Elias Adam
Theatre Director |
Elias Adam is a theatre director, born in Greece in 1991. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens, as well as acting at the Art Theatre Karolos Koun in Athens. His works have been performed in Greece, Cyprus, and Germany. He has collaborated with Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater, Mülheim’s Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and the Onassis Stegi (Athens). His directorial approach follows a personal and non-fictional theatre, in his attempt to bridge the personal aspect with the political one. The last two years, as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow, Elias developed and implemented the 'Smallville' project, which aims at the empowerment of Greece's provincial regions residents, through public discourse, collective writing methods and a theatre that incorporates biographical input. In 2019, he was invited at the Internationales Forum of Berliner Festspiele's Theatertreffen. That same year marked his first collaboration with the National Theatre of Greece.
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Silvia Amancei
& Bogdan Armanu Artists |
Silvia Amancei (1991) and Bogdan Armanu (1991) are an artist couple based in Iasi, Romania. They studied at the “George Enescu” University of Arts (Faculty of Visual Art and Design) in Iasi. In the past, the artist duo participated in several international alternative education programmes, among which the “Autumn School. The 3 s: the space, the social and the sensorium” at the University of Applied Arts (2016, Vienna, Austria), and the “Summer School for Engaged Art” developed by “Chto Delat?” artists group at Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation (2015, Berlin, Germany). Their artistic practice could be positioned at the border between social studies and visual art, researching for methods and examples, where art and artistic means can be instrumentalised, in order to overexcite the ability to look beyond capitalism and create a (common) future. Working together since 2012, the two artists have materialised a series of solo exhibitions, exploring the paradigm of life exploitation in Romani and abroad.
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Julieta Aranda
Artist
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Julieta Aranda was born in Mexico City in 1975. She currently lives and works between Berlin and New York. In her artistic practice, Julieta Aranda composes sensorial encounters with the nature of time and speculative literature. She observes the altering human-earth relationship through the lens of technology, artificial intelligence, space travel and scientific hypothesis. Working with installation, video and print media, she is invested in exploring the potential of science-fiction, alternative economies and the ‘poetics of circulation’. Her projects challenge the boundaries between subject and object while embracing chance encounters, auto-destruction and social processes. In 2006, she received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in New York. She had previously completed her undergraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan (2001). As a co-director of the online platform e-flux together with Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda has developed the projects Time/Bank, Pawnshop, and e-flux video rental, all of which started in the e-flux storefront in New York, and have travelled to many venues worldwide.
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Mark Beasley
Curator and Curatorial Director, Pace Gallery, New York
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Mark Beasley is a curator, writer and artist based in New York. He is currently a curatorial director at Pace gallery, New York. Formerly the Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar, inaugural Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. he has worked as curator at the ICA, London, the British Council, London and Creative Time, MoMA, PS1 and Performa, New York. Past curatorial projects include the concert Yoko Ono: A Concert for Washington and the World; Florian Hecker’s CD: A Script for Synthesis at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Ed Atkins Man of Steel at Anthology Archives; Tori Wranes Yes Nix; Frances Stark and Mark Leckey’s Put A Song In Your Thing at Abrons Theater; Robert Ashley’s That Morning Thing at the Kitchen; Mike Kelley’s Day is Done at Judson Church; Arto Lindsay’s Somewhere I Read, and the experimental music festival A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality co-curated with Mike Kelley. As a curator with the public art organization Creative Time he curated Plot09: This World & Nearer Ones; Hey Hey Glossolalia: Exhibiting the Voice, and Javier Tellez’s critically acclaimed film A Letter on the Blind. In 2011 he established the Malcolm McLaren Award for Performa, presented by Lou Reed to Ragnar Kjartansson. He has written for a number of periodicals including Frieze, Art Forum, E-Flux and The Serving Library and contributed to many artists catalogues. He completed a Fine Art Doctorate at Reading University, UK in performance studies.
Photo: Darren Hall
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Franco Berardi Bifo
Writer |
Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was one of the contributors of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976-1978). He has been a contributor to the following magazines: Semiotexte (New York), Chimeres (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) Musica 80 (Milan), and Archipielago (Barcelona). Among his publications: Futurability (Verso), Breathing (Semiotexte), Fenomenologia del fin (Caja Negra).
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Ash Bulayev
Director of Onassis AiR & independent curator |
Ash Bulayev has worked for 20 years as curator, producer and artist, at the cross-section of contemporary performance and time-based visual arts.
