The Artists of InsightsDigital at the
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024

InsightsPlatforms presents InsightsDigital, a collection of 4 online performances by international emerging artists from
different sub-genres of the performance arts. InsightsDigital includes works that explore dance, theatre, music, comedy,
visual art, and contemporary art, created by the following emerging artists: Swedish multi-creative artist
Kristina Hanses aka KEJH, Welsh writer, performer and musician Clare Roberts, Chinese performer, and
theatre and mixed media artist Ravel Wong, and American eco-visual artist Vanessa Albury. 
Kristina Hanses aka KEJH
​Creator of 'It's My Heart'

Kristina Hanses, aka KEJH, is a singer, songwriter, choreographer, and dancer from Sweden, where she is now based. Kristina graduated from contemporary dance studies at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Amsterdam University of the Arts) in 2010 and has since worked with several choreographers in Holland and Sweden. Kristina feels drawn to choreography and loves Improvisation. In her own choreographic work, she uses her original musical compositions as a starting point and is interested in staging her songs and exploring the vulnerability she finds in them.
 
In 2010 Kristina started the performance duo 'Kristal and Jonny Boy', which is where she first became interested in mixing her original music and choreography together, along with props. In 2013, 'Kristal and Jonny Boy' were discovered by Italian label La Tempesta, and released their first EP, soon followed by the album, 'It's my heart'. The duo have toured extensively in Europe since 2010 and have performed at the world's biggest music festival - SXSW, as support for Mando Diao's 2014 tour, and one of Tove Lo's early shows.
 
In 2022 Kristina was back as KEJH and released the EP 'New self', followed by her first premiered dance work; an hour-long dance/concert performance called 'New Self' - a dance music album. In 2024 Kristina released a new single called Blueness, which will be followed by a new EP to be released later this year.

Kristina's work ‘It’s My Heart’ is part of InsightsDigital at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 and is available to stream via the @edfringe on-demand programme this year. Tickets are available here. 
To discover more about Kristina Hanses and her work, check out her website. You can also find her on social media, and online music sites.
Clare Roberts
​Creator of 'Milk On The Side: A Barista Musical'

Clare Roberts is an MLitt Creative Writing student at The University of Glasgow. She is a writer, performer, and musician whose work includes poetry, and creative essays published in zines such as Bonnie Wee Zine (Coin-Operated Press), BODIES, Glasgow University Magazine, and the AfroScot exhibition, Glasgow and Triptych Magazine Exhibition, Edinburgh. 

Clare has performed at The Edinburgh, Greater Manchester and Glasgow International Comedy Fringe Festivals. One of Clare’s proudest projects is "Vitiligo Song," a community arts project for The Vitiligo Society, which you can learn more about on her website, which is highlighted below.

Clare’s work ‘Milk on the Side: A Barista Musical’ is part of InsightsDigital at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 and is available to stream via the @edfringe on-demand programme this year. Tickets are available here. 

To discover more about Clare Roberts and her work, check out her website, and Instagram.
Ravel Wong
Creator of '〈Rebecca, Shirley, Jane〉' 

Ravel Wong is a performer, a theatre and mixed media artist, and a graphic designer. She was born in a city that is only able to snow in the thirteenth month of the year — Hong Kong; It is her motherland that always evokes her imagination of the wonderful snowfall in her homeland. She enjoys observing and capturing the moments of “happening” and “not happening” through performing, and through creating theatre and mixed media work.

