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This class is created and hosted by Olga Trevisan. She is the founder and manager of the creative textile business Eltyburon and the art project Ollla at Work, as well as editor of Micro Galleries's online zine, MGZ. She is fascinated by the potential of simple ideas and actions, and how they can subtly intersect in people' s everyday life/reality. She is currently actively involved in European as well as international projects and is based in Italy, where she work towards on a more sustainable and peaceful way of living.

Ben Taranto's art is driven by his interests in our accelerated engineering and fabrication of the planet's environments. His sculpture and installation practice is embedded in environmental, political, and social activism. His practice is a conversation between art and the Earth sciences, balancing the physical with the transcendental, while asking the viewer to consider the human condition in relation to built, natural and virtual environments.

Based in Melbourne, Australia since 2010. Taranto co-curated a large art event at an empty residential property in Brunswick East in 2018. He exhibited with the Moreland Public Arts Festival (2015, 2017), The Town Hall Gallery Hawthorn (2016), Frankston Art Centre (2016), c3 Contemporary Artspace (2016), Counihan Gallery (2013 – 2017), Craft Victoria (2014), Seventh (2013) and BUS Projects (2011). He was shortlisted for a $750K major public sculpture commission in 2014 and had temporary public sculpture in the Docklands precinct in 2009 and 2010. In 2013, 2014 and 2016, Taranto exhibited moving image work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. He has completed artist residencies in Majorca, Spain (2012), Suva, Fiji (2015), East Coburg, Vic (2016), Zanzibar, Africa (2017) and Xiamen, China (2018). Taranto graduated from The Victorian College of the Arts in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Taranto graduated from The Victorian College of the Arts in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

"I'm artist and art teacher living and working in Helsinki. For me, making art is a way to think. It's a way of questioning, exploring and understanding the surrounding reality. Being an artist allows me to do that together with other explorers in a context which is maybe a bit more open for tricky, silly or even absurd questions.

One of my favourite environment for making art is the public space. I'm interested in the unwritten laws of urban space and how it reflects the structure of our society. Making art makes the hidden structures more visible and allows one to ask questions which otherwise might be forbidden or forgotten. Working in public space seems relevant to me also because it forces me as an artist - as well as my artworks - into a straight communication with the audience.

In addition to working alone I'm also a member of the street art collective Multicoloured Dreams."

"My work speaks through body language: the conflicts that I have dealt; the pain involved in the interaction with others; the pleasure felt through that pain. Even my attitude towards my social context; the way I relate within that space. All of which I have tried to translate in my work through the representation of the body and its variety of states: its character and potential.

My work is the imprint of the body. In order to represent it as faithfully as possible, I've worked with all kinds of materials, from paper and natural fibers to resin, vegetal shortening, cement, wax and metal. Each element brings a distinct quality to the piece, emphasizing and speaking with the shape."