© Evagoria Eria Dapola, 2020, Nicosia, Cyprus. Credits: Evagoria Eria Dapola

Evagoria Dapola is a Greek curator, theorist and writer based between Athens and Cyprus. Her writing and curatorial practice develops through encounters and collaborations, aiming to present new ways to think. Dapola's practice refuses categorisation, spanning across various disciplines outside of art - engaging social, political, and economic histories, or crossing into science, anthropology or philosophy. Her academic, curatorial and creative work focuses on (visual) politics, semiotics and semantics, gender, performativity and visuality and digital selfdom. Probing collective intelligence, surveillance capitalism, AI and the evolution of culture, labor and creativity, she investigates institutionalization, automation and data exploitation in the context of art production. Her writing practice reflects itself in thematic investigations on Post-humanism, post-capitalism, queerness and post-digitalism through treating the body of text as place of encounter, while being attuned to context more than anything, investigating various ways art participates in the process of decontextualization and reconstruction, enabling possibilities of re-imagining alternative futures. Concerned with the materialism of sound and vision and traverses issues of computation, extraction, scale, fiction, and other spatial and temporal endeavours and structure reality, challenge constructs, give space to non-binary thinking, develop tools and methods that challenge current modes of production, her transdisciplinary approach sometimes interweaves immateriality with diverse gestures of dealing with the internet, evoking fluctuating planes of perception upon which alternately dissolve and materialise physical objects and online fields. Eria Dapola was the invited resident curator and part-time teaching fellow of the Athens School of Fine Arts from January to June 2020 and she participated in the Home Workspace Individual Chapters in 2021. She has worked in public and private organizations, including the Victoria & Albert's Museum London, in the fashion and textile department and in the Asian Art department, Barbican House (part of the Barbican group), Louvre Abu Dhabi in the UAE, Brighton Photobiennal, amongst others. She is an active member of the UK Museum Association, the International Association of Semiotic Studies, and the International Photography Association, and she is a member of the Cypriot National Selection Committee of Artwotks.

© Lila Nikolaou, 2022, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece

Lila Nikolaou is a Greek independent curator based in Greece. She is a member of the “Yoga Science and Art of Life” team which promotes art and culture and the Teaching of Yoga Science, a Teaching about the Sacred Art of Life and the raising of consciousness in everyday life. She is the curator of their recent exhibition “You are the eyes through which Creation knows Itself” organised at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, in Greece. During 2023, the group organizes 2 new exhibitions and events in Greece and plans to exhibit also abroad.
Her studies and interests are focused on the role of art in contemporary society and on alternative curatorial practices. Lila Nikolaou holds a Master's in Arts Management from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, with a particular interest in Performance and research on the subject of “Audience Participation and Engagement”, and she holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and Business Administration from the University of Macedonia in Greece.

© Marta Ciołkowska, 2021, Giarre, Italy. Credits: Francesco Di Giovanni

Marta Ciołkowska is a Polish artist based in Giarre, Italy. Her practice is developed through the mediums such as video, installation, sculpture and graphics, and she explores the topics of human relations and impact on the environment and the influence that the surrounding technology has on a modern man. In the last few years, she took part in different international exhibitions, festivals, workshops and artist in residency programs. She is present in many catalogs and publications of exhibitions and artistic events. Currently, she travels between Poland and Italy to realize her projects and to participate in internships and workshops. Marta Ciolkowska holds a Master of Arts in Interior Design from the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. In 2014, Ciolkowska won the scholarship for the foreign mobility Erasmus+ and attended one semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, Italy.

© Tuce Alba, 2022, Istanbul, Turkey. Credits: Ahmet Fazıl Yenice

Tuce Alba is a Turkish architect, musician, composer and artist based in Istanbul. She uses a variety of techniques to build and experience spatial and temporal spaces with sound employing synthesizers, instruments, field recordings, as other tools that break quietness and transform it into sound. Alba focuses on the listener's position within the triangle generated by movement patterns, sound and space. At the same time, her practice conducts acoustic research on manipulating the limitations of conventional instruments concurrently.
Tuce Alba studied Architecture at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Architecture and she holds a Master in Sonic Arts from the ITU MIAM.

© Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa, 2020, Karlsruhe, Germany. Credits: Oliver-Selim Boualam

Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa is a German-Italian-Swiss researcher, art mediator, and curator with a deep interest in community-based practices between art, media, and ecology.
Kiolbassa is currently on a research trip in Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam, exploring art education practices in relation to media arts. Her research project “Mediating Media Arts”, led together with Fanny Kranz, is funded by the Goethe Institute and UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe. Previously, she worked as a Curator of Education at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe as well as Digital Coordinator at documenta fifteen.
Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa holds a Master of Arts in Media Studies from Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (GER) and a Bachelor degree in Arts in History and Art History from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (GER) and Université de Provence Aix-Marseille III (FRA).

© Lila Nikolaou, 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece

Lila Nikolaou is a Greek independent curator based in Greece. She is a member of the “Yoga Science and Art of Life” team which promotes art and culture and the Teaching of Yoga Science, a Teaching about the Sacred Art of Life and the raising of consciousness in everyday life. She is the curator of their recent exhibition “You are the eyes through which Creation knows Itself” organised at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, in Greece.
Her studies and interests are focused on the role of art in contemporary society and on alternative curatorial practices.
Lila Nikolaou holds a Master's in Arts Management from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, with a particular interest in Performance and research on the subject of “Audience Participation and Engagement”, and she holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and Business Administration from the University of Macedonia in Greece.