As of 2018, he is the Director of Onassis AiR: (inter)national artistic research residency program (Athens). Onassis AiR is a year-round program, located in the urban centre of Athens, that grounds its mission in commitment to supporting artistic process, towards a less product- obsessed arts ecosystem. Onassis AiR supports: Greek and international artists, curators, and thinkers working in time-based artistic disciplines, who wish to deepen, reconsider, or transform their practice or methodology, without expectations and constraints of the production frenzy. In 2016/17, he was involved in the continuing development of the MA program in Expanded Curation at the Amsterdam University of the Arts – DAS Theatre program, established by Barbara van Lindt. From 2015, he has collaborated as a creative producer and consultant with Dries Verhoeven, Lotte van den Berg, Miet Warlop, Maria Hassabi, DD Dorvillier, Julian Hetzel, Germaine Kruip and Kat Valastur. Since 2015 he has been involved in researching new models for supporting contemporary performing artists whose art practice and means of production has become increasingly trans-national and borderless. In 2015 he organised several expert meetings to delve deeper into the above mentioned questions, at SPRING Festival (NL) in May 2015, and at BRUT Vienna (AT) in November 2015. In 2015, he was also involved in a research project with the Flanders Institute (Kunstenpunt) as part of the long-term research, Reframing the International – a keynote talk can be found here. He has contributed to artistic research policy research by giving talks, leading mentoring sessions, and participating in various EU network projects at institutions such as: Flanders Art Institute (Belgium), Performing Arts Festival (Germany), Tanznacht 2016 (Germany), Dansehallerne and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), RE-SHAPE EU project (2018 – 2021), ARC (Switzerland), Green Park (Greece), etc. From 2012 – 2015 he was the Curator of Contemporary Performance at EMPAC (New York), commissioning new works by artists such as Ant Hampton, Eve Sussman + Simon Lee, Temporary Distortion, Lars Jan, Kris Verdonck, Ellie Ga and many others, as well as presenting the work of Rabih Mroue, Xavier Le Roy, Lisbeth Gruwez, Ralph Lemon, Marie Brassard, Clement Layes, Wojtek Ziemilski, Julien Maire, and other contemporary time-based artists. From 2002-11, he was a Co-Artistic Director (in collaboration with Tzeni Argyriou) of amorphy.org, a collaborative platform for experiments in the fusion of performing arts and old/new media. From 1991 until 2002 he lived and worked and played in New York City, learning what it means to make, to make with others, and to play seriously. He holds an MA in performance from DasArts, an internationally acclaimed graduate program from the Amsterdam School of the Arts. |
Anna Carastathis
Co-director, Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research |
Anna Carastathis is a political theorist, the author of Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) and co-author (with Myrto Tsilimpounidi) of Reproducing Refugees: Photographìa of a Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020). She is Co-director of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research. And Postdoctoral fellow, TRANSCITY: Gender, Space, and Transitions in Athens, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University (2020-22).
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Azahara Cerezo
Artist |
Azahara Cerezo (b. 1988. Girona, Spain) has been a resident artist at Art3 (Valence, France), Collège d’ Espagne (Paris, France), Fondazzjoni Kreattività (Gozo, Malta) and 1646 (The Hague, Netherlands), among others. Recent solo shows include “Illes d’arena” at Bòlit (Girona), “Homepage to labour” (Art3, Valence), “Mapa de circunstancias” (Centro de Arte La Regenta. Canary Islands, Spain) and “Y en ese claroscuro surgen los monstruos” (MAL. Sevilla, Spain). She has participated in group exhibitions such as “Juntos aparte” within Bienalsur (Cúcuta, Colombia), “We are as Gods…” at Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem, Netherlands), “Provincia 53” at MUSAC (León, Spain) and “Especies de espacios” at MACBA (Barcelona). She graduated in Audiovisual Communication (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and holds a Master in Visual Arts and Multimedia (Polytechnic University of Valencia).
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Elli Chrysidou
Artist |
Elli Chrysidou was born in Thessaloniki in 1956. She studied at the Fine Arts School of the University of Nancy in France. She taught at Saint-Etienne School of Fine Arts (France), between 1990-2007. She has presented her work in 15 solo and numerous group shows in Greece and abroad. In addition to her purely artistic and tutoring work, she has been involved in scenography, children's book illustration and visual communication design. Between 2013-2019 she was the Deputy Mayor of Culture in the Municipality of Thessaloniki. Under that capacity, she established and headed the project “LABattoir” -socially engaged machine for the production of culture; laboratory of applied creativity- that was held between 2017-2019 thanks to a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Recently, she realised the workshop “How To Build a Community”, as a response to the lockdown situation in Greece and beyond, in the framework to the project Common Lab by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and ArtBOX.
