Contributors

Tatiana Bazzichelli

is a curator and researcher on information technology, network culture, hacktivism, and whistleblowing. She is the artistic director and founder of Disruption Network Lab, a Berlin-based nonprofit organization in Germany (Disruption Network Lab e. V.) that has since 2014 organized participatory, interdisciplinary, international events at the intersection of human rights and technology with the objective of strengthening freedom of speech.

Alex Ostojski

(*1997) is a Polish-German writer and scholar of art history in a global context at Freie Universität Berlin.

Anna Doil

Geb. 1994 in Biberach an der Riß. Studierte Kulturwissenschaft und Area Studies in Berlin und Yogyakarta. Nach einer Zwischenstation beim Goethe-Institut Bangkok nun wieder zurück in Berlin (wer orientierungslos ist, kommt viel mehr rum).

Iliana Fokianaki, Maria Louka

iLiana Fokianaki is a curator, theorist and educator based in Athens and Rotterdam.

Maria Louka has studied psychology at Panteion University, Athens and works as a journalist.

Pablo Santacana Lopez

(Madrid, 1991) is an art researcher and architectural designer co-founder of Spanish art collective Vendedores de Humo and member of Berlin-based platform decolonizeM21. He is associate researcher at the FH Erfurt and phd candidate at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Piotr Franz

ist in Polen geboren und Berlin aufgewachsen. Nach seinem Studium in Berlin, Frankfurt (Oder), Ljubljana und Warschau hat er zur Entstehung nationalistischer und faschistischer Netzwerke in Polen promoviert, wofür er u.A. von der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, dem Deutschen Historischen Institut Warschau, der Deutschen Nationalstiftung und der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Europa-Universität Viadrina gefördert wurde. Seit 2021 ist er als Referent bei Gesicht Zeigen! Für ein weltoffenes Deutschland e.V. im Rahmen des bundesweiten Kompetenznetzwerks Rechtsextremismusprävention für die Themen Rechtsextremismus und Wirtschaft verantwortlich.

Abhijan Toto

is a curator, artist and writer, interested in ecosophy, indisciplinary research, labour and infrastructures, based between Berlin, Germany, Bangkok, Thailand and Seoul, South Korea. In 2018, he began assembling the Forest Curriculum with Pujita Guha, a multi-platform project for research and mutual co-learning around the naturecultures of the forested belts of South and Southeast Asia. Recent curatorial projects include Protocinema's A Few In Many Places, Seoul, Bangkok, Istanbul, New York, San Juan, Guatemala City (2021) with Mari Spirito; A House In Many Parts, Bangkok, Thailand (2020); In The Forest, Even The Air Breathes, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (2020).

Adam Kleinman

ist freier Schriftsteller in New York. Zuvor war er Chefredakteur und außerordentlicher Kurator am damaligen Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, dem heutigen Kunstinstituut Melly. Er war zuständig für das Public Programm der dOCUMENTA (13) und Kurator beim Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Adriana Tranca

is an independent curator, researcher and writer. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and one in Art History from the University of Bucharest and a Master of Fine Arts in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently Adriana works as a freelance curator at E-WERK Luckenwalde, where she is involved in several projects. Notably, she has co-founded CURRENTS, an electronic music festival that combines contemporary art and live electronic music, showcasing both established and emerging artists. Adriana’s curatorial practice is socially engaged, as evidenced by her involvement in organizing Speculative Properties (2023), a protest exhibition
against real estate speculation in Berlin-Kreuzberg that forced artists out of their studios – a project that attracted the attention of the Berlin Senate. She has recently contributed to an artist book by Šejla Kamerić, published by Distanz Verlag.

Afrang Nordlöf Malekian

(b. 1995) is an Iranian-Swedish artist based in Berlin and Stockholm, who creates performances and installations informed by processes of hybridization in migratory cultures. He is represented by Moderna Museet, the Public Art Agency Sweden, and the Arab Image Foundation Library. He has previously conducted artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation and was artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His work has been exhibited at venues including the 10th Berlin Biennale, Sophiensaele, Moderna Museet, and Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius.

Agata Pyzik

is a writer, contributes to Artforum & Calvert Journal, author of Poor but Sexy. Culture Clashes in Europe East and West (2013) and a memoir A Girl & a Gun (2020). She lives in Warsaw.

Agnieszka Gratza

is an editor and art critic based in Rome. Her writings about art, performance, and film can be found on her blog: Conversation Pieces.

Agnieszka Roguski

lebt und arbeitet in Berlin an der Schnittstelle von Forschung und Kuratorischem. Sie versteht ihr Wissen als Praxis – und umgekehrt. Diesem Grundsatz folgend, beschäftigt sie sich vorwiegend mit Visuellen und Digitalen Kulturen, Performance und queer-feministischen Perspektiven, etwa in ihrer Promotion The Self on Display an der Freien Universität Berlin.

Ahmed Isamaldin

is a media artist, blogger, and researcher with a diverse background. He earned a degree in Physics from the University of Khartoum and Visual Communication at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Ahmed’s artistic and research practice explores various themes, including immigration, psychology, revolutionary processes, decolonial design, and technology.

Aiwen YIN

is a practicing designer, researcher, theorist, strategist, and project developer, who advocates relationship-focused design as a strategy to redesign, re-engineer, and reimagine the relationship between technology and society. Although the text is written by YIN, Solidarity Trinity is part of the bigger gamification-as-research project, Alchemy of Commons, developed by YIN and educator and community practitioner Yiren ZHAO, hence authorship belongs to both of them.

Alesa Mustar

geboren in Slowenien und wohnhaft in Berlin, studierte Architektur und arbeitet als Kulturmanagerin sowie Kuratorin mit Schwerpunkt auf Krisengeografien und Critical Curating. Derzeit ist sie als künstlerische Co-Leiterin im Deutschen Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin tätig.

Alessandro Y. Longo

is a philosopher and researcher based in Berlin. Alessandro's research explores subversive uses of technology, cooperative economic models, and cultural mutations in the age of digital networks. He is the founder of REINCANTAMENTO, a research and publishing collective that explores technology, radical imagination, and rituals through the lens of re-enchantment.

Alexander Kolesnikow

Alexander Kolesnikov ist investigativer Journalist aus Minsk, Weißrussland. Er studierte am Institut für Journalismus der Belarussischen Staatlichen Universität mit Abschluss Soziologie und Kunstgeschichte und arbeitet mit gesellschaftspolitischen Medien in Belarus, Russland und der Ukraine zusammen.

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Alina Kolar

Alke Heykes

is a curator based in Frankfurt am Main. With a background in fashion, textiles and discourses around the body, he is invested in craft and material-based practices in contemporary art. He is artistic co-director of the Kunstverein Göttingen.

Amanda de la Garza

lives in Mexico City as a curator, art historian, and poet. She is the deputy director of the Museum Reina Sofia.

Amanda Paruta

born in Buffalo, NY, is driven by questions of ethics, capitalism, and class in classical music. Growing up in a largely workingpoor city, Paruta experienced feelings of alienation after crossing the socioeconomic wealth gap in order to study music. She will begin pursuing a PhD in Music History and Theory at the University at Buffalo in the Fall.

Amani AboShabana

a is a writer and poet from Egypt who currently lives in Norway.

Amelie Jakubek

Amelie Jakubek

is an artist, editor and organizer researching methodologies of collectives. She is working with AWC, Archive Books, the Collective Commune/ الكوميونة (Cairo and Berlin) and the association Membrane e.V..

Anamaría Garzón Mantilla

is a curator and full time faculty at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Garzón is the editor of post(s), and creative director of Khôra, a non-profit space.

Andreas Petrossiants

is a writer and editor.

Andrej Grubačić

is an anarchist dissident, historian, and author of Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia, and Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History.

Andries de Lange & Isobel Mills

Andries de Lange is a social-spatial practitioner based in Berlin and Eindhoven. A member of ConstructLab, he collaborated on Atelier 3 during KOKO.

Isobel Mills is a spatial practitioner from East London. She worked with ConstructLab for nine weeks, contributing to KOKO’s construction, events, and post-event phases.

Angela Lammert

is head of special interdisciplinary projects in the Visual Arts Section at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and associate professor at the Institute for Art and Visual History of the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has organized numerous exhibitions and published widely on the art of the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Angelika Stepken

is an author, curator, and researcher based in Pescia and Berlin. From 2006-2022 she directed the Künstlerhaus Villa Romana in Florence, and, before that, the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe. She has published many texts on art and she has curated international exhibitions.

Angeliki Tzortzakaki

(she/her) works as a writer, curator, editor, researcher and occasionally performer in Amsterdam and her birthplace Crete.

Àngels Miralda Tena

is a Catalan-American writer and curator currently based in Terrassa, Catalonia. She writes on curatorial and institutional ethics and organises exhibitions internationally.

Anna Ehrenstein

works in transdisciplinary artistic practice with a focus on research and mediation. She uses lens based media, installation, social moments, sculpture, print or writing to reflect the intersections and divergences of so-called 'high' and 'low cultures' and their socio-economic and political constitutions. Raised between Albania and Germany reflections on migration-related visual and material culture, the social life of things, networked images and diasporic narratives form main foci of her work. She studied photography, media arts and curatorial studies and see’s her work as an art educator as part of her artistic and activist practice. She works with a variety of groups together on collaborative artistic projects, e.g. amongst others for the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, within District Berlin as part of the intersectional, feminist collective N*A*I*L*S or the Critical Academy in Dublin.

Anna Muchin

Anna Muchin (b.1985, GR/FR) is a music, poetry and photography artist. As composer and singer-songwriter ‘Scarlett O’Hanna’ ( www.scarlettohanna.com ), she has released and toured records Cheap Bling Bling (2009), Impostor (2011) and Romance Floats (2014) in Europe, Usa and Japan. Her collaborations include playing support for Wilco, Cocorosie, touring with She Keeps Bees, creating with Nate Kinsella (aka Birthmark), Peter Silberman (The Antlers) and sound designing in dance, fashion or the cinema.

Over the course of residencies in Belgium and Japan, she has extended her practice to visual language and poetry. Mixed-media creations that explore societal realities through the intimate.

A.M. also works as a writer, translator and lives in Brussels.
https://annamuchin.com/about/

Anna Papaeti

is Research Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus and Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound, and the Ethics of Witnessing (MUTE). She writes about the nexus of music, sound and trauma, and the inte rections of politics, ethics, and aesthetics. She is also a research-based-art practitioner, working in sound and textual forms.

Annamaria Olsson

is an NGO founder, writer, and activist, living in Berlin since 2008. The text is an excerpt from the book “Borderland: A European Mosaic of Walls and Welcomes”. The book was recently dropped by its German agent due two chapters referring to the German-Palestinian history.

Anne Rodrigues

is a historian, artistic director, performer, and curator from Salvador, Brazil. Her work connects music, politics, and Afro-diasporic practices, drawing on her experiences with groups such as Ilê Aiyê, Filhos de Gandhy, and Laboratório Rumpilezzinho. In her essay for the South-to-South project at the Humboldt Forum, she reflects on the Black Atlantic body as an archive of memory and resistance, capable of preserving intangible knowledge and power struggles through embodied strategies of survival and creation.

Antonia Alampi

is a curator, researcher and writer born to southern Italy and currently based in Berlin, where she is Artistic co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary. She is also on the curatorial team of the quadrennial sonsbeek2020-2024. In 2016, she and iLiana Fokianaki initiated the research project Future Climates, focusing on how economic fluxes shape and determine the work of small-scale initiatives in contexts with weak public infrastructures for arts and culture.

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is an artistic venture born from the residual creative vapors of INDEX:Records. Its curation: music that hangs weightless between experimental electronica, future-breaks and ambient-lucidity. The label explores the fringes of what is sonically understood as music, whilst metamorphosing the conceptions of genre itself.

Arantxa Ciafrino

is a museologist and art historian, currently based in Berlin.

Arash Shahali

Arash Shahali is one of the hottest and most efficient press agents in the so-called art world, currently based in Copenhagen. He enjoys a variety of activities ranging from gold to miniature golf.

Aria Baghestani

is an artist, writer, and dramaturge from Tehran whose works integrate literature, performing arts, and film. He started his career in Tehran’s independent theatre scene in the 2010s, working as a playwright and director in mainly student projects. After graduating from the University of Tehran with a degree in dramatic literature, he completed a master’s in Dramaturgy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Throughout his time in Frankfurt, Baghestani’s projects have been presented in venues such as Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Frankfurt Lab. His artistic and research interests are focused on storytelling, history, and memory from a post-colonial perspective. Besides his career as an artist, Baghestani has also worked as a producer with other artists in Berlin. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Theater and Performance Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt with the dissertation title Storytelling: Navigating from an End to a New Crisis.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

ist Autorin, Kuratorin, Filmemacherin und Theoretikerin in Fotografie und visueller Kultur.

Sie ist Professorin für Moderne Kultur und Medien sowie für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Brown University und freischaffende Kuratorin für Archive und Ausstellungen.

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College London, where he leads the Sociology & Social Theory Research Group. His current book project, tentatively titled Real Fake, is an intellectual history of conspiracy politics and distortion technologies in finance capitalism.

Arnold Braho

is an independent curator and contributor for various specialized magazines including Flash Art, L'Essenziale Studio and Artribune. Braho is co-founder of the curatorial platform Sa.turn of the Provinciale11 collective. He has worked as assistant curator on international projects and has been invited by institutions such as the Center for Italian Modern Art (NYC), Istanbul Biennial, Villa Arson (Nice), FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea (Milan). He was assistant curator for Marco Scotini’s Disobedience Archive, which was invited as part of the 60th Venice Biennale.

Ashley Dawson

is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the Graduate Center/City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He has published many books on the ecological emergency, including the forthcoming Environmentalism from Below (Haymarket), as well as People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso, 2017), and Extinction: A Radical History (O/R, 2016). Dawson is an activist with the Public Power NY movement and the abolitionist campaign for a Renewable Rikers.

Aslı Erdoğan

is the author of eight books, novels, novellas, poetic prose and essays and has worked as a columnist for various national and international papers. Her works have been adapted for theatre, ballet, radio and film. She is an outspoken critic against the arbitrary rule in her home country Turkey and currently lives in Berlin.

Astrée Duval

is dancefloor mystique, cosmic healer and socialist agitator. She is currently based in Berlin.

Asya Yaghmurian

holds a Masters in Journalism. She cofounded and curated Armenia’s first Design Pavillion. She has worked for international media and assisted
on various art projects including the Dilijan Arts Observatory 2016 (Armenia), and “Portable Homelands” for the exhibition “Hello World. Revising a Collection” at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2018. More recently she was the curatorial assistant for the 33rd edition of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. She currently lives and works in Berlin where she is the cocurator of the forthcoming Slavs & Tatars’ “Pickle Bar” at KW Institute of Contemporary Art. Asya is an editor of art publications and speaks fluent Russian, Armenian, German and English.

Atilla Saygel

Atilla Saygel is an architect at Attila Saygel & Lorenz Schreiber GbR.

Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang continued to develop free software, searching for new ways of communicating and conversing about problems. The first popular one, “Common Grounds” from 2023 was able to syn- thesise discussions towards the most profitable outcome for all involved. The breakthrough was in 2025 when she shared a soft- ware based in the quantum realm called “Face to Face” which was first operated by the Taiwanese government to facilitate politi- cal discourse. In later updates it became so effective that it was quickly adapted by administrations all over the world. From 2029 onwards Tang was overseeing “The Identity System”, responsible for global peacekeeping and political discourse (in the digital).

Avi Bolotinsky

is a writer, director and language service provider. She studied philosophy, history of science and photography. She lives in Berlin and/or in Hamburg.

AWC Team

Bakang Mputle

Bakang Mputle, is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher and contributor of AWC, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Barbara Casavecchia

is a writer, independent curator and educator based in Milan, where she teaches at Brera art academy.

Bare Minimum Collective

is a queer interdisciplinary anti-work art collective. We hate working, hustling, neoliberal self-improvement, wage labour and surplus value, private property, how work eats into our time, our love, and our ability to make things in earnest. We are group of friends who decided to formally name an existing structure of relation that keeps us alive through our labour for each other. We are lazy, queer and many of us are disabled. Our work has most recently been on show at Kunsthalle Wien’s 2023 exhibition ‘In the Meantime, Winter Comes Around’, as well as in screenings at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (2023) and Somerset House (2023).