© Filipa Martins

Ana Rita Costa (Mayan) is a Portuguese DJ and music producer. Influenced by her Lisbon upbringing amongst musicians and by the variety of music she absorbed, her sets take her audience on a journey through an array of emotions. Mayan blends vibes that travel from Jazz via House to Acid and Techno grooves, with Trance elements into one eclectic trip, so that everyone feels moved to dance, regardless of age, origin, or creed, creating an experience that builds new and warm relations between people. For her, life has always been about creating connections through music: from her earliest days, growing up in Lisbon with musicians all around, she had the fortune to experience the deep bond that music can create. To this day, her desire for sharing music is fueled by the wish to connect. She is a Bandcamp independent artist, and in April 2021 she won the FM Radio Oxigénio DJ contest.
With a history of performances all over Portugal and a ground base with the most iconic dancefloors of Lisbon, she starts getting international attention supporting acts like Guy Gerber or Oskar Offermann (Vienna), record labels like Fuse and Faina (Portugal), Chevry Agency (France) or Lacuna Records (UK). More recently, she performed in radio shows in Netherlands and Austria.
Mayan is constantly and proactively building and looking out for joint projects with national and international artists, leading to inspiring collaborations between like-minded DJs.
Currently, she hosts a monthly radio show on Lusophonica, in which she invites artists, producers, and DJs to talk about their practices, inspirations and musical stories.

© Pimpakaporn Pornpeng, 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. Credits: Chanakan Pooncharoen

Pimpakaporn Pornpeng is a Thai curator based in Taiwan. Her interest focuses on the Southeast-Asian gastronomic culture and its effects on the ecosystem or environment and within the community. Throughout her practice, she creates a sustainable cycle of giving back to the community, as Pornpeng has been working as well as a project manager in the cultural knowledge management field with Creative Economy Agency (Khonkaen, Thailand).
Pimpakaporn Pornpeng holds a BA in Art History from Silpakorn University in Thailand and is currently studying master's in arts in Critical and Curatorial of Contemporary art at the National Taipei University of Education.

© Opening of the exhibition 'Reflection 2.0 Art in a time of war', July 2022, Valeria Babych, MdbK, Leipzig, Germany

Valeria Babych is a Ukrainian curator based in Leipzig, Germany. Her interests focus on contemporary Ukrainian art, the issues it addresses, and how to present it in the European context.
Her most recent project Kolo (in Ukrainian: circle) brought together a team of creatives based in Leipzig, Germany, to spread and support Ukrainian culture by organizing fundraising art events, since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
The most recent exhibition, "Information" was held in October 2022 in collaboration with Halle 14 (Leipzig) and featured works by seven Ukrainian artists. Presently, Kolo is preparing an upcoming digital exhibition, "Aggression explodes in silence”.
Valeria Babych is currently studying International Business at the University of Applied Science in Berlin.

© Sem medo de dançar, 2022, Inês Nêves, Zona - Residências Artísticas de Lamego / ZigurFest (Lamego, Portugal). Credits: Grafonola

Inês Nêves is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist based between Portugal and Estonia. Her work crosses different disciplines in an attempt to reach a more holistic exploration of human expression by accessing the different dimensions of the perceiving and acting self. Through this process, Neves seeks to approximate maker and viewer by exploring visceral emotions that are common to all living beings. She has exhibited and performed in Portugal, Sweden, and Estonia, and has participated in multiple art residencies, art talks, international conferences, and publications.
Since 2019, Nêves has co-created and/or co-organised several international collectives and spaces seeking to promote cross-disciplinary, horizontal, free, and experimental collective practices, such as Vent Space Project, mais uno +1, Mart’s Garage Open Artist Residence, Portal Ecosystem, and Artists Anonymous.
Inês Nêves holds a Bachelor's in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto with exchange studies in Graphic Design at the St. Joost School of Art & Design, a master's in Textile Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts, and independent education in several Portuguese institutions in acrobatics, ballet, contemporary dance, graphic arts, and art market theory (Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto).

© Ugochukwu Emebiriodo

James Notin is a Yoruba experimental artist and performance curator whose work investigates individuals in universal space and structure. Their works are based on the curation of public opinion and selective observation as a tool for distorting contemporary society to create a liberal space for analyzing the structure and their politics. Assuming human societies are bordered by future anxiety and future perspectives, Notin engages systems through the lens of an outsider to open up an alternative and interactive space that enables individuals to engage in sociopolitical issues.
Working as a co-curator at Tantdile Xperimenta Lab, their works also expand to performance art, photography, and interactive literature.
James Notin has been a resident at Maxim Gorki's Young Curator Academy, and Forecast School of Thinker at the Theatre Forum, Dublin.

© Brussels 225, 2019, Marisa Bernardes (Brussels, Belgium)

