Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in in Reykjavík and Berlin. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.

Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com

studio b severin is a Berlin-based design studio, run by the German-French duo Birgit Severin and Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. By re-designing processes and the material world, they explore the psychological dimension of our environment to create visions for a more socially just and sustainable society. Severin recently worked to support the CoSocial Project of the Max Planck Institut with Prof. Tania Singer, exploring the effect of mindfulness-based mental training programs to reduce emotional stress caused by the pandemic.
www.studiobseverin.com

Rhea Dall, Ph.D., is a Danish curator and the Director of  O—Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. From 2017 to 2020 she headed the Oslo institution UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society). She co-founded and ran PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2013-2015) with Kristine Siegel and co-curated the international triennale Bergen Assembly 2016.

Camalo Gaskin is an experienced doula, a lecturer, ritual guide, Intimacy Coach, and Human Connection Consultant for partners, organizations, and institutions. Gaskin created Guardians of Intimacy and the Center for Doula Pathways to train doulas internationally. The force behind her work carries us into themes of intimacy, transcendence, perception, presence, collective trauma, birth and end of life. In 2015, she created the film and conference series How We Birth with legendary thinker, surgeon, and obstetrician Dr. Michel Odent. She co-authored the allegory and intersectional feminist children’s book on self-actualization and financial literacy, Entrepreneur Finds Her Way (2018).

Rhea Dall, Ph.D., is a Danish curator and the Director of  O—Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. From 2017 to 2020 she headed the Oslo institution UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society). She co-founded and ran PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2013-2015) with Kristine Siegel and co-curated the international triennale Bergen Assembly 2016.

Camalo Gaskin is an experienced doula, a lecturer, ritual guide, Intimacy Coach, and Human Connection Consultant for partners, organizations, and institutions. Gaskin created Guardians of Intimacy and the Center for Doula Pathways to train doulas internationally. The force behind her work carries us into themes of intimacy, transcendence, perception, presence, collective trauma, birth and end of life.

Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch (USA) is a curator, editor, and writer based in Berlin, focused on the role of the editorial—processes of rereading—within artistic practice at large and at length. A major thread of investigation focuses on collaborative thought and how this is manifest in the process of making artist publications and materialising artwork in direct relation to context.

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík, Iceland and Berlin, Germany. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.

Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com

Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an internationally active curator and author, and occasional teacher, with a background in Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory. He is the co-editor of the journal Ord&Bild, founding director of the curatorial residency, CRIS, and editor in mischief of tsnoK.se.

Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson is an Icelandic theater director and an author. Arnarsson is a leading voice within the European theater scene, with a reputation of dissecting canonical literature in a highly collective method along with his collaborators. He is the former chief of the theater department at the Volksbühne, Berlin and is currently a part of the leadership group at the National Theater of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Johanna Leinius, Ph.D., is a social scientist and scientific manager of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's and Gender Studies of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, focusing on postcolonial-feminist theory, political ontology, gender relations in socio-environmental transformations, and social movements. Previously, she worked at the Department of Sociological Theory and the graduate programme Ecologies of Social Cohesion at the University of Kassel and at the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Florian Lutz is artistic director of Staatstheater Kassel since 2021. He has worked as a freelance theater and opera director since 2003, also authoring publications on music and opera history. Under his artistic direction (2016–2020), the Oper House Halle “developed into one of the most innovative places of contemporary music theater” (Die Deutsche Bühne). In the focus of regional and nationwide experts, it was honoured with numerous accolades including the German Theater Prize DER FAUST.

Mi You, Ph.D., is Professor of Art and Economies at University of Kassel / documenta Institute. Trained in media theory and science and technology studies, she was a research associate at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2014–2021), and has held lecturer positions in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University (2019–2020), in the Roaming Academy of the Dutch Art Institute (2018–2019), and in Media Art at the University of the Arts Bremen (2016–2017).

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík, Iceland and Berlin, Germany. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.

Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík, Iceland and Berlin, Germany. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.

Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com

studio b severin is a Berlin-based design studio, run by the German-French duo Birgit Severin and Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. By re-designing processes and our material world, they explore the psychological dimension of our environment to create visions for a more socially just and sustainable society. Severin recently worked to support the CoSocial Project of the Max Planck Institut with Prof. Tania Singer, exploring the effect of mindfulness-based mental training programs to reduce emotional stress caused by the pandemic.
www.studiobseverin.com

Dehlia Hannah, Ph.D., is a curator and philosopher of nature and currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, where her project Rewilding the Museum (2021-2025) examines the art museum’s status within the fragile ecologies of the Anthropocene. She is the editor of A Year Without a Winter (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), a transdisciplinary investigation of contemporary imaginaries of climate change, Julius von Bismarck —Talking to Thunder (2019), Julian Charrière—Toward No Earthly Pole (2020), and the Routledge Handbook of Art and Science and Technology Studies (2021).

Lydia Goehr, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992); The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy [essays on Richard Wagner] (1998); Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory (2008), and co-editor of The Don Giovanni Moment. Essays on the legacy of an Opera (2006) and Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story (2021). Her research focuses on German aesthetic theory and the relationship between philosophy, politics, history, and music.

Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an internationally active curator and author, and occasional teacher, with a background in Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory. He is the co-editor of the journal Ord&Bild, founding director of the curatorial residency, CRIS, and editor in mischief of tsnoK.se.

Aino Ihanainen is a circus and installation artist from Finland. Starting her training at the age of ten, she has worked independently and with companies including Circus Xanti, Circo Aereo, and Cirkus Cirkör. Ihanainen combines the dynamic environment of the circus with slow and meditative practices of textile art and knitting, bringing circus to venues like museums and public space. Alongside her Cirkus Cirkör show Knitting Peace, touring with Weibel Weibel Co., and multidisciplinary performances with Arachne Project, she currently focuses on the balance of motherhood.

Alexander Weibel Weibel is a Spanish circus artist and musician. He abandoned an engineering focus to study in the National Circus School of Moscow and the University of Circus in Stockholm. Specialised in balance, whether on a slack rope, unicycle, or tight wire, Weibel Weibel has worked around the world with companies like Cirkus Cirkör, 7 Fingers, and Circus Oz, and won prizes at festivals like Cirque de Demain. In his own shows and within concept design and innovation at Cirkus Cirkör, he focuses on finding new methods or ways to interact with the audience.