Israel Akpan Sunday works as a choreographer, dancer and musician between Hamburg and Lagos. His works are political and challenging, as well as poetic and sensual. As an interdisciplinary artist, he delves into profound societal aspects, including sociological, political, and economic issues, and questioning the very foundations of our systems. Having a discursive exchange with his colleagues and his audience always plays a vital role in his processes. Next to creating his own pieces and working as a performer with other choreographers, he is developing community projects in Lagos and contributing to the further development of the independent contemporary dance scene in Nigeria.

Eng Kai Er (Kai, she/her) is a choreographer and performer originally from Singapore. In 2019, Kai moved to Gießen to study MA Choreography and Performance, graduating in 2022. She then moved to Hamburg to be choreographer in residence at K3 Tanzplan Hamburg for the 2022/2023 season. In her artistic work she has addressed topics such as freedom, nudity, sexuality, the social and personal meanings of work, principles of collaboration and participation, intimacy and consent, and verbal and non-verbal communication.
https://kaifishfish.tumblr.com

Cody Ellis Kluge is an interdisciplinary artist with a primary focus on performance and theater. They have been selected as a recipient of the stART.up scholarship by Claussen Simon Stiftung this year after earning a degree in Theatre-, Performance and Media Studies from the University of Hildesheim in 2023. Cody completed their studies with the auto-fictional solo performance BITE ME as part of the COMING OUT series at Schauspiel Hannover, a scenic research into the queer characteristics of the vampire.
https://www.codyelliskluge.myportfolio.com

Luise Florentine Pahlke, born in Hamburg in 1998. She studied acting at the Bavarian Academy of Performing Arts from 2020-2024. In addition to her studies, she has already performed at the Regensburg Theater and regularly played at the Regensburg Academy Theater. After completing her studies, she now works freelance on various projects.
https://www.filmmakers.eu/de/actors/luise-pahlke

Janina Santamarina works primarily in public spaces to change everyday spatial situations. Her main material is plastic which she highlights through wind, light and movement.

Anupa Srinivasan is a writer and translator living in Southern California and Northern Germany. She grew up on the West Coast of the United States, mainly in Los Angeles. She earned a doctorate in literature and her stories have been published in several American journals such as Triquarterly, The Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, The Literary Review, and more. She has won a Pushcart Prize and was the finalist for the New Letters Cappon Prize for fiction. She is currently working on her own novel as well as translations of German poetry and fiction into English.

Luis Varela is a Colombian poet living in Hamburg. His poetry has been translated into German and Portuguese and published in various Latin American and German magazines. He has been included in the anthology „Voces periféricas. Antología de poetas latinoamericanos en Alemania“ (Equidistancias, 2024) and participated in different readings such as Hafenlesung, an international and multilingual event.

Dong Zhou is a composer-performer based in Hamburg. After composition studies in Shanghai and Hamburg, Zhou is currently a doctoral student at ICAM (Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media) of Leuphana University. Since 2022 Zhou has been curating the label Patch Cord Records.
https://patchcordrecords.com