is a visual artist, graphic designer and educator. She holds a degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a MA in Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy. Since 2016, she has run Yellow Brick, an independent cultural institution for contemporary art based in Nea Ionia. Her artistic practice combines plastic gestures, fluid materialities, poetic improvisations and choreographic elements to create spatial and performative interventions that seek to construct new perceptual environments.
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was born and raised in Madrid and pursued his graduate education in Literature and Cultural Studies in the United States. He completed his MA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on contemporary literature and film with a postcolonial and transatlantic approach. Dr. Porras Chaves's most recent publications deal with issues of empire, memory, and identity in the Spanish-speaking world.
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is a writer and artist from Johannesburg. The first draft of her novella Lagoon was the winner of the inaugural First Drafts series and was published by Kunstverein in 2022. Her writing has appeared in Third Text, Portside Review and in the artist’s book Amanda, published by Maria Editions, among others. She is currently working on a novel, charting the connection between the narrator and the fin de siècle South African writer Olive Schreiner. When not writing, she enjoys drawing and lying reading in the sun with her dog.
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is Venezuelan, born in La Paz, Bolivia. Writer, bibliophile, collector. Interested in Latin American conceptual practices and documentary experimentation.
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better known as Tip, was born in 1923 in Willemstad, Curaçao, and spent two years in Venezuela as a child. During his military service from 1942 to 1947, he wrote poems in Dutch and Papiamento, some of which were published in Afschuw van licht; gedichten 1946-1951. After the war, Marugg joined the PR department of Shell, where he worked as an editor for the company magazine De Passaat among other things. He took early retirement in 1973. His debut novel, Weekendpelgrimage, was published in 1958 and In de straten van Tepalkafollowed in 1967. De morgen loeit weer aan was published in 1988, which was nominated for the AKO Literature Prize and for which he received the Cola Debrotprize in 1989. Tip Marugg led a reclusive life in Curaçao, where he died in 2006.
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is a curatorial studio on the edge of Rotterdam's port that operates with an ever-changing studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation. The studio is influenced by anthropologist and feminist theorist Deborah Bird Rose's talk Shimmer when all you love is being trashed. Alongside expanded and durational exhibitions are the events program Sunday Mornings and the mixtapes On the Waves, as a means to move through personal and public space. Shimmer is co-initiated by Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma.
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(Donostia, 1965) is an artist who works with action and performance, questioning the normativity of language and the production of signs that define us. Her work—performances, actions, videos, installations and text pieces—deploys a form of dissidence and examines the links between territories, bodies, rituals, sexuality and semiotics. Her works have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions, including Unquiet Objects (Disjecta, Portland, 2012); Moving Words (Rimi Scenekunst, Stavanger, 2021); Bodies of Water (13th Shanghai Biennale, 2020); Perforado por (Spanish Pavillion of the 58th Biennale of Venice, 2019, with Sergio Prego); I Never Said Umbrella(Tabakalera, Donostia, 2018); Una construcción… (CA2M, Madrid, 2018); Idiorritmias (MACBA, Barcelona, 2017) and Itziar Okariz (Kunsthaus Baselland, Basilea, 2017). Alongside her practice, she dedicates herself intensively to pedagogical work. She lives between New York and Bilbao.
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is based in Rotterdam, and is originally from Dublin, Ireland. She works in a vegetable distribution warehouse and as a host in a public art institution. She sometimes makes art and sometimes writes, and sometimes combines the two. She is currently a member of the band Tes Damen and previously the band Difficult. Alongside Daniel Tuomey, she is a member of The Postpeople, an artist duo operating under the alibi of a band, who make performances and teach together. Between 2016 and 2019 she co-ran ONONO, an artist-run project space in Rotterdam South.
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(they/them) is a non-binary ecotransfeminist artist and educator. They work at the intersections between performance, visual art, immersive theatre, somatic practices, radical pedagogy and eco-social-relational justice. Dani's art-life journey is guided by the force of 'Radical Tenderness', as a political practice of healing, and by the desire for 'metabolic intimacy', a sense of responsible attunement to the fabric of inseparability that runs through all relationships, not only human.
