NOOR INAYAT KHAN

Sandra Chatterjee, choreographer, researcher and co-organizer of the platform CHAKKARs - Moving Interventions, is interested in direct interaction with the audience. It is her artistic concern to include the spectrum of sensual perception as diverse as possible in her work. In addition to her work as an artist, she is a member of the research team of the FWF project Border - Dancing Across Time (P 31958) at the University of Salzburg.

Arko Mukhaerjee, versatile vocalist and musician within the independent Indian folk music scene,  sings folk songs from Europe, the African continent, Latin America and the South Asian subcontinent as well as Sufi, blues, soul and various 'tribal' music forms from India and Bengal. He has performed at major music festivals in Europe, America, Bangladesh and Nepal. He works with Ashram and has his own flexible collective consisting of five renowned musicians from Kolkata. Since 2013 Arko Mukhaerjee has been an integral of the Berlin-based ethno-electronic collaboration Ashram.

Kanishka Sarkar was born in India and is one of the co-founders of Bengali pop-rock band Cactus. He produces music for indie films, advertisements, album productions, and for the Ashram live world electronica project.

Avirup Basu lives in New Delhi and is an experience designer. Since his childhood, he has been loving art and comic books, transferring this preference to his vocation, to design school, and studies in animated film. He grew up in a Bengali family in a multi-language Kolkata quarter (Bhowanipore), making various perspectives integral parts of his work.

Caroline Anne Kapp works as a director and performer on the topics of body and landscape contamination. This is based on literary material as well as on historical events. Her works are being shown at Pinakothek der Moderne, at the Märkisches Museum, at Schauspielhaus Leipzig, and elsewhere. She won the 2020 Körber Studio junge Regie (young directing) jury award for her graduate work MESSY HISTORY LESSONS at the Otto Falckenberg Schule, dealing with the empty gaps in feminist historiography.

Manon Haase conceptualises performative and museum-based artistic formats. As a dramaturge, she worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele and for Mette Ingvartsen’s dance company, Schauspielhaus Zürich, and the Pinakothek der Moderne. Collaborating with Caroline Anne Kapp, she has been developing performances on remembrance and identity politics under the label ‘Unpleasant Affairs’ since MESSY HISTORY LESSONS, most currently ‘Electric Mountain Obersalzberg’ as a performative inspection of the Obersalzberg.

Florian Wulff mainly works in the areas of composition and sound design for theatre, performative installations, films, and audio walks. For Caroline Anne Kapp’s work MESSY HISTORY LESSONS, he developed a composition that refers back to sound spectra of female electronic music pioneers that had supposedly been forgotten. As a sound designer, he is also active for Rimini Protokoll as well as for films by Mushrif Shekh Zeyn and Laura Baalmann.

Desiree Kabis is a freelance artist and designer and joins generative image production, materiality, and narrative quality in her works. Her speculative scenarios deal with topics of cultural and social shifts. The works of her MESSY ARCHIVE GROUP network that recirculates feminist texts were shown at ZKM Karlsruhe, Ohashi Satellite Fukuoka (JP), the Münchner Kammerspiele, and at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, as well as elsewhere.

Romy Vreden studied musical theater and acting. In 2018 she performed in KIDS, a co-production of Toneelgroep Oostpool and Theater Sonnevanck. She was likewise a soloist at the Opera Forward Festival 2018. In 2021, she and her theater collective Johnny come lately, were appointed to the Nieuwkomers at Orkater, a nationally operating Amsterdam company that makes contemporary music theater. In the 2019/2020 season, she was an ensemble member at Schauspielhaus Bochum.