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Iliana Dimadi
Head of Dramaturgy, Onassis Stegi Athens
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Iliana Dimadi (Athens/Greece) has worked for 20 years as theatrologist, drama-critic and researcher, creative producer and dramaturg. She has graduated from the University of Athens (BA in Theatre Studies) and the University of Exeter/U.K. (MA in Applied Drama & Practice as Research). She has worked as a creative producer at the National Theatre of Greece in the international project “Summer Theatre Academy” and as an independent assistant director, a theatre director herself, a translator, and a journalist in various cultural magazines. For 15 years she has been holding the position of theatre critic at the Athens-based revue “athinorama”. She has published extensively more than 10.000 reviews, interviews, reports from international festivals and surveys on contemporary performing arts. As of 2017 she is the Head of Dramaturgy at Onassis Stegi, initiating an artistic incubator unit to engage multi-disciplinary artists and non-artists into unexpected encounters, feedback labs and peer-to-peer mentorship (so called “Hack-the-drama”), aiming to commission and produce new original projects in the field of expanded dramaturgies and hybrid formats: from theatre/video/dance plays and scores to libretti, spoken word, live and digital performance and further beyond. https://www.onassis.org/
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Jane Dudman
Artist, Curator |
Jane Dudman is an artist, curator and researcher based in Cumbria. She has a research masters and a PhD in Digital Media and Fine Art from Newcastle University. Her work is currently sound and performance based with a particular focus on collaborative processes, the spoken word and everyday life. Her artistic research explores the particularity of ordinary experience through sound manipulation and performance strategies, relating the private to the public. She is currently exploring translation, transcription and collective speaking as a form of sense making. Jane has a background in participatory and socially engaged arts practice and has worked in the UK for the past 20 years creating and managing arts projects in health, education and community settings. She has directed many live art events, several international artists’ exchanges and has shown her work widely in Europe and beyond.
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Johannes Ebert
Secretary General, Goethe-Institut |
Johannes Ebert has been Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut since 2012. He studied Islamic studies and political science in Freiburg and Damascus, then trained in journalism in Heilbronn. After teaching at the Goethe-Institut in Prien, Germany, and serving as a language course consultant at the Goethe-Institut Riga and deputy head of Public Relations at the Goethe-Institut’s main office in Munich, he ran the Goethe-Institut Kiev from 1997 to 2002, and served as director of the Goethe-Institut Cairo and regional director for the Middle East/North Africa from 2002 to 2007. He went on to serve as director of the Goethe-Institut Moscow and for the region of Eastern Europe/Central Asia from 2007 to 2012. In addition to promoting European cooperation and integration, Johannes Ebert seeks to bolster involvement in countries and regions undergoing crises and upheavals, such as the Ukraine, North Africa and the Middle East. He attaches great importance to support for refugees through cultural and educational projects in Syria’s neighbouring countries as well as in Germany. And for years now he has been committed to expanding online services in Germany’s foreign cultural and educational policy, fostering debate about global issues in Germany and continuously growing the Goethe-Institut's worldwide network.
Photo: Martin Ebert
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Eric Ellingsen
Landscape Urbanist and Artist |
Eric Ellingsen is based in St Louis, where he is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Washington University. He has a transgressive practice that combines art, landscape architecture, new media, and creative writing. Experimental pedagogy is a central axis to his practice, in particular 'Perceiving Academy', an inclusive prototype for the regeneration of shared learning experiences that materialize in public space. He has opened Perceiving Academies in Iceland with the University of the Arts, Sullivan Galleries Chicago (curated by Mary Jane Jacobs and Jonathan Solomon), Thessaloniki, and Cyprus. Ellingsen takes poems for walks through cities to construct translations through social encounters; some of this writing has been published in platforms like Conjuctions on-line, Chicago Review, Beloit, The Poetry Project, BOMB on-line, PANK, and Western Humanities Review. Social engagement and community facing encounters inspire his work, as well as the question of how to collectively and individually materialize symbols and scholarship as objects, artworks, and poems that address public memory in the built environment. Past exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo ‘Reboot’ curated by Eli During, Kunstverein Arensberg ‘Watch Words’ curated by Vlado Velkov, and ‘Festival for Future Nows’ choreographed by Christina Werner. Current work includes the 'Sound of Segregation' with the Contemporary Arts Museum St Louis curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi and supported by the Divided City Initiative at Washington University. Ellingsen is also working with 'The Luminary' in the design of post-everything playgrounds, landscapes that do not yet have a name, because they simply do not yet have a name. In 2020 Ellingsen launched CINLAND (Cinema Landscape), a space in downtown St Louis meant to empower stressed downtowns through art and design interventions by local and regional artists and landscape designers through small spatial provocations.
Photo: Eric Ellingsen self-portrait in St Louis 2020
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Liam Gillick
Artist |
Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. His work exposes the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalised, neo-liberal consensus, and extends into structural rethinking of the exhibition as a form. He has produced a number of short films since the late 2000s which address the construction of the creative persona in light of the enduring mutability of the contemporary artist as a cultural figure. Margin Time (2012), The Heavenly Lagoon (2013), and Hamilton: A Film by Liam Gillick (2014). The book Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820 was published by Columbia University Press in March 2016. Gillick’s work has been included in numerous important exhibitions including documenta and the Venice, Berlin and Istanbul Biennales - representing Germany in 2009 in Venice. Solo museum exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate in London. Gillick’s work is held in many important public collections including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Over the last twenty five years Gillick has also been a prolific writer and critic of contemporary art – contributing to Artforum, October, Frieze and e-flux Journal. He is the author of a number of books including a volume of his selected critical writing. High profile public works include the British Government Home Office (Interior Ministry) building in London and the Lufthansa Headquarters in Frankfurt. Throughout this time Gillick has extended his practice into experimental venues and collaborative projects with artists including Philippe Parreno, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Lawler, Adam Pendleton and the band New Order, in a series of concerts in Manchester, Turin and Vienna.
