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www.peakperfs.org 69 Jessica Lynne is co-founder and editor of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism from black perspectives. She received her B.A. in Africana Studies from New York University and has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Art21 and the Cue Foundation, Callaloo, and the Center for Book Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Aperture, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail and Kinfolk. Currently, Jessica serves as the manager of development and communication at Recess. Sophia Wang Maloy Luakian Maloy Luakian works as a freelance writer focusing mostly on arts, culture and food in and around Southeast Asia and China. Her assignments have taken her from rainforests and abandoned villages to the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants and the studios of underground artists. When not writing or traveling, Maloy spends her time creating metalwork, having apprenticed as a goldsmith, engraver and stone-setter in Florence, Italy. She is based in Hong Kong. Kelsey Wroten Kelsey Wroten is a freelance illustrator and comics artist. She is a Kansas City native currently living in Brooklyn and working on a graphic novel for Uncivilized Books slated to come out in 2018. Her client list includes The New York Times, The Village Voice, Refinery 29, NPR, Lenny, Vice and more. Sophia Wang creates and performs movement-based works in collaboration with performance artists, writers, and visual and sound artists. She is a founding member of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company and has danced for artists Xavier Le Roy, Tino Sehgal, Jérôme Bel, Xandra Ibarra and Amara Tabor-Smith. She earned a doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley and integrates her research and performance practices through writing and curatorial projects focused on critical somatics: thinking with and as bodies. Current engagements include performances at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Detroit Institute of Arts; she will take up her Taipei Artist Village residency in 2018. Jana Perkovic´ Larissa Velez-Jackson (LVJ) is a New York City-based choreographer and multiplatform artist. She uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation, blending dance, sound and deep humor. She has presented work at numerous NYC venues and programs, such as the American Realness Festival '11 and '15 at Abrons Arts Center; the Chocolate Factory Theater in '14; and at New York Live Arts this year with Yackez, a collaboration with her husband, Jon Velez-Jackson. LVJ was nominated for a 2016 New York Dance and Performance Award, the Bessie, for outstanding emerging choreographer, and she was presented a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists award for 2016. Larissa Velez-Jackson Jessica Lynne Contributors Jana Perkovic´ is a contemporary performance critic, with work regularly appearing in The Guardian, Blouin Artinfo, Tanzconnexions, RealTime, The Lifted Brow and others. She has worked as a dramaturg in both dance and text-based theatre and also works at the Melbourne School of Design and Victorian College of the Arts (at University of Melbourne) as a researcher and lecturer. She produces Audio Stage, a podcast "on theater and stuff." Jessica Lynne Photo provided. Jana Perkovic´. Photo by Eva Reisch-Vida. Larissa Velez-Jackson. Photo by Scott Shaw. Maloy Luakian. Photo provided. Sophia Wang.Photo by Ogawa Lyu. Kelsey Wroten. Illustration by Kelsey Wroten.

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