Bart van der Heide

is the director of Museion in Bolzano and former chief curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and director of the Kunstverein in Munich.

Ben Livne Weitzman

BEN LIVNE WEITZMAN is a curator and writer invested in augmented interventions, sonic compositions, blurred poetic clearings and bonfire communal gatherings. Born in Jerusalem and currently living in Frankfurt am Main. He is Editor-in-Chief of PASSE-AVANT, an online magazine for contemporary art, and the founder of WAVA, an augmented exhibition platform.

Benjamin T. Busch

Benjamin T. Busch (*1987, Kansas City) is an American visual artist and architect living in Berlin. Spanning art, architecture, curating, and writing, his work deals with the aesthetics/politics of space. His ongoing research considers spatial practice through processes of urbanization, self-organization, and the everyday, with regard to the growing role of computation across societies. Since spring 2018, Busch co-directs The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER) together with Lorenzo Sandoval. www.studiobusch.com

Bilge Emine Arslan

is a visual artist and writer born in Iskenderun, Turkey, living and working in Berlin. She studied MA Spatial Strategies at Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Germany. Most of her work is related to tangible-intangible space studies, socio-cultural structures, landscape, migration, identity and boundaries. She works across a variety of different media, using varied techniques and methods: video art installations, ready-mades, photography and drawing.

Boaz Levin

is an artist, writer, and curator who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Levin is the co-founder, together with Vera Tollmann and Hito Steyerl, of the Research Center for Proxy Politics, and editor of Cabinet Magazine's Kiosk platform. In 2017, he was co-curator of the Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie, which is staged at exhibition venues in Heidelberg, Mannheim, and Ludwigshafen. He is currently co-curator of the 3rd Chennai Photo Biennale, taking place in Chennai, India. He is the author of "On Distance", ed. Laura Preston (Berlin: Atlas Projectos, 2020).

Bue Rübner Hansen

is a postdoctoral researcher and member of Common Ecologies.

Carceral Time Working Group

is composed of a group of 20 students (Jacob Bertilsson, Jacob Bolton, Severine Chapelle, Ayana Enomoto-Hurst, Georgia Ferguson, Omar Hmidat, Ana Lopez Sanchez-Vegazo, Andrea Macias-Yanez, Marvi Mazhar, James Moss, Ginevra Naldini, Miguel Ramos Hernandez, Giovanna Reder, Duncan Salkovskis, Caterina Selva, Elara Shurety, Sanjana Varghese, Nikki Vieler, Ollie Zhang) of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths.

Carla Garlaschi

 (b. Chile) aka Princess Prada is a visual artist, writer and performer currently living and working in London and Stockholm. In her work, she deals with Latin American regionally specific entertainment genres, such as telenovela and reggaeton, as grounds for syncretism and/or social friction. As a reggaeton artist she released The Princess Prada EP.

www.carlagarlaschi.com

https://www.instagram.com/akaprincessprada/

Carlos Delclós

ist Soziologe und Schriftsteller, promovierte an der Universität Pompeu Fabra und beschäftigt sich in seiner Arbeit mit sozialem Wandel und Ungleichheit in Städten. Er ist Autor von "Hope Is a Promise: From the Indignados to the Rise of Podemos in Spain" und hat für die New York Times, Frieze und Ctxt geschrieben.

Carlos Hanke Barajas

was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and studied Political Science and Public Law in Mannheim, Bilbao, and Leipzig. He has worked as editor-in-chief of uni[ma]gazin, contributed to election monitoring for the 2021 federal elections with Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen, written portraits for Table.Media, and worked on the ZDF program Aurel Original. Since February 2024, he has been Social Media Editor at Der Freitag.

Carolina Campos

(Caxias do Sul, 1978) explores performance, writing, and pedagogy with a focus on collective, collaborative creation. She investigates artistic accompaniment and Real Time Composition with João Fiadeiro, blending practice with philosophy and neuroscience.

Caroline Busta

is a Berlin-based writer working with questions of culture, technology, and globalism. She is the founder of NEW MODELS, a media platform and community addressing the emergent effects of networked technology on art, tech, politics, and pop-culture. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berlin-based critical art journal Texte zur Kunst. Prior to that, she was an Associate Editor at Artforum magazine in New York City.

Caspar Shaller

Caspar Shaller (*1989) is an American-Swiss journalist, editor, and translator. He writes for publications such as Die Zeit, Der Freitag, Jacobin or Die Wochenzeitung, mostly about political and social movements, theory, contemporary art and film, and sometimes about (queer) subcultures, socialist architecture or techno tourism. He lives in Berlin.

In 2019, he published his first book with Kampa Verlag, a conversation with Canadian writer Margaret Atwood: Aus dem Wald hinausfinden.

Cassie Thornton

is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience and for unanticipated collectivity. She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for the survivors of gentrification, has hypnotized hedge fund managers, has finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, has donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and has taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). She has worked in close collaboration with freelance curators and producers including Taraneh Fazeli, Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Dani Admiss, Amanda Nudelman, Misha Rabinovich, Caitlin Foley and Laurel Ptak. Her projects, invited and uninvited, have appeared at (or in collaboration with) Transmediale Festival for Media Arts, San Francisco MoMA, West Den Haag, Moneylab, Swissnex San Francisco, Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, Dream Farm Commons, Furtherfield, Gallery 400, Strike Debt Bay Area, Red Bull Detroit, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Flux Factory, Bemis Center for the Arts, Berliner Gazette and more.

Caterina Selva

is an architect, landscape designer and researcher. A graduate of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University, her work explores the power structures that shape bodies and landscapes in extractive ecologies and border environments.

Cecilia Vilela

is a London-based curator and writer focused on contemporary art that addresses ecology, the use of language, the legacy of colonisation and experiences of displacement. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Cecilia holds an MA Art History and Theory by the University of Essex, UK, and is especially interested in exploring the articulations that are possible between European structures and perspectives of the Global South. www.ceciliavilela.com

Cecilia Bien

is a writer and researcher living in and working in Vienna AT.

Ceylan Öztrük

is an artist / writer, lives in Zürich.
ceylanoztruk.com

Ché Zara Blomfield

is a curator and writer, and Progressive International’s Arts and Culture Coordinator.

Chris Paxton

Chris is an artist, curator and writer living in Berlin. His research focuses on mediation in art and cultural institutions. He currently studies Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

Christian Tschirner

is head of dramaturgy at the Schaubühne Berlin. After training as an animal keeper at the Leipzig Zoo, he studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Since then, he has worked as an actor, author, director, and dramaturg.

Christina Lehnert

lebt und arbeitet als Kuratorin in Frankfurt am Main. Sie war bis Anfang diesen Jahres Kuratorin am Portikus.

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos

Mx. Cibelle Cavalli Bastos (b. 1978, São Paulo, Brazil) Non-binary, They/Them pronouns.
Artist, musician, independent researcher and activist. Lives and works between Berlin, São Paulo and London. Graduated in 2015 from Royal College of Art, London. Released four music albums worldwide under "Cibelle" for Crammed Discs and has performed and presented work in Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid-SP), Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin-DE), ICA (London-UK), MASP (São Paulo-BR) Carnegie Hall (NY-USA), LCCA (Riga-LV), CAC Wifredo Lam (Havana-Cuba), 6th Moscow Biennale (Moscow-RU), Steirischer Herbst and collaborations in the 28th /31st São Paulo Biennial (SP-Brazil) among others.
Website: cibellecavallibastos.xyz
IG: aevtarperform

Çiğdem Inan

Çiğdem Inan ist Soziologin. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Ihre Lehr- und
Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Affekttheorien, Poststrukturalismus, Kritische
Migrationssozio­logie, Gender Studies und Postcolonial Studies.

Claire Fontaine

is a collective artist, she isn’t a political group, she isn’t born out of any political ambition of the sort, we make art and we write, we are not trying to provide the next generation of revolutionaries with a conceptual and visual toolbox: that would be very pretentious. Our writings are born on the side of our visual work, what we do is a completely different operation from Tiqqun (1 and 2). Claire Fontaine was born from the diagnosis of political impotence, we used to say that some artists at the end of the nineties and the beginning of the two-thousands were political refugees within the space of contemporary art; that might have changed too during the past ten years, refugees don’t stay refugees forever: art isn’t a camp. 

Collective Conditions

was a worksession on the conditions for/of collectivity and collaboration that took place from 8 until 16 November 2019 in Ateliers Mommen in Brussels. It was organised in the framework of the European project Iterations.

Artists, software developers, theorists, activists and others experimented with the generative potential of codes of conduct, bugreports, licenses and complaints. They thought of such performative documents as platforms to experiment with the conditions for complex collectivity in troubling times.

Cristina Ramos

is a writer and independent curator.

Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva

is an art critic, editor, and curator.

Dal Chodha

is a London-based writer and editor-in-chief of Archivist Addendum – a publishing project that explores the gap between fashion editorial and academe. A lecturer at Central Saint Martins, he is a contributing editor at Wallpaper* magazine. SHOW NOTES (2020) is available to buy at tenderbooks.co.uk.

Dalia Maini

is a writer, spoken words performer, cultural agitator, and AWC editor in chief.

Dalia Maini & Filipe Lippe

Filipe Lippe (b. 1986, Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artist, poet, educator and theorist. He is currently based in Berlin.

Dalia Maini aka DM aka Dalia Maini Troise aka DMT, is a slow thinker and cultural agitator, who writes and edits for and within the undercommons.

Dan Hancox

is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life.

Dana Kopel

is a writer, editor, and former union organizer living in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing a PhD in US labor history at UCLA.

Daniel Moldoveanu

is an artist and essayist born in Constanta, Romania, currently based in Berlin. He graduated from the Vienna Institute of Fashion and is currently enrolled at the Humboldt University and the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. His practice encompasses painting, video, photography, mixed media (garment) and text.

Daniela Labra

is a curator, cultural critic and educator. She is a founder of the art studies platform Zait.art, and lives between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.

Danny Hayward

is a poet and critic.

Dany Tsuruta, Nour Hamade

Dany Tsuruta is a Lebanese Japanese student, studying Global history at FU and HU. Dany did the undergrad in Kyoto Doshisha university focusing on anthropology and history. Dany likes guess friendships, cooking, making art, abolishing the police and taking down capitalism.

Nour Hamade is a final year masters student at the Architectural Association in London. As a Third-Cultured ‘Kid’ living in the diaspora, he is currently working on his final thesis exploring the design of the Third Space(s) in Lebanon - where the legitimacy of Queer identity is somewhat ambiguous.

David Lisbon

is an architect/curator who is interested in how environment and imagery shapes our experience and memory of an event. He is currently in search of ways to explore digital spaces as physical ones.

David Graeber and Andrej Grubačić

A Mini-bio of David Graeber, written by David Himself

I was born and raised in New York City, the child of Kenneth Graeber, a plate stripper (offset photolithography), originally from Kansas, who had fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and Ruth (Rubinstein) Graeber, born in Poland, a garment worker and homemaker who had been the female lead in the 1930s Labor Stage musical Pins and Needles.

Brought up in the Penn South Co-ops in Chelsea, I attended local public schools PS 11 and IS 70, was discovered by some Maya archaeologists because of an odd hobby I had developed of translating Maya hieroglyphics, and received a scholarship to attend a fancy boarding school for three years, Phillips Academy at Andover, before returning to state school, at SUNY Purchase, where I graduated with a BA in anthropology in 1984.

From there I went on to the University of Chicago. I lived in Chicago for over a decade, apart from two years (between 1989 and 1991) during which I was doing anthropological fieldwork in highland Madagascar, received a PhD in 1996, and then held a series of academic jobs. These included some graduate teaching at Chicago, though admittedly not much, a year at Haverford, a year of unemployment including a visiting scholar status and one course at NYU, and a junior faculty position at Yale. In 2004, the Yale department voted not to continue my contract, before I could begin the process of coming up for tenure. This was a very unusual procedure where new rules had to be invented for my case (e.g., no student or outside reviews were allowed.) Yale gave no reason for its decision other than dissatisfaction with my scholarship, but some felt it may not have been entirely irrelevant that I was by this time quite active in the global justice movement and other anarchist-inspired projects.

After Yale I found myself unemployable in my own country, but for some mysterious reason, being avidly shopped pretty much everywhere else. I ended up at Goldsmiths, University of London, from 2007 to 2013, working with inspiring colleagues and wonderful students, and now, as a full professor, at the London School of Economics, where I am surrounded by some of the best and most interesting people one could hope to be around. After living for some years in several countries at once, I’ve finally settled full time in London.
I told a magazine once that I’ve been an anarchist since I was sixteen, so I guess that must be true, but I only really became active in any meaningful way after the beginning of 2000, when I threw myself into the alter-globalization movement. It might be said that all my work since has been exploring the relation between anthropology as an intellectual pursuit and practical attempts to create a free society—free, at least, of capitalism, patriarchy, and coercive state bureaucracies. As a result, I sometimes feel I’ve had to pursue two full-time careers of research and writing, one peer-reviewed, the other not, since in my activist-oriented work I am interested in trying to ask the sort of question those actively engaged in trying to change the world find useful or important, rather than those of funders and those influenced by same. Still, the two strains intertwine and influence one another in endless and, I hope, creative and mutually reinforcing ways.
The first book I wrote was Lost People, an ethnography of Betafo (Arivonimamo), a community in Madagascar divided between descendants of nobles and slaves, and I still think it’s my best, because it’s really co-written by all the characters (in every sense of the term) who inhabit it. It’s an attempt at a truly dialogic ethnography, but as a result it’s a bit long, so it took forever to publish it. It was effectively written in 1997 but only appeared ten years later (2007).

The first to be published was Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value (2001), in part my homage to one of my most inspiring teachers at Chicago, Terry Turner. Later, when another inspiring former mentor, Marshall Sahlins, put out a pamphlet series and asked me to contribute a volume, I wrote a tiny little book called Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, which has doomed me ever since to be referred to as “the anarchist anthropologist,” even though the book largely argues that anarchist anthropology doesn’t and probably couldn’t really exist. (Please don’t do that. You wouldn’t call someone “the social democrat anthropologist” would you?) I also wrote a vast ethnography of direct action (Direct Action: An Ethnography) which hardly anyone ever reads, a collection of largely academic essays titled Possibilities, an edited volume called Constituent Imagination with Stevphen Shukaitis, a book of political essays titled Revolutions in Reverse, and Debt: The First 5000 Years, which virtually everyone seems to have read. This was followed by The Democracy Project (which I actually wanted to call “As If We Were Already Free”), The Utopia of Rules (which I wanted to call “Three Essays on Bureaucracy”), On Kings (a collection co-written with Marshall Sahlins), and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. I am currently working with the archaeologist David Wengrow on a whole series of works completely reimagining the whole question of the origins of social inequality, starting with the way the question is framed to begin with. After that, who knows?

I’ve continued to be actively engaged in social movements of one sort or another, insofar as I actually can, living in exile with a full-time job. I was involved in the initial meetings that helped set up Occupy Wall Street, for instance, and have been working with the Kurdish Freedom Movement in various capacities as well.

Oh, and since this is a matter of some historical contention: no, I didn’t personally come up with the slogan “We are the 99%.” I did first suggest that we call ourselves the 99%. Then two Spanish indignados and a Greek anarchist added the “we” and later a Food-Not Bombs veteran put the “are” between them. And they say you can’t create something worthwhile by committee! I’d include their names but considering the way police intelligence has been coming after early OWS organizers, maybe it would be better not to.

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Andrej Grubačić is an anarchist dissident, historian, and author of Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia, and Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History.

Dennis Brzek

is a curator and writer living in Berlin, Germany.

Devin Kenny and Pia-Marie Remmers

Devin Kenny is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, musician and independent curator. Kenny has exhibited, performed, and lectured across the United States, as well as in galleries and institutions abroad. Select venues include MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Performance Space, NYC; REDCAT, Los Angeles; Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf, Bonner Kunstverein, and the IMT Gallery in London among others. Kenny can be found on Instagram: @crashingwavy. Kenny (as Devin KKenny) has a first official release "NY Lottery/CBD Kratom", out now on PTP, a New York-based label and collective focused on sound art, noise, HipHop, and more. www.ptp.vision

Pia-Marie Remmers is an art historian, curator and initiator of What's Art got to do with it? A Summer School on Art and Collective Memory that will take place in Bathorn, Lower Saxony, August 22-28, 2022.

