Aylar Dastgiri (Iran) is a Tehran based artist working primarily in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. She graduated in painting at the Tehran School of Fine Arts in 2006 and has a BFA in sculpture from the Tehran University of Art in 2012. Aylar’s work is characterised by an exploration into the diverse layers which compose our environment, bodies and minds, and how these layers are shaped in visual art and painting, through the formulation of a spatial illusion that tries to place the viewer in the middle of her paintings.
Su Mi Jang is a choreographer and researcher based in Seoul and Berlin. They graduated with a BA in dance in Korea and moved to Europe in 2000 and worked as a professional dancer/choreographer at Stattheaters in Germany and Switzerland. Su-Mi's choreographic work studies gender and physicality based on autobiographical stories and experimenting cross media connections with the perceiving body. The work was supported by Berlin, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Basel and Seoul. Su-Mi received MA in choreography(2018) in Amsterdam school of the Arts, since then their artistic research utilizes scream as a medium and conducts a practice-based research on relationships between emotion, embodiment and physicality and pursues symbiotic collaborations in Seoul.
Katerina Bakatsaki is a lecturer at the Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU) and is a regular guest teacher and mentor in various art academies both in the Netherlands and abroad. Katerina has choreographed and performed an extensive body of work and has been involved with interdisciplinary activities throughout Europe, in Chile, Taiwan, Iran and Japan. Katerina has developed atypical projects in places such as private and semi-public spaces and marginalized urban environments, ie.homes for the elderly, day-centers for people with substance use disorder without a home, day-care centers for people living with a mental illness, and “Blijf van mijn Lijf” shelters for survivors of domestic abuse.
Olivia Reschofsky is a choreographer based in Amsterdam. In 2012 she obtained her BA in choreography and in 2017 her MA in art and education. In 2012, she joined an artistic collaboration with Alice Pons, which in 2014 turned into an official organization, called Moha (moss in Hungarian). They create performances, social events, installations, workshops based on the impossibilities, the social and urban tensions - the city, the different social dynamics and the way people make and use their living environment. Olivia has been presenting her work in the Netherlands in collaboration with SoAP, TAAK, Het Huis, Veem Huis for Performance, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam and as well internationally in Paris, São Paulo, Rauma, Bucharest among others.
Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla (Colombia) is a movement, performance artist and grassroots organizer based in Amsterdam. She obtained a BA in Choreography at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and is currently doing a Master called ‘Ecologies of Transformation’ at the Sandberg Institute. Her artistic research investigates social phenomena in a journalistic way -censorship and resistance, gender issues, art in a neoliberal-capitalist context- and transforms these findings into theatrical performances, video, writings or installations. Since 2019 she’s a house artist at Veem House for Performance and showing her works in theaters and festivals of Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and Turkey.
Shahrzad Irannejad is a researcher in the history of medicine in the Islamicate world. In her ongoing PhD project “Localization of the Avicennean inner senses in the Galenic Brain” she investigates how, in an intersection of medicine and philosophy, concepts (of the brain and the soul) were transformed as they travelled beyond linguistic and cultural borders from the Greek tradition to the medieval Arabic tradition. In looking into the mechanics of textual transfer of knowledge in the medieval Islamicate world, she is also keen on engaging with the codicological aspects of the material media of knowledge transfer.
Ogutu Muraya is a storyteller, performance artist, and writer, with a profound curiosity in the connection between the spiritual and the neurological, between realms of thinking and meaning, change and understanding. Ogutu’s work is embedded in the practice of Orature. He searches for new forms of storytelling where socio-political aspects merge with the belief that art is an important catalyst for questioning certainties.
setareh fatehi is a choreographer/researcher based in Tehran and Amsterdam (pronoun: او). After receiving a BSc in Tehran, they have received BA and MA in choreography in Amsterdam school of the Arts. setareh is a researcher in Performance Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, co-director of Jacuzzi-Dance-Space in Amsterdam as well as a member of Foj-art-collective in Tehran..
Su Mi Jang is a choreographer and researcher based in Seoul and Berlin. They graduated with a BA in dance in Korea and moved to Europe in 2000 and worked as a professional dancer/choreographer at Stattheaters in Germany and Switzerland. Su-Mi's choreographic work studies gender and physicality based on autobiographical stories and experimenting cross media connections with the perceiving body. The work was supported by Berlin, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Basel and Seoul. Su-Mi received MA in choreography(2018) in Amsterdam school of the Arts, since then their artistic research utilizes scream as a medium and conducts a practice-based research on relationships between emotion, embodiment and physicality and pursues symbiotic collaborations in Seoul.
Katerina Bakatsaki is a lecturer at the Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU) and is a regular guest teacher and mentor in various art academies both in the Netherlands and abroad. Katerina has choreographed and performed an extensive body of work and has been involved with interdisciplinary activities throughout Europe, in Chile, Taiwan, Iran and Japan. Katerina has developed atypical projects in places such as private and semi-public spaces and marginalized urban environments, ie.homes for the elderly, day-centers for people with substance use disorder without a home, day-care centers for people living with a mental illness, and “Blijf van mijn Lijf” shelters for survivors of domestic abuse.
Olivia Reschofsky is a choreographer based in Amsterdam. In 2012 she obtained her BA in choreography and in 2017 her MA in art and education. In 2012, she joined an artistic collaboration with Alice Pons, which in 2014 turned into an official organization, called Moha (moss in Hungarian). They create performances, social events, installations, workshops based on the impossibilities, the social and urban tensions - the city, the different social dynamics and the way people make and use their living environment. Olivia has been presenting her work in the Netherlands in collaboration with SoAP, TAAK, Het Huis, Veem Huis for Performance, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam and as well internationally in Paris, São Paulo, Rauma, Bucharest among others.
Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla (Colombia) is a movement, performance artist and grassroots organizer based in Amsterdam. She obtained a BA in Choreography at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and is currently doing a Master called ‘Ecologies of Transformation’ at the Sandberg Institute. Her artistic research investigates social phenomena in a journalistic way -censorship and resistance, gender issues, art in a neoliberal-capitalist context- and transforms these findings into theatrical performances, video, writings or installations. Since 2019 she’s a house artist at Veem House for Performance and showing her works in theaters and festivals of Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and Turkey.
Shahrzad Irannejad is a researcher in the history of medicine in the Islamicate world. In her ongoing PhD project “Localization of the Avicennean inner senses in the Galenic Brain” she investigates how, in an intersection of medicine and philosophy, concepts (of the brain and the soul) were transformed as they travelled beyond linguistic and cultural borders from the Greek tradition to the medieval Arabic tradition. In looking into the mechanics of textual transfer of knowledge in the medieval Islamicate world, she is also keen on engaging with the codicological aspects of the material media of knowledge transfer.
Ogutu Muraya is a storyteller, performance artist, and writer, with a profound curiosity in the connection between the spiritual and the neurological, between realms of thinking and meaning, change and understanding. Ogutu’s work is embedded in the practice of Orature. He searches for new forms of storytelling where socio-political aspects merge with the belief that art is an important catalyst for questioning certainties.
setareh fatehi is a choreographer/researcher based in Tehran and Amsterdam (pronoun: او). After receiving a BSc in Tehran, they have received BA and MA in choreography in Amsterdam school of the Arts. setareh is a researcher in Performance Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, co-director of Jacuzzi-Dance-Space in Amsterdam as well as a member of Foj-art-collective in Tehran..