Aura Arreola is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer and performer from Mexico City. She specializes in collaborative experimentation, butoh and site-specific performances in dialogue with sound art, visual arts, music and experimental film; as well as with cognitive sciences, relational ontologies, environmental humanities and the activism of the erotic. Her embodied sound work derives from gestural motion with different materialities and its resonances in specific places. She has studied with Butoh masters in Japan and Mexico since 2008. She is an MFA candidate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pursuing her arts research Radical Intimacies—a project proposing embodied and affective collaborations between human and more-than-human worlds. Aura has performed in Japan, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, United States and Mexico.

Julia is a Berlin based multimedia artist, eco-somatic practioneer,
and performer, sculptor, environmentalist and activist,
the co-curator and founder of CADAVRE EXQUIS and a
passionated Jungian.

the daughter of a forester she feels a
strong connection to nature and the living matter around her,
as well as her body in space.
As a degreed environmentalist and forester she finds expression of
this connection through her engagment in activist and community
groups. In rituals and ritualized artworks and symbolic scultpures she
creates connection to the collective archetypes and the
more-than-human world.
Being an active member in the post-growth movement, the
co-author of
„Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum!?“ -critically analyzing the growth
paradigma- she became an active member of diverse non-profit projects, teaching and discussing issues around the
nature culture dychotomy, waste and the limits of growth,
materialism and community knowledge.
She won prizes for her sculptures and lately exhibited at Funkhaus
Berlin.
Currently she is engaged and passionate in various research
studies and collaborations about the post-natural, post-growth,
dark ecology, queer and spiritual ecologies, eco-feminism, animism and
animalism with the aim to rewild and revive our
collective mythology. She can’t wait to adopt two donkeys with her partner and funding a regreening community project in Andalusia spain. The rest of the world yet to come. Into Earth. Into our Bodies. Into Community.

Nomin Zezegmaa is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and writer working between The Netherlands, Mongolia and Germany.

Her theory and practice investigate and interweave histories and matter in relation to deep time and other-than-human realms drawing from Mongol cosmogony.

She operates as a mediator between states of being by exploring the innate and inter-connected nature, reality and soul of matter through a shamanic
gaze.

This finds expression through sculpture, painting, drawing, calligraphy, land art and site-specific installations which invoke an intangible bodily cognition. Through the dynamics of tactility, form and movement, visual as well as conceptual spheres are created and layered.

The interrelation of the microcosm and macrocosm are inherent indicators of the investigative processes,
wherein semiotics, alchemy, environmentalism, the Chthulucene, language and writing intersect and
inform each other. The deep-seated undercurrent of her work is concerned with what other ways of
worlding can be rendered possible for tellurian multispecies coexistence.

Rostøm is a Dortmund-born and based producer and DJ. Starting with music production in the mid 2000s, travelling throught several electronic music genres, Rostom found himself most comfortable in the techno scene.
As producer, Rostom strives to create unique and innovative sounds, often drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including other genres of music, as well as sounds from nature and technology. The result is a diverse and constantly evolving genre of music that continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with technology and sound.
Rostom started in 2022 and has already released the debut EP Color Patterns on Basislager in late summer which was well supposted in the scene. The musical style can be discribed as groovy, dreamy and sometimes disturbing. Already made his debut in Tresor.West in November. known for the ability to blend avant-garde and experimental elements with more traditional electronic music sounds, creating a sound that is both disruptive and soothing. Rostom has a strong sense of history and tradition in the electronic music scene, and is dedicated to staying true to the roots of the genre while pushing it forward with new and exciting ideas. R is considered to be a talented and genuine artist, with a raw talent that sets him apart from others in the scene, what can be seen on his new label, run by Rostom and his partner in crime Element5.

Ece Manav is a Communication Designer and Artistic Director with a performing arts background, based in Berlin and Istanbul, and the co-curator of CADAVRE EXQUIS. She investigates ways of storytelling through arts, culture, materials, and gathering people in social contexts.

