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Luara Raio

(they/she), born in 1990 in Brasilia, is a performer, dancer, choreographer, and singer of funk sapatão. Raio studied performing arts at the University of Brasilia, at Forum Dança in Portugal, and in the Master Exerce programme in France. Their work is rooted in a queer, anticolonial perspective that seeks to activate incantations and fractures in hegemonic representations of gender, race, and the body. luararaio.com

Iris Omari Ansong

(she/none) is a dancer, performer and dance facilitator based in Vienna. Her work revolves around themes of decoloniality, pleasure and vulnerability. Omari Ansong engages in contemporary performance practices while acknowledging and questioning her perspective as a black, queer, non-disabled artist. Recent collaborations include BUNX – dripping in jelly of the black atlantic (Wienwoche –Festival for Art and Activism, 2024), The Last Feminist (brut, 2024), and Silent Lovers (ImPulsTanz, 2024).

Isabelle Edi

(she/her) is a costume designer, artist and curator, circling around Black (diasporic) existences and their echoes – through costumes, sound and (moving) images. She has collaborated with Mariama Sow, Kim Sanou, Marga Alfeirão, David Uzochukwu, Mzamo Nondlwana, Elvan Tekin, kiana rezvani, and Veza Fernandez, a. o. Her practice is an artistically and scientifically expanded concept of costume and sound, incorporating topics of representation, nostalgia and futuristic ideas. Mixing up concepts of time, historical elements get interwoven with her own futuristic, playful aesthetics.

Lazy Life

(2017–2023) was a collectively organised, consumption-free space dedicated to queer-feminist art, culture and self-chosen forms of representation. It was created by Magdalena Fischer, Thomas Trabisch and Matthias Julian a. o. Under this name, they explored different modes and articulations of collaboration.