Layton Lachman is a USAmerican artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Layton creates performances rooted in somatics, channeling experiential physical practices into immersive worlds of sensorial complexity. Lachman’s art works utilize a diverse range of artistic mediums and contexts, including film, text, audio installation, and performances for the stage, gallery, and public space. Through their work they explore intense physicality and diverse ways of structuring community. They are fascinated by feminist speculative sci-fi world building, queer approaches to ecology, and the transformational power of ritual. In addition to their performative practice, Layton is an independent curator/organizer, a somatics teacher, and a guest lecturer.
Camila Malenchini is a Berlin based Argentinean choreographer and artist. Her artistic practice crosses diverse media; from performance and sculpture to digital media and curating. Her work delves into western art history, focusing in text and imagery from the dawn of colonialism, to reflect on narratives that contributed to the construction of structural oppresion. In her work, the body is used as a vehicle for transformation. She works with stories, images and metaphors to give forms to the occult, the buried, the non inteligible. Her work has been presented in Berlin and in Buenos Aires in spaces such as Sophiensaele, HAU, DOCK11, Centro Experimental del Colon, CC Konex and Arqueologias del Futuro. Her work has also been funded by Akademie Der Künste, Fond Darstellende Kunst and the National Performanz Netzwerk. She has been part of different collective structures and spaces such as Arqueologias del Futuro, CIA , T.E.N.T., book.xyz and currently Fortuna.
Cajsa Godée (she/they) is a queer dancer and choreographer working mainly in Berlin and Stockholm. Cajsa gravitates towards exploring themes around sexuality from a queer experience. She approaches it with a touch of humor and often in an intimate setting with room for spontaneity in the meeting between herself and the audience. Both as a dancer and creator, Cajsa works with a mix of different performative practices and somatic movement practices. Her dance foundation is within groove oriented styles and club dances, especially locking and popping, and was acquired and developed in the Streetdance community. For 15 years Cajsa has created stage work in different constellations and groups. Cajsa is one of the founding members of the dance and performance group JUCK (Thrust), initiated in 2012, which aims to expose structures of power through the movement on thrusting. JUCK has created pieces since 2015 and has performed in venues such as Sophiensaele in Germany, GAM in Chile, Dansens Hus in Stockholm among many, many others. Her most recent work, Lez Dance - Dyke Camp, was created together with Shirley Harthey Ubilla and premiered at MDT Sthlm in 2024. Cajsa is currently freelancing with her own work, working as a dancer in other choreographers’ staged pieces and mentoring dance students.
Samuel Hertz a Berlin-based composer and researcher working with sound-sensing networks of environmental science research, whose works span electronic music, interstellar radio transmissions, deep sea broadcasts, and doom metal concerts. His work has been exhibited and performed in the Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Palais de Tokyo (FR), Akademie der Künste (DE), Pioneer Works/Wave Farm (US), the Onassis Foundation (GR), Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), Biennale for Sound and Listening (DK), National Science + Media Museum (UK), and the International Space Station, among others. Samuel is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London Centre for GeoHumanities, and the author of a number of publications and talks on sound, environmental violence, and multispecies ecologies.
Arta de Mi, one of Dani Paiva de Miranda heteronyms, is an experimental artist whose work transit diverse media and ecologies, exploring the transformative power of experience. They current objective is to synthesize the digital and the organic into formless matter. Arta de Mi investigates the horizontal relationship between matter and energy, rejecting the separation of matter into form and denying a linear conception of time. This practice raises questions about the dynamics of power and violence, challenging occidental notions. By employing light design, light installation, performance art, choreography, sculpter and installation, Arta channels an politico-emotional and sensory experience. Arta is the Tech Director and Light Designer at Dock11 Berlin, holds an MA in Visual Culture from Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid and is co-founder of CUNTSCOLLECTIVE based in DK.
Nattan Dobkin is based in Berlin. He/they works as a performance artist, dramaturg, teacher, and adjunct professor in the department of gender studies at Ben Gurion University, and is an activist member of a palestinian and anti-zionist jewish cooperative "this is not an ulpan". He/they teach a performance-art course at the college 'The Garage' for students facing mental health challenges, as well as regularly facilitating independent workshops in Europe dealing with the performer’s identity in sexual and political contexts on stage.
Nagi Gianni is a Swiss multidisciplinary artist. He develops a plastic language centered on the body as a means of transforming itself to probe other possibilities, to explore other bodies through its metamorphoses. In his performances, costumes and masks, gestures and movements are intended to convey to the audience the inner tension towards a multiplicity of existences, in opposition to the idea of a closed, unchanging identity. Through the mask he creates he questions the relationship to the identification of the self in the digital age, and develops in parallel a oneiric imaginary where the animal, the cyborg, the mythological and the ghostly converge. These figures of the uncanny are for him a means of opening up other relationships to the perception of reality through an approach that questions and displaces what is already known and clearly identifiable.
Dan Immanuel Roth is a vocalist and performer based in Berlin and Southern Germany. He studied stage and costume design at the TU Berlin and combines performing arts and visual arts. He uses dance and movement to understand space and is dedicated to creating scenic utopias of space and society. Dan Immanuel is a countertenor and uses classical arias for a critical illumination of the individualistic consumer society. He works in the context of stage, exhibitions, clubculture, video and photography.
