Makiko Nagaya is a Director at Redux Art Space. She studied at Goldsmiths College 2000- 2002, in curating and worked as an organiser during 2002-2003 at Arts Project Management, London. She co-curated 'Leftover 2' with Peter Lewis and Peter Suchin, for Strike, Leftover 3 with Karl Lydon at Concrete at Cell Project Space in 2002. Nagaya curated works by Japanese artists at the 6th International Sharjah Biennial. She is working with the artist Richard Hoeck in 2005. The co-direction at REDUX (the organisation of research, exhibition, documentation, urban-experiment) with Peter Lewis continues a working relationship through a series of projects that invites artists to use the space. This includes production, installation, the manufacture of documents or publications, symposiums, and exhibitions and performances, screenings and music collaborations, which will establish a new definition of the curator's role as a facilitator and co-producer.