Marisa Bernardes is a Portuguese Luxembourg-born photographer based in Lisbon, Portugal. Her body of work, develops from contrasts between the real and the imaginary, transporting them to an autobiographical universe. The intimacy with the object and the environment that surrounds it, as well as an identity update, are a constant and essential part of her projects. Her artistic expression is mainly based on self-portraits, but not only. Bernardes develops photographic works with people that are close to her, in an attempt to recover bonds, to eternalize the photographed people or through the appropriation of archive photographs, creating fictional narratives from internal desires.
In 2016, she integrated the Photography Lab - CI.CLO in which she was selected for the portfolio reading of the International Photography and Visual Arts Festival PhotoEspaña, Madrid and carried out two artistic residencies at the Luz Museum, in Mourão and at Cortex Frontal - Art and Research Residency, in Arraiolos, Alentejo (PT).
She participated in the group exhibition "#12", at Centro de Arte e Imagem, IPT Gallery, in Tomar (PT) and in 2017, she was part of the group exhibition "Unity & Division", with the project "Ruptio", received by Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto (PT); Fotofestiwal, Lodz (PL); Museu do Douro, Peso da Régua (PT); School of Visual Arts NYC, New York (USA); LAC, Lagos (PT); and CAAA, Guimarães (PT). Her project "Fragments of Holidays" was selected for an online publication by Hélice - Escola de Fotografia, through Propeller magazine's Open Call #2 Fiction and her project "Ruptio" was selected and published in the book "Portuguese Emerging Art 2018", an EMERGE edition and awarded to be published online by Umbigo Magazine.
With an EMERGE production and curated by Jorge Reis, in 2019, Bernardes participated in the project "Struggle Like a (Wo)Man #1" which resulted in a collective performance with artist Sónia Carvalho and women participating in the workshop open to the community which resulted in several photographic interventions through the historical center of Torres Vedras (PT), during the Festival Novas Invasões. In 2020, she participated in two collective exhibitions - Performer and Home - through LoosenArt, at the Millepiani Exhibition Space, in Rome and had her first solo exhibition at the Art Corner, of ERVA Restaurant, Lisbon. In 2021, she participated multiple times in a collective art fair, Mercado P'la Art, in Lisbon.
Marisa Bernardes graduated in Photography at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, in 2016, and more recently, she attended the postgraduate course Visual Studies: Photography and (Post) Cinema (2020-2021), at NOVA FCSH, in Lisbon.

© Rita Pinheiro, 2022, Luís Efigénio (Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal)

Rita Pinheiro is a Portuguese actress, theater maker and dramaturgist.
With a Master's in Performing Arts, Interpretation and Artistic Direction from ESMAE, a degree in Marketing Management and with the course in Performing Arts Management and Production, started in the world of theater in 2000, at Balleteatro.
Since her debut, she has participated in numerous shows, including the performance Xarxa 25, by La Fura del Baus, at the Imaginarius festival and the play Os Últimos dias da Humanidade, directed by Nuno Carinhas and Nuno M. Cardoso.
In cinema, she participated in several projects, namely A Imitação, by Saguenail, Dois Mil Pés, by Bruno Nacarato and André Sanjurio; Porto by Gabe Klinger, Aquarium, by Joana Correia Pinto, Zoom in - Pequenas Maldições entre Amigos, by José Pedro Lopes and 13H, by José Paulo Santos.
In 2018, she made her first co-creation of the show Dedos Curiosos, dedicated to children. The following year, she debuted in scriptwriting with the films 13H and Ciclo.
In 2021, following her own convictions, she wrote, staged and performed the Camaleoa monologue. An original show, the result of a long investigation, presented for the first time at the Helena Sá e Costa Theater, in Porto.
She integrates several musical projects as a singer, being the Rita Light project the one she dedicates herself to the most. She works in voiceovers, advertising and writes regularly. She is a drama teacher.
Persistent in her beliefs and an activist for social inequalities, she finds in art a political voice that she uses to echo those who live on the sidelines.

© Amber Mae Photographer

Laurence Alliston-Greiner is a queer British theatre maker, performing artist, and facilitator living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. Their work is influenced by interdisciplinary and transcultural practices, and often explores themes of ‘otherness’. As a freelance artist and facilitator internationally, Laurence's work includes projects in Germany, Poland, Italy, Greece, Oman, Qatar and the USA. Alliston-Greiner is an Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy and has worked extensively as a director, lecturer and facilitator in an education context with experience spanning the early-years to higher education sectors. Their work in education includes long term roles lecturing at Rose Bruford College on the Acting Part-Time and American Theatre Arts programmes and as drama tutor at Blackheath Conservatoire and Montage Theatre Arts as well as several shorter-term projects and workshops with different education providers. In the UK, they were Co-Artistic Director of Floods of Ink, a theatre company creating work for, and with, children and young people. Floods of Ink created a portfolio of shows with support from Arts Council England and toured nationally working with a diverse range of cultural institutions including the V&A, The Marlowe Theatre, Greenbelt Festival and Half Moon Young People’s Theatre. In Portugal, they have worked with numerous film and live arts companies including, Hotel Europa, Drag Taste, Silent Adventures, Eventbox, Myheartheatre, Bando à Parte, and Leopardo Films. Laurence Alliston-Greiner studied at Rose Bruford College and St. Mary’s University (MN, USA) and holds a BA (Hons) in American Theatre Arts and an MA (Hons) in Theatre for Young Audiences.

© Nicole Sánchez

Lígia Fernandes is a Portuguese born visual artist based between Estonia and Portugal. Developing her work in the intersection of visual arts, socially engaged art, and management/organizing, she uses drawing and painting as tools to explore cultural universes, ethnographies, and identities. Her universe is a space where fit sharing, collaboration and reflection, and is often the result of site-specific research. The works aim to address the idea of home: the connection to a place and its identity and collective memory, attempting to portray memories and create intimacy between the observer and the figure. There is, in all her work, the constant awareness of a Portuguese point of view. Since 2014, Lígia has been dedicated to drawing and painting, having participated in several exhibitions, residencies, and exchange programs in Portugal, Hungary, Montenegro, Latvia and Estonia. Since 2020, she has also co-created several ongoing art and community projects such as Panorama, Lisbon Drawing Club, Artists Anonymous, Art&Craft Refúgio, and Mais Uno +1. Lígia Fernandes graduated in Drawing from the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon and holds a Master's degree, from the same faculty, in Painting.