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Helgard Haug
Author and director
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Helgard Haug from Rimini Protokoll often develops stage-works, interventions, performative installations and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, she like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of her works feature interactivity and a playful use of technology. The pieces “Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye” (2020), “Situation Rooms” (2014), “Wallenstein” (2006) and “Deadline” (2004), have been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen. On top of that, Rimini Protokoll received the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis for “Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band”, the German theatre award Faust, the Grand Prix Theatre from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture, the European Theatre Award, the Silver Lion at the Theatre Biennale in Venice, as well as the German Audio Play Award and the War Blinded Audio Play Prize
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Bastian Hoffmann
Artist |
Bastian Hoffmann was born in 1983, in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the Academy of Arts Düsseldorf. He has received numerous prizes and awards and is represented in various solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. These include exhibitions in New York, at the Kunstverein “das weisse haus” in Vienna and at the Ludwig Forum Aachen. Works of his are among others in the collection of the Ostwall Museum in Dortmunder U, from which he received the MO art award in 2017 and a solo presentation.
Photo: Philipp Böll
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Eva Illouz
Author, Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University Jerusalem and School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris |
Eva Illouz was born in Fez, Morocco, raised and educated in France and then later in Israel and the United States. Currently, she is a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Directrice d'Etudes at the EHESS in Paris. Her research interests include sociology of culture, sociology of emotions, sociology of capitalism, and the effect of consumerism and mass media on emotional patterns.
Photo: Geisler - Photopress - Picture Alliance
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KangarooCourt
Artist Group |
The artists group KangarooCourt was founded in the beginning of 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Its name is inspired by the term kangaroo court, that refers to the out-of-law courts, that, for example, teams of prisoners or workers on strike create to solve their differences. The group consists of Dimitris Ameladiotis, Filippos Gountzos, Elena Koukoli, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Nana Sachini, Ioanna Stratoglou and Simos Veis, who come from different artistic backgrounds, but share the same interests regarding artist-audience or power relations. Choosing to express themselves through a harmonious blend of different forms of art -among others visual arts, performance, music and literature- KangarooCourt group’s actions critically comment on “the limits of (re)presentation, the utterant body, the aestheticised speech”, as they unfold in the frames of art, as well as within the general social realm. It is up to the spectator to place his/her own focus on the meanings and associations that become imprinted, or even disappear, through this intermingling.
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Nitasha Kaul
Novelist and Academic, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London |
Dr Nitasha Kaul is a novelist, economist, poet, and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. Over the last two decades, she has researched and published extensively on themes relating to democracy, political economy, identity, feminist and postcolonial critiques, Bhutan, India, and Kashmir. Her books include Imagining Economics Otherwise (Routledge, 2007); Future Tense (Harper Collins, 2020); Man-Asian Literary Prize shortlisted Residue (Rainlight, 2014); co-edited Economic & Political Weekly volume on Women and Kashmir (December 2018) and Can you Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? (Kali for Women Press, 2020). www.nitashakaul.com
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George
Klountzos-Chrysidis Musician |
Born in Thessaloniki (GR) in 1991. He started playing the drums in 2001 at the Contemporary Conservatory of Thessaloniki under the guidance of Kostas Pagonidis. In 2008, he moved to France to continue his studies at the Conservatoire de Nice. During this time he participated in well-known festivals such as the Nice Jazz Festival, Nuits du Sud and others. In 2013, he participated in the Jazz à Vienne festival. In 2016, he traveled to New York for the first time, which was a defining moment in his career, as he participated in the quartet of saxophonist Diego Rivera for a series of performances in Detroit, Michigan. He also had the opportunity to collaborate with the famous pianist Xavier Davis. Throughout his stay in the United States, he attended lessons by Rodney Whitaker and Randy "Uncle G" Gelispie at Michigan's State University. He had the opportunity to work with musicians such as Xavier Davis, Ricky Ford, Nicolas Masson, Diego Rivera, Craig Bailey, Baptiste Herbin, Pierre Marcus, Renaud Gensane, Marc Abrams, Pantelis Stoikos, Antonis Anisegos, David Lynch, Ziad Rajab, Ivo Papasov and others.
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Ivan Krastev
Political scientist, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies Sofia and Permanent fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna |
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. His book, co-authored with Stephen Holmes, The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, 2019) won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize. He is the author of “After Europe” (UPenn Press, 2017); “Democracy Disrupted. The Politics of Global Protest” (UPenn Press, 2014) and “In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?” (TED Books, 2013). Ivan Krastev is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020. His latest book "Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe" was published in more than 20 languages in mid June 2020 and is forthcoming in English in October 2020 by Penguin.
