Dr Dani Admiss

Dr Dani Admiss is an artist, curator and educator. Her work is a journey of learning to live well with others within limits. She champions community-based learning and uses her role of ‘curator’ as a shared space for collective inquiry, story building and meaning making, often working with a coalition of agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers. Together, they have created a holistic decarbonisation plan for art workers (Stanley Picker Gallery), designed immersive game-environments that unwittingly extract data in exchange for public services (Furtherfield), formed a Bill of More-Than-Human Rights (Porto Design Festival), and set up an alternative ethics committee for eco and social conservation (MAAT, Lisbon).   

Under the name of the Sunlight Liberation Network, she is currently creating an ethical learning program for ‘greener’ and fairer art practices (Arts Catalyst) and running a slow “companion-planting” working group (Creative Scotland) exploring regenerative cultures and alternative configurations of working in the arts.   

Admiss has created numerous exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and edited books, in the UK, the EU and internationally. She was an Artangel Making Time resident (2023) and a Stanley Picker Fellow (2020). Her PhD is in Curatorial Practice and World-Making with an AHRC grant, and she is an advisor on the editorial board of ‘Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures’ Book series, Emerald Press. 

Luiza Prado de O. Martins

Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist, writer and scholar. Her work moves between installation and herbalist practices, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between plants, political infrastructures, and technology, and questions what structures and processes are needed for collective concerns of environmental care and reproductive justice. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen.  

Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” narrates, through a series of artworks, the extinction and later reappearance of an ancient contraceptive, aphrodisiac and spice called silphium. She has exhibited and performed work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (MUDAM), the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Museum Ostwall (Dortmund), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Cologne), the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Savvy Contemporary, Arebyte Gallery, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. She is currently based in Berlin. 

The World is a Mill

The World is a Mill (TWM) is a joint commission for our Rehearsals (for a world we could live in) programme (2024-2026). It is a pilot project bringing together artists and communities collaborating in recipe mapping and food sharing workshops, community cooking, and peer learning. Together with Radar, Admiss and Prado are developing TWM towards a long-term project, initially rooted in the Midlands and expanding to encompass further partnerships.