© Matthias Neumann

Matthias Neumann is a German born artist and architect based in New York and in Athens, Greece. His projects have been presented at venues such as Manifesta 8, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Romania, Queens Museum, Jule Collins Smith Museum, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and Arte Laguna at the Venice Arsenale, among others, in addition to a significant number of public art installations throughout the US. Matthias Neumann is the recipient of the Kaplan Director’s Award of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and a fellow at Mac Dowell Colony, the Lower Austrian Architecture Network, I-Park, and Vermont Studio Center. He teaches at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College New York.

© Marisa Bernardes

Marisa Bernardes is a Portuguese Luxembourg-born photographer based in Lisbon, Portugal. Her body of work, develops from contrasts between the real and the imaginary, transporting them to an autobiographical universe. The intimacy with the object and the environment that surrounds it, as well as an identity update, are a constant and essential part of her projects. Her artistic expression is mainly based on self-portraits, but not only. Bernardes develops photographic works with people that are close to her, in an attempt to recover bonds, to eternalize the photographed people or through the appropriation of archive photographs, creating fictional narratives from internal desires.In 2016, she integrated the Photography Lab - CI.CLO in which she was selected for the portfolio reading of the International Photography and Visual Arts Festival PhotoEspaña, Madrid and carried out two artistic residencies at the Luz Museum, in Mourão and at Cortex Frontal - Art and Research Residency, in Arraiolos, Alentejo (PT).She participated in the group exhibition "#12", at Centro de Arte e Imagem, IPT Gallery, in Tomar (PT) and in 2017, she was part of the group exhibition "Unity & Division", with the project "Ruptio", received by Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto (PT); Fotofestiwal, Lodz (PL); Museu do Douro, Peso da Régua (PT); School of Visual Arts NYC, New York (USA); LAC, Lagos (PT); and CAAA, Guimarães (PT). Her project "Fragments of Holidays" was selected for an online publication by Hélice - Escola de Fotografia, through Propeller magazine's Open Call #2 Fiction and her project "Ruptio" was selected and published in the book "Portuguese Emerging Art 2018", an EMERGE edition and awarded to be published online by Umbigo Magazine.With an EMERGE production and curated by Jorge Reis, in 2019, Bernardes participated in the project "Struggle Like a (Wo)Man #1" which resulted in a collective performance with artist Sónia Carvalho and women participating in the workshop open to the community which resulted in several photographic interventions through the historical center of Torres Vedras (PT), during the Festival Novas Invasões. In 2020, she participated in two collective exhibitions - Performer and Home - through LoosenArt, at the Millepiani Exhibition Space, in Rome and had her first solo exhibition at the Art Corner, of ERVA Restaurant, Lisbon. In 2021, she participated multiple times in a collective art fair, Mercado P'la Art, in Lisbon.Marisa Bernardes graduated in Photography at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, in 2016, and more recently, she attended the postgraduate course Visual Studies: Photography and (Post) Cinema (2020-2021), at NOVA FCSH, in Lisbon.

Fabiana Dicuonzo is an Italian architect and curator, based in Bari. Founder and co-curator of the traveling curatorial project Antilia Gallery, Dicuonzo also writes, since 2016, bilingual articles and interviews on the online magazine Artwort, and since 2021 she is co-founder of Artwort Gallery. It’s her aim to find latent and forgotten spaces and inject them with art and architecture exhibition programs, reinvigorating the space and raising awareness with the community about urban cycles.
She holds a Master in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Bari - Faculty of Architecture (2015) and the Postgraduate school in Conservation of Architectural and Landscape Heritage at “Sapienza” University of Rome Italy (2018). She attended three online courses (2020) at NODE Center for Curatorial Studies and an advanced COURSE EXHIBIT at MAXXI (2018). Fabiana Dicuonzo is currently a consultant in three European Cooperation Projects for Apulia Region, Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Valorization of the Territory.

Kasia Wojcik is a German theatre maker, poet and activist, based in Berlin. Her main interest lies in the intersection of art and activism, critically examining her own artivist practices by constant reflection and embedding. She is part of the artist collective “Staub zu Glitzer” and has worked with director Gesine Danckwart and for the Performing Arts Program of LAFT Berlin, among others. Since 2017 she is part of IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder/Milo Rau. As a dramaturge and curator, she was involved in “General Assembly”, “The New Gospel” as well as “School of Resistance”. With the poetry collective “das ad hoc” she realizes readings, performances and collective writing processes.
Kasia Wojcik is currently part of the feminist artist network "Room To Bloom" and works as a project coordinator for the transnational organization "European Alternatives".

Zeren Oruc is an independent Turkish curator, based between Istanbul and Belgrade. Her curatorial practice revolves around the environment, comparative cultural analysis, and intercultural communication through art. To reflect on the current artistic structures and social issues that art tackles, Oruc tends to take an innovative and multidisciplinary approach, and adapt accordingly to the artist, the project, and/or the geography in which she is working. After working with various art institutions in Europe, she founded the Belgrade-based initiative, iksvy art, focusing on interdisciplinary art projects. In 2019, she was invited to revitalize the studio of the late German artist, Wolfgang Simon, in Andalusia, Spain. Zeren Oruc’s efforts resulted in co-founding and curating Montemero Art Residency and an educational program researching alternative materials for art production.

Cortney Stowers is a New-Zealander video director, based in London. Coming from a large family, with over one hundred first cousins, Stowers has grown to appreciate others' voices and how to work well with different people. This drove him into content creation, where he has created content in 3 different continents and had his work viewed over 18 million times online. Currently, Stowers works in a production company in the UK, he is a passionate human being who loves life, conversation and collaboration, and he is interested in expanding his creative abilities beyond commercial application and into narrative entertainment led fields.