Photo: IWM/Klaus Ranger & Zsolt Marton |
Matthias Krupa
Journalist, European Editor - Die Zeit |
Matthias Krupa (b. 1969 in Bonn) studied in Cologne and began his career in journalism working on the newscasts Tagesschau, Tagesthemen and Bericht aus Bonn for the German public broadcasters WDR and ARD. In 1999 he joined the staff of the Berliner Zeitung. In 2001 he began working in the political department at Die Zeit and became deputy head of the department in 2005. He took up a post as Die Zeit's European correspondent in Brussels in 2011 before returning to Hamburg in 2016 to serve as its editor for Europe in the political department.
Photo: Vera Tammen/DIE ZEIT |
Floris Lammens
Conductor |
Floris Lammens is a young conductor from Belgium, based in Brussels. He studied the violin with Dejan Mijajev at the Antwerp Conservatoire, as well as conducting with Johan Van Bouwelen and Michael Scheck. Next to masterclasses with Regard Nielsen and Jerold Rubinstein, he further studied with Peter Mascher in Germany. As for conducting, he developed through choral conducting. He is currently conducting the Basilica Choir in Edegem, the Onzea Choir in Mortsel and foremost the Brussels Experimental Choir and Instrumental Ensemble. Brussels Experimental aims at creating theatrical music projects with both amateur and professional singers and musicians, reflecting the diversity of Brussels.
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Matteo Locci & Basak Tuna
Artists |
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Matteo Locci is a multimedia artist and a critical conjurer with an architectural background. Sitting at the intersections of art, illusionism, activism and performance, his work highlights the shifting relations between power, technical images and participation, focusing on the ways in which attention is triggered, produced, circulated, and disappears in the neoliberal participatory governance. Most of his research is carried out with and thanks to the interdisciplinary collective ATI, atisuffix.net, which he co-founded. He also likes to work as a duo with Basak Tuna. Basak Tuna is a critical spatial practitioner currently studying at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Contextual Design department. By merging photography, performance and video, her work speculates on the ontology of everyday objects.
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Katie Lock
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Katie Lock is a visual artist who works primarily in illustration and printmaking, but she does like to dabble in all sorts of mediums, from video to embroidery. Nature, magic and folklore are her favourite themes to use in her work whilst using imagery to tell a story, while representing abstract concepts really interests her. In the day she is the lead visual artist at Prism Arts, an inclusive arts organisation working with a wide range of people, in particular those with neurodiversity. Being part of this has been a real positive influence on her work, as each individual she works with brings their own unique perspective to the art
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Artist
Daria Mille
Curator and Research Associate, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe |
Since 2013 Daria Mille has been holding the position of a curator and research associate at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. Prior to this she had worked as a curatorial assistant to the chief curators of the 3rd and 4th editions of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and completed her academic traineeship at the ZKM. Most recently Daria Mille has been a member of the curatorial committee of the exhibition “Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics” and co-curated among others the following exhibitions: “Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture” (2019), “Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces With and Through Media” (2018), and “Hybrid Layers” (2017/2018) at the ZKM. Daria Mille publishes scholarly essays and is also a member of various juries.
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Lina Mantikou
Architect |
Lina Mantikou (b. 1987), Architect, is a PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture - National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), holding a scholarship from ELKE NTUA. She studied Architecture at the University of Thessaly (2011) and received her Masters from the programme "Design-Space-Culture" of the Department of Architecture - NTUA, thanks to a scholarship from ΙΚΥ (2015). She participated in the exhibitions: 15th Biennale of Young European and Mediterranean Artists (2011), The Symptom Project: A-stochia (Miss-fire) (2014), POSTPRODUCTS (2013), Sanatorioproject (2011) and Sanatorioproject II (2012). She has curated the group exhibition #theReflectionOfThePlate, at the Museum of Gastronomy in Athens (2015) and she has coordinated the workshop "Transformations of Intermediate" at the Post-Industrial Design Postgraduate Programme at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (2020), as well as the international workshop "Transforming the Intermedium. The idiosyncratic object" in the framework of the project Common Lab by Goethe-Institut and ArtBOX. She contributes to the research project "I-D (I - Design _ Idiosyncratic Meta Design) - Idiosyncratic Procedures on Reading and Producing Meta-Object in Contemporary Industrial Design" with Th. Zafeiropoulos, A. Psychoulis and A. Farangas. She works as a teaching assistant at the Department of Architecture NTUA on the subjects of architectural composition and plastic art courses. She lives and works in Athens.
