Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker, and curator for the Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin and for the Panorama section at Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree from the Art in Context program at Universität der Künste Berlin. He was nominated for the Lichter Art Award with his film Pirate Boys and the Golden Key at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival with The Garden of the Fauns.

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is an artist, researcher,  community organizer and vinyl collector born in 1989, who lives and works between the outskirts of Paris in France and Vienna in Austria. Through a transdisciplinary practice, Soñ Gweha works with music, poetry, video, performance, installation, sculpture to deconstruct the mechanisms of survival, mindfulness and healing. Navigating through contemporary creation, research and collective practices for transformative justice, they uses analog Djaying, sounds and their voice as an instrument (under the name SOÑXSEED), moving images, poetic writings, archival conversations, , body gestures, textiles and fruit & plant matter, in order to explore intimacy, love, tribulation and joy from a afrofeminist and queer perspective.

is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven. Between 2019 and 2022 she researched the concept of radical softness as choreographic strategy, embracing hypersensitivity as a method, a topic, and a portal through which to imagine two works: Peachfuzz and Full Melt Down. Her last stage work LOIE (is a fire that cannot be extinguished) dealt with somatic archives and systematic erasures within dance history. Behind the scenes, she is exploring the archetype and working methods of a performance doula, a role imagined to disinvisibilize care work in the context of performance making.

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