Diana Padrón

is a curator, professor, and cultural critic. She is a member of Management Team of Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona). She explores Critical Theory to uncover contemporary forms of ideology, control, and power.

Didem Yazıcı

Didem Yazıcı is an independent curator and writer based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her curatorial work is inspired by thinking across disciplines in and outside of art, the potentiality of exhibitions as socio-poetic spaces, the legacy of intersectional feminism and global exhibition histories. She earned her B.A. in Art History at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul (2008) and an M.A. in Curatorial and Critical Studies at the Städelschule and Goethe University in Frankfurt (2012).

Dina El Kaisy Friemuth

is an artist whose works deal with the interrelation of collectivity and belonging. Her practice revolves around the creation of conversational environments, the amplification of queer and racialized voices, as well as decolonial and institutional critique. Her work is manifold, often in collaboration with other cultural workers, and includes disciplines such as curating, writing, installation and video.

Diógenes Muniz

is an independent researcher and film worker, born and raised in the neighborhood of Brás, São Paulo, Brazil. His directorial debut, Libelu—Down With The Dictatorship (2020), traces the activities of a clandestine group of Brazilian Trotskyists who fought against the military regime in Brazil during the 1970s.

Diona Kusari

is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, cultural and arts mediator based in Kosovo. Her work spans performance, video and sound art, installations, short films and participatory events. Her artistic work is concerned with illustrating the “unseen” in terms of ideology, faith, and folk practices, and challenging the apparent dichotomies and delineations of private and public space. She is a member of the transdisciplinary collective Potpuri, whose work focuses on experimental research and print practices, and decentralized knowledge production. She is currently researching the independent and alternative scenes in the South, East, and Central European regions.

Dj Zhao

Born in Beijing and based in Berlin, Dj Zhao applies historical materialist analysis to the evolution of social music, and brings a polycultural understanding of rhythm to his deeply percussive cross-genre sets. Not restricted by style or convention, Dj Zhao draws from wildly different times and places, connecting the global North with the South, acoustic and electronic, traditional and hyper-modern. Having performed at clubs like Berghain and Watergate, festivals like Club Transmediale and Fusion, Dj Zhao brings ancient futurist drum science to any occasion.

Djamila Ribeiro

Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian Black feminist philosopher and journalist.

DMT

is a street poet and sworded knight.

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė

are an artist duo based in Basel (CH). Both are 2012 graduates of the Royal College of Art in London. Their work spans performance, installation, fragrance, sculpture, drawing and video. They are the founders of YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013–). In 2020 Gawęda and Kulbokaitė have shortlisted for Swiss Art Awards and Swiss Perfrormance Prize. The duo is represented by Amanda Wilkinson Gallery in London and Lucas Hirsch Gallery in Düsseldorf.

Dr. Sarah Goodrum

is an art historian and Professor of Theory and History of Photography at the SRH Berlin School of Design and Communication. She co-developed the Photography MA program, whose first cohort started in 2022. Her own research and writing have focused on Cold War photographic cultures, primarily in the GDR, as well as contemporary photographic and artistic practices.

Ebi Dahir Ali

is a Berlin-based fashion designer, stylist, and costume designer, working both in fashion and media. He studied Fashion Design at Iuav University in Venice (Italy).

Ece Temelkuran

is a writer and a political thinker. Her book How To Lose A Country was published worldwide. Her most recent work is Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World. Currently, she is a democracy fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg.

Ece Temelkuran

wurde 1973 in Izmir geboren. Sie studierte Jura und war lange als Journalistin tätig. Aufgrund ihrer kritischen Haltung zum Regime Erdoğan und Berichten über Kurdistan verlor sie ihre Arbeit und musste 2016 die Türkei verlassen. Sie ist Autorin mehrerer Romane und Sachbücher. Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem International Pen Piece Award, dem Edinburgh International Book Festival Award, dem Ambassador Of New Europe Award und dem El Mundo Journalism Award (dem wichtigsten Journalismuspreis Spaniens). Sie hat TED-Talks gehalten und in internationalen Medien wie dem Guardian, dem Spiegel, der NYT und Le Monde veröffentlicht. Ece Temelkuran war ein Fellow des New Institutes in Hamburg und 2023/24 Stipendiatin der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung. Sie lebt in Berlin.

Elene Abashidze

is a curator and editor who lives and works in Tbilisi.

Elisa Giuliano

is a curator, researcher and theater maker. In 2022, she co-curated with Anselm Franke, Denise Ryner and Claire Tancons, and Zairong Xiang the exhibition Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. At Het Nieuwe Instituut, TBA21 and Matera 2019 she developed projects on religious history, folklore, and myth-making in modern Italy.

Elisa Fuenzalida

is a researcher and cultural worker. She has directed research projects such as El futuro era tu cuerpo, Ensamblajes del Cuidado and Afectos en Re-existencia. She is coordinator and co-curator of the Cátedra Decolonial Anibal Quijano at the Museo Reina Sofía, co-editor of the journal Arts of the Working Class and mediator in the citizen laboratory platform Redes por el Clima.

Élise Girardot

curatrice indépendante, collabore auprès d’artistes émergents par la production d’expositions, de performances, de textes ou de programmations vidéo. Elle envisage la position du curateur d’un point de vue exploratoire et déploie une recherche élargie, révélant un débordement de l'exposition. Souvent in situ, ses projets d’écriture ou d’exposition deviennent des prétextes narratifs et cherchent à révéler les espaces et les lieux où ils s’implantent. Après des études de Lettres modernes à Paris IV Sorbonne, elle intègre en 2011 le Master de recherche en art CCC (Critical, Curatorial, Cybermedia) de la HEAD, Haute École d’art et de design de Genève. Élise Girardot est curatrice associée et membre fondateur de Föhn, plateforme curatoriale née en 2018 à Bordeaux. Elle assure également la direction artistique de panoramas.

Eliza Levinson

is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, The Nation, The New Inquiry, Hyperallergic, and ArtReview.

Elizabeth Otto

is an art historian and independent curator based in Montreal, where she teaches at the departments of Art History and Museum Studies at Université de Montréal. In her PhD project she is interested in deconstructing modernist national art histories from a trans-national and decolonial perspective. As curator she has been working with international contemporary artists in Montreal. Her latest project on the Canadian painter and art educator Anne Savage can be visited online on the web page of Montreal’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery.

Elizabeth López Canelas

es Licenciada en Antropología (UTO, 2008) y Maestra en Gestión Ambiental y Desarrollo (FLACSO, 2010). Es feminista, activista en defensa de los derechos sociales y ambientales de pueblos indígenas e investigadora en temas de mujeres, pueblos indígenas, extractivas mineras y medio ambiente.

Emily McDermott

Emily McDermott is a writer and editor. She lives in Berlin.

Ende Gelände

Wir sind ein breiter Zusammenschluss von Menschen aus den Anti-Atom- und Anti-Kohle-Bewegungen, aus den Vorbereitungsgruppen der Klimacamps in Rheinland und Lausitz, von der Waldbesetzung im Hambacher Forst, aus klimapolitischen Graswurzelinitiativen und Bürgerinitiativen, aber auch größeren Umweltorganisationen, aus linken Politgruppen und andere mehr. Gemeinsam sind uns die Überzeugung, Klimaschutz selber in die Hand nehmen zu müssen und der Wunsch, mit einer über die Proteste der letzten Jahre hinausgehenden Aktion zivilen Ungehorsams ein weithin sichtbares Signal für eine Wende hin zu echtem Klimaschutz zu setzen.

Entrar Afuera

è un collettivo di ricerca militante su pratiche politiche di emancipazione nella crisi del welfare, in particolare tra Madrid, Barcellona e Trieste, di cui fanno parte Marta Malo, Jasmine McGhie, Irene Newey, Marta Pérez e Pantxo Ramas. www.entrarafuera.net

Eric Golo Stone

is a writer and curator whose work emphasizes artistic methods of institutional critique. His writing has been published in Afterall, e-flux, Flash Art, October, and Texte zur Kunst. With Rhea Anastas, Charles Gaines, and Jamillah James he co-edited the book The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism (Dancing Foxes, 2024), and he is editor of the book, Services Working Group (Fillip, 2022).

Eric Wohlstadter

is a writer and fitness trainer living in New York. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

Erica Lagalisse

is author of The Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples (2019). She is a visiting fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and editor at The Sociological Review. See her work at www.lagalisse.net.

Esra Aydin

was born in Germany, but her roots lie in Antakya, the capital of Hatay. Her fascination with how complex societies function led her to a Master’s degree in Social Science. For the last 15 years she’s been working for large corporations and brands leading international collaborations at the interface of society, art, design and architecture. Since 2016 for Volkswagen Group where she’s also been a leading Future Head and member of the transformational network’s core team. She currently serves as a spokeswoman for sustainability topics, dedicating her time to pressing societal questions like climate change, corporate social responsibility and diversity. Her intention is change. As a mother she’s ever more concerned about the planet that her children will inherit. That drives her. This article was first published in Volkswagen Group’s internal employee website. 14 February 2023.

Estéfani Alanya

es psicóloga y vicepresidenta del Frente de Defensa del Pueblo de Ayacucho. El 12 de enero de este año fue detenida bajo acusación de formar parte de una organización terrorista. En una de las audiencias de apelación, la fiscal Mirela Coronel ha señalado que: “Nueva Constitución, (...) es la bandera de lucha de los frentes de defensa o los organismos generados por Sendero Luminoso…”.

Eugene Richardson

MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Assistant Professor of Medicine

Eva Bentcheva

is an art historian and curator. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, with a focus on transnational performance and conceptual art across Asia and Europe.

Ewa Borysiewicz

is a freelance curator and writer.

Fabiola Fiocco

is a curator, facilitator and researcher. She holds a Ph.D. from Edinburgh College of Art, where she investigated feminist materialist approaches to socially engaged art processes. Her work focuses on the intersection of art and activism, the representation of (post-)work in contemporary art, infrastructural critique, and the influence of feminist epistemologies on art histories and theories. She has collaborated with independent art spaces, museums and foundations—including Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), L’Internationale, Castro Projects (Rome), and UNIDEE Cittadellarte—Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella)—and academic institutions. She has been involved in various research clusters and has presented her research at international conferences. Her writings have been published in academic journals and magazines, such as ARCH+, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, roots&routes, and NERO Editions.

Faith MacNeil Taylor

is a multi-disciplinary artist and Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, Uni- versity of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between economic precarity and reproduction.

Fallon Mayanja

Sound artist and performer. Fallon explores new ways of listening, with the aim of cultivating alternative understandings and perceptions of self, others and environments.

Disrupting conventional approaches within immersive sonic explorations, and manifesting the relationship between fictional existences and cultural experiences, the work taps into voices, rhythms, sonic cosmologies, and vibrations of multiple worlds. Through narratives that have survived Chaos, the artist constructs poetical club landscapes and support systems of black diasporic experience.

Mostly using electronics and technology as tools to share, feel and listen, the artistic production leads to an analysis of the audible and the inaudible, the unspoken and the unspeakable and to the sensible and the sensitive inside and outside sound. Fallon’s work lays on interstices and connections to understand the place of voices, the role of silence, the activation of sounds, both an exploration of senses and narratives.

Member of the Black(s) to the Future collective.

Federica Nicastro

is a writer and cultural producer based between Milan and Rome. Her research focuses on text-based formats, performance, sound, and the spoken word.

Female Seafarers of Nigeria (FESAN)

The Female Seafarers of Nigeria (FESAN) is a very real association for a fair future for female workers from the sea. With over active 250 members, the FESAN meet people from NGOs concerned with sea rescue in the mediterranean, networking on an international scale for grow in influence as a platform for empowerment, mentoring and advocacy, showing enormous enough physical energy for the work where required, not only at leading positions but also right at the engineering heart of shipments. During the last three years, Koni Maryamnu Duniya, leading mind of the FESAN, has met with government representatives and stakeholders of the maritime working field to take necessary steps and modalities to increase the participation of women in this sector. For mutual respect and professionalism, for gender equality on board all vessels.

Fernando García-Dory

’s practice develops social systems, cooperatives and durational actions around the land as a space to rethink cultural conditions under post-Fordism, and to confront the eco-social collapse. These include Inland, a project about a para-institution he initiated in 2009. Based in the Northern Spanish Mountains, where he is resuscitating an abandoned village, he studied Fine Art and Rural Sociology, and he is currently working towards a Ph.D. in agroecology at the Institute of Sociology and Peasant Students at the University of Andalusia, Spain.

Fette Sans

is based in Berlin.
She has a conceptual and interdisciplinary practice that includes the production of images, writing, performance, online gestures, filmmaking, discussions and installation. Concerned with social systems, representation and technology, she develops obsessive rituals, collaborations and speculative narratives to question these issues.
Last year, Sans initiated the series of conversations in hotel rooms called Precarious Gossips. These aim at gathering voices coming from multiple backgrounds, that may be under-represented or generally more quiet, as to discuss important yet delicate topics.

Filipe Lippe

is a poet, artist and researcher born in 1986 in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. He is a PhD candidate in art theory at HFBK Hamburg, researching on historical trauma, racism, and (de)coloniality in the context of neoliberalism.

Florian Endres

is a writer and philosopher based in Berlin.

Frances Breden

is dedicated to community-oriented and collective artmaking in digital and IRL spaces. She is one-sixth of the queer feminist art collective COVEN BERLIN (covenberlin.com), with whom she’s worked since she came to Berlin from Vancouver in 2014. Frances is a founding member of Sickness Affinity Group (sicknessaffinity.org). She is currently pursuing her Masters in the Art in Context program at the UdK, Berlin, where she is the editorial lead at the student magazine eigenart (eigenart-magazin.de). She co-curates the screening series PRESENTS with RA Walden (presentsscreening.de).

Francesca Bria

In late 2020 Francesca Bria started to implement digital infrastructure in Barcelona on an impressive scale. The Decode Project, first piloted in Barcelona and Amsterdam, proved to be necessary groundwork for the Green E-Euro, a cryptocurrency that started in 2022, becoming a pilot for a decentralised public money system and establishing encryption as a human right. The 2023 Datagate was a direct consequence that lead to the banishment of big tech companies in Europe, where Francesca was overseeing policy making. Especially during and shortly after the crisis these tools provided crucial resilience and the starting point of setting up a new participatory democracy and a new economic model. This meant that other cities were rushing to copy those strategies forming a growing learning network. When things stabilised from 2025 onwards, Francesca was at the core of the participatory democracy movement, guiding the establishment of a constitution for digital life.

Franco "Bifo" Berardi

è scrittore, filosofo e agitatore culturale.

Fred Dewey

Fred Dewey is a Los Angeles and Brussels based curator, activist, editor, text artist, and author of The School of Public Life (doormats/errant bodies 2015) and from an apparent contradiction in Arendt to a working group method (re: public 2017). He has led working groups on Hannah Arendt in Europe and the United States. In 2017, he conducted a Berlin-wide mobile working group with ZK/U, The Portable Polis. He was director of Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles from 1996 to 2010, has published cultural and political essays internationally, and co-founded the Neighborhood Councils Movement in Los Angeles, in response to the LA riots, helping place the councils in city law.

Friederike Landau Donnelly

Dr. Friederike Landau Donnelly (*1989) is a Berlin-based urban sociologist and cultural geographer. Friederike is interested in the intersections between political theory and artistic activism to understand how cultural workers articulate new policies and places of the political. Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City – On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics was published by Routledge in 2019. Currently, Friederike is writing on the politics of public art in Vancouver, and co-editing a book of radical theories of space.

Image: #06 San Francisco 2017/2018, Living Room © Jana Sophia Nolle
http://jana-sophia.com/
Instagram: @jana sophie nolle

Gaby Orellana

Geert Lovink

is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018) and Sad by Design (2019). In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. His centre organizes conferences, publications and research networks such as Video Vortex (online video), Unlike Us (alternatives in social media), Critical Point of View (Wikipedia), Society of the Query (the culture of search), MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital publishing and the future of art criticism.

