Artists
Zoë Kreye
Vancouver, Canada
Zoë Kreye’s interdisciplinary art projects explore transformation, collective experience, and the disembodiment of western culture through immersive installation, performance and tactile sculptures. Combining expansive gestural lines, sensorial materials and somatic ritual processes, Kreye’s work invites viewers into a depth of feeling that signals mutual transformative capacities. Kreye’s work has been long-listed for the Sobey Art Award 2024. Recent exhibitions include: I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you., Kamloops Art Gallery (2023); Uncommon Language, Vancouver Art Gallery (2021); Art By Post, Southbank Centre London; The School of WE, Graz Austria (2021); and Person/ne, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver (2019).
Lisa Prentice
Vancouver, Canada
Lisa Prentice is an artist, writer and bodyworker living on Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh territories, colonially known as Vancouver BC. A graduate of Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Lisa was for many years exclusively a visual artist, sitting on the board of the OR Gallery Society and actively participating in the Vancouver art community. She works as a Craniosacral therapist and somatic practitioner and in that role has designed and led community wellness projects for the Purple Thistle project and Gallery Gachet. Lisa also writes on art and somatic topics, most recently for Black/Flash magazine in 2021, as well as a catalogue essay for the Richmond Art Gallery in 2023.
Alexa Solveig Mardon
Vancouver, Canada
Alexa Solveig Mardon is a dancer, performance maker and facilitator co-creating and seeking spaces for imperfect ritual, queer fantastical myth-making, and multi-sensorial solidarity across difference. Alexa is a first generation settler of Finnish and British Isles descent living as an uninvited guest on the illegally occupied, unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. Alexa’s work takes forms including stage performance, poetry, movement workshops for frontline support workers, dreamwork + prophecy practices, and teaching professional and non-professional level dance classes. Studying inherited and learned practices of divination through carromancy, dousing, and dream opening, Alexa practices listening and receiving with the other side.
Collaborating with Luciana Freire D’Anunciação and Erika Mitsuhashi
Vancouver, Canada
PERFORMANCE
Dreaming the Asklepion (DTA)
Dreaming the Asklepion (DTA) is an interdisciplinary performance and installation project that reimagines ancient healing spaces as contemporary, immersive environments for collective transformation. It draws inspiration from Greek Asklepions—holistic healing centers that integrated ritual, aesthetics, and embodied experience as tools for personal and societal restoration.
Historically, Asklepions were sacred sanctuaries designed to promote healing through full-spectrum engagement: physical movement, artistic experience, nutrition, community gathering, and sleep. Core practices included incubation therapy, where patients rested in enclosed spaces to dream and receive symbolic guidance from the gods. These dreams were considered essential to diagnosis and healing. Architecture, sensory design, and artistic setting were understood as therapeutic tools in their own right. As artists today, we are asking: what would a contemporary Asklepion look like—one where intuition, sensation, and art are central to collective healing?
Through Dreaming the Asklepion, we are building a model for how art can serve as a space of collective sensing, care, and transformation—rooted in history, shaped by the body, and offered as a practice for our time. This is a deeply interdisciplinary project—bridging dance, healing, sculpture, and social practice—and it requires dedicated resources to fully realize its potential.
