Joanna Cook is a dance artist, researcher, and multimodal choreographer based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is a PhD candidate at Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland), where she explores multimodality as a (feminist) choreographic practice. Her recent works include co-directing Vector 360/Interact and the 3R Dance Project. Joanna has also developed pieces such as Fragments of Silent Skin, Expanding Flesh, and Spooling Womxn. She creates experiential, immersive works that engage with movement, artist books, soundscapes, printmaking, installation, photography, voice, poetics, video documentation, and live performance. Her work explores transdisciplinary materialities, pedagogies of care, and feminist practices of ‘undoing-ness’ through imagination, repair, and care.

Steve Lovett teaches at Elam Te Waka Tūhura, University of Auckland, specialising in printed media. Previously, he developed an interdisciplinary print research program at the Manukau Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the meanings and associations produced by printed matter, exploring the impact of information transmission. Steve’s pedagogical research examines literacy acquisition among art and design students, with a Master of Education thesis on the academic identities of Māori, Pasifika, and first-in-family students. His practice blends theoretical and practical knowledge, addressing power dynamics of locality, identity, and class. Steve’s work is featured in public and private collections globally.