Edoardo Massa graduated in graphic design from ISIA in Urbino and is concerned with illustration, comics, and scribing. For the last six years he has worked as a writer with the Festival of Science in Genoa. He works in theatres as a graphic presenter, for example whilst touring with Michela Murgia. He also works as an illustrator for Iperborea’s The Passenger Magazine. Recently he has been living in Bologna.

Eleonore Khuen-Belasi is a playwright, as well as a student of philosophy. She was nominated for the Hans Gratzer Scholarship at Schauspielhaus Wien in 2018. She was invited to the Author’s Theatre Days in 2019 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin with her first play “ruhig Blut”. The premiere took place at the Deutsches Theater with a production by Schauspielhaus Graz. The play was published in the theatrical anthology “Dramatische Rundschau 02” by S. Fischer Verlag. Her second play “Himmel und Hirn” was published in March 2021.
She has received various work and residency grants from the Federal Ministry of Art/Culture Austria, the German Literature Fund, the Province of South Tyrol, and the Literary Colloquium Berlin, among others. She is currently writing her third play and her master’s thesis. She lives and works in Vienna.

Gülbin Ünlü is an artist who works in Munich where she studied painting with Prof. Markus Oehlen at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. On graduating in 2018 she was awarded the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation Prize. She is part of the artist collective T.A.G. and VKP and worked as a committee member of the art space Lorraine13 FLORIDA. Ünlü’s artistic practice celebrates the mash-up, which is not least evident in her interdisciplinary approach that includes artistic collaboration, photo and video work, installation, performance, music, and painting. Since 2016, Ünlü has published various artist books and music albums. Amongst others her work has been exhibited at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich in 2020.

Ingrid Hora is a visual artist born in 1976 in Bolzano, Italy, who lives and works in Berlin. In her multidisciplinary artistic production – ranging from performative interventions, installation and drawing to video and photography – Hora stages experiments that question socio-political conditions, and challenge collectivity, as well as the modality in which democratic processes are established.

Often starting from very context-specific knowledge, locally rooted traditions or historical turning points, Ingrid Hora develops artistic interventions that establish new temporary networks by creating collective moments of interaction. Objects, drawings, or sculptural elements are the requisites for her collective performative interventions – often staged in public spaces – which the artist orchestrates through a series of basic instructions. The question of the human part of a collective and its eagerness to act outside its individual domain, as well as how a collective acts outside its common context when a set of norms breaks down, is at the heart of many of Ingrid Hora’s projects. The artistic process itself is often a collective act of creation in which the artist seeks dialogue with other disciplines such as dance, literature, or music.

Maxi Obexer, playwright and author, lives in Berlin. She studied comparative literature, philosophy, and theatre studies in Berlin. She has received prizes and scholarships for her works, including from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Akademie der Künste, as well as the Eurodram Prize and the Robert Geisendörfer Prize for “Illegale Helfer”. She has held guest professorships at Dartmouth College USA, the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and Georgetown University in Washington DC. She teaches regularly at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. She founded the New Institute for Dramatic Writing (NIDS), and the Summer School Südtirol.

Rosalyn D’Mello (she/her) is a feminist writer, art critic, columnist, essayist, editor, and researcher. She is the author of “A Handbook for My Lover” (HarperCollins India – 2018). She writes a weekly feminist column for Mid-Day, a fortnightly column on contemporary art for STIR, as well as contributing regularly to OPEN. She is an Ocean Fellowship Mentor for 2021 and is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press based on her visits to South Asian artists’ studios, thanks to a research grant from the India Foundation for the Arts. Her freelance writing has been published internationally and included in anthologies. She is represented by David Godwin Associates. Rosalyn grew up in Mumbai and lived in Delhi for almost a decade. She now lives in South Tyrol, where she braves the harsh alpine winters by drawing on her sensual memories of the goan sun.

Senthuran Varatharajah,, born 1984 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Studied philosophy and protestant theology in Marburg, Berlin and London. In 2016 came the publication of her multiple award-winning debut novel. “Before the Signs Increase” published by S. Fischer. Varatharajah’s second novel “Rot” (Hunger) will be published in spring 2022, also by S. Fischer.

Sophie Utikal (1987, USA) was born in the same year that Gloria E. Anzaldúa published “Borderlands”. Since then she has lived in many places and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2019. Today she lives and works in Berlin, Neukölln.

