Stephen Hodge is Professor in Live Art + Spatial Practices, and the former Academic Director of Arts and Culture, at the University of Exeter. He is a practice-based researcher, a resident at Kaleider, and a core member of the walking-artist collective, Wrights & Sites, who employ disrupted walking tactics as tools for playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making. He has curated programmes of work for Exeter Phoenix, Tanzquartier Wien/Wiener Festwochen, and Belluard Bollwerk International.