David Cross is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and writer. His practice extends across performance, installation, sculpture, public art and video. Known for his examination of risk, pleasure and participation, Cross often utilises inflatable structures to negotiate interpersonal exchange. He has performed in international live art festivals in Poland and Croatia and was selected as a representative at the 2011 and 2015 Prague Quadrennials. His work Hold was selected for inclusion in Liveworks at Performance Space, Sydney in 2010 and at Arts House for the Melbourne International Festival in October 2012. More recently he has examined the connection between sport, performance and community in public art projects for Scape 7 in Christchurch (2013), L’Entorse, France (2016) and Temporary Democracies: A Project for Campbelltown Arts Centre (2014). He is Professor of Visual Arts at Deakin University.

Alison Currie holds a Masters in Choreography and Performance (2015) and a Bachelor of Dance Performance (2003). The primary focus of Currie’s practice is the connection between inanimate forms and performers. Her works engage audiences, performers and objects or sculptural forms in various ways in theatres, galleries and site-specific live performance and video. Her first major work 42a premiered in Adelaide (2008) and toured to three states of Australia (2010). Recently Currie premiered three new works Creatures with The Human Arts Movement at the Samstag Museum of Art, Close Company at Goodman Arts Centre in Singapore and OzAsia Festival Adelaide, and Concrete Impermanence at Adelaide Festival Centre. Concrete Impermanence went on the be performed at The Substation (2018) and Dancehouse (2019) for Dance Massive.