is an illustrator, writer and garderobier, currently studying Sprachkunst at Die Angewandte. His main focus lies on researching queer history, particularly through studying biographies and collecting intimate details within them. This shift of attention towards the relational is Ari’s foundation for his work with drawing and text. He is part of the “holiday poets society” with Claire Lefèvre and Kenneth Constance Loe since 2022.

is an art historian and works as an independent curator, author, and editor. She is a senior scientist at the Department of Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and formerly held curatorial positions at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien. She is on the board of the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna (WUK). Her interests focus on artistic and curatorial gestures that question and deconstruct hegemonic narratives by means of “parafictional” and speculative strategies. She is engaged in critical artistic practice with archives and leads “Anonymity and Absence: Archival Sites of Speculation,” an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Applied Arts.

began dancing to pop music in his family’s living room and later continued this work on stage as a performer and choreographer. His works were shown among others at the Ostertanztage Salzburg, at the Altera Pars Theater in Athens, at the 100 Grad Festival Berlin and in Vienna at brut, Raw Matters, Tanzquartier, WUK and ImPulsTanz. In addition to his work as a dancer and choreographer, Costas Kekis also works as a dramaturge and choreographic consultant with numerous other artists.

is a researcher, literary translator, and artist based in Austin, Texas. Drawing on personal histories and the broader archive of queer culture, his artistic practice explores forms of queer intimacy and relationality across multiple media and genres: free-standing prints, drawings, artists’ books, and collaborative chapbooks. His scholarly work examines counter-memorial and archival practices in postsocialist literary and visual culture, with a focus on former Yugoslavia. He teaches at the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas in Austin

operates in the field of innovative and interdisciplinary artistic and curatorial practices, with the focus on queer perspectives. He also acts as a coordinator and artistic researcher of the collective queerANarchive, through which he has realised a number of artistic researches. His work experience includes curatorial programs such as qEXHIBITIONS for queerANarchive and NMG@PRAKTIKA for the association Mavena, as well as curatorial work for HULU Split. He is the manager of the qWORKSHOP, qFEST and qPRODUCTIONS/RESIDENCIES programs for the queerANarchive collective.

is a freelance theatre maker, political education worker, cultural scientist and transmedia artist. Currently completing her master’s thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna’s Critical Studies, she is also a project collaborator at the institution’s Platform Diversity project. She is a co-founder of the association “Vielmehr für Alle!” and the project “PROSA-Projekt Schule für Alle!” In 2014–2017, she worked at Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin as assistant director, dramaturg, co-director and head of the akademie der autodidakten, among other positions. More recently, she worked as a project coordinator of “Akademie geht in die Schule” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as a curator and art mediator for “INVENTOUR” by Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich.

is a visual artist working predominantly with moving image and text. Her works revolve around portraits of people and places, and her interest lies in how personal stories depict a socio-political context and history. She is a co-founder of the Brussels-based, artist-run production and distribution platform elephy, contributor to the online film criticism platform Sabzian, and a PhD in the Arts candidate at KASK & Conservatorium/School of Arts Ghent, where she teaches in the visual arts department and lectures on art and feminist theory.

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is a Croatian-based artist and researcher who uses objects from archives, photography, printmaking, and design in his research- and artistic-based processes. He is interested in shaping memories and the idea of storytelling through artistic narratives. He holds an MFA in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

has recently completed graduate studies in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His practice includes 3D animation, new media and visual art, text, and performance. In his graduate work, he deals with the creation of the “Nominis” alter ego and its materialization in objects and digital space through video, installation, and drag performance.

is a Brazilian filmmaker, born in Rio de Janeiro, with multiple works between cinema, television, photography, and advertisement. “I Know Everything is Memory” is her debut as a film director. With “Projeto Mulheres Poderosas” [Powerful Women Project], a portrait-series published online from 2016 until 2021, she started her research mixing memory and feminism by telling stories of women with the goal of preserving their memories and value their lives.