Gemeinagentur

(Secret Agency) is a collective that works anonymously and often uses the resources of art to found temporary institutions which they feel are missing. Fictitious institutions, which at some point become surprisingly real. Like the Hamburg Port Hydrarchy. Just like the Hamburg Port Authority, Hamburg Port Hydrarchy is concerned with the future of Hamburg port. In 2015, they founded the alternative cruise ship terminal, Alternatives Kreuzfahrtterminal, short AKT. It was the fourth cruise ship terminal in Hamburg; the city had in previous years invested excessively in the cruise ship sector. The port of Hamburg, the second biggest in Europe, is always afraid it will lose its strategic position, and is always afraid of economic decline. Interestingly, Hamburg is not at the sea, but is located at the Elbe, a river. A river not deep enough for the newer and bigger container ships.

Geng Yao

Geng Yao is a poet, artist, activist, currently based in Guangzhou, China. She initialized the art group "Pukou Factory" and "Lava Lake," exploring the integration of writing with art and social participation across installation, performance, interactive art, ecocriticism, mapping, and self-publishing. Her poetry and artworks were included in the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen, 2022), "Dagger Humming" (Nanjing, 2020) and "The Work of Game" (Nanjing, 2020), PROYA New Year Subway Poetry Exhibition (Shenzhen, 2020). Her work is a quest into marginalized voices in urban modernization and problematizing the complex relationship between humans and nature in ecological issues, capturing the echoes of discrete experiences.

George Lynch

George Lynch is a writer based in London. She is interested in work.

George Edwards

is a researcher based in Berlin. He is a member of the Zetkin Collective and co-author of White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism published with Verso Books.

Ghayath Almadhoun

is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus, Syria, and emigrated to Sweden in 2008. He writes in Arabic, and his poetry has been translated into over 20 languages. Now he lives between Berlin & Stockholm.

Giorgia Belotti

Giulia Menegale

is an independent curator, art writer, and Ph.D. candidate.
She is interested in how artists and cultural producers reform institutions as a collective practice.

Göksu Kunak

(b. 1985 in Ankara) is a writer, performer, and performance-maker based in Berlin. Kunak’s interest lies in queer methodologies and hybrid texts that deal with the performative lingo(s) of contemporary lifestyles. Kunak imagines new situations through real encounters that point out the problematics of hetero-patriarchal structures: orientalism, self-orientalization, and Eastern masculinities in relation to state governmentality. They have performed their productions among others at: Sophiensäle, Berlin (2021); The Blank Contemporary, Bergamo (2021); HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2021); Next Waves Theater, Volksbühne, Berlin (2021); Live Works Prize Vol. 8, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italien (2020); Lab of Contested Space, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2020); The Parliament of Bodies, Bergen Assembly (2019); Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019).
https://guccichunk.berta.me

Habib W. Kherbek

is a novelist, poet, and exterior photographer.

Halle Frost

is homesick and heimatlos.

Hanna Grześkiewicz

is a Berlin-based writer, researcher and curator, working mostly with music and sound. Her research currently focuses on the politics of sound and the relationship between the arts and social movements.

Hanna Mara Noor Bargheer

is a researcher, artist, and curator currently living in Sweden. She aims to combine art and politics in her work, thinking about the ways in which we have access to culture and our cities. Outside of the arts, she often finds herself in sport halls, and is currently working at a climbing gym.

Hans van Houwelingen

is known for his versatile and critical look at art in public space, public life, and cultural politics. The monograph Stiff (Edited by Max Bruinsma. ~Essays by Bram Kempers, Sjoukje van der Meulen and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen) documents more than 20 of his works for the public domain, and provides a careful analysis of the contexts from which they were derived. A selection of critical texts by the artist summarizes his decade-long provocative and inquisitive practice.’

Website: hansvanhouwelingen.com

Hariati Sinaga

is a decolonial feminist and labor activist. Faculty member of the University of Indonesia, Gender Studies Program (Program Studi Kajian Gender), Faculty Member of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, BMBF Junior Research Group on Bioeconomy and Social Inequalities, Post-Doc University of Kassel, International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD).

Hassandra and Monica Gutierrez

Hassandra is a Beirut-born, Berlin-based interdisciplinary drag performance artist, DJ, and co-founder of
ADIRA Collective and Critical Queer Solidarity.
Monica Gutierrez is a US American, Berlin-based writer, cultural researcher and trainer. She is a member of Critical Queer Solidarity.

Heath Bexley

is a writer living in near London. He condemns the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas.

Hebh Jamal

is a Palestinian journalist based in Germany.

Heiko Pfreundt

The spirit of Heiko Pfreundt´s (lives and works in Berlin, DE) current practices moves between digital ruins, informal learning, a new desire of permanence in games and curatorial plays. In the recent series IS IT A GAME? at Kreuzberg Pavillon, he and Lisa Schorm specify this range of interests in art and games and their facilities from the perspective of a player in which the ultimate prize is neither to be an artist, nor a curator but to be completely undisciplined. His recent collaborations include projects with Omsk Social Club, The Feminist Gaming Group by Eloise Bonneviot and a joint venture of Dafna Maimon and Lucinda Dayhew for an artistic Escape Room. He writes occasionally about project spaces and translation of space as artistic practice in hybrid localities. In 2019 he was one of the organizers of the Project Space Festival Berlin - When the Hunger starts.

Heiko Pfreundt und Lisa Schorm

Die Künstler*innen und Kurator*innen Heiko Pfreundt und Lisa Schorm betreiben seit 2011 den Projektraum Kreuzberg Pavillon. Seit 2019 organisieren sie das Project Space Festival Berlin.
www.kreuzbergpavillon.de | www.projectspacefestival.berlin

HEKLER

HEKLER is an autonomous platform and transnational community of art and cultural workers that fosters critical examination of hospitality and conflict through collaborative programming, pedagogy, and archiving. It is initiated by artists Nataša Prljević, Joshua Nierodzinski, and Jelena Prljević in Brooklyn, NY. @heklerke | heklerke@gmail.com

Nataša Prljević is an artist, curator and co-initiator of HEKLER. Her work focuses on collaborative and collective practices of instituting and organizing, conflict analysis and polyvocal learning. @prljevic

Rashmi Viswanathan is a Brooklyn-based art historian who looks at the formation of Modern and Contemporary art in light of colonial-era histories and historiographies. rashmiviswan@gmail.com

Shimrit Lee is an educator and curator based in Brooklyn. She teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and is currently working on a book about efforts by museums to redress histories of colonial violence. Twitter: @_shimritlee / shimrit.lee@gmail.com

Lena Katharina Reuter is educated in art history and philosophy. Based in Berlin, she is a Trainee at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In her practice she tries to grasp the conditions of labour in the cultural fields and reflects on different platforms of artistic and collective practices. @lena_lucci

Darko Vukić (Serbia) Visual artist and researcher. Initiator of the $vvarm journal, a critical plug-in platform that works on translation and experimentation in the social, theoretical and artistic fabric of the given. @savazolog @swarmzine | darkovukic92@gmail.com

Farideh Sakhaeifar is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, educator born in Tehran, Iran. Sakhaeifar’s work investigates the politics of conflict, collective history, and narration. @faridehsakhaeifar | faride.sakhaei@gmail.com

Caterina Stamou is a cultural worker from Greece. She has participated in independent art and research projects exploring collaborative cultural practices and decolonial approaches to literature and is a member of the artist-run initiative, Athens Art Book Fair.

Hito Steyerl

is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

Hito Steyerl, Kolja Reichert

Hito Steyerl ist Künstlerin, Essayistin und Professorin an der Uni- versität der Künste Berlin. Bis 10. Januar 2021 zeigt K21 in Düssel- dorf ihre umfassende Werkschau „I Will Survive“, die anschließend ans Pariser Centre Pompidou gehen wird. Ihre Berliner Galerie Es- ther Schipper zeigt bis 9. Januar 2021 online und offline Steyerls VR-Arbeit „Virtual Leonardo‘s Submarine“.

Kolja Reichert ist Kunstkritiker und war bis September 2020 Re- dakteur der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung. Er verfolgt Hito Steyerls Arbeit seit ihrer ersten institutionellen Einzelausstel- lung 2009 im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k).

Houda Akrikez

es mediadora multicultural, defensora de los derechos humanos y fundadora y portavoz de la Asociación Tabadol. También es miembro de la plataforma “Luz Ya para Cañada Real."

Ido Nahari

is a sociologist, researcher and writer who works in the fields of cultural revivalism, social welfare and the commodification of emotions. Born in Jerusalem and currently living in Berlin, Nahari holds a Master of Science in Culture and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he investigated the marketability of authenticity.

Ilenia Rossi

iLiana Fokianaki

is a curator, researcher, and theorist based in Athens and Rotterdam. Fokianaki’s curatorial interests focus around the manifold manifestations of power and the ways in which they can be examined via contemporary culture, looking specifically at the influence of geopolitics, national identity, and cultural and anthropological histories. In the last three years, through “The Bureau of Care”, the research platform she founded and that received the European Cultural Foundation’s solidarity grant in 2020, Fokianaki is looking into the concept of care and how its politics and ethics are related to environmental and social justice.

Ingo Venzke

is Professor of International Law and So- cial Justice, Director of the Amsterdam Center for In- ternational Law (ACIL), and Fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg.

Ingo Niermann

is a German novelist, writer, and artist.

Inke Arns

is the artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) in Dortmund since 2005. She has worked internationally as an independent curator and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993.

Ira Konyukhova

Ira Konyukhova is an artist and founder of the online magazine TransitoryWhite.

Irene Trejo

is a transdisciplinary artist, poet, and journalist from Mexico, currently based in Berlin. She focuses on exploring different relational forms and translanguage through sound, words, and embodied listening – playing with layers, possibility, memory, dreams, identity, and various creative processes.

Irina Mutt

is a writer who keeps on quoting Annie Sprinkle.

Irus Braverman

is Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Geography, and, Research Professor at the Department of Research and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Her main interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of law, geography, and anthropology.

Isabel Frey

ist Senior Artist für Ethnomusikologie an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, jiddische Sängerin und jüdische Aktivistin für soziale Gerechtigkeit und einen gerechten Frieden in Israel-Palästina. Sie lebt in Wien, Österreich.

Isabel Lewis

is a Berlin-based artist born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1981 and raised on a man-made island off the coast of southwest Florida.

Ivana Isailović

is an assistant professor of law at the University of Amsterdam, and a co-leader of the Sustainable Global Economic Law project. She writes on the interplay between law, economic structures, inequalities and identity in transnational contexts. Her interdisciplinary work draws on gender and feminist studies, critical theory, and political economy. She is the author of a forthcoming essay on feminism and neoliberalism (in French).

J. Lorand Matory

is the Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. His research spans a wide range of interests, including religion, gender, ethnicity, and transnationalism in Africa and its diaspora. He is author, most recently, of The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (2018). His next book, Slavery in the Heart of Freedom examines religion, politics, and popular culture through the lens of Haitian Vodou and white American BDSM.

Jacob Wills

is a housing organiser based in London. His experiences in direct action and squatting movements led him towards community organising and how to use it to build mass movements. He has been helping to build the London Renters Union for the last 6 years, though he writes in a personal capacity.

Jakob Lohmann

Quarantined in Bologna, performance artist Jakob Lohmann began the initiative Artists in Quarantine to showcase artists and tell their stories. Due to travel restrictions, precautionary measures, as well as general hysteria caused by virus COVID-19, many artists are losing work opportunities and foundational income. Galleries, theaters, even public places are being closed off. Artists in Quarantine wants to show humans during this crisis and our ways of dealing with the uncertainty of the situation while at the same time moving forward. Next to shedding light upon each individual and different projects that have arisen from these circumstances, Jakob wants to create a community of artists that can help each other through this current crisis. https://www.jlohmann.com/

Jamila Barakat

ist eine palästinensisch-deutsche interdisziplinäre Künstlerin, Kuratorin und Pädagogin in Berlin. In ihrer Arbeit erforscht sie persönliche und kollektive Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen wie Resilienz, den Dialog zwischen Generationen und das Leben in einer spätkapitalistischen Gesellschaft. Im Jahr 2020 war sie Mitbegründerin des Interspace-Kollektivs, das mit Fokus auf marginalisierte, emanzipatorische Narrative kuratorische Räume für Solidarität und Koexistenz schafft. Ihre letzten Einzelarbeiten wurden im CCA, im HKW und im KW - Institute for Contemporary Art gezeigt.

Jan Fermon and Jonas Staal

Jonas Staal is an artist, propaganda researcher and author of Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) based in Athens and the Netherlands.

Jan Fermon is a lawyer specialized in criminal law, international (humanitarian) law and human rights law, and Secretary General of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), based in Brussels.

Jazmina Figueroa

is a writer based in Berlin and is currently completing a master’s at Potsdam University on the Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture program. Figueroa has contributed to publications including 0.1% Zine (Massive Science & NAVEL, 2020) and Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-digital Age (Valiz, 2017).

Jazz Money

is a Wiradjuri poet and artist currently based on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Her practice is centered around the written word while producing works that encompass installation, performance, digital, film and print. Jazz’s award-winning debut poetry collection is ‘how to make a basket’ (UQP, 2021).

Jean Carlos Azuos

é curador do Galpão Bela Maré, mestre em Artes pela Uerj e doutorando em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade pela Pontíficia Universidade Católica PUC, Rio de Janeiro.

Jeanne-Ange Wagne

is a creative art historian, knowledge mediator, and event curator who conducts artistic research into memory, colonial provenance research, and trend cycles in art, culture, and fashion.

Jessica Zambrano Alvarado

is a writer and amateur sportswoman based in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She contributes to independent media such as boca 9 and equis cultura. She was editor of the cultural supplement Cartón Piedra of the newspaper El Telégrafo. Visit her blog cicloreading.ec

Johanna Weiß

studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte und philosophie in Leipzig, Athen und Frankfurt. Sie wohnt in Frankfurt und arbeitet dort als Kuratorin.

Jonas Tinius

ist ein Kultur- und Sozialanthropologe. Er ist wissenschaftlicher Koordinator des ERC Projektes Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism (Universität des Saarlandes) und lehrt am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Er ist Autor u.a. von State of the Arts. An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (Cambridge, 2023).

Jonas Von Lenthe

Works at the intersection of publishing, curating and research. His latest book "Responding to Particular Needs at a Precise Moment" (Spector Books 2018) is a photographic research about the interplay of formal and informal building practices in Tirana, Albania. He is founder of the Berlin-based publishing house Wirklichkeit Books and editor of its upcoming publication "Rejected. Designs for the European Flag".

Jonathan (Om) Omer Mizrahi

is an artist and filmmaker who explores various relations to power through projects that transpire at the intersection of creativity and emergency. Om has participated in exhibitions and screenings at various art spaces and film festivals and was an artist in residence in Greenland, Denmark, Austria, Germany and Israel Palestine.

Jordan Deal

(they/them) work in the intersections of performance, sound, film, and installation, where the body becomes both instrument and interruption. Channeling what they call chaos force—a method of embodied subversion—Deal unravels the mythologies and socio-political systems that choreograph daily life. Their work has appeared at Café OTO (London), Radialsystem (Berlin, CTM Festival), Judson Memorial Church (NYC), and the Center for Performance Research (NYC). As a 2024 MAP Fund grantee, 2023–24 Artistic Fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and a 2022 research fellow at the Amant Foundation, Deal continues to experiment with black queer futurity, worldbuilding, and the unruly poetics of love and resistance. www.jordandealart.com

Josefa Sánchez

pertenece al pueblo zoque de Chimalapa, México. Es activista socioambiental e investigadora de la Universidad de Granada (España), coautora del libro Colonialismo energético (Icaria, 2023) y coordinadora del libro Cada vez más Mökayas, pensares y sentires de zoques contemporáneos (Ce-Acatl, 2022).

Joshua Citarella

is an artist researching online political subcultures. This interview was first published on September 30, 2021 as a chapter in his podcast series on Spotify.