Engaging in various theatre productions, graphic designs, and creating videos, Ravel likes incorporating Japanese aesthetics such as “Mono no aware” and “Wabi-sabi” into her work. She believes that nature always provides a comfortable space for people to feel, ask, and explore the diversity of beauty, and that one’s mentality will create a certain distance towards different objects, humans, or events, influencing the size and the shape of the space left for the connection and communication between them.
In Hong Kong, Ravel pursued a BA in Journalism and Communication. Understanding each other, including people themselves, has become an astonishing topic to her; she appreciates the alleviation of human life through exchanging ideas, wisdom, and emotions, in a nice dialogue of communication.
Stepping into theatre, Ravel trained at Tang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio’s Physical Theatre Institute programme in 2022-2024, and believes that theatre displays sincere moments for the audience to engage in. Ravel has performed and participated in directing teams in ‘well-made plays’, and devises theatre productions. Alongside her training, creating, performing and directing, Ravel was a journalist for a university magazine that published featured news articles monthly called《U-beat》.
Ravel is enthusiastic and passionate about exploring how others see the world and collaborating with different artists to create various artworks. Recent works include physical theatre production: The Ups and Downs of Floating City (2024), theatre production: Three Brothers (2024), theatre production: Mine (2024), theatre production: The Memorandum (2023), the CUHK Drama competition (2023), The room of Mirror (2023), and most recently, her conceptual video 〈Rebecca, Shirley, Jane〉, which is featured in InsightsDigital at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, and is available to stream via the @edfringe on-demand programme this year. Tickets are available here. 

​To discover more about Ravel Wong and her work, you can find her on social media, or contact her via email. 
Vanessa Albury  is an eco-visual artist, activist and spiritual coach based in New York, NY currently traveling the world nomadically. She is a 2022 NYFA/ NYSCA Deustche Bank Fellow and has an MFA in Studio Art from NYU. Her purpose in this lifetime is for healing for people and the planet via art and the oceans. She is the Founding Artist of Coral Projects, creating the world’s first eco-friendly underwater art exhibition to heal the human-oceans relationship and rewild filter species.
 
Vanessa’s first, and NYC’s first, biodegradable mural ‘Porthole Waves (Svalbard) from Stream to Sea’, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch on the Apple Bank on Grand Street in Lower Manhattan, is currently on view biodegrading back into the soil; it was installed in September 2022. Vanessa exhibits her sculptural photography, video, ceramics and installation artwork in solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally. 
 
Vanessa’s other works include ‘Portholes to the Life-Sustaining Unknown’, which was installed outdoors at Riverside Park, New York as part of ‘Re:Growth’, curated by Karin Bravin for the summer of 2021; Coral Projects’ ‘The First Five Years’, was on view in 21/22 as part Eco-Urgency: Now or Never with Wave Hill at Lehman College Art Gallery; and in 2022, ‘Three new Arctic, Future Relics works’ were on view at Belmont University's Leu Art Gallery as part of ‘The Nature of the Future: Artists Confronting the Anthropocene’. ‘Love Being’ is Vanessa’s performance art and healing event, recently presented in New York City with upcoming dates in Miami in 2024. Vanessa also has a podcast ‘The Power We Hold’, which marks her journey as an ally to people of all differences and steward to the planet, which is available on Apple Music. 
 
Ken Johnson of the NY Times calls her work “haunting.”, and her work is also reviewed in The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Nylon and Candid Magazine. Solo shows of Vanessa’s include ‘Rewilding a Painted Ocean’ funded by the Foundation for Contemporary Art, ‘Shadowgraphs’ (Benrubi Gallery) ‘Arctic, Future Relics’ (NurtureArt,) and ‘All Things That Are, Are Light and Soot’ (Quappi Projects, Louisville.)  
 
As Coral Projects’ Founding Artist, Vanessa is creating the world’s first eco-friendly and ocean-friendly underwater art exhibition to repopulate filter species such as corals, oysters and mussels. Coral Projects’ first permanent site is slated for 2024 in Southern Italy, with other sites in the works in Jamaica, India and the USA. With eco-art sculptures and art activism in collaboration with marine scientists and underrepresented artists, Coral Projects create a more beautiful, integrated and ecologically sustainable world we all deserve together.
 
Vanessa’s work 'Coral Projects: Everglades Art Lab, 2019-2023' is part of InsightsDigital at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 and is available to stream via the @edfringe on-demand programme this year. Tickets are available here. 
 
To learn more about Vanessa and Coral Projects, you can view her artist profile here: shorturl.at/sR7df