Emilia Demetriou is an artist, curator and cultural producer based in Nicosia, Cyprus. She is an educator with a focus on collaborative methodologies and alternative pedagogies. As a multidisciplinary artist, Demetriou works with performance art, video, installation, sound, printmaking and sculpture. Her research and work explore the urgency of the ancestral feminine (hi)stories and practices. She also makes interactive, participatory performances as part of Panicattack Duo collective. Demetriou develops and produces cultural and educational public programs, as well as she has delivered workshops at several UK institutions, to students and community groups.
Naz Balkaya is a Turkish artist-curator based in London. Both of her artistic and curatorial projects generally promote collaboration, solidarity and safe networking, representing the millennial conditions and supporting the emerging artists. Currently, her research stimulates a feminist voice that questions the history of occult, magic and mystical practices and their correlation with the climate. She generally works with multi-media such as performance, writing, sound, sculpture and painting. Her work recently showed at Meat Space exhibition as part of a monthly programme curated by Trans Curatorial at Koppel Project, London.
Panicattack Duo have been selected as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 and have shown extensively, including Hardwick Gallery, Koppel Project, TATE Exchange, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Disorder Live Art Festival, Lethaby Gallery, South London Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, Enclave and Stanley Picker Gallery. They have been awarded by Chelsea Arts Club (2018). Through their curatorial series of Nothing Really Mattress (2018 – 2020), Razzmatazz (2015 -2018), and Meat Me On The Corner (2015), Panicattack Duo have shown the work of over 150 emerging artists.