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Thomas Oberender
Artistic Director
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Dr Thomas Oberender was born in 1966, studied Theatre Studies and Scenic Writing in Berlin and worked as a freelance playwright, critic, essayist and publicist. As the co-founder of the theatre writers' association Theater neuen Typs (Theatre of a New Kind), he presented new theatre texts written in the German language in Berlin from 1997. In 1999 he completed his PhD on Botho Strauß and was subsequently appointed Head Dramaturg at Schauspielhaus Bochum. For the Ruhrtriennale he devised the literary festivals “Wiedererrichtung des Himmels” (2004) and “Schule der Romantik” (2005). He became Co-Director at Schauspielhaus Zürich for the 2005/06 season, before moving to become Head of Theatre at the Salzburg Festival until 2011. He also developed the event series “Die Erfindung der Freiheit” for the European Capital of Culture RUHR 2010. He has been Artistic Director of the Berliner Festspiele / Gropius Bau since 2012 and created the Immersion programme since 2016. Here he devised new experiential spaces between exhibition and performance which have included the interdisciplinary formats “Schule der Distanz” (2016), “Limits of Knowing” (2017) and “INTO WORLDS. The Craft of Blurring Boundaries” (2018). The series The New Infinity that he has conceived together with Planetarium Hamburg has opened up the planetarium as a site for the work of artists in the digital age since 2018. In 2019 the exhibition by Philippe Parreno that he initiated at the Gropius Bau was selected as “Exhibition of the Year 2018”. As a curator Oberender was responsible along with Tino Sehgal for the time-based exhibition “Welt ohne Außen. Immersive Spaces since the 1960s” in 2018 and, as part of a wider curatorial team, for the “Palast der Republik” in 2019. The re-examination of the historical transformation of Eastern Germany since 1989 has become an additional focus for his work in recent years.
Photo: Christoph Neumann
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Dimitri Papageorgiou
Composer, Associate Professor, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Dimitri Papageorgiou is a composer based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently an Associate Professor of Composition at the Department of Music Studies of Aristotle University, Papageorgiou majored in composition at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts at Graz and received his Ph.D. by the University of Iowa, USA. The core of his work revolves around specific themes: time, identity/similarity/difference, repetition, memory, and order - the fragility of order in the creative process. Papageorgiou perceives the concept of memory -the way we consider the past- not as faithful reconstitution driven by nostalgia, but from the point of view of its creative dimension, that is, as a constantly updated reconstruction of the past from the point of view of the present and through a process of constant reformulation: the workings of memory as a compositional metaphor. All musical ideas are imperfect and vulnerable, ephemeral and distorted. They are constantly in a state of flux and under constant revision. Papageorgiou is an artistic co-director of the outHEAR New Music Week (outhearnewmusic.com), a symposium and master class in composition featuring the Ensemble Klangforum Wien. (dimitripapageorgiou.wordpress.com)
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Edit Pula
Artist, Curator,
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Edit Pula is an artist, curator, music producer, artistic director and producer of the Cloud Festival and also cultural adviser of the Mayor of Tirana. Born in 1974 in Tirana, Albania, Edit Pula began her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana. In 1997 she continued her postgraduate studies at the Byam Shaw School – now Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design – London, and lived and worked in London until 2009. Upon returning to Tirana, she started to rediscover Albanian traits and tradition and took that as a base for her artistic focus. While painting remains constant practice and a private passion, her latest projects have been site-specific installations and participatory art projects, aiming to bridge a dialog with the past, and sustain the collective memory. Apart of practicing her visual arts career, she also became the pioneer in promoting and recording traditional Albanian music. In 2016 she co-produced the music for the Albanian Pavilion “I left you the mountain” in Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Carol Rollo
Illustrator |
Carol Rollo is an editorial illustrator based in Sardina, Italy. She studied communication engineering in Turin, Illustration for children’s and teenagers’ publications in Barcelona and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in Berlin and Milan. She works mostly with newspapers, magazines and publishing houses such as Thomson and Reuters, Vanity Fair, and Corriere della Sera. She also paints murals, writes comics and holds workshops in various fields of the graphic arts, collaborating with festivals around Europe. Her work has been showcased in various exhibitions worldwide and is recognised by some of the most important annuals such as Autori di Immagini, 3x3 magazine and American Illustration Awards.
Photo: Simone Ruggiu
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Christoph Rummel
& Jochen Merker Artists |
Christoph is a juggler, Jochen's specialty is light painting video art. Both are based in Germany and play with light and use juggling technique and video art (or juggling art and video technology) to create patterns, images and light art works on stage. With their craft, they make traces of time and light visible and create a collage with Europe and its values. Christoph is also a researcher in contemporary circus (also known as the new circus or Nouveau Cirque). The circus may also offer a good image or metaphor for Europe, as circus was and still is a space for otherness, diversity and maybe even freedom. The traditional circus was and is always a place that invites everyone equally and lets them come together. With the emergence of the Nouveau Cirque (around 1970 in France), the founders not only saw themselves as rebels against the prevailing social hierarchy, but also set in motion a development that made the circus a performative art form (with elements from theatre, dance, etc.), in order to reflect on or express social or personal processes.
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Alfredo Saad-Filho
Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London |
Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London, and was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Alfredo has degrees in Economics from the Universities of Brasília (Brazil) and London (SOAS), and has taught in universities and research institutions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Switzerland and the UK. His interests include the political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of value and its applications.
