Mari Kalabegashvili
If You Catch My Drift
Artist Mari Kalabegashvili is entrenched in Tbilisi’s countercultures. She is a keen observer of these environments, and the visible as well as hidden scars and ruptures that shape them. Her project If You Catch My Drift examines urban environments as extreme playgrounds. Kalabegashvili’s point of departure is the male-dominated scene of automotive vehicle enthusiasts who compete in →
Aidan Jayson Peters
Life of a Garment
Aidan Jayson Peters, aka Klein Muis, is a designer whose research-driven work prioritizes problem-solving in scalable and ecologically responsible manners. Using materials from Johannesburg’s so-called “discard sites” of European clothing to create complete looks, his collection will reflect the clothing items’ journey from the Global North to the Southern hemisphere through photography, texts, and a →
Roee Rosen
Troubled Humor and Tainted Beauty
In 2010 Rosen created two films, Hilarious and Out, in which a BDSM session becomes a political exorcism. Out premiered at the Venice film festival, where it won the Orizzonti award for best medium-length film. Rosen’s film The Dust Channel was coproduced by documenta 14, where it was exhibited along with two historical text and →
Gustavo Gomes
Blue Shoe—Theater of Apophenia
Cologne-based choreographer, director, and filmmaker Gustavo Gomes proposes a docufiction that focuses on sexual violence against men. Blue Shoe’s script interlaces mythology and interviews with survivors and social workers in Germany. The work deals with the complex thresholds between fantasy, perception, and dissociation while exposing coping mechanisms that survivors develop as adults. The project is a →
Victor Artiga Rodriguez
Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages
Hailing from El Salvador, Victor Artiga Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the convergence of poetry, the body, and digital technologies. Through multimedia installations and performances, he explores new forms of narration that touch upon themes of decolonization, climate crisis, and nostalgia. With his performative project Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages, Artiga Rodriguez seeks to enact an →
Carlos Gutiérrez
Infinite Warp and Weft
Carlos Gutiérrez is a composer, performer, and researcher based in La Paz, Bolivia. His work is influenced by the indigenous music of the Bolivian Highlands and extends to creating instruments, public interventions, and installations that explore tuning systems, the spatialization of sound over long distances, and aural illusions. His project Infinite Warp and Weft entails →
Marcela Huerta
White Horses Always Run Home
Marcela Huerta’s project proposes an intimate, poetic portrait of the author’s mother, Yolanda Huerta, a refugee of the 1973 Chilean coup. The two will participate in somatic practices to find new ways of narrating the histories that have shaped their relationship. They will revisit the geographies of Yolanda’s refugee story: Maipú, the neighborhood where she →