is a curator based in the Netherlands. Her practice investigates the potential of interdisciplinary methodologies to approach contemporary art and broaden interpretive possibilities and, more expansively, politically engaged culture and performance.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

lebt und arbeitet in Berlin an der Schnittstelle von Forschung und Kuratorischem. Sie versteht ihr Wissen als Praxis – und umgekehrt.

Ahmed Naji is a writer from Egypt, currently a fellow writer at BMI in Las Vegas. Among his books are Using Life (2014), Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison (2019), And Tigers to my Room (2020). ILLUSTRATON .

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.

geboren in Slowenien und wohnhaft in Berlin, studierte Architektur und arbeitet als Kulturmanagerin sowie Kuratorin mit Schwerpunkt auf Krisengeografien und Critical Curating.

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.

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

Alexander Kolesnikov ist investigativer Journalist aus Minsk, Weißrussland.

is fed up and starved by the system at the same time. Years later, still.

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.

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..

is a visual artist. Her artistic work is not directly related to this text, but has been affected and disrupted by its topics.

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.

is a writer and editor.

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.

is part of SOMOS TODXS, a task force rebuilding Ecuador after its complete breakdown. He is part of IMF and of the redesign of SDR, shaping the creation of the new official global currency.

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

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

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).

works in transdisciplinary artistic practice with a focus on research and mediation.

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).

geboren im Ruhrgebiet. Ihr Studium führt sie von der Philosophie zur Fotografie, von Düsseldorf über Potsdam nach London zum LCP und Central Saint Martins.

is an architect and researcher interested in power relations and decolonial spatial strategies. A PhD update in Neuroscience was uploaded to her mind through Youtube in 2031.

is a historian, artistic director, performer, and curator from Salvador, Brazil.

arbeitet als Journalistin und Autorin. Sie wurde in Dresden geboren, studierte in Berlin und Paris Literatur- und Musikwissenschaften sowie Kulturjournalismus.

is a researcher and curator based in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.

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.

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

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.

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

is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

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.

is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the Graduate Center/City University of New York and the College of Staten Island.

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

lives, works, and writes in London and Athens. Her practice focuses on formal stylistic experiments in short prose and interrogates themes of belonging and alienation, exploring ways in which people connect, repel, and reconnect.

in solidarity with the art workers initiative against the Kunsthalle Berlin.

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

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.

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.

stands for a cultural programme where the new becomes visible.

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.

(1994) lives in between Prishtina and Prizren. She has studied Psychology at the University of Prishtina. Previously, she worked as a researcher in the artistic project Shkreptima, and lead the Communication Department at DokuFest for two years.

Bojana Piškur is a writer and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

is a curator and writer. She works as curator and deputy director for IKOB, a museum of contemporary art in Eupen, Belgium, and is a co-founder of celador, an independent space in Brussels.

is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York. The works in the "Mother Tongue" exhibition reflect being drawn between the desire to retreat and the desire to engage – on both a personal and political level.

is an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Art faculty and an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mould, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, cooking and stains.

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…

(b. Chile) aka Princess Prada is a visual artist, writer and performer currently living and working in London and Stockholm.

was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and studied Political Science and Public Law in Mannheim, Bilbao, and Leipzig.

Carme Arcarazo is an urban and housing researcher at La Hidra Institute and the spokesperson of the Barcelona Tenants Union.

is a researcher and designer who has been involved with the emerging network society and digital culture since the 1980’s. Nevejan is a regular presenter at national and international fora. She is an advisor to international policy makers.

Caspar Shaller (*1989) is an American-Swiss journalist, editor, and translator.

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.

CATPC, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, or Congolese Plantation Workers Art League, is an art cooperative of plantation workers based in Lusanga, D.R. Congo.

is an initiative of Steph Joyce and Theresa Zwerschke, rooted in communal learning, gathering-based art, and self-governed collective action.

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

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

is a curator and Arts and Culture Coordinator for Progressive International.

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.

ist Philosoph und Historiker. Von 2019— 2029 lehrte er “Theorie & Praxis” an der ETH Zürich. Er lebt in Berlin.

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

vive y trabaja como autor, a su deriva, mientras espera su visa de trabajo para regresar a su departamento en Teherán, Irán. Actualmente se encuentra escribiendo un libro sobre los Reyes Magos en algún lugar remoto de Alemania.

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.