LUX is pleased to announce the selection of the eight LUX associate artists for its 2010/11 programme. The artists are Fawzia Afifi, Ed Atkins, David Ferrando Giraut, Conal McStravick, Lucy Pawlek, Naheed Raza, Patrick Staff and Corin Sworn.

Now in its forth year the LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP) is a unique 12 month post-academic programme for artists working with the moving image. It aims to provide an intensive course of development focused on critical discourse, extending to the practical and infrastructural issues that present challenges for artists working with the medium through seminars, mentorship and a final funded public project.

The programme is lead by Ian White, writer, artist and adjunct film curator of Whitechapel and generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

LUX Associate Artists 2010/11 Biographies

Fawzia Afifi
Fawzia Afifi (b. 1983, Beirut, Lebanon) works between the realms of visual anthropology,art and art therapy. Her personal work focuses mainly on female sexuality and trauma. Being a diasporic Lebanese-German,she uses the rawness of her body as a performer. Her work is strongly influenced by the theatre of Artonin Artaud whereby blood becomes an important symbol for “the politicized personal”. She lives and works in London and holds a MA Art Psychotherapy and MA Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Ed Atkins
Ed Atkins (b. 1982, UK) works predominantly in HD video, drawing and writing to explore notions of materiality and corporeality. His recent project 'Death Mask' utilises the various conventions, technologies and histories of cinema to describe the experiences and experience of cadavers. He lives and works in London and holds a MA Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, University of London.

David Ferrando Giraut (1978, Negreira, A Coruña, Spain) is an artist based
in London. His work explores the parallelism between image and audio
recordings and the idea of ruin, and the links between ruin and allegory. Often influenced by the aesthetics of horror films and B movies, his pieces show a fascination by the ghostly qualities of audiovisual technologies, and an interest in nostalgia, understood as a tool of analysis which prompt a critical gaze on our present. He holds a MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London

Conal McStravick
Conal McStravick (b. 1979, Northern Ireland) works in video, object sculpture, installation and text to present solo or collaborative works that address the exhibition setting, the situation of making and other disciplines that influence our understanding of the art object. These works reflect on the modalities of artistic production and presentation, the social constitution of being an artist and attendant political or rhetorical ethical drives and their consequences. He lives and works in Glasgow and holds a BA Fine Art (Hons) Sculpture & Enviromental Art from Glasgow School of Art

Lucy Pawlek
Lucy Pawlak (b.1980, London) has MA Fine Art Painting from Royal College of Art London and also studied cinematography at the Polish National Film, Televison and Theatre School in Lodz. The questions surrounding how we act together are at the core of her practice. The interrogation of the idea of the leader is a recurring theme in her work. Pawlak acts as artistic director of the Samsonov Film and Theatre Cooperative. The co-operative works with and against Oedipal narratives to devise reflexive film making experiments concerned with examining the advantages, problems and paradoxes of living and working in a group. This exploration is woven into the subject of the work and its methodology. She lives and works in London.

Naheed Raza
Naheed Raza (b. 1980, UK) is a sculptor and filmmaker whose practice explores the tension between appearance and reality, and the elusive, often ambiguous nature of experience. Her works are characterised by a sense of fragility, transience and alchemical transformation. Recent films have been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Edinburgh Film Festival, Bloomberg SPACE and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Naheed is currently living and working in Edinburgh and holds a MA Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Patrick Staff
Drawing on appropriated narrative, historicity and mythologies, melodrama and the physical and narrative implications of space and location, Patrick Staff (b. Bognor Regis, 1987)'s video, installation and collaborative performance pieces use re-enactment, abstracted physical movements and dialogue, sound, sculpture and obscuring structures to create a malleable framing of research, production and modes of moving image. He has worked collaboratively with a range of artists, theorists and historians, community groups, as part of Beyond Former Heaven and established the temporary run artist space Old Mayfair Carpet Gallery (with Chris Land and Eden Mitsenmacher). He lives and works in London and holds a BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Corin Sworn
Corin Sworn (b. 1977, London) works with drawing, photography and video. Her work draws upon slippages and misalignments that can occur in depictions of the past as the imaginations and ideals from one point in history are translated into another. Recently she has been writing scripts to explore the interaction of various modes of speech. She works in Vancouver and Glasgow and holds a MA Fine Art from Glasgow School Of Art.