Jota Mombaça

(Natal, Brasil, 1991) es una artista interdisciplinar cuya obra se desarrolla en diversos medios. La materia sonora y visual de las palabras desempeña un papel importante en su práctica, que a menudo se relaciona con la crítica anticolonial y la desobediencia de género. A través de la performance, la ficción visionaria y las estrategias de producción de conocimiento, tematiza las relaciones entre monstruosidad y humanidad, los estudios queer, la diáspora, la violencia y la resiliencia. Su obra se ha presentado en distintos marcos institucionales como la Bienal de Venecia (2024), 32° y 34° Bienal de San Pablo (2016 y 2020/2021), la 22° Bienal de Sídney (2020), la 10° Bienal de Berlín (2018) y el 46º Salón Nacional de Artistas de Colombia (2019).

Jude Macannuco

is a Berlin based freelance writer and editor.

Judith Sieber

Judith Sieber is a PhD candidate at the KdK-Program at Leuphana, University Lüneburg.

Julia Montilla

holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB), where she is currently an associate professor and doctoral student. She is participating in the R&D&I research project “Rhythms of Women's Work in the History of Art and Visual Culture” (Spain, 1936-2022). Montilla works with a wide range of media to analyze the role of images and the visual construction of everyday life. Over the last decade, she has focused on themes such as psychological distress, religious ecstasy, job insecurity, and social exclusion.

Juliet Jacques

is a writer and filmmaker based in London. Her most recent book is Variations (Influx Press, 2021).

Juno Meinecke

*1989 is one of the initiators of the archive filesfrommoria.de, which collects videos by people who resident in the refugee camp in Moria on the greek island of Lesbos.
She works as author and filmmaker in Berlin.

Kari Leigh Rosenfeld

(b. Houston, TX) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, Germany. Spanning themes of ontology, political and social affect, religious and mythological narratives, and genre, their work affirms the heartbreaks, fantasies, and complications of attachment. They have degrees in American Studies and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and a MA in Art Praxis from Dutch Art Institute. Their work has recently been exhibited at Gasworks (London), Humberstreet Gallery (Hull), and Motto Books (Berlin) and are a 2023 fellow of LABA Berlin.

Kateřina Holá

is a social worker and anthropologist with a background in art and activism based in Děčín in Northern Bohemia, where they live in the social-cooperative housing project Vzletný Racek. Their work focuses on just transition, energy poverty, extraction, solidarity economies, care, and the embodied effects of exhaustion in peripheral regions.

Kenny Fries

is the author of In the Province of the Gods, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, and Body, Remember: A Memoir. His books of poems include In the Gardens of Japan, Desert Walking, and Anesthesia. He is a 2022 Ford Foundation/Mellon Foundation Disability Futures Fellow, and curator of “Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer,” the first international exhibit on queer/disability history, activism, and culture for the Schwules Museum Berlin.

Kerstin Schankweiler

ist Professorin für Bildwissenschaft im globalen Kontext am Institut für Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft der Technischen Universit.t Dresden. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Digitale Bildkulturen, Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts mit einem regionalen Schwerpunkt auf der Kunst Afrikas, Kunstgeschichte und Transkulturalität, Postkoloniale Theorien und Geschlechterstudien.

Kholod Saghir

is an acting chief-in-editor of PENN/Opp.

Kieron Livingstone

Kiri Dalena

Kiri Dalena is an artist, activist, filmmaker, and mother. She took part in the artistic resistance movement in Southern Tagalog composed of students and graduates of the University of the Philippines in the Southern Tagalog region - far from the capital Manila. She was a founding member of Southern Tagalog Exposure (ST Exposure) in 2001, who were the first of their kind to use multimedia as a means of artistic-activist expression in the region. Since then, Dalena also co-initiated RESBAK (Respond and Break the Silence Against the Killings)—this time in Manila, a response by a multitude of artists to the extrajudicial killings in what former President Rodrigo Duterte called the "war on drugs."

Klasseklima

ist eine autonome und interdisziplinäre Gruppe Studierender und Lehrender der Universität der Künste Berlin. Ihr Ziel ist es, die Hochschule zu politisieren und die Klimakrise in gestalterische Praxis zu übersetzen. Im Sommersemester 2020 war das Thema Thinking Degrowth: Reshaping environmental attitudes. Die Studierenden beschrieben ihre wachstumsorientierte Wirklichkeit und verschränkten diese mit wachstumskritischen Alternativen. Es galt, eigene Werte zu hinterfragen und gestalterisch mit neuen Positionen zu experimentieren. Die Teilnehmenden kamen aus verschiedenen Studienrichtungen, wie Visuelle Kommunikation, Architektur und Produktdesign.
Konzipiert und geleitet wurde das Seminar von dem Künstlerischen Mitarbeiter Pascal Kress und Studierenden der Klasse Klima.

Kolja Reichert

is the chief curator at K21 of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. From 2021 to 2023, he was head of the newly created department for discourse at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. Between 2015 and 2020, he was an art critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

Korina (Kyriaki) Pavlidou

is a Berlin-based researcher in social philosophy and legal theory. In her ongoing work, Korina is engaged with process epistemologies and philosophies of movement and becoming through a transdisciplinary and experimental lens that takes to heart critical feminisms alongside experiential and non-representational approaches to research.

Kuba Szreder

is a researcher, lecturer and interdependent curator, based in Warsaw. He actively cooperates with artistic unions, consortia of postartistic practitioners, clusters of art-researchers, art collectives and artistic institutions in Poland, UK, and other European countries. Editor and author of books and texts on the political economy of global artistic circulation, art strikes, modes of artistic self-organisation, instituting art beyond the art market and the use value of art.

L. Sasha Gora

is a cultural historian and writer with a focus on food studies and contemporary art. She received a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center on the subject of Indigenous restaurants in Canada. Before joining the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari, she was a Lecturer at LMU’s Amerika-Institut and spent spring 2019 as a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley.

Lamisse Hamouda

(she/her) is an Australian-Egyptian writer and theater-maker living in Vienna. Lamisse is an ensemble member of Side-Effect Physical Theatre, a Vienna-based queer & migrant theatre company, and her first book, The Shape of Dust, will be published in 2023 by Pantera Press.

Lara Torbay

is a Swiss-Lebanese writer and feminist legal scholar. Her writing focuses on the erotic, utopia and diasporic moping.

Lara Verena Bellenghi

Laura Lotti

is a researcher and writer. She investigates networked organizations with Other Internet and is co-developing Black Swan.

Laura Catania

Laura Ewert

schreibt als freie Autorin für Zeit (online), taz, Der Freitag und andere über Kultur- und Gesellschaftsthemen und hat sich für den Podcast In Sekten mit der Coaching-Szene beschäftigt.

Laurie Rojas

Laurie Rojas is an independent critic and arts journalist based in Berlin (b. Panama). She received an M.A. in New Arts Journalism from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, were she wrote her graduate thesis on Confronting the “Death” of Art Criticism. She is a founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society, the podcast Shit Platypus Says, and the art criticism publication Caesura. Formerly she was the Senior Editor of Spike and the Editor in Chief of the Platypus Review. Her recent writing focuses on ambivalence in artworks, art criticism after its eclipse, and questions of emancipation raised by art.
http://laurierojas.com/

Leif Randt

*1983 is a german novelist. He published the utopias "Schimmernder Dunst über CobyCounty" (2011) and "Planet Magnon" (2015). In 2017 he co-founded the web-label tegelmedia.net. His latest book "Allegro Pastell" (2020) is a love story located in Germany in the late 2010s.

Lene Vollhardt

(*NYC, Turtle Island) works as an artist and a member of the Sphere, in London, UK.

Licia Demuro

is a Parisian curator and art critic. She carries out curatorial research based on the influence of the productivist model on artistic forms. Throughout her exhibition projects, she has been particularly interested in instruction manuals and internet tutorials, collective work organizations, the use of raw materials, and low technologies in contemporary art. She has also worked as a coordinator for artist residencies, exhibitions, and satellite programs in visual and performing arts.

Lilian Pungas

lives in Berlin and has just submitted her Ph.D. on the Eastern Estonian dachas and their potential for the degrowth movement at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In the thesis, she writes dachas may become an inspiration for future socio-ecological transformation. Currently, she is co-organizing a summer university, including exhibitions, concerts, and dacha excursions at the Sputnik dacha cooperative near Sillamäe, in an effort to build bridges between urban food activists and the local babushkas.

Lilo Ruminawi

is a poet, playwright, and film director. She has written and directed the experimental short films La Mancha Viva (2014), Perreo Seco (2017), and the documentary essay El Año sin Árboles (2020). She is currently working on the post-production of her first feature-length fiction film, Tzantza, a retro-futuristic western set in the Salar de Uyuni.

LIOS labs

is an arts of ecology residency programme and an intentional community of practice. Founded in 2019 by the onEarth foundation, run by the artist and curator Jo Vávra and the activist and lawyer Kamila Knap, supported by a network of interdisciplinary collaborators. More information: http://lios.io , IG: @lios_labs. 

Loren Britton

1, artist, 3, curator, 5, class, 7, pedagogy, 9, intersectionality, 11, trans*feminism, 13, playing, 15, materiality, 17, embodiment, 19, translation, 21, on/offline, 23, holding, 25
https://lorenbritton.com/

Loren Britton and Helen Pritchard

Loren Britton is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Focusing on radical pedagogy, play, and unthinking oppression, they make objects that reposition and collaborations that unlearn. Britton is responsible to questions of techno-science, anti-racism, trans*feminism, and making accessibilities (considering class and dis/ability). Britton researches within Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems (GeDIS) at the University of Kassel, Germany. hello@lorenbritton.com

Helen Pritchard is an artist and designer whose work considers the impacts of computation on social and environmental justice. Their research addresses how Big Tech configures the possibilities for life—or who gets to have a life—in intimate and significant ways. As a practitioner they work together with companions to make propositions and designs for computing otherwise, developing methods to uphold a politics of queer survival and environmental practice. Helen is an associate professor in queer feminist technoscience & digital design at i-DAT, University of Plymouth.

Lorenzo Marsili

is a philosopher, activist and founder of European Alternatives and Fondazione Studio Rizoma. He is the author of Planetary Politics: a Manifesto.

Louise Benson

Louise Benson is a writer and editor based in London. She is the deputy editor of art and culture magazine Elephant, where she covers issues relating to gender and sexuality; identity and diaspora; mental health and the internet. She is also the co-creator of Scenic Views, an independent interiors magazine that focuses on the places that often go unnoticed, from hotel lounges to suburban driveways.

Lubi Barre

born in Paris, France, is a writer of poetry and short stories. She published in the anthology "My Old Man" at Cannongate Books, the German language collection "Here and There" at Punktum Verlag, as well as in the anthology Kontinentaldrift- Das Schwarze Europa by Wunderhorn Verlag. She is the founder of the independent reading series Sprachlos and FRAMED, and a member of the residency Writers Room. From 2017-2020, she was co-organizer and co-moderator of the reading series Hafenlesung, as well as the 2020 and 2021 literary curator of the Fluctoplasma festival in Hamburg. She co-curated the first Black Writers Book Festival of Hamburg in 2024. She has received numerous grants for writing and curation, and in addition, teaches creative writing seminars at various universities. She is the founder of Davenport Books- Hamburg’s first English-language cultural hub and bookshop.

Ludwig Engel

ist Zukunftsforscher und Urbanist. Er arbeitet zu Urbanen Utopien und Zukünften, zu Fragen langfristiger Planung und strategischer Vorausschau. Zusammen mit Julian Schubert leitet er das Studio for Immediate Spaces am Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam und unterrichtet regelmäßig am Lehrstuhl Brandlhuber, ETH Zürich.

Luisa Izuzquiza

works at FragDenStaat, an organization that is part of the Abolish Frontex network. She is a freedom of information activist based in Brussels, Belgium. Luisa does research, campaigns, and litigates for access to information with a special focus on the European Union’s border control policies, and Frontex in particular.

Luísa Telles

Luísa Telles is an artist and researcher born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and based in Hamburg, Germany. With a DAAD Scholarship, she is a graduate in Photography with Broomberg & Chanarin at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Her work engages with questions around social memory and the body as an agent of resistance

Luise Willer

is a researcher and organizer based in Berlin. Currently she works as a research Associate at the research center Intervening Arts where she examins forms of assembling and organizing in contemporary Art to learn about their visions of futurity, their collaborative processes and their critique of institutions.

Lukas Treiber

is a writer and researcher based in Berlin.

Macon Holt

Macon Holt is a cultural theorist, critic and the author of Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism. He is an editor at Passive/Aggressive and his writing has appeared in Atlas Magasin and The Ark Review. He has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London and is a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. His work explores the political affects of cultural production.

Madlyn Sauer

(*1989) promoviert in Kulturanalyse unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Sylvia Sasse an der Universität Zürich und im Rahmen des ERC-Projekts »Prefiguring Democratic Futures. Cultural and Theoretical Responses to the Crisis of Political Imagination« unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Oliver Marchart an der Universität Wien. Zuvor studierte sie Bühnen- und Kostümbild für Theater und angewandte Theaterwissenschaft. Im Dezember 2022 erschien ihre Monographie Wir klagen an! über die NSU-Tribunale im Unrast Verlag. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Zürich und Berlin.

Maja Ćirić

is an independent curator and art critic. After the digital turn in 2020, she became more involved in phygital (physical + digital) projects, conferences and exhibitions in the hybrid field of art + science + tech. She also curates in the metaverse (meta + universe). Historically speaking, Maja was the curator of the Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, in Tirana (2017), and has been both the curator (2007) and the commissioner (2013) of the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Maja holds a PhD in Art Theory (Thesis: "Institutional Critique and Curating") from the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her speaking engagements, among others, were/are at MAC VAL (2017), Centre Pompidou (2018), and MNAC Bucharest (2018), AICA Serbia Conference (2021), Zlin Digital Exhibition Design Conference (2021), Interact Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2021) and IKT Conference (2021). She contributed to Flash Art, Obieg, Artforum, Artmargins Online, Arts of the Working Class, springerin. Her areas of expertise from day one span from the geopolitical and the curatorial through curating as a practice of institutional critique. She sits at the Board of Advisors to The Telos Society, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium in Athens and the Editorial Board of The Large Glass published by MoCA, Skopje. She is the art glass researcher and advisor for Digital Glass Serbia, a project whose goal is to evaluate the legacy of industrial glass production.

Marco Scotini

Marco Scotini is an Italian curator, writer and art critic based in Milan, where he is artistic director of the FM Center for Contemporary Art and Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA.

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh

is an associate professor of Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam and adjunct professor of Environmental Law at the University of the South Pacific. With Julian Aguon, she serves as lead counsel for Vanuatu in its pursuit of an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice, and has published extensively on international law, environmental justice, and human rights.

Marginal Studio

Founded in 2014 by Francesca Gattello & Zeno Franchini, Marginal Studio is a collaborative entity exploring the margins of the design field and the roles it can play in the making of societies. It uses prototypes, installations, writings, and films to investigate and document the production of objectual universes and spaces, and their implications on a planetary scale. Marginal Studio develops a practice in a continuous dialogue with other professions, expertise, and cultures. Within and against logic and structures of design, art, and architecture, it aims to constructive dissent, experimenting interactions as forms of social practice and political awareness.

Mari Spirito

has been Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema since 2011. She launched Protocinema’s Emerging Curator Series mentorship program in 2015. In 2020 Spirito was commissioning curator of Ahmet Öğüt: “No poem loves its poet’, Yarat Contemporary Art Center, Baku, and Theo Triantafyllidis' "Anti-Gone" which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier; she curated public talks for Beijing Art Summit, 2019; was faculty for Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive, Bangkok, and guest curator, Alserkal Arts Foundation Public Commission, Dubai, with Hale Tenger, in 2018.

María Galindo

María Galindo es escritora, comunicadora y co-fundadora del colectivo Mujeres Creando y co-directora de Radio Deseo. Es autora de libros como “No se Puede Descolonizar sin Despatriarcalizar” y “Espejito Mágico”. En su trabajo se articulan prácticas y conocimientos subalternos fundados en lo que Mujeres Creando ha llamado alianzas insólitas de “indias, putas y lesbianas”. También tienen cabida las tradiciones políticas y literarias del anarquismo, el punk y el feminismo latinoamericano.