Ece seeks for elements of experiment, culture and nature, movement, multidisciplinary approach and sources of collectivity in her works and surroundings. She is a child of nature and formerly trained herself in water justice, and currently upcycling.

She is also the co-founder of FREYAalt, the art collective focusing on co-creating with emerging artists & the alternative space that is currently located in Istanbul, and soon to be a traveling project; as a host, as a guest, and as an audience.

Believes in the magic and power of all forms of communication, her passion is traveling and knitting connections through; by transforming the inspirations, emotions and happenings comes along the way and implementing those in her living spaces.
And she dances.

Yasemin Vollmond is a Spiritual Creative. She is an Experience Designer, Human Design Reader, Yoga – and Breathwork teacher, an intuitive Sound Alchemist, Podcaster and Musician facilitating between Berlin and Turkey. Since early childhood, Yasemin has a close relationship to Death and made the graveyard her place of peace. Together with Asa she is now exploring grief through layering sonic vibration with soothing tones, textural sounds and voice.

Sofia Bergmann is a photographer and journalist. Her artistic collages represent both her intrinsic curiosity, criticism and questioning of the things she sees through her training as a journalist, together with a photographic inclination. Her digital photographic collages in CADAVRE EXQUIS are derived from photojournalistic methods used while traveling and working in Argentina. Both her journalism and photojournalism often deals with topics surrounding cross-cultural connections, social issues and the environment.

Why do we visit places when we are complicit in their destruction?
Confronted with humans’ ability to unapologetically saturate our environments, the series of photographic digital collages is an exposé on human’s responsibility in the decaying of the ecosystems we depend on. Showing a progression of cavalier invasion and exploitation for leisure and consumption, Sofia Bergmann puts into question the permission humans give themselves to saturate the non-human world.

Playing with her photos from Argentina including indigenous communities facing increased tourism in the northern provinces, the crowded beaches of Mar del Plata, the Perito Moreno glacier and threatened King Penguins in Patagonia, her collages are self-critical surrealistic representations of our unhinged role in the world and the irony of tourism.

Joaquim Bezerra is a versatile and experienced creative professional with over 25 years of
involvement in various artistic disciplines, design, and project management. Born in 1982 in
northern Paraná, Brazil, Joaquim embarked on his artistic journey at the age of 13, immersing
himself in the world of visual and philosophical arts.
Drawing inspiration from visual arts, performance dance, and contemporary theatre, Joaquim
creates captivating dialogues through his research and artistic productions. As a multimedia artist,
he has excelled as an actor, character designer, costume and set designer, and performer.
Joaquim’s artistic education began at the School of Drama Arts in Londrina, Brazil, where he
studied dance, music, and acting. His passion for fostering cultural folk art led him to join the
Scenic Arts Foundation of Ibiporã-Paraná as a coordinator, where he directed and developed
various creative projects and managed theatre business operations.
Afterward, Joaquim moved to São Paulo, working with the VUHA theatre group at Casa das
Caldeiras-SP Capital. Under the mentorship of teachers from ECA-USP University of São Paulo,
he expanded his skills and explored new artistic languages, including the realm of audiovisual
productions.
Continuing his artistic journey, Joaquim relocated to Barcelona, assuming the role of an art
director for films. Eventually, he found a new home in Berlin, where he has contributed his artistic
and creative services to numerous film productions. Alongside his artistic endeavours, Joaquim
has been working as a guest liaison for the Panorama section of the Berlinale Film Festival since
2020, facilitating connections and supporting the festival’s operations.
His exploration of body-performance, infused with his life experiences and insights from diverse
cultures, led him to collaborate with the OBJECTIVE SPECTACLE group. Their second production
received an invitation to perform at MARTIN GROPIUS BAU-Berlin. Further enriching his scenic
performance expertise, Joaquim engaged in the CROSS POLLINATION process with ODIN
TEATRE-Holstebro and participated in the London platform, Intercultural Roots.
Joaquim’s solo performance, DNA.da, represents the culmination of his artistic and life journey,
delving