A Spoonful of Rest

Jara Nassar

Jara is a performer, writer and anthropologist who confronts and blurs boundaries. She performs as drag king Angelo Dynamo and hosts the show Border Ctrl.

Jamie McGhee

Jamie is a novelist who aspires to build, through language, interactive spaces of resistance and experimentation. McGhee has authored several books and a graphic novel.

Miwa Negoro

Miwa is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art and performing arts.

Pooya Kazemi

Pooya is an artist and writer who was born and raised in Iran and is now based in Zurich.

Erfan Safari

Erfan is a multidisciplinary artist who mainly works in theater, performance art, and writing.

Luise Willer

Luise is a researcher interested in socially engaged artistic practices, in particular their forms of assembling and organizing. She examines such practices to learn about their visions of futurity, their collaborative processes and their critique of institutions.

Lena Pozdnyakova

Lena (b. 1985, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is an artist and researcher.

Germain Calsou

Anna Kuecking

Artist and organizer, she works in theatre and journalism for newspapers like taz. die tageszeitung and neues deutschland.

Sabrina Herrmann

Sabrina is a researcher with an interest in the intersection of human rights, arts and gender.

Eldar Tagi

Eldar (b.1987, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a sound artist, composer and researcher.

Maria Aus

Maria is a contemporary artist whose practice spans filmmaking, photography, and mixed-media experimentation.

Monika Dorniak

Monika is a German-Polish artist with an interdisciplinary background in choreography, psychology and design, who often merges media – specifically performance, (textile) sculpture and multimedia.

Andrea Liu

Critic and artist working between New York/Berlin/Paris whose research often involves genealogy, or the epistemic context within which bodies of knowledge become intelligible and authoritative, as a point of departure in art & cultural production.

Louna Sbou

Louna Sbou is a curator, mentor and cultural manager. She is director of Oyoun in Berlin, an anti-disciplinary arts center with a special focus on queer*feminist, decolonial and class-critical perspectives.

Ihisa Theresa Adelio

Nina Martin

Dami Choi

최다미 Dami Choi (she/they) is a curator / cultural worker based in Berlin and in the Korean diaspora, with focus on amplifying queer-feminist, system-critical and marginalized perspectives, mainly through artistic media but also through a spectrum of critical/creative sociocultural works.

Arjunraj