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Gregory Sholette
Artist, writer,
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Artist, writer, activist and teacher Dr. Gregory Sholette specialises in the history and theory of contemporary socially engaged art. His research and artistic practices focus on issues of equitable labor justice for artists, archiving alternative genealogies of dissident culture, investigating innovative pedagogies, and supporting urban cultural justice. A co-founder of several artists’ collectives including Political Art Documentation/Distribution (1980), REPOhistory (1989), and Gulf Labor Coalition (2010), as well as the curator of Imaginary Archive, a collection of documents about a past whose future never arrived, his publications include a special double issue of FIELD Journal of Socially Engaged Art with over thirty global reports focusing on “Art, Anti-Globalism, and the Neo-Authoritarian Turn,” and the books Art as Social Action (with Chloë Bass, 2018, Skyhorse Press); Delirium & Resistance: Art Activism & the Crisis of Capitalism; Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (Pluto Press 2017 & 2010); Collectivism After Modernism (U. Minn., 2006); The Interventionists with Nato Thompson (MIT 2004). Sholette is a graduate of the Whitney Program in Critical Theory (1996), did his MFA at UC San Diego (1995), BFA at The Cooper Union (1979), and received his PhD in Heritage and Memory Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017). He is associate faculty at the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and the past decade he has co-directed the pedagogical art and social justice initiative Social Practice Queens where he is a professor of art. Sholette blogs at Welcome To Our Bare Art World: https://gregsholette.tumblr.com
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Svetlana Slapšak
Professor of Anthropology
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Svetlana Slapšak (b. Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1948). Trained in Classical Studies/Linguistics at the University of Beograd, with the MA on the translations/loans of the Greek word SHEMA and the PhD on translations, adaptations and loans from Greek in Vuk Karadžić’ Serbian Dictionary. Moved towards Anthropology, Balkanology and Women's Studies in the ’80s. As a dissident student and later author and activist often harassed by the secret police, her passport was denied for several times for more than 7 years 1968-1988. With her husband Božidar Slapšak she initiated the civic initiative against the death penalty in former Yugoslavia in 1983. Fired from her post at the Institute for Arts and Literature in Beograd in 1988, following a bogus trial by the Milošević regime, for her public opposition to the Serbian nationalism and the decomposition of Yugoslavia and her action in favour of the longest detained consciousness prisoner in Yugoslavia, ethnic Albanian Adem Demaqi (29 years old in 1987). She moved to Ljubljana in 1991 under threats by Serbian nationalists. Organised the women's group “Silence kills, let us speak for peace” the same year in Ljubljana. With her husband organised a number of actions in favour of Bosnian and other refugees in Slovenia. Prof., Coordinator of Anthropology of Ancient Worlds and Anthropology of Gender at ISH (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis), Ljubljana Graduate School of Humanities since 1996. Dean of ISH 2004-2014. Editor-in-Chief of ProFemina, a quarterly for Women's studies and culture in Beograd, since 1994. Laurie Chair in Women's Studies at Rutgers, USA, 1994-1995; Invited professor at EHESS Paris, 1998; Fellow at NIAS, Wassenaar, 1999-2000; Fellow at Max Planck Institute, Berlin, 2000; Director of project at CNRS, Paris, 2003; Fellow at KWI, Essen 2003; Fellow at Collegium Budapest, 2005. She lectured in many universities in Europe, USA and Turkey. Recipient of Miloš Crnjanski Award for essays, 1990; American PEN Freedom of Expression Award, 1993; Helsinki Watch Award, 2000; Helen Award, Montreal, 2001. One of 1000 women for peace, candidates for the Nobel Prize in 2005. Mirko Kovač Award (Croatia) for a book of essays (Flying Pilaf), 2015; Heliotrope Award (Serbia) for the best literary work in Serbian language (a novel Quarter-pound Cake), 2016; MIRA Women’s PEN Award (Slovenia), 2017. Since her retirement in 2014 she writes novels, dramas, travelogues, an opera libretto, and other academic/research works. Recently she published a study in historical anthropology on wool and the body, her previous books include an Ancient Mythourgy and a study on cabbage and sexuality, and, with one of her doctoral students, a study on gender and the Balkans. She published more than 100 books, cca 3000 essays and cca 1000 academic/research articles. She published translations from Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Latin, SBC languages to Slovenian and Slovenian to SBC.
Photo: Iztok Dimc
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Tiziana Terranova
Associate Professor in Cultural Studies & Digital Media at the Università degli Studi di Napoli |
Tiziana Terranova is currently Associate Professor in Cultural Studies and Digital Media at the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ where she co-founded the Technoculture Research Unit (www.technoculture.it). She is the author of Network Culture: politics for the information age (Pluto Press, 2004) and a member of the editorial board of the journals Theory, Culture and Society; New Formations; Subjectivity, and Studi Culturali. She is currently working on a new book on the technological remediation of the social (Hypersocial. Minnesota University Press, forthcoming) and a collection of her essays on automation, capitalism, social cooperation and the common is also to be published soon by Semiotext(e).
