Joannie Baumgärtners multidisciplinary, research-based practice combines performance with installation, media-based processes, theoretical writing and poetry. Baumgärtners approach to spatial or temporal concerns and their use of movement or other forms of expression relies on disorientation as a method and the activation of hidden transversal connections that flow through disciplines, subject matters and historic events. Baumgärtner holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem. They also studied sculpting, scenography, art theory and education at AdBK Nuremberg and HfG Karlsruhe. Since 2012 they have performed and exhibited mostly within Germany and the EU, while their writing has been published in collective publications and artists monographs.

Selin Davasse (b. 1992, Ankara) lives and works in Berlin. Her research-based performance practice repurposes disparate literary and performative techniques to engage with ethics and politics from alternative presents and speculative futures. Composed of narrative and sonic textures, her work condenses systems of thought into intimate feminine expressions; and takes shape as spoken-and-sung performances with participatory, playful and parodic layers forming heterogenous hospitable relations with the audience. Her works have been presented at Rokolectiv Festival, Bucharest (2021); “School of Waters” MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino (2021); Volksbühne, Berlin (2020-2021); Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020); “Queer Art, Culture and Politics from Turkey and its Diaspora Symposium” at Goldsmiths College, London (2020); 3hd Festival, Berlin (2018); Schwules Museum, Berlin (2015) among others. She is a member of The Society for Matriarchal World Domination whose collective works are in the collection of Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen von Berlin (2019) and a recipient of the Centrale Fies Live Works 9 fellowship, Trento (2021–2022). She co-organizes GLASSHOUSE — an artist-run virtual platform for hybrid performance.