Performativity in the Gallery Staging Interactive Encounters

Outi Remes is the Gallery Director of the New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey. She is the author of many publications, including Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art (with Pam Skelton, 2010), and the curator of numerous projects, such as the Rules and Regs live art residencies and the At Play exhibition series (with Cally Trench, 2009-12).
Laura MacCulloch is Curator at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is responsible for a collection best known for its nineteenth-century paintings. She began working with contemporary art during her time as Curator of British Art at the National Museums Liverpool, where she curated exhibitions by the winners of the Liverpool Art Prize and acquired works by artists such as Haroon Mirza, Lubaina Himid and Yoko Ono.
Marika Leino is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. She has written on early modern sculpture and the history of collecting. Her book, Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes, was published with Peter Lang in 2013.