OREET ASHERY is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects include performances, video, sound, photography and writing. She has be-come an important figure of the british live art scene. In her work, the artist uses her own body, linking it to cultural and social taboos. Oreet Ashery was born in Jerusalem 1966. She lives and works in London. Education: 1989-1992 BA Hon’s Fine Art Sheffield Hallam University; 1998-2000 MA Fine Art, Central St Martins, London. She had numerous solo and group exhibitions and performances in the USA, Poland, Israel, Slovenia, Canada, Great Britain… Her work has been included in the Tate Britain collection and featured in Edward Lucie Smith’s Art Tomorrow.

CHERRY SMYTH is an Irish critic, curator and poet living in London. She is the author of Queer Notions, Scarlet Press, 1992 and Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists, Cassell, 1996. Her short fiction has been included in The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing, 2000. She published essays on Jane and Louise Wilson, Orla Barry, Dirk Braeck-man. She writes regularly for Art Monthly, Circa, Dazed and Confused and Source magazines. She curated Misbegotten at the Florence Trust, 2002 and the Summer Show in 2002 and 2003.