Daniel Viana is a Portuguese actor. For the past 10 years, he has been participating in
different projects, mainly in Portugal and Czech Republic, besides other European countries, as well as in India and Jordan.
On stage, Viana was directed by Jorge de Silva Melo, Rogério de Carvalho, Matthias
Langhoff, Jiri Havelka, Renata Portas e Husam Abed. On screen, he has been involved in numerous projects, such as the trilogy "Depois do Silêncio", “A Casa da Bruma” and "Erva Daninha" by Guilherme Daniel (winners of the Motelx festival in 2018 and 2019), the featured film “Verão Danado” by Pedro Cabeleira (chosen for the Locarno festival in 2017), and on TV he was part of "Quer o Destino", "A Teia" (Plural/TVI) and participated in the series "O Nosso Cônsul in Havana (RTP/Francisco Manso), "A Espia" (RTP/Ukbar), "Conta-me como foi" (SP/RTP), Bem Bom (Santa Rita Filmes/RTP) and Glória (SP/RTP).
Since 2014, Viana is part of Flying Freedom Festival, an international artistic network of creators from different fields with a very social sight and approach to the arts, and since 2021, he started providing drama classes to children of low-income families at CAF Lumiar (Lisbon, Portugal).
Daniel Viana has a bachelor’s degree in Acting at ESTC (Lisbon, Portugal) and he studied also at DAMU (Prague, Czech Republic – Erasmus).

Frida Foberg is a Swedish born artist and architect, based in New York. Her work unfolds the space that floats between individuals, their habits, cultures and conditions. By working with spatial elements encouraging interaction and reflection, she poses questions that explore the notion of self and others.
Foberg works actively with communities and organizations, holding space for the multitude of voices and their interactions. Her work has been exhibited in International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale Di Venezia - Venice Italy, Arko Art Museum - Seoul Korea, Galeri Subsuelo - Berlin Germany, Grow Up - Toronto Canada, Bowery Ballroom - New York NY, Turn Park Art Space - West Stockbridge MA, Albany Center Gallery - Albany NY, Opalka Gallery - Albany NY and Arts Letters & Numbers - Averill Park NY.
Frida Foberg holds an MA in Architecture from Aarhus School of Architecture. She is a recurring critique panelist for Rhode Island School of Architectures graduate program, and she is on the Advisory Council of Arts Letters & Numbers, where she is also a Visiting Artist.

Erina Kawachi (Japan) is a visual artist and art educator, based in Italy. Kawachi's practice incorporates a range of artistic mediums such as drawing and performance, plus facilitation through art activities.
Her main objective is to examine and discover the relationships among us, place and history in the society we live in by doing art with humor.

Jeremy Philip Knowles is a British artist working with photography and installation. Since 2016, Knowles has been based in Berlin, where his practice has developed into a playful photographic study of urbanism and the everyday. Knowles’s images draw patterns and humour from the randomness and repetitive non-events that characterise the mundane within our lives – the overlooked and often unnoticed aspects of our existence that make us human. By bringing greater prominence and visibility to the accidental, the miraculous and the comical, we are challenged by Knowles’s projects and photo series to reconsider the weight of our daily interactions with things and people, and meditate on what happens when we think nothing is happening.
Jeremy Philips Knowles holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Photography from Camberwell College of Art (University of the Arts London) and a Foundation Degree in Art & Design from Oaklands College of Art.

Masha Wysocka is a visual artist, writer and researcher, based between Barcelona and Brussels. Whilst she was born in the USSR, she has lived in various European countries. Being both Spanish and Belgian, Masha Wysocka identifies herself as a multilingual speaker who embraces languages and cultures from Cadiz to Vladivostok. In her practice, Wysocka is interested in working at the intersection of different disciplines: history, literature, sociology, philosophy, political science, mathematics, and natural sciences.
Masha Wysocka holds a MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication. She is a winner of various grants and artist-in-residence programmes in Europe. She is currently working on a new body of work - Jardín de naturalización (The Garden of Naturalisation) - supported through a Mead Fellowship awarded by the University of the Arts London.

Simon Pomery is an Irish-born poet, sonic artist and tutor, based in London. He has taught poetry for over 15 years, for Oxford University, Parasol-unit foundation for contemporary art, the Mary Ward Centre, the British Library. His first book of poems, Four Pints of Guinness for Tony Conrad was published as a limited edition by FLUF (Denmark/Ireland) on Bloomsday 2019. Pomery’s work has appeared in Sure Hope, 3am Magazine, P.N. Review, the TLS, and Poetry London. A pamphlet of formal, visionary early poems, The Stream, was published in 2010 by tall-lighthouse. As BLOOD MUSIC, he has released post-punk, drone and electroacoustic sound compositions on Cafe Oto's Takuroku label, FLUF, Diagonal, dingndents and The Wormhole. Pomery has performed in venues and festivals including Xing the Line at IKELCTIK (London), Mayhem (Copenhagen), Five Miles (London), Silver Road (a water tank in Lewisham), Incubate (Tilburg), Les Urbaines (Laussane), Cafe Oto (London), UH Festival (Budapest), Wysing Polyphonic (Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge), Club Stomp (Osaka), Soup (Tokyo), Arnolfini (Bristol), and Berlin Atonal.
In 2015, Pomery founded and curated PRAXIS, a series of events devoted to artists
presenting text-sound compositions, held at Cafe Oto Project Space. Currently, Simon Pomery is awaiting his viva for his thesis, entitled "Sonic Poetics: Sound, Listening and Polyphony in the Work of M. NourbeSe Philip and Sean Bonney", at Royal Holloway,
University of London.

