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We will delve into ideas of nature and technology which support the storytelling performance that is based on a true story about the disappearance of a tigress detected by wildlife data in India.

Tomás is a Chilean artist based in Berlin. They began working with photography and moving images in 2012, mainly in collaborative projects in fashion and music. Over the years they had expanded into the disciplines of installations, performance, and music. They believe that each discipline feeds on each other, learning techniques and inspiration from one to another.

Essay is a new project that seeks to explore spatial practices from the crossings that occur between art and architecture. What is our relationship with the spaces we inhabit, visit and revisit? How do we construct, discover and explore it from different points of view, disciplines, beings and things?

Melisa Liebenthal is an independent film director and editor from Argentina based in Berlin. She has directed two short films and two feature films (not in that order), which received international recognition and awards. Her latest film was shown in this year’s Berlinale, in the Forum section.

Chang Gao, artist, lecturer, her research topic overlaps psychology, politics, philosophy, sexuality, and art, questioning if the use of supernormal stimuli and eroticism in the production of artwork can combat political repression and postcolonialism in Chinese public space.

South American artist, musician and educator, deeply motivated to strengthen and promote alternative epistemologies and creative empowerment processes. He is the creative director of Resonar Lab, a transdisciplinary collective that works with ecosocial activism.

In the contest of launching its Crowdfunding campaign, FRACTO art director Giuseppe Boccassini will discuss how to manage the ideal tension to maintain integrity and quality in an environment that instead leads to the political homogeneity of cultural proposals. We will discuss alternative forms to governmental or private funding, whether it is right to strive to maintain community values or whether the community can resist only with public funds behind it.

Paris/Berlin based independent curator and publisher, specialized in contemporary art books. With an authorial and transversal approach, its publications focus on the images' subversive potential to short-circuit the representation and question the book form by making it a space for experimentation.

Katherina Heil is currently showing work together with Alexander Kadow at Villa Heike. Space exploration and the natural sciences are a great source of inspiration in her work, but she wonders if it has evolved over time from purely philosophical pursuits towards commercialization and entertainment.

Alexander Kadow is currently showing work with Katherina Heil at Villa Heike and wonders what Art without a topic or „what you see is what you see“ could mean today in a politicized art world. Is it even true that it is more politicized than in former decades?

Tired, depressed or simply lost your fire? We’ve all been there.
Artist Alanna Lawley describes how her piece, ‘Let me tell you how you feel’ bridges the space between the intuitive process of drawing and the use of virtual space to understand the past, reconfigure the present and see your future.

Born in Buenos Aires and currently based in Berlin, Lucía Ogdon is a Filmmaker. She studied Film Directing at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) and usually works as an Assistant Director or Executive Assistant to Producers. Amongst her most recent projects are “Constellation”, by Michelle MacLaren, “Fever Dream” by Claudia Llosa and “El Presidente” by Armando Bó.

On poetry, radio, self-publishing – three among the least financially profitable activities in the cultural industry as we know it – and a new project that will combine them.

Lorene Blanche Goesele is a trans-disciplinary feminist artist who combines art education, botany, cultural work, photography, interspecies communication, spatial creation and writing. Her practice takes place in collectively reactivated historical places and day to day spaces, creating multilayered encounters in urban contexts.

Lorene Blanche Goesele

Tombé is a Cameroonian multilingual storyteller, champions the power of storytelling over screens. Inspired by children's reading sessions in German libraries, he aims to launch a similar project in Cameroon, specifically in Dschang. But he still wonders how books could fly to Cameroon. Nevertheless, Tombé is determined to cultivate a culture of storytelling as he believes in its transformative potential for communities.

Hanna is a curator, artist, and researcher working with sound and words. Her practice is centred on the relationship of art with social movements, listening, and sonic fictions. She works in collective, participatory, and public settings, which comes out of her engagement with queer-feminist, migrant, and anti-capitalist movements. She is currently working on projects that explore sonic agency in feminist protests, Eastern European sonic fictions through queer-feminism and ecology.

What if you could talk to Mother Earth? We connected Indigenous perspectives and artificial intelligence to make this as easy as picking up a phone. The Project by Falko Saalfeld, Mark Schatz & Hagen Plum was awarded 2023 at the K3 Prize for Climate Communication.

Seeds are living symbols of ancestral knowledge, collective memory and cultural identity. Saving seeds is a fundamental practice for maintaining biodiversity, food security and cultural heritage. Through research on indigenous Latin American ontologies Adriana experiments on how collecting and sharing seeds can contribute to ecological justice and cultural diversity in urban contexts.

Aino is a trained acupuncturist, artist, mother and lover of planet earth. She will talk about the cyclical aspect of time in the theory of Chinese medicine, using the meridian system and the organ clock as examples.

Oliver Gudzowski's thesis explores the subconscious by turning dream worlds into architectural forms. In their performance, Oliver slept and shared dream-inspired stories and models, blending the surreal and emotional, inviting the audience into his subconscious realm.

⁠⁠HOLDER blends the lines between an editorial platform, a design store and a gallery with an ever-evolving catalogue showcasing a selection of curated furniture and art-led objects for the everyday use dedicated to contemporary and collectible design boosting the eminent designers of Latin America.

Artist and LGBTIQ activist Antonio works in visual arts as a performer, social researcher, and photographer, with a late focus on food politics.
In Conversas, Antonio is interested in opening a dialog with the participants, challenging them to imagine humanity after surviving the Anthropocene as a brainstorming strategy that can support global transition from fossil capitalism, with a focus on macrobiotics philosophy.

Christopher-Felix is a freelance performer, theater maker and architectural historian. When his grandmother moved into a retirement home, she left him a vase - and told him a secret: she had stolen it from her Jewish neighbor's house. The object is representative of the guilt and perpetration of the German Bystanders under the NS regime and forms the autobiographical starting point for an artistic research project.

Trinidad Davanzo & Camilo Palma

Antonio Kiselić Ledinsky

Christopher-Felix Hahn

Radikale Töchter? Climate crisis, racism, political populisms: In light of such challenges, the world needs radical ideas and new impulses for action to tackle this current political climate. Above all, courage is needed, as well as an invigorated engagement with democratic values. In a nutshell, they offer a political, creative, and activating workshop for those who want to get fitter at standing up for democracy!

Queering, Cripping, and Disturbing is dedicated to productive moments of disruption. From a curatorial perspective, this contribution asks how and why art and exhibition projects can and should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Jesse is a scholar and lawyer interested in how human psychology interacts with law. Much of his research has focused on ancient Greece, but now he is trying to understand some historical implications of the long afterlife of Greek courtroom rhetoric.