María Inés Plaza Lazo

is editor-at-large, publisher and founder of Arts of the Working Class.

Mariana Castillo Deball

is an artist who takes a kaleidoscopic approach to her practice, mediating between science, archaeology, and the visual arts and exploring the way in which these disciplines describe the world.

Marija Bartl

is Professor of Transnational Private Law at the Amsterdam Law School, a Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law, the Editor of European Law Open and a founding Co-president of European Law Unbound - Society. The above remarks are based on Bartl’s recent open-access monograph titled Reimagining Prosperity: Towards a New Imaginary of Law and Political Economy in the EU (CUP, 2024).

Marija Pavlović

is a Yugoslav/Serbian writer who holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and currently lives in Berlin. Her literary and academic work focuses on defining a postmodern tendency she names hypertrashrealism.

Marta Torres Ruiz

is a German architect. Since October 2019 she is a collegiate of DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Identität und Erbe, a joint undertaking by Technische Universität Berlin and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Within this framework she is conducting a PhD dissertation titled "Overtourism – An Urban History of Conflict in Tourism".

Marwa Arsanios

is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid-twentieth century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism, and industrialisation. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines.

Matt A. Hanson

is a freelance journalist and art writer based in Istanbul. He has written for Artforum, Artnet News, ArtAsiaPacific, Hyperallergic, Tohu Magazine, and Zaman Collective, among many others. He is the founding editor of FictiveMag.com, an alternative concept magazine merging literary fiction and art criticism.

Matthias Rietschel

arbeitet als freier Fotograf in Dresden, bis 2010 vor allem für die Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press (AP). 

Mattin

is an artist, musician, and theorist working conceptually with noise and improvisation. Through his practice, writing, and pedagogy, he explores performative forms of estrangement as a way to deal with structural alienation.

Matylda Krzykowski

is a designer, curator and artist focusing on collaborative and performative projects in physical and digital space. Krzykowski’s work is introspective, as it explores and experiments with the inner mechanisms of design, art and architecture. As such, her projects dissect the design process to its different stages – from material and personal origins, to methodologies and education; from networks to social projections, and the spectrum in between.

Max Haiven

is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in Radical Imagination. His most recent books are: "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022), "Revenge Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2020), and "Art After Money, Money After Art" (Pluto Press, 2018). Haiven is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University on Anishinaabe territories on the North Shore of Gitchigumi, though he often found in Berlin. He co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL), a workshop for the radical imagination, social justice and decolonization.

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

is a poet from Bogotá, Colombia.

Meenakshi Thirukode

Meenakshi Thirukode is a writer, researcher and a 2016-17 FICA Inlaks Goldsmiths scholar at the M.Res program in Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths, University of London. She also graduated with Honors in the MA History of the Art Market, Connoisseurship and Art Criticism from Christies Education, New York (2008-09) Her areas of research include the role of culture and collectivity in the sub-continent within the realm of a trans-nomadic, transient network of individuals and institutions. Her recent projects include organizing the ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ conference at MAC Birmingham, UK as part of the India-UK 70 years celebration (March 2018) and ‘Out of Turn, Being Together Otherwise’, exploring performance art histories in collaboration with Asia Art Archive (AAA) at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India (December 15th-22nd 2018). Her chapter ‘Towards a Public of the Otherwise’, will be published in the Routledge Companion Series for Art in the Public Realm in 2020.

Meii Soh

is a performer, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of queer identity, non-human narratives, and speculative storytelling. Their practice examines shapeshifting as a survival strategy, tracing how identity—particularly in its fluid, trans*, and dissociative states—can glitch, dissolve, and reassemble through interspecies entanglements and tech-
nological interfaces.

Melissa Canbaz

Melissa Canbaz is a writer and curator based in Berlin, where she recently worked for Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Currently she is part of the team at the thematic bookshop Pro qm. She is co-running the exhibition space Stations in Kreuzberg.

www.stations.zone

Melissa Canbaz, Mihaela Chiriac, Caroline Ngorobi

Melissa Canbaz schreibt über Musik und Kunst und kuratiert. Gemeinsam mit Mihaela Chiriac ist sie Mitbegründerin von STATIONS. Sie lebt in Berlin.

Mihaela Chiriac writes and curates, amongst others at the project space STATIONS, Berlin, which she runs with Melissa Canbaz.

Caroline Ngorobi is a theater producer and performer, founder of Jukwaa
Arts in Mombasa, Kenya.

Mia Butter

(b. 2001) is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Informed by pop culture phenomena, kitsch and her Balkan heritage, her work navigates identity and objecthood.

Mia Ribeiro Alonso

is a writer and collaborates with AWC as an editorial volunteer.

Michikazu Matsune

is an artist who creates works in his personal method by merging documentarist and conceptualist practices. He utilizes diverse approaches, which range from stage-performances and interventions in public spaces to making text-paintings. Characterized as both critical and playful at the same time, his work examines the tension around our cultural ascriptions and social identifications in our globalized contemporary society. Matsune was born in Kobe and has been based in Vienna since the 1990s.
www.michikazumatsune.info

Miguel Gutierrez Chero

es fotógrafo y comunicador social. También es postulante a magíster en antropología visual por la PUCP-Perú.

Miguel Guevara Parra

a veces es diseñador, arquitecto nunca más, más que nada es escritor y cuentacuentos. Su práctica artística está sostenida por un creciente archivo de trabajos de sueldo básico, como supervisor de tienda, barita y asistente de fábrica.

Mikala Hyldig Dal

Mikala Hyldig Dal is an artist, curator and author based in Berlin, Cairo and The Hague. She examines visual cultures through video- and text-based interventions. Many of her works are installations, but also performance, drawing and painting are among her artistic practices. The artist is represented in international exhibitions, e.g. in Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Cairo Townhouse Gallery, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen, Fluxfactory New York and Azad Gallery Tehran. Dal is interested in the connections between image production and the destruction of images (iconoclasm), processes of visualization and invisibility, structures of power in the field of the visual. In the words of philosopher Jacques Rancière: Mikala deconstructs "aesthetic regimes" with her artistic works, her curatorial projects and theoretical reflections."
- Introduction by Prof. Dr. Linda Hentschel, Institute for Art and Visual History (IKB), Humboldt University Berlin
(translated from German)

https://cargocollective.com/mikala-hyldig-dal

Miriam Cahn

is a Swiss artist. In her paintings she pushes for the abolishment of social norms and counters the traditional representation of the female and gender-specific roles.

Miwa Negoro

is a curator based in Berlin and Vienna. With her interests in the discourse of performativity, decolonial thinking and re-narration of histories, Negoro’s curatorial practice aims at encouraging the fluidity of transcultural, non-binary conditions in the global present. She worked for the project Mitsouko & Mitsuko as a researcher and artistic collaborator. miwanegoro.com

Mohamed Ashraf

is a poet and essayist from Egypt and the editor of this supplement.

Mohammad Al-Hasani

Al-Hasani studied Politics and Law in Göttingen, Germany before working for a number of international organizations, as a consultant in Berlin, New York and Zurich. He is now working for Vice Versa Art Books in Berlin.

Mohammad Salemy

is an independent Berlin-based artist, critic and curator from Canada. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MA in Critical Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia. Together with Patrick Schabus, he forms the artist collective Alphabet Collection. Salemy is the Organizer at The New Centre for Research & Practice.

Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin

is a movement artist based in Brussels, originally from Haifa (Israel/Occupied Palestine). Her practice emerges from dance and movement and extends into voice, text, and installation. Through her work, she navigates the politics of body, space, land, and identity, developing deconstructive practices that challenge mechanisms of nationalism and militarism. Alongside her artistic practice, she collaborates as a performer, choreographer’s assistant, and dramaturg.

Nada Al Khawwam

is a poet and journalist, originally from Baghdad, currently living in Berlin.
She has kindly agreed to reprint “On the Grass of Exile” which was first printed in the anthology
“Poems along the River” that was published by the DAAD Artists-In-Berlin Program in 2020.

Naomi Rado

works as an independent writer and curator based in Frankfurt/Main. She studied art history and is currently pursuing her Masters in Aesthetics at Goethe University Frankfurt. Naomi published in several art magazines and artist books. Since 2019 she is a member of Synnika, and in 2017 co-initiated the feminist collective +FEM.

Nat Marcus

is a poet, vocalist and designer. Along with Zoe Darsee, she is co-editor of TABLOID Press, an imprint for poetry and art books founded in Berlin in 2014. The publishing house maintains a focus on the public space of a poem and the poetics of a social body. Marcus’ poetry, art criticism and lyric journalism have also appeared in The Ransom Note, Novembre, DIS and Berlin Art Link.

Nat Marcus

is a poet, vocalist and designer. Along with Zoe Darsee, she is co-editor of TABLOID Press, an imprint for poetry and art-books founded in Berlin in 2014. The publishing house maintains a focus on the public space of a poem and the poetics of a social body. Marcus’ poetry, art criticism and lyric journalism have also appeared in The Ransom Note, Novembre, DIS and Berlin Art Link.

Natalia del Carmen Eduardo

Estudió Ciencias de la Cultura y Filología en la Universidad de Potsdam y una maestría en Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad Libre de Berlín. Investigadora en el campo de la filosofía y sociología de la ciencia y tecnología, memoria histórica y estudios de género. Gestora cultural y activista, forma parte de la colectiva VOCES de Guatemala en Berlín y de la revista Alba Lateinamerika lesen. Ciclista apasionada y escritora de poesía y cuentos cortos.

Natascha Adamowsky

ist Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin und arbeitet seit 2020 an der Universität Passau. Das Thema „Wahnsinn und Gesellschaft“ hat sie oft mit Studierenden diskutiert und viel dabei gelernt. Mehr zu ihrer Forschung: natascha-adamowsky.de

Natascha Sadr Haghighian

is an artist known for assuming multiple identities. Her official press releases and gallery biographies conflict on country of origin, date of birth, and place of residence.

New Models (Caroline Busta & Lil Internet)

Caroline Busta and Lil Internet are co-founders of New Models (https://newmodels.io), a media platform and community addressing the emergent effects of networked technology on culture. Busta was previously Editor in Chief of Texte zur Kunst, and an Associate Editor of Artforum. Lil Internet has worked as a video director (Beyoncé, Diplo, Vogue, Adidas) and music producer (Azealia Banks) and increasingly, as a pop media theorist.

Nick Koppenhagen

is an artist and independent researcher from Berlin. He is the creator and host of the interview-podcast kunstgespraeche.com and a founding member of the DAK.

Nicole

Contributor & Street Vendor

Nika Dubrovsky

Is a transdisciplinary researcher which practice evolved from visual arts, journalism, internet culture and publishing. After an artistic career in Israel in the early Nineties, Dubrovsky was among the pioneers in Russia's new media start-up scene and specialized in social media and open source culture. Moving to New York in 2001 she became a significant voice in Russian blogging. Her critical position on educational regimes led to the development and publishing of doodle books for children. Her current project Anthropology For Kids aims at creating a publication series with a participatory approach. Reframing crucial aspects of human life – family, money, migration, privacy, and alike – Anthropology For Kids seeks to deconstruct conditioned notions of how we (should) live, demonstrating the diversity of perspectives and possibilities that exist in different cultures. Nika Dubrovsky was born in Leningrad / St. Petersburg. She currently lives and works in Berlin.

Niklas Egberts

Niklas Egberts is a design researcher, strategist and writer based in Berlin. He is currently participating in Philosophy and Art as Research for Technology, a postgraduate research program hosted by Transformations of the Human in Berkeley, California.

Nils Fock

is a PhD candidate at the HFBK Hamburg and the Institute for Social Research under the supervision of Juliane Rebentisch and Christoph Menke with the thesis “Abject Nature. A theory of contemporary art after Georges Bataille.”

Nina Hanz

is a German-American writer based in Berlin. In 2020, she graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA Writing program, where she cultivated her practice around time and place, geology, and ecology. Both her prose and poetry deal with unexpected iterations of the ground, from the grit that gets stuck in a clamshell to the gunk that gets stuck under our fingernails. She has read her work at the National Poetry Library, London; Floating University, Berlin and Assembly House, Norwich, and elsewhere. Nina's poetry can be found in places such as Vogue, Daisy World Magazine, Ache Magazine, and the Attention anthology. Her first poetry pamphlet, Placeholders, was published by Bottlecap Press in February 2022, and her second pamphlet, Mycoglossia, co-written with Fiona Glen, was published by Haverthorn Press in December 2022.

Nina Zschocke

Forscht und lehrt zur Kunst- und Mediengeschichte der Gegenwart am Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich. Inmitten der Umbruchszeit, auf die die Autorin hier zurückblickt, erschienen ihre Vorlesungsreihe Digital Matters (2019/2020) sowie ihre Bücher Der irritierte Blick (2006), Autorität des Wissens (2012, hg. zus. m. Anne von der Heiden), Diversität (2015, hg. zus. m. Andre Blum et al.), Productive Universals (2019, hg. zus. m. Anne Kockelkorn) und Laboratorien der Erfahrung (2022).

Nina Marietti/Abba

is a theory-witch, writer, curator, and a bit of an artist.

Noa Jaari

writes journalistic and fiction texts, and researches social and socio-political issues such as social inequalities and grassroots movements, labor and production conditions, education, and poverty.

Octavia Abril

ist eine chilenische Schriftsteller*in, die sensibel auf den Lauf der Jahreszeiten reagiert. Ihre Werke gedeihen, beeinträchtigt durch ihre immer wieder neuen Allergien, die sie aufgrund des Klimawandels und industriell verarbeiteter Lebensmittel erleidet, in den Grenzbereichen zwischen Institutionen und Weinbergen. Mit dieser körperlichen Verfassung beschloss sie, Welten und Worte in gefährlichen Küssen zu schaffen. Sie boykottiert Werbung Plakate, ist aber immer für gute Gespräche zu haben.

Olga Grjasnowa

geboren in Baku, Aserbaidschan, hat bislang vier Romane veröffentlicht. Für ihr viel beachtetes Debüt Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (2012) wurde sie mit dem Klaus-Michael Kühne-Preis und dem Anna Seghers-Preis ausgezeichnet. Zuletzt erschien von ihr der Roman Der verlorene Sohn (2020). Olga Grjasnowa ist Mitglied des Goethe-Instituts. Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in Berlin.

Olga Grjasnowa, Ayham Majid Agha

Olga Grjasnowa ist Schriftstellerin. Zuletzt erschien ihr 2020 Roman “Der verlorene Sohn”. Ayham Majid Agha ist Regisseur und Schauspieler.

Oli Mould

is a lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His academic research and writing focuses on the role of urban creativity, activism, and politics. His books include Urban Subversion and the Creative City (2015), Against Creativity (2018), and Seven Ethics Against Capitalism (2021).

Oluwatoyin Sogbesan

obtained her PhD in Culture, Policy and Management from the Department of Culture and Creative Industries, City University London. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Edo State University, Masters of Architecture from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife Nigeria, an MA in Arts and Heritage Management from London Metropolitan University London and a PGCE in Academic Practice.

Oluwatoyin aside from lecturing and mentoring spends time on researching ideologies centered on ‘changing’ how Africa is perceived and represented. She is a qualified Accessor on vocational skills training and has over 5 years experience on training within the organizations to get staff qualified through vocational training schemes. Oluwatoyin is often involved in providing feedback on management policies to encourage inclusive participation. She strongly believes that only an inclusive participatory culture can bring about the required change in any organization.

Omri Livne

Omri Livne is an artist working with image making and writing based in Berlin. Livne’s works
deal primarily with labor, theft, consumerism, job-related depression, capitalism, and the art
market. Livne struggles to make a living with art selling so he works in whatever he can to afford
his life. https://omrilivne.net/

Omsk Social Club

is an artistic practice centered around a role-playing methodology called Real Game Play. Using the tools of speculative worlding and collective immersion, they produce Live installation-based artworks.

Onassis AiR Community

https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-future/residencies/onassis-air/

Organizations operating at No. 6 Metelkova Street

are non-governmental organizations, collectives and individuals engaged in independent cultural and artistic production, and research and advocacy on behalf of minority and marginalized groups.