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Danae Theodoridou
Performance maker
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Danae Theodoridou is a performance maker and researcher based in Brussels. She studied literature and linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and acting at the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She completed her PhD on dramaturgy of contemporary theatre and dance at Roehampton University in London. The last years, her artistic work focuses on the notion of social imaginaries, the practice of democracy and the way art can contribute to the emergence of social and political alternatives. At the same time, Danae teaches at Fontys University of Applied Sciences (NL) and at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), she curates practice-led research projects and presents and publishes her research work internationally. She has been the co-creator of Dramaturgy at Work (2013-2016) and the co-author of The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017). (www.danaetheodoridou.com)
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Rirkrit Tiravanija
Artist |
Tiravanija (1961, Buenos Aires) is an Argentina born Thai artist who lives between New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai and his work carries strains of this nomadic existence, blending and re-combining different cultural contexts. Rather than insisting on a particular reality or truth, his work creates open-ended contexts for people to grapple with these questions themselves. The strength of Tiravanija’s work lies precisely in its ephemerality and the slippery ways it escapes definition; he takes the material of the every-day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself. Tiravanija received his BA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1984 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986. From 1985-1986, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has received numerous grants and awards, including the Absolut Art Award 2010, the Silpathorn Award by the Ministry of Culture in Thailand (2017), Hugo Boss Prize (2004), and Lucelia Artist Award by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2003), among others.
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Mark Titchner
Artist |
Mark Titchner’s (b. 1973, Luton, UK) work involves an exploration of the tensions between the different belief systems that inform our society, be they religious, scientific or political. Focusing on an exploration of words and language, in recent years much of his production has been based in the public realm both in the UK and internationally. These public works have often been created from extended group activities. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006, participated in the Venice Biennale in 2007 and was Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto in 2012. In 2018 he completed a major new permanent public work, ‘Me, Here Now’ which is installed at London Bridge Station. Many of his recent projects have explored issues around mental health. He is currently involved with the Mental Health and Justice project, a multi-disciplinary research initiative funded by Wellcome, working with the team that are investigating issues around the assessment of mental capacity, particularly in relation to complex or contested cases. Solo exhibitions include ‘Some questions about us’, Firstsite, Colchester (2019), ’Mark Titchner’, CGP/Dilston Grove, London (2014), ’Please Believe These Days Will Pass’, The Young gallery at The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2012), ‘Be true to your oblivion’, New Art Gallery, Walsall (2011), The Age of Happiness, Hellenic American Union, Athens (2009) and ‘Run Black River, Run’, BALTIC, Gateshead, (2008). He lives and works in London.
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Maciej Toporowicz
Artist |
Maciej Toporowicz is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn and Grahamsville, NY. He was born in Poland and came to USA as political refugee in 1985. His work was presented at Lombard Freid Fine Arts, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Jewish Museum, Museo D'Arte Moderne, MOCAK, Bronx Museum, P.S.1 Museum, 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and others.
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Manolis Tsipos
Cross-disciplinary performance artist |
Manolis Tsipos was born in 1979 in Athens, Greece. He is a cross-disciplinary performance artist. His artistic practice consists of four facets: he is a performance maker with a vivid interest on hybrid narratives and broadened concepts of what consists a choreography today; a few times published writer of prose and poetry in Greece, France and the USA; a mentor within multiple performing arts contexts (educational or not) in Europe; and a coach specialised in the DasArts Feedback Method. He holds two MA degrees (in “Theater”/DasArts, Amsterdam and “Environmental Politics & Management”, University of the Aegean, Greece). Lastly, he is founding (and active until 2014) member of the Institute for Live Arts Research |Π|, and also founding (and active until 2011) member of the performance group Nova Melancholía, both collectives being still based in Athens. In his work, he is fascinated by the force of language as inexhaustible shape shifter, endless vehicle of multiple meanings, and critical cornerstone of all imaginable communities inside and outside our contemporaneity. Currently, his theoretical enquiries are focused on how friendship could be conceived as a crucial factor in the understanding of our modes of artistic collaboration and cohabitation inside our field.
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Ben Vickers
Chief Technology Officer, Serpentine Galleries |
Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, explorer, publisher, technologist and luddite. He is CTO at the Serpentine Galleries in London, co-founder of Ignota Books and an initiator of the open-source monastic order unMonastery.
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Andreas Weber
Biologist, Philosopher and Nature Writer, University of the Arts, Berlin |
Dr. Andreas Weber (b. 1967) is a Berlin based philosopher and nonfiction writer, translator and independent scholar. Andreas holds degrees in Marine Biology (Msc) and Cultural Studies (PhD). He has worked with theoretical biologist Francisco Varela in Paris. Andreas’ philosophical and literary work is focusing on a re-evaluation of our understanding of the living. He understands organisms as subjects and hence the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic reality. Accordingly, Andreas holds that an economy inspired by nature should not be designed as a mechanistic optimisation machine (as it currently is), but rather as an ecosystem which transforms mutual sharing of matter and energy in a deepened meaning. Andreas puts forth his ideas in several books (translated in a variety of languages). He contributes to major newspapers and magazines and is regularly lecturing and giving workshops. He is teaching Ecophilosophy at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. Andreas is married and has two children. He lives in Berlin, Germany, and in Italy.
Photo: Florian Büttner |