Sofia Freitas Abreu is a Portuguese performer and creator of experiences for stage. She has worked professionally as a performer and teacher (theater and creative dance for children and teens) since 2011. Rather than being enclosed in a specific discipline, Freitas Abreu’s creative work is an invitation to a stage experience. Reading and writing are her starting point, but final work takes different shapes.
She has participated as a performer and director’s assistant in projects such as, Medalha D’Ouro (2012), Cuqui Jerez (2015), Luis Moreno Zamorano (2017), Sayaka Akitsu (2017), Teatro Cão Solteiro (2019), Um Coletivo (2019), Sara Anjo e Michelle Moura (2019), Ricardo Cabaça (2021), Miguel Ribeiro (2021) and Bestiário (2021). Freitas Abreu was also
dramaturgy assistant for the dance solos Swan Fake by António Torres and Urna by Camilla Morello. As a creator and collaborator, Freitas Abreu has developed O meu coração não reconhece a palavra desconstrução, Arraial A-Real, Why do the birds go on singing, and several performative readings of her own writing and that of others.
Sofia Freitas Abreu holds undergraduate degrees in Performing Arts Studies (University of Lisbon) and Acting (Lisbon Film and Theater School), and an MA in Performing Arts and Visual Culture (UCLM/Artea/Reína Sofia Museum). She has participated also in theater workshops with Portuguese directors Miguel Loureiro and João Brites/Teatro Bando.
Although her education is theater based and a great part of her important knowledge came from the university theatre groups she performed [2a Circular (ESCS) and GTN (FCSH)], she also participated in dance workshops with Howard Sonecklar (2011), Tamara Cubas (2012), Rita Roberto (2013), Peter Michael Dietz (2014), Vânia Rovisco (2015), Makiko Tominaga (2015), Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz (2016), Clara Andermatt (2016), Vera Mantero (2018), Yonel Castilla Serrano (2019), Horácio Lopez & Carla Fonseca (2019) and Susan Klein (2019).

Anja Borowicz is an artist, collaborator and researcher based in London. Before moving into arts, she studied industrial engineering - an experience which has instilled an enduring affinity for industrial landscapes, diagrammatic instructions and thinking across taxonomies.
In her art practice, Anja uses sculptural objects, moving image and soundscapes to create installations that enhance embodied experiences of the visitors. Recent collaborations include working with a neuroscientist to stage GestureLabs, where the public responded to archives of recorded body labour, while their movements were recorded in a purpose built booth.
Anja completed her postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art and she received the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize. Her works were selected for Aesthetica Art Prize, TIAF London and City Methodologies [UrbanLab]. She is currently a research candidate at the Royal College of Art, investigating everyday working gestures as spaces of material resonances and poetic metaphors.

Dalia Castel (born 1975) is an Israeli filmmaker based in Berlin. She grew up in Jerusalem and studied film editing in Tel Aviv. In 1998, her work on the award-winning movie “Urban Feel” (dir: Jonathan Sagall) was rewarded with a nomination for the Israeli Oscar – as the youngest editor ever. She lived and worked in Rome for 7 years. There, she started her
directing career. From 2002 until 2007 she worked in collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Alessandro Cassigoli. Under the name “gotandafilm” they made various documentaries among them “Good Times” (2004) which won awards in more than 15 film festivals around the world, including Full Frame (US) and Dok Festival, Leipzig.
In 2005 she moved to Berlin where she working for various productions, among them Freunde von Freunden, Studio Kalliope, Medienkontor and many more. At the same time, she independently produced and directed the film “Jerusalem for cowards” that won the “Preis der Autoren” of the Autorenstiftung in Frankfurt am Main 2014 and Best Feature Film in Boddinale festival 2015. As well as the experimental film “The Feed” 2017, and the video dance “As long as we are together. Her approach to storytelling is deeply influenced by her experience as an editor. Dalia is less interested in linear narratives than in the possible connections and analogies between different materials, she is curious to explore new ways of expression, that can go beyond the rigid format of conventional documentary making. She likes experimenting with different kinds of media and since 2018 she is also part of Trial and Theresa a feminist VJ-collective.

Harry Man won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award in 2014 and his first book, 'Lift' was shortlisted the Sabotage ‘Best Pamphlet’ Award. He was the Wordsworth Trust Clarissa Luard Award Poet in Residence and a TOAST Poetry Fellow. His second book, a collaboration with the artist Sophie Gainsley, centred around endangered species was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. He teaches at Oxford
University.

Jacqueline van de Geer is a Montreal-based artist working primarily in performance. Hailing from the Netherlands, where she studied visual and performance art, her current practice is inspired by literature, mythology, history, politics of exclusion and personal memory.
Since her arrival to Montreal in 2005, her performative actions have combined object-theater, devised theater, dance, video, installations and integrated arts. Collective creation is an important part of her practice, and this philosophy informs her work both with fellow artistic collaborators as well as with her audiences. As such, developing strong connections with viewers is elemental: her performances offer many the opportunity to become active participants, with these spontaneous exchanges becoming an integral part of her pieces. Intimacy and surprise then surface as key components in her work, facets that irresistibly draw her audiences in.