Orsi Balog

Human Rights Researcher at United Nations University, Founder and Codirector of NotJustANumber - grassroots organization for refugees, Political Activist, Photographer from Budapest / Zürich

Oscar Santillán / Estudio Antimundo

Antimundo es un estudio que engloba la práctica artística de Oscar Santillán y la red de energía colaborativa que la conforma. Ciencia, ficción y perspectivas no humanas generan el “Antimundo", una forma de abrazar realidades que no encajan en nuestro mundo actual.

Övül Ö. Durmusoglu

is a curator and writer living in Berlin. Her interests lie in the intersection of contemporary art, critical and gender theory, politics and popular culture. Currently, Övül is a guest professor in the Graduate School in University of the Arts in Berlin; section curator for ARCO Madrid and guest curator in CA2M Madrid. Her recent curatorial project ‘Stars Are Closer and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees’ has taken place in the MMAG Foundation, Amman in 2019.

Oxana Timofeeva

is a Professor at “Stasis” Center for Philosophy at the European University at St. Petersburg, leading researcher at Tyumen State University, member of the artistic collective “Chto Delat?”
(“What is to be done?”), deputy editor of the journal “Stasis”, and the author of books History of Animals
(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018; Maastricht: Jan van Eyck, 2012; trans. into Russian, Turkish, and
Slovenian), Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (Moscow: New Literary Observer,
2009), How to Love a Homeland (Cairo: Kayfa ta, 2020; trans. into Arabic), and other writings.

Pablo Rojas

es ingeniero en prevención de riesgos. Actualmente se está integrando al sector laboral de la salud mientras recorre los laberintos admininstrativos de la Ley de Extranjería.

Pamela Cevallos

is a visual artist, anthropologist and curator.

Paolo Caffoni

è un ricercatore che si occupa di linguaggio, IA e traduzione alla Hochschule für Gestaltung di Karlsruhe e all’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. La sua ricerca si concentra sul lavoro linguistico e sulle condizioni materiali delle tecnologie della traduzione.

Patrick Kurth

is a writer and editor based in Berlin, as well as the co-founder with Stela Žižak of the poetry publication SELDOM Press.

Pauł Sochacki

Pauł Sochacki & Dalia Maini

are both committed to AWC. Paul as co-founder and Dalia as editor in chief.

Pegah Ahmad

is a poet, translator and literary critic from
Tehran, currently based in Cologne. She originally wrote
her poem in Farsi and then translated it into German.

People of Accent

is a Berlin-based art collective, whose members have decided to programmatically remain anonymous in order to protect themselves from a structurally conditioned self-censorship, which, according to the collective members “became totally unavoidable in today’s art and academic community”.

Phillip Paiement

is an Associate Professor in Jurisprudence at Tilburg Law School (the Netherlands) conducting research on transnational environmental and climate litigation. This research is funded by the European Union (ERC STG TransLitigate 101039648). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or ERC. Neither the European Union nor the ERC can be held responsible for them.

Pierre Cassou-Noguès

is a full-time professor at the University Paris 8. He has published essays and fiction. His work is based on a conceptual use of fiction. More info: www.pierrecassounogues.org.

Pierre d’Alancaisez

works as a curator and critic, and formerly directed Waterside Contemporary in London. He is currently a PhD researcher at Birmingham City University and has been a cultural strategist, publisher, scientist, and financial services professional.

Pilar Zevallos

Piraeus Open School of Immigrants

has been active in the field of solidarity education since 2005, taking the legal form of an association in 2006 with its ultimate aim being the educational and training support of migrants and refugees residing in Greece. The school is run solely by volunteers and strives to secure forms of self- financing in order to maintain control of the entity without outside influences.

Precious Okoyomon

is an artist and poet. They live and work in New York City.

Press Press

Press Press is an interdisciplinary publishing collective that aims to shift and deepen the understanding of voices, narratives, and identities that have been suppressed and misrepresented by the mainstream. Based on Piscataway land (Baltimore, Maryland) and Tongva-Gabrielino land (Los Angeles, California), Press Press is co-organized by Valentina Cabezas, Kimi Hanauer, Bilphena Yahwon, and Lo.

The Institute for Expanded Research (IER) activates sites and leverages resources to produce and present projects in collaboration with artists. IER was founded by Lu Zhang, a multi-disciplinary artist who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, and text – often in response to a chosen site.

Rahel Jaeggi

Prof. Dr., Philosophin, Professorin für Praktische Philosophie, Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, seit 2018 Leiterin des Centers for Humanities and Social Change in Berlin. Gegenstand ihrer Forschung sind u. a. die Begriffe der Entfremdung, der Kommodifizierung, der Ideologie, der Lebensform, der Institution und der Solidarität. Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl): Kapitalismus – ein Gespräch über Kritische Theorie (2020, mit Nancy Fraser); Entfremdung – Zur Aktualität eines sozialphilosophi schen Problems (2016); Kritik von Lebensformen (2014).

Rahel Aima

is a writer and critic based in Dubai, an Associate Editor at Momus and Editor of BXD: The Postwestern Review.

Ralph Tharayil

is a writer based in Berlin.

Refuge Worldwide

Refuge was started as a fundraising platform working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations. In January 2021, we launched Refuge Worldwide, a new radio station to amplify the music and issues that we care about, broadcasting 24/7 from Weserstraße 166, (12045 Berlin Neukölln).

From our home in Berlin Neukölln, Oona Bar, we now host weekly workshops, training programs, and classes in media, creative fields, and mental health. These are free to attend as part of our community outreach. Refuge Worldwide is also involved in a number of collaborative projects around the globe with like-minded collectives, radio stations, and activists.

RESOLVE

is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering,
technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects,
workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward
realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.

Rico Zyrrano

ist Autor und Verkäufer unserer Straßenzeitung.

Rita Torres

is an artist from Portugal, whose work focuses on intersections, subjectivities, eclecticisms, collectivisms, stories and inventions.

Rodney

Rodney is a vendor for Arts of the Working Class based in Berlin

Romina Muñoz

(Guayaquil, 1984). Investigadora, docente, co-fundadora de la editorial Festina Lente y de MEDIAAGUA plataforma de experimentación. Es Miembro de la Fundación Muégano Teatro y parte del colectivo artístico Las Brujas. Fue docente, Comisión Académica de la carrera de Artes Visuales y miembro del Departamento de Investigación del Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE, 2010-2015). Fue Directora de Investigación en la UArtes (2015) y Jefa del Premio Nacional Mariano Aguilera (2017-2018). Tiene una licenciatura en Artes Visuales y un Máster en Arqueología. Ha realizado varios proyectos curatoriales e investigativos sobre arte moderno y prácticas artísticas contemporáneas.

Rosalia Namsai Engchuan

(she/her) is an artist and researcher based between Berlin and Southeast Asia. Her video works are speculative vessels that aim to undo the underlying structures of colonialism, race, gender and class that shape the production of our worlds and from there, collectively with her research collaborators, creates worlds otherwise. Her research into the nebulous yet persistent stereotype construct of The Thai Women started many years ago, when she was driven by an urge to make sense of an uncanny feeling that shaped her experience of growing up in Germany, as the daughter of a Thai father and German mother. Engaging with historical sources, she began to comprehend that to enter the space of The Thai Woman is to enter the space of a superficial stereotype of docile smiles and submissive beauty, a product of imperialism, crypto-colonialism and supra-national beauty standards. A colonial fantasy, a fantastic construct, distorted in its making and destructive in its consequences.

Rose Higham-Stainton

writes about future feminisms through material and immaterial cultures, and is based in Norfolk. Her work is held in the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College and has been published in
ART MONTHLY, MAP MAGAZINE, PIN—UP MAGAZINE, THE SKIRT CHRONICLES, ACHE, WORMS, DELEUZINE, SPAM PLAZA and THE WHITE REVIEW. She is the author of HERĒMA published by Sticky Fingers Publishing and FOAM OF THE DAZE published by Bottlecap Press. Rose also works with sound and visual language and has been a guest on Montez Press Radio and NTS radio, exhibited at 4COSE in London and LUCKY as part of Kunstverein München’s transdisciplinary artist residency Peripheral Alliances. She co-runs Devotion writing workshops with the poet Sophie Robinson.

Rose-Anne Gush

is an art historian, theorist, educator, and sporadic artist and curator.

Ruby Rebelde & Daniel Horneber

Ruby Rebelde ist Sexarbeiter*in, Aktivist*in und arbeitet in der politischen Bildung. Ihre Schwerpunkte sind Rechtsextremismus, Feminismus und Menschenrechte. Außerdem gibt sie Workshops und Vorträge zu Anti- Diskriminierung und Stigma. Zusammen mit Daniel Horneber arbeitet sie akivistisch zu den Themen soziale Gerechtigkeit, Diskriminierung und Allyship.

Daniel Horneber ist Erzieher und Aktivist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind Behinderung, Beeinträchtigung und Inklusion.
Er hält Vorträge, gibt Workshops, nimmt an Podiumsdiskussionen teil und ist ein behinderter Mensch.

S.A.L.E DOCKS

Group consisting of Vito Ancona, Marco Baravalle, Lucrezia Buccigrossi, Alessandro Conti, Estelle Coulon, Francesco Fazzi, Livia Torchio based in Venice

Saâdane Afif

(1970) es un artista francés que vive y trabaja en Berlín. Es el convener (convocante) de la Bergen Assembly 2022. Entre sus exposiciones internacionales recientes se encuentran The Fountain Archives and Beyond..., (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2021), This is Ornamental (Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Viena, 2018), y Paroles (Wiels, Bruselas, 2018). Su obra fue incluida en la Documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007) y en la 56ª Exposición Internacional de la Bienal de Venecia (2015). Ha ganado varios premios, como el Prix Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2006), el Prix Marcel Duchamp (2009) y el Prix Meurice (2015).

Sanjana Varghese

is a journalist, visual researcher and reporter in London. She writes around technology, conflict, migration and culture, and graduated from the Centre for Research Architecture in 2021.

Sara Garzon (Collective Rewilding)

is a curator and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. In her research, Sara focuses on issues relating to decoloniality, temporality, and Indigenous ecocriticism. Sara is also a founding member of the curatorial working group Collective Rewilding, which investigates the intersection between curation, ecology, and care. Sara has contributed to several exhibition catalogs, anthologies, peer-reviewed journals, and art magazines. Her article “Deborah Castillo: The Performativity of Ruination and other Forms of Civil Disobedience” was published in the book Deborah Castillo: Radical Disobedience (Hemipress NY, 2019), and the article “Manuel Amaru Cholango: Decolonizing Technology and the Construction of Indigenous Futures” was included in a special issue of Arts on decolonizing contemporary Latin American art (December 2019). This article was awarded Best Essay in Visual Culture Studies 2020 by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Sara has been invited as a curator in residence at the “Creative Ecologies and Decolonial Futurities” residency organized by the Grupo de Investigación Arte y Política (GIAP) in Chiapas, Mexico (2019); and the workshop for emerging curators at Para Site in Hong Kong (2019), and was part of the Science and Technology Society at the Delfina Foundation in London (2020).

Sarnath Banerjee

writes comic books and lives in Berlin and Delhi.

Sebastian Muehl

is a Berlin-based researcher, educator and curator. He is part of the faculty at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at Art Academy of Latvia, Riga. Among his subjects of research are the politics of global contemporary art, visual culture, critical theory, and aesthetics.

Sebastjan Brank

Seda Yıldız

(b. 1989, İstanbul) is an independent curator and art writer based in Hamburg. Her practice is inspired by thinking across disciplines including art, music, design, literature and activism. She is interested in taking part in process-oriented, open and experimental projects that foster collaboration and exchange with a wider audience. Yıldız is the editor and co-author of the book “Building Human Relations Through Art: Belgrade art collective Škart, from 1990 to present” which has been recently published by Onomatopee.
www.yildizseda.com

Senthuran Varatharajah

is a German-Tamil poet, novelist, philosopher and theologian based in Berlin. His first novel, Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen, was published by S. Fischer in 2016, his second novel Rot (Hunger), was published by S. Fischer in 2022

Sepp Eckenhaussen

is an art writer, organizer, and researcher based in Amsterdam. He works at the Institute of Network Cultures and the Caradt research group of the St. Joost Academy.

Shahd Safi

is an Arabic/English translator and writer from the Gaza Strip. In addition to We Are Not Numbers, she has contributed to the Palestine Chronicle, Palestine Deep Dive, and MZEMO.

Sif Lindblad

has a background in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Copenhagen and the New School. She is currently developing her research at Tranen — Space for Contemporary Art and works as a freelance writer from time to time.

Simin Jawabreh

(@siminjawa) ist als Kommunistin in antirassistischen Bewegungen aktiv. In ihrer politischen, bildungs- wie journalistischen Arbeit legt sie einen Fokus auf Dekolonialismus, Marxismus und Sicherheit.

Sithara Weeratunga

arbeitet seit neun Jahren in Museen. Sie ist noch bis 2025 als Agentin für Diversität und Kuratorin am Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig tätig; außerdem ist sie DJ und Sounddesignerin.

Sofia Willer

hat vergleichende und interkulturelle Philosophie studiert und lebt in Berlin.

Somaya El Sousi

is a researcher and writer from Palestine.
Four collections of her poetry have been published.

Sonja Teszler

is a writer based between Budapest, Berlin and London with a practice focusing on the Eastern European diaspora and art as activism. Her articles have been published among others in Something Curated, Calvert Journal, P-W Magazine, thisistomorrow and Passe Avant. She also makes music coming out soon.

@tulipankocso on Instagram

Sonja Bisgiel

is an opera singer, voice mentor and visionary. She lives in Berlin with her husband and two children.

Sonja Borstner

is a writer, curator, and editor whose research is focused on the body, sickness, and vulnerability. She is assistant editor at the Gropius Bau and editor-at-large of the online art magazine PASSE-AVANT. Her recent writings have been published in frieze magazine, Gropius Bau Journal, TAZ, Berliner Zeitung and with Revolver Publishing and Distanz Verlag, among others.

Sonja Lau, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & Jonida Gashi

Sonja Lau is a curator and writer with a focus on art and ideology, alternate art (hi)stories and curating as a performative practice based in Berlin. She holds a Masters in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London), was fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie and also has a professional background in cultural diplomacy. www.sonjalau.com

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is a publisher, scholar, and journalist. He is the author of the three-volume work 'Lapidari' cataloguing socialist-realist monumentality in Albania. He is founder of project bureau for the arts and humanities Departamenti i Shqiponjave (www.departmentofeagles.org) and writes for Albanian media outlet Exit (www.exit.al/en).

Jonida Gashi is an academic and cultural theorist based in Tirana, Albania. She is currently working on a research project on the newsreels and documentary films of the Albanian communist show trials. Her research interests include contemporary art theory and criticism, the philosophy of time and theories of repetition, film theory and the history of cinema, and the artistic experience of post-socialism in contemporary Albania. She is one of the founders of DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art (www.debatikcenter.net).

Sowmya Maheswaran

ist als Anthropologin akademisch, journalistisch und beratend tätig. Sie arbeitet und promoviert zu Logiken von Gewalt und Kulturen des Widerstands aus globaler Perspektive.

Stefan F. Höglmaier

discovered his passion for architecture at a young age. Quickly he developed the curiosity and the ambition to realize buildings that both function economically and create added value for society. In 1999, Höglmaier founded Euroboden GmbH, the first architectural brand in the real estate industry.

Stefano Serretta Contributor

is a figurative artist. After earning a degree in Modern and Contemporary History—which nurtured his inclination to explore historical events and decode the languages, codes, and symbols of ideologies—he specialised in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies
at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, where he currently teaches on the Public Art course.

Stephanie Bailey

Stephanie Bailey is editor-in-chief of Ocula Magazine, a contributing editor to ART PAPERS
and LEAP, the managing editor of Podium, the online journal for M+ in Hong Kong, and a
member of the Naked Punch editorial committee. Formerly senior editor of Ibraaz, she also
writes for ArtMonthly, Artforum, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and D’ivan, A
Journal of Accounts, and since 2015 she has curated the Conversations programme at Art
Basel in Hong Kong. From 2006 to 2012, Bailey lived in Athens, Greece, where she
designed, directed and managed the BTEC-accredited foundation course in Art and Design at
Doukas Education.

