bruch, Mozart and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Hannah's violin was made by David Rattray, London after Guadagnini, Milan 1753 ‘Straus’.

Shu-Yi Chou

Shu-Yi is a choreographer and a dancer. As a choreographer, he is known for his thematic interest in the relationship between individuals and society. As a dancer, he is known to possess a unique dance vocabulary. Presented in the form of theatre, site-specific performance or dance video, his creations in recent years often reflect how an individual or a group’s condition fluctuates in different social contexts, with consistent awareness and focus on the value of life. He was the recipient of the first prize of the Global Dance Contest held by Sadler’s Wells Theatre in the United Kingdom, and the bronze prize of the International Choreography Competition held by Cross Connection Ballet in Denmark. He is currently the Artist-In-Residence at Weiwuying National Centre of the Arts, the world's largest performing art theatre under one roof.