In her work, Utikal combines textile fragments to create self-portraits in large-scale fabric paintings where the black thread remains visible – a sewing technique used across generations by the women in her family in Colombia. Her use of textiles to represent the negative form of her body combines with Anzaldúa’s method of auto-historia. Tears, waterfalls, rivers, and oceans permeate her bodies in order to tell stories based on traumatic but also pleasant experiences of migration and self-empowerment as a woman of colour in Germany. Starting from a decolonial perspective, her textile works are dedicated to forms of unfolding bodily knowledge such as feeling, perceiving and being, that go beyond rationality. She is constantly searching for a new consciousness that incorporates the body as an actor in a possible healing process.

Teresa Sdralevich, graphic designer, freelance illustrator and author, lives and works in Belgium. Born in Milan in 1969, she moved to Brussels in 1994 after graduating in political science from the University of Bologna, where she briefly attended courses in graphic design and illustration. In 2005, she set up a screen-printing workshop in the Belgian capital, which was also open to other artists. Her preferred themes are of a social, political, and cultural nature, which she addresses through the design of posters for which she conceptualizes texts and images.

In addition to collaborating with associations and public institutions, she also works with publishers and journals. She conducts workshops regularly in museums, academies and at festivals throughout Europe and beyond. Her latest book, “Poster Power! Great Posters and How to Make Them” (Cicada, 2017) is published in Italy by Corraini.

Wissal Houbabi. Activist, artist, and writer. Associate expert of “Razzismo Brutta Storia”. Co-founder of the art collective ZufZone from Trieste. She published “Manifesto per l’antisessismo del rap italiano” for EUT and an investigation on hip-hop “pimpology” for PalGrave MacMillan. She has written for VICE-Noisey, Jacobin and Agenzia X and is one of the authors of Future (effequ). She writes about anti-racism, feminism, hip-hop and identity.

She won second prize in the 2019 Alberto Dubito National Prize for Poetry with Music. Wissal has participated with her poetry in national events and festivals, projects with IUAV, Cantieri Meticci and others. She has shown her drawings and works in solo and group exhibitions, including at the Turin Book Fair in 2017.

Aldo Giannotti (born in Genoa in 1977) is an artist who has lived and worked in Vienna since 2000. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara (Italy), the Academy of Fine Arts Wimbledon (England), and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (Germany). Drawing occupies a central role in Aldo Giannotti’s artistic practice for communicating socio-political concepts. The artist is an astute and critical observer, and for his mostly site-specific works he uses a variety of forms of expression such as drawing, photography, video, installation, and performance.

His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, Projektraum Viktor Bucher Vienna, Kunstpavillon Munich, Mumok in Vienna, Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius, Kunsthaus Graz, Albertina Vienna, Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol.

Kateřina Šedá (born in 1977 in Brno, czech republic) is an artist who lives and works in Brno. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Kateřina Šedá’s work is close to social architecture and her interest is in communities and socially conceived events, often involving dozens or hundreds of people, who have nothing to do with art. The events usually take place directly in villages or on the streets of cities. The experimentation with interpersonal relations aims to free the participants from stereotypes or social isolation. The artist’s works speak of a sense of belonging and of a responsibility towards the community, critically questioning the concept of “home”.

She is currently developing her projects at the Artpark Buffalo Niagara in the USA, the Milton Keynes Art Centre in England and for Kunst und BAU (Art and Construction) in Zurich. The artist has also presented projects at LIAF in Norway, IHME in Helsinki, the Architecture Biennale in Venice and MMOMA in Moscow.

Stefanie Sargnagel (born in 1986 in Vienna, Austria) is a freelance author and cartoonist. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 2009 to 2012 she published the fanzine “Extrem deprimierende Zines” (extremely depressing mags) From 2013 her books were published: “Binge Living” (2013), “Fitness” (2015), “In the Future We Are All Dead” (2016), “Status Messages” (2017) and “Dense” (2020). She regularly draws cartoons for Falter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly, Augustin and WIENERIN. Her reporting appears on Bayerischen Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting), and in the ZEIT, VICE and Süddeutsche Zeitung (newspapers/magazines). In 2016 she won the Audience Award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Special Prize of the Austrian Cabaret Prize in 2017 and the Promotional Prize of the Sondermann Prize for Comic Art in 2019. She is a member of the authors group Wiener Grippe and the Hysteria fraternity.