Loise Braganza is an artist and designer who situates her work practice through the lens of identity, body and materiality of textiles. Through an intermingling and exploration of costume involves a complex methodology that problematizes different modes of garment production, the bodies wearing it and the space these occupy. Textiles (with or without body) become her dominant medium of expression. While the body, the wearer and costume become objects of artistic investigations a dialogue begins and thus is a point of departure as a legitimate site of critical inquiry. Her work emerges through collaborations with artists, solo performances, artistic and academic research and includes commissions from galleries, museums, theatre and film.

Mpumelelo Buthelezi was born in the year of democracy, 1994 in Pimville, Soweto. He taught himself to become a photographer, to interpret the time and place he was born into, to tell the untold stories of the communities of his country, to present them as narratives, full
lives lived in the margins. His parents had a different dream for me, their born free child. He was sent to study formally and obtained a Diploma Degree in Engineering at the Central Johannesburg College in 2016 even though he knew he would never become an engineer.
Now he could focus on his freedom, which was represented by his passion to take photos. Everyone knew about the famous Market Photo Workshop, home to David Goldblatt and Zanele Muholi, and that’s where he studied photojournalism and documentary photography, graduating in 2017. He has exhibited his work at Market Photo Workshop student Gallery in Johannesburg, Social Art Award in Germany, Transitions Rotterdam Foto Festival in the Netherlands, as well as a solo exhibition at WeTilt in Italy. He lives and works in Johannesburg.

Saša Nemec was born in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in 1986. She received her MSc in Fashion and Textile Design from the University of Ljubljana in 2015. She has exhibited and performed in Slovenia and abroad, especially in Finland where she resided for four years. Her practice spans between exploration of new technologies and the use of age-old techniques. From creating garments with 3D scanning technology to mending a loose button. Her graduation research and fashion collection were presented in the eponymous first solo exhibition titled ‘Untitled’ at the Tir gallery in Nova Gorica (2013). Later on, she continued her textile-based research through the Repair-a-thon project, a repeating event held internationally of which the purpose is to inform and engage the community about responsible consumption and repairing. The event has been presented, amongst others, at the Pixelache Festival (Helsinki, 2017), Design Museo (Helsinki, 2018), The Fashion Colloquium (Arnhem, 2018) and this year’s BIO|26 design biennial (Ljubljana, 2020). Nemec continued the research around the Repair-a-thon project, as part of the Collective Intelligence working group, with the work Threading Gibellina, presented at the Orestiadi Foundation (Gibellina, 2018) as part of the Manifesta12 Collateral Events and the Manifesta12 5x5x5 events (Palermo, 2018). On the other hand, she chooses to engage with the digital realm, as with her project Inside/Outside, which addresses our inability to transfer our conscience into the digital world. The project was presented at the Triennial of Young Artists - Premiera 2018 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Celje, 2018) and lastly at the Speculum Artium media festival (Trbovlje, 2019). Currently, Nemec works and lives between Helsinki, Finland and her hometown Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

Sofia Marques Ferreira was born in Lisbon, finished Visual Arts course at Ar.Co and was a fellow at the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster in London. Her practice focus on transmedia approach and include film, performance and installation, where she investigates the dramaturgy of the body as a space of resistance. She lived and worked in several cities, such as New York, China, Brazil and Berlin, where she collaborates with the collective Blaenk Minds. Currently she is a researcher at the Center of Cultural Studies, Performing Arts and Audiovisual at the University of Lisbon. She is the founder and artistic director of Solea Films.

Gabrielle Mendieta (American/Colombian, 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the limitations between live art and contemporary dance, movement notation and experimental writing, visual poetry and sculpture. Graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in Philosophy and Creative Writing (2013), attendance in 2015 to Escola de Teatro, Pábulo (Santiago de Compostela, ES) and MFA in Contemporary Art from Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra (2017). Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis where she explores the relationship between dance and performance art in Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Valencia, ES). Her thesis has led her to a research stay in Companhia Instável (Porto, PT) where she is also obtaining her diploma in interpretation and creative composition (FAICC) so as to develop a new movement notation.

Gurkan Maruf Mihci is Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator of Foundation Studies at IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design and pursues his PhD at Istanbul Institute of Design. He has his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design (Bilkent University) and, Master of Arts in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design (Sabanci University) with the concentration in Audio Visual Noise and Glitch. He has also Central European University Graduate Certificate in Culture and Politics and Maker Teacher Certificate in Robotics and 3D Printing. He is a board member of World Listening Project and member of World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and AIGA. He exhibited his collective and individual audiovisual art and media works in festivals and exhibitions such as; Gallery 263; Boston, USA, Distopya Sound Art Festival; Istanbul, Turkey, Radio Zero Festival; Porto, Portugal, Monsters International; Montreal, Canada, Animatu Digital Animation Festival; Portugal, Conde Duque; Madrid, Spain, Mestre Film Fest; Venice, Italy, FILE – Electronic Language Festival; São Paulo, Brazil, 0090; Antwerp-Mechelen, Belgium, Greenpeace Artist onBoard Residency Program; Turkey, AkSanat Contemporary Artist Competition; Turkey, 10th Istanbul Biennale; Istanbul, Turkey, Apartment Project; Berlin, Germany, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.

João Bispo is a self-taught musician and sound artist based in Lisboa, Portugal, whose practice involves a deconstruction of compositional techniques in music while keeping with the record format. The experimentation with the arrhythmic, the erratic, the disharmonious as compositional elements of otherwise harmonious pieces, as symbolic embracing of spontaneity and frailty are part of the experience of music as a form of art and expression. His first record “Dreaming of Sleeping Angels” had favorable reviews in Portuguese music
newspaper Blitz.
He attended a course in audio engineering at Academia Áudio da Graça, Lisboa. He lived in Lima, Peru from 2012 to 2015. There he worked in projects related to visual arts as a production assistant for exhibits and fabric arts workshops and as an illustrator. He created the artist community El Vals del Conejo, dedicated to music, hosting and supporting the works of artists from Finland, the United Kingdom and Indonesia. He composed the soundtrack for documentary ‘MASAS’, for contemporary dance piece ‘Grietas’, among other works. He attended the course for the management and production of performative arts in Forum Dança, Lisboa (CGPAE2019). He participated as an invited sound artist in contemporary dance improvisation sessions which bore fruit to an informal collective presentation, composed and produced the soundtrack for Ana de Albuquerque’s short film ‘P.S. – Ama-te’ which was premiered in the Dance Short Film Fest at Teatro da Malaposta and recently presented at the Blue Elephant Theater in London. Currently he is researching rhythmic noise and dissonant tones as physical vibration triggers for emotional response, having released two live performance logs into this theme, and has a project planned for a research residency involving audio registering of social environments for use as compositional elements towards ephemeral artistic objects.

Júlia de Luca has Italian-Brazilian nationality and is currently based in Portugal. Bachelor of Visual Arts with a degree in Painting from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA / USP). In 2018 she specialized her practice of authorial photography with the photographer Marcelo Greco at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM-SP). Her tutors in painting, drawing and photography were Geraldo Souza Dias, Marco Gianotti, Claudio Mubarac, Marco Buti, João Luiz Musa, Paolo Quaglio and André Lombardi. Júlia De Luca started her painting practice at the age of 8 in her hometown, São Paulo, Brazil, and started to attend a professional studio at the age of 12. She has professional experience in various artistic segments such as painting, drawing, illustration, performance, cinema, theater, photography and music. She is a partner of the POLACO FILMES Film Producer, regularly contributing to the creation of posters, color editing and art direction. She was one of the creators of PULSO CREATIVO, an initiative that involves art and sustainability. The action includes awareness-raising activities, an art exhibition and a bazaar for handmade products. She has also worked in the administrative area for Lombardi Galeria, in São Paulo whose focus has always been on artistic photography. Currently works as a painter, performer, illustrator and photographer, combining different artistic languages in a creative and original way.

Nefeli Gioti was born in Athens. She graduated from Environmental Sciences at the Aegean University, studied contemporary dance practices at Tanzfabrik in Berlin and attended "Theory of Performance Practices" at the Kapodistrian Athens University. She has choreographed “Whoops!” (2015), "kamikazi" -work in progress-(2016), Iceberg (2017). In 2017, she participated in a residency at Kinitras Studio, where she choreographed "Conus Magus". In 2018, she received a grant by NEON Organization for the production of a new work, "Tundra". She considers dance as an area of encounter between body and mind. As far as she knows, she is exploring the areas of an intellectual body and an embodied mind, discovering the tautological and/or the divergent meaning of those. She enjoys following the procedure of unfolding questions with no possible answers. Nefeli is interested in the ethics of collaborative creation processes.

Laurence Alliston-Greiner is a British theatre-maker, performing artist and practitioner based in Lisbon, Portugal.
His work is influenced by many cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary practices and often explores social stigma and taboos.
He holds an MA(Hons) in Theatre for Young Audiences and a BA(Hons) in American Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College and The University of Manchester - he also studied at St.Mary’s University in Minnesota, USA. Laurence teaches and facilitates workshops for children and adults and is invested in using theatre as a tool to promote social inclusion and foster creativity from a young age. As an artist and teacher, he worked extensively with his company, Floods of Ink, touring children’s shows into venues across the UK. He has worked in collaboration with a range of institutions including; The V&A Museum, Half Moon Young People’s Theatre, Blackheath Conservatoire and The Barbican. Laurence is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority and has worked as a visiting lecturer at Rose Bruford College, Identity Drama School and Bath Spa University. He continues to explore his practice as a multi-disciplinary artist and is interested in bridging the gap between academic study and practical performance. Most recently he has started exploring work for very young audiences as well as experiments creating performance work for digital spaces.

Sezen Tonguz lives and works in Lisbon and maintains a strong relationship with Turkey. BS in Environmental Engineering, studied culture and arts management and contemporary dance. As an artist and producer, she collaborates with various international artists. Her works were presented in Europe, Turkey, Brasil and U.S.A. She is the founder and international projects coordinator of informal artist network (Re)union since 2015. She holds an MA degree on Communication and Arts at New University of Lisbon (NOVA, 2015) and is a PhD student at Artistic Studies - Art and Mediations. In 2018, she was a guest curator for creation of a series of artistic residencies at Forum Dança in scope of Artist as Curator by Ezequiel Santos. Recipient of danceWEB 2019 Scholarship in scope of Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Tonguz continues her research and activity on artistic research and curatorial practices in performing arts.

SRDYNs is the pseudonym of Marco Sardinha, a Portuguese interdisciplinary creative. Insatiably curious, he has background studies in Architecture, Industrial Design, and in Directing for Film and Television, split between colleges in Portugal and Italy. Occasional taker of classes on different fields, such as: Copywriting, Art Direction, Narrative Techniques, as well as talks – attending them, that is. He does enjoy talking, but not in the TED kind of way. Proud owner of – some - 9-to-5 working experience as an Exhibition Designer at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and other places in between, but is currently working as a
freelance creative, mostly in the fields of Graphic Design, Illustration, and Film.
Marco enjoys challenges, inspirational people (and projects), critical thinking, as does the occasional stroll on the beach - not exclusively at sunsets, but still -.