Suhail Malik

is a writer and academic. Having begun his career writing about art, gentrification and neoliberalism, his work in the 2020s and 2030s has been increasingly concerned with how architecture and city planning can imagine and realise utopian futures. He currently lives in a housing co-operative in London that he helped to devise, based on the principles of Berlin’s ExRotaprint.

Sultan Doughan

is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a political anthropologist, she specialized in the secular governance of migrant minorities as a religious problem in Europe. Her current book project, tentatively entitled Converting Citizens: Secularism and the Politics of Holocaust Memory after Gaza, is based on fieldwork in Germany and approaches citizenship as a practice & technology of secular conversion.

Sumugan Sivanesan

Sumugan Sivanesan’s practice turns around art, activism and theory. Often working collaboratively, his interests include minority politics, activist media, artist infrastructures and more-than-human rights. He has been involved in a number of art-activist collectives in Australia including: boat-people.org, theweathergroup_U and Yurt Empire. He is currently organising with Black Earth, a BIPoC climate justice collective in Berlin. www.sivanesan.net

Synnika

is a collective and an experimental space for practice and theory in Frankfurt am Main's Central Station district. Synnika has evolved from the direct engagement with the drastic urban developments of recent years. The space is located in the ground-floor of the NIKA.haus, a former office and store building at the intersection of Niddastrasse and Karlstraße. Through the initiative of its residents the building was collectivized and integrated into the trans-regional Syndicate of Tenements.

SoengJoengToi (SJT) is a platform in Guangzhou (CHN) founded in 2017. It stems from the needs of artists for a mutual practice space. SJT is located in Changgang subway station, Haizhu District, embedded in a community of local inhabitants.

www.facebook.com/SoengJoengToi

Tanasgol Sabbagh

is a Berlin-based poet. Her work situates itself between stage and page poetry and takes shape in form of embodied performances, audio pieces, video installations and musical collaborations. She is part of the artist collective parallelgesellschaft, which curates an event series dedicated to exploring the spectrum of the creative and the political beyond the standards of German dominant culture. Together with poet Josefine Berkholz she founded and hosts the auditive literature magazine Stoff aus Luft: A format that tries to examine the poetics of spoken and sound-based literature, rendering it more visible outside the often restricting frame of print.

Tara Habibzadeh

(b. in Tehran) lives and works in Berlin and Tehran. Influenced by cinema, dramaturgy, music videos, documentary films, comedy, and news, and with a background in mathematics and law, their practice can be seen as the evidence of ambiguous visual dialectics. Habibzadeh’s wide variety of works explore themes such as heroism, ideology, survival, gender identity, trans-generational and -historical narratives, first-generation diaspora, war, brainwashing, pain, and propaganda.

Tatiana Kochubinska

Tatiana Kochubinska is an independent curator, writer, and lecturer. Her main expertise is in Ukrainian contemporary art. In 2016–2019 she curated the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre. She edited and co-edited the books PARCOMMUNE. Place. Community. Phenomenon and Fedir Tetianych. Frypulia. In 2020 she co-edited a special issue of Obieg titled "Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014". She conceived curatorial residencies in Dnipro, Ukraine upon the invitation of the Artsvit contemporary art gallery.

Taylor Le Melle

is a member of not/nowhere artists’ workers’ cooperative in London.

Temporary Art Platform (tap.)

is an international curatorial platform that was founded in 2014 to commission projects, residencies and site-specific artworks concerned by social practices and public spaces in Lebanon and abroad. TAP’s structure and its organic, non-regular programming, gives way to a deeper engagement with the context in which it unfolds with a focus on knowledge production and community impact.

Amanda Abi Khalil, founder of Temporary Art Platform is an independent curator based between Beirut and Rio de Janeiro. 

Patrick Pessoa is a playwright and theater critic, professor of philosophy from Rio de Janeiro. 
 
Panos Aprahamian writes, teaches, and works with film and digital media to explore the spectral presence of the past and the future in bodies, landscapes, and correlations.

Nour Sokhon is an interdisciplinary artist, her creative explorations have been in the form of sound performances, installations, and moving images.

Betty Ketchedjian works in digital and analog photography. Her moving images and sound installations explore notions of the self and identity, while also questioning human behavior in social contexts.

Maxime Hourani is an artist and architect who works with time-based media. He explores in his work the poetics and politics of land transformation while locating affective encounters between the history of nature and the nature of history. 

Omar Mismar is an interdisciplinary artist based in Beirut. Influenced by conceptual art, critical studies and design, Mismar's work is project driven.

Nour Osseiran is an art practitioner and cultural manager, stranding creating and curating, tracing the threads that run through both.

Lara Tabet is a Lebanese medical doctor and visual artist Her artistic practice is informed by her background in pathology and examines the relationship between the individual and public/private space in connection to gender, sexuality, and identity.

Temye Tesfu

schreibt Gedichte und andere Texte für Bühne und Papier. Auftritte im deutschsprachigen Raum und darüber hinaus; mal vor vier, mal vor 4000 Leuten. Kuratierte und moderierte Veranstaltungsreihen in Potsdam, Berlin und Leipzig; leitet Werkstätten für kreatives Schreiben und Textperformance, in der Vergangenheit u.a. für die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, die Jugendpresse Deutschland und die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. War im Auftrag des Goethe-Instituts in Prag, Ramallah, Taschkent und Turin. Ist Gründungsmitglied des 2017 geschaffenen post-deutschen Künstlerʾinnenkollektivs parallelgesellschaft und der gleichnamigen Lesebühne, die sich als Mischung aus Lesung, Konzert, Stand-Up-Show und Polit-Talk beschreiben lässt. Journalistische Veröffentlichungen u.a. in der taz, analyse & kritik und neues deutschland. Erhielt 2021 das Arbeitsstipendium Literatur des Berliner Senats. Lebt und arbeitet.

Teobaldo Lagos Preller

es curador, autor e investigador. Es doctor en historia y teoría del arte contemporáneo por la Universitat de Barcelona, Master of Arts en Estudios Latinoamericanos Interdisciplinarios por la Freie Universität Berlin y Licenciado en comunicación social (Semiótica Intertextual) por la UAM-X en Ciudad de México. Como curador, durante 2022 y 2023 colabora con la artista Stine Marie Jacobsen en la implementación en Chile de Law Shifters, obra conceptual y de creación colectiva de borradores de leyes. Durante el 2021 co-curó "museo de la democracia" en la Nueva Asociación de Artes Visuales de Berlín nGbK. Su área de investigación es arte y esfera pública, con un enfoque en procesos de transformación inmateriales, cuerpos y espacio público. Actualmente, es docente en la Akademie für Mode und Design (AMD) en Berlín. Ha colaborado con publicaciones en las Américas y Europa, tales como ERRATA# (Colombia), On Curating (Suiza), Camera Austria (A), A-Desk (Cataluña), Arts of the Working Class (Alemania) y Revista Artishock (Chile). Así mismo, como editor con la Fundación/Colección Jumex y la Embajada Alemana en CDMX. Vive y trabaja en Berlín desde 2008.

Teresa Hoffmann & Lena Kocutar

Teresa Hoffmann and Lena Kocutar met in the Lensbased class of UdK Berlin and started collaborating on projects that combined their interests. Lena works with video, writing, computer generated imagery, history, edible and other material. Teresa works mostly with personal documentary films in a hybrid format.

Thais Luksic Machiavello

(Lima, 1998) has a Master's degree in Anthropology from FLACSO-Ecuador. She lives between Lima and Pucallpa, investigating the intersections between planetary urbanization, Amazonia, indigenous peoples and green capitalism.

Thalie Ponce

The Gray Voice Ensemble & The Anonymous Writing Group

The GVE is a Berlin community choir established by E. Wood in 2013, currently meeting once a week near
Kottbtusser Tor.
The TAWG is a sister project of The GVE and the primary text source for the ensemble’s repertoire.

The Temporary Academy of Arts - PAT, (Elpida Karaba, Despina Zefkili, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos)

The Temporary Academy of Arts is a para-institution, a mobile academy of arts and at the same time an art project of experimental educat ion that adopts mechanisms from various systems of knowledge and art practices for the production and transmission of artistic programs and the construction of their historicity and situated knowledge.

Theresa Zwerschke

works as an artist, writer and organiser. She is the co-initiator of Catwings and part of the Arts of the Working Class team.

Theresa Weise

is an art historian, writer and editor. From 2017-2021, she was editor and social media director at the art magazine PASSE-AVANT. Since 2021, she has been working for SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT.

Theresa Weise

is an art historian, author, and editor. She was editor and social media director at the art magazine PASSE-AVANT from 2017 to 2021, and she has held positions at SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Kunstverein Hamburg, and the Städel Museum.

Theresa Zwerschke​​​​​​​ and Dalia Maini​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

are editors of Arts of the Working Class.

Thesea Rigou Efstathopoulos

is an artist and art educator from Cyprus based in Berlin. The ReferenzBibliothek is a project by para-education e.V., initiated by the Stadtkuratorin Hamburg and developed in collaboration with Kunsthaus Hamburg and the BKM. In 2026, the project received funding from the Elbkulturfonds. The 2nd Open Lab at Hyper Cultural Passengers (HyCP) on the Veddel runs throughout April 2026, after which the ReferenzBibliothek moves to WESTWERK until the end of 2026. The ReferenzBibliothek team consists of Lara Molenda, Dörte Habighorst, Malin Kuht, and Thesea Rigou E.

Thi Nga Nguyen

ist studierte Historikerin. Ihre Schwerpunkte sind Arbeitsmigration in der DDR und Lebensgeschichtliche Forschung.

Thick Press

Inspired by artists’ books and chapbooks, Thick Press publishes books that cross genres and disciplines. All our books relate to working or living in the thick of human experience.
We aspire to a practice that is loving, reflexive, playful, and collaborative. We worry about reproducing oppressive structures, but we’re not really that interested in critique. Above all, we want to make unusual books with others.

Thomas Spallek

Thomas Spallek creates typography, books and exhibitions together with various artists and institutions.

Till Sperrle

Till Sperrle is a conceptual and research-driven Graphic Design Studio in Berlin. His work is concerned with questions of justice, identity, class, memory, the effects of capitalism on society and the individual
as well as the desirability of Utopia. He works closely with artists and cultural institutions, architects, writers and music labels and is creating visual identities, books, record covers and magazines.

To Doan

ist freie*r Autor*in, Schreibpädagog*in und Peer-Researcher in Berlin und schreibt Theater- und Prosatexte, Gedichte und Artikel. To arbeitet u.a. zu Racial Profiling, rassistischer Polizeigewalt und Mental Health-Themen. Mit Patu hat To das Projekt BOOMZINES (BY OUR OWN MEANS) gestartet, eine unabhängige Webplattform von und für BIPoC sowie jüdische, nicht-weiße, (post)migrantische/ migrantisierte Zinemaker und Selfpublisher.

Tobi Müller

is a freelance cultural journalist and author in Berlin. He writes and speaks about pop, performing arts, and digitality (Zeit Online, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and others) and leads discussion groups. In fall 2021, his book "Play Pause Repeat - What Pop and Its Devices Tell Us About Us" will be published by Hanser Berlin. More details here: Vita.

Turbo Sud

is a project by visual artist, DJ and music producer, Agostino Quaranta, created with the aim of recontextualizing the musical traditions of Southern Italy, between electronic music experiments, experimental documentaries, and research projects. In 2022, Agostino exhibited Turbo Sud Lab at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK); a video installation tracing the forgotten history of attempts to computerize the Salento pizzica in the early 1990s at the University of Salento. In addition, he has produced radio shows for NTS, Ma3azef and Foundation FM.

Vadym Yakovlev

(1990) is a Ukrainian queer writer, publicist and journalist. He/she is the author of the first Ukrainian novel with transgender characters, Where the Territory Begins (Kayala, 2020). He/she currently lives and works in Germany. You can contact him/her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013291847024).

Valentin Golev

Valentin Golev is an artist-researcher and writer based in Berlin, interested in the continental philosophy of technology and psychoanalysis. Currently, he’s reading a course on Algorithmic Literacy at The New Centre for Research and Practice, and making a project on light and CGI for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Arts.

Vanina Saracino

is an independent curator, writer, and lecturer at Art and Media, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin. Her work focuses on theories and art strategies that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art practices. Saracino is currently co-curating the Screen City Biennial, Other Minds (Berlin 2022 / Oslo 2023). She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn, Estonia), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), among others.
www.vaninasaracino.com

Vladimir Safatle

is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Psychology at the University of São Paulo. He examines the relationship between philosophy and human sciences, especially psychoanalysis and psychology, in contemporary French thought and the Frankfurt School. He is also an expert in Lacanian Thought and Leftist Politics. His research interests include Hegelian philosophy, post-Hegelian dialectical tradition, as well as the philosophy of music. Beyond this, Vladimir is responsible for the translation of Theodor W. Adorno's complete works into Portuguese and for the coordination of the book series Explosante (Ubu Press). He also writes a column in El País.

Volodymyra Aminova

is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She was born in a small village next to Kyiv. As Jewish contingent refugees her family moved to Germany in 2002. After completing her Bachelor‘s degree in Art History, she studied Communication Design with a focus on film and photography. Since 2020, she has been in the Master‘s program in Visual Communication in Berlin. Her work moves between art, theatre and film contexts.

Will Furtado

is a Berlin-based artist, writer, and scholar.

Wu Ming 1

is a member of the Wu Ming collective of Italian writers. Their books are published in Germany by Assoziation A.

Xiaowen Zhu 朱晓闻

is a Berlin-based artist and writer. In 2020, she published her bilingual book Oriental Silk 乡绸 with Hatje Cantz.
www.zhuxiaowen.com

朱晓闻是一位居住在柏林的艺术创作者与写作者。2020年，她的中英 双语书《Oriental Silk 乡绸》由汉杰·坎茨出版社出版。

Yon Natalie Mik

is a Berlin-based artist and dancer working with performance, writing, sound design, and still/moving images to create expanded choreographies and performance exhibitions.

Zach Blas

Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans technical investigation, theoretical research, conceptualism, performance, and science fiction. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Blas has exhibited, lectured, and held screenings internationally, recently at the de Young Museum, Tate Modern, Walker Art Center, 2018 Gwangju Biennale, the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Matadero Madrid, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art in General, Gasworks, Van Abbemuseum, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, e-flux, Whitechapel Gallery, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Recent works have addressed biometric capture, time travel, policing as mysticism, the crystals balls of Silicon Valley, and dildos. His practice has been supported by a Creative Capital award in Emerging Fields, the Arts Council England, and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst. Blas’s writings can be found in the collections You Are Here: Art After the Internet, Documentary Across Disciplines, Queer: Documents of Contemporary Art, and e-flux journal. His work has been written about and featured in Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, Mousse Magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Blas is a 2018-2020 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow.

Zamira Abbasova

is a journalist and podcaster from Azerbaijan with a long-standing background in political activism and peacebuilding. She has trained young journalists and has created the first peace-radio in the South Caucasus region.

Zoé Whitley

(born 30 December 1979) is an American art historian and curator who has been director of Chisenhale Gallery since 2020. Based in London, she has held curatorial positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate galleries, and the Hayward Gallery. At the Tate galleries, Whitley co-curated the 2017 exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which was described by ARTnews as one of the most important art exhibitions of the 2010s. Soon after she was chosen to organize the British pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Zoë Claire Miller

Zoë Claire Miller is an artist/organizer and spokeswoman of the bbk berlin, the association for visual artists of Berlin. Some of her recent projects include the boycott of the “Kunsthalle Berlin,” and the Berlin Art Prize, an artist-run independent art prize. Her work is/will be exhibited this year at: pornotopia revised, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Gossip Gossip Gossip, Berlin; It’s brutal out here, Galerie Parterre Berlin; Menstrualities: New Visions for the Gynecene Era, Alte Münze Berlin; Kingdomof the Ill, Museion Bolzano; Flip Project, Naples (among others).

​​Petra Molnar

is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in technology, migration, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Petra is currently writing her first book, Artificial Borders (The New Press, 2024).