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is a transdisciplinary organic intellectual, artist-activist, Black transfeminist, educator, and Black healing arts justice practitioner. He is committed to the decolonization of intellectual, artistic, and organizing labor as tools to critically engage our many worlds. He is invested in how we find ways to survive and thrive in spite of the forces of war-terror-destruction that pervade our worlds and existences.
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books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor, and Jorge Luis Borges’s Selected Non-Fictions. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in New York City, where he was born.
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is a visual artist and writer whose work proposes that reading a sentence can be like stepping through a door, into a world hidden behind written words. Her murals, textile works, and books deploy language as a material and invite the reader-viewer into a collaboration of imagination, underscoring how the image evoked by the text is different for each who reads. Annabelle is presently based in Utrecht and Amsterdam, where she is a participant at De Ateliers.
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is an independent curator, editor and writer based in Rotterdam. Drawing on her background in economics and social sciences, she pays attention to the social, political and economic context of her work in her curatorial practice. Her long-term research projects materialise as exhibitions, performances, publications, lectures or public events, among others. Her most recent exhibition and publication project includes Unruly Kinships at Temporary Gallery CCA in Cologne. Kris is a tutor and thesis supervisor at the Interior Architecture: Research + Design department of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, and a mentor of De Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam.
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is an art historian who has worked as a journalist, a teacher at the art academy, and a communications employee in the theater. His book, Het Kind Met Vijf Namen, was published on September 1, 2015, by Van Gennep.
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grew up in Somerset, UK, and lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project Short Pieces That Move!. She is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. Her novel The Long Form was recently published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and follows This Little Art, a narrative essay on the practice of translation. She is now working on the French-to-English translations of two novels by Hélène Bessette.
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is a visual artist, graphic designer and educator. She holds a degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a MA in Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy. Since 2016, she has run Yellow Brick, an independent cultural institution for contemporary art based in Nea Ionia. Her artistic practice combines plastic gestures, fluid materialities, poetic improvisations and choreographic elements to create spatial and performative interventions that seek to construct new perceptual environments.
Read Poema de una polis
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was born and raised in Madrid and pursued his graduate education in Literature and Cultural Studies in the United States. He completed his MA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on contemporary literature and film with a postcolonial and transatlantic approach. Dr. Porras Chaves's most recent publications deal with issues of empire, memory, and identity in the Spanish-speaking world.
Read Poema de una polis
*****
is a writer and artist from Johannesburg. The first draft of her novella Lagoon was the winner of the inaugural First Drafts series and was published by Kunstverein in 2022. Her writing has appeared in Third Text, Portside Review and in the artist’s book Amanda, published by Maria Editions, among others. She is currently working on a novel, charting the connection between the narrator and the fin de siècle South African writer Olive Schreiner. When not writing, she enjoys drawing and lying reading in the sun with her dog.
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is Venezuelan, born in La Paz, Bolivia. Writer, bibliophile, collector. Interested in Latin American conceptual practices and documentary experimentation.
Read La mañana volvió a bramar
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better known as Tip, was born in 1923 in Willemstad, Curaçao, and spent two years in Venezuela as a child. During his military service from 1942 to 1947, he wrote poems in Dutch and Papiamento, some of which were published in Afschuw van licht; gedichten 1946-1951. After the war, Marugg joined the PR department of Shell, where he worked as an editor for the company magazine De Passaat among other things. He took early retirement in 1973. His debut novel, Weekendpelgrimage, was published in 1958 and In de straten van Tepalkafollowed in 1967. De morgen loeit weer aan was published in 1988, which was nominated for the AKO Literature Prize and for which he received the Cola Debrotprize in 1989. Tip Marugg led a reclusive life in Curaçao, where he died in 2006.
Read La mañana volvió a bramar
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is a curatorial studio on the edge of Rotterdam's port that operates with an ever-changing studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation. The studio is influenced by anthropologist and feminist theorist Deborah Bird Rose's talk Shimmer when all you love is being trashed. Alongside expanded and durational exhibitions are the events program Sunday Mornings and the mixtapes On the Waves, as a means to move through personal and public space. Shimmer is co-initiated by Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma.
*****
(Donostia, 1965) is an artist who works with action and performance, questioning the normativity of language and the production of signs that define us. Her work—performances, actions, videos, installations and text pieces—deploys a form of dissidence and examines the links between territories, bodies, rituals, sexuality and semiotics. Her works have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions, including Unquiet Objects (Disjecta, Portland, 2012); Moving Words (Rimi Scenekunst, Stavanger, 2021); Bodies of Water (13th Shanghai Biennale, 2020); Perforado por (Spanish Pavillion of the 58th Biennale of Venice, 2019, with Sergio Prego); I Never Said Umbrella(Tabakalera, Donostia, 2018); Una construcción… (CA2M, Madrid, 2018); Idiorritmias (MACBA, Barcelona, 2017) and Itziar Okariz (Kunsthaus Baselland, Basilea, 2017). Alongside her practice, she dedicates herself intensively to pedagogical work. She lives between New York and Bilbao.
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is based in Rotterdam, and is originally from Dublin, Ireland. She works in a vegetable distribution warehouse and as a host in a public art institution. She sometimes makes art and sometimes writes, and sometimes combines the two. She is currently a member of the band Tes Damen and previously the band Difficult. Alongside Daniel Tuomey, she is a member of The Postpeople, an artist duo operating under the alibi of a band, who make performances and teach together. Between 2016 and 2019 she co-ran ONONO, an artist-run project space in Rotterdam South.
Read Tintelend
*****
(they/them) is a non-binary ecotransfeminist artist and educator. They work at the intersections between performance, visual art, immersive theatre, somatic practices, radical pedagogy and eco-social-relational justice. Dani's art-life journey is guided by the force of 'Radical Tenderness', as a political practice of healing, and by the desire for 'metabolic intimacy', a sense of responsible attunement to the fabric of inseparability that runs through all relationships, not only human.
Read Radicale Tederheid Manifest
*****
is a transdisciplinary organic intellectual, artist-activist, Black transfeminist, educator, and Black healing arts justice practitioner. He is committed to the decolonization of intellectual, artistic, and organizing labor as tools to critically engage our many worlds. He is invested in how we find ways to survive and thrive in spite of the forces of war-terror-destruction that pervade our worlds and existences.
Read Radicale Tederheid Manifest
*****
books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor, and Jorge Luis Borges’s Selected Non-Fictions. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in New York City, where he was born.
Read Woestijnmuziek: Zuid
*****
is a visual artist and writer whose work proposes that reading a sentence can be like stepping through a door, into a world hidden behind written words. Her murals, textile works, and books deploy language as a material and invite the reader-viewer into a collaboration of imagination, underscoring how the image evoked by the text is different for each who reads. Annabelle is presently based in Utrecht and Amsterdam, where she is a participant at De Ateliers.
Read Woestijnmuziek: Zuid
*****
is an independent curator, editor and writer based in Rotterdam. Drawing on her background in economics and social sciences, she pays attention to the social, political and economic context of her work in her curatorial practice. Her long-term research projects materialise as exhibitions, performances, publications, lectures or public events, among others. Her most recent exhibition and publication project includes Unruly Kinships at Temporary Gallery CCA in Cologne. Kris is a tutor and thesis supervisor at the Interior Architecture: Research + Design department of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, and a mentor of De Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam.
Read una carta de amor infinita...
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is an art historian who has worked as a journalist, a teacher at the art academy, and a communications employee in the theater. His book, Het Kind Met Vijf Namen, was published on September 1, 2015, by Van Gennep.
Read KLINKT ALS ART
*****
grew up in Somerset, UK, and lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project Short Pieces That Move!. She is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. Her novel The Long Form was recently published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and follows This Little Art, a narrative essay on the practice of translation. She is now working on the French-to-English translations of two novels by Hélène Bessette.
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