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Jo Cook (Mayne Island, BC) and Susan Hawkins (London, UK) Jo Cook is a visual artist, curator, writer and publisher with multiple personalities who are involved with all aspects of artist-run culture. Cook adapts multiple personalities as a modus operandi, an experimental framework with which to merge with her fictionalised characters' projects in the "real" world were these characters have a life of their own. Dragons of the Air: The Roswell notebooks of Francis Zorn As Åg Zorn, she is the editor of Dragons of the Air: The Roswell Notebooks of Frances Zorn. This book work contains excerpts from the journals of Frances Zorn, whose mysterious disappearance along with her lover, the paleontologist, Maude Johnson, in Roswell New Mexico in 1947 has never been solved. For the McCleave/SAGSRI 2007/08 Space Mission Åg Zorn will present the work-in-progress book of drawings and journal notes of Frances Zorn as well as large facsimile prints, and the small juvenile dinosaur skeleton that was found in Roswell before the women's disappearance very possibly linked to UFO sightings the summer of 1947. Over the past three years Jo Cook's visual arts practice has become primarily book-based. Her publishing website is: www.perroverlag.com Susan Hawkins is a composer and sound artist currently working in London, UK with a strangely Australian accent. Most recently, she has been working on a number of different projects in theatre, contemporary dance and live performance as one half of imaginationandmymother (iamm). iamm like to go on sonic adventures with ambient, image-provoking
sound, and have been seen and heard around the world, including the Tate
Britain (UK), Copenhagen (KØBENHAVN - RAMT AF BYEN, Denmark), the
Torino Contemporeana (Italy), and the San Fransisco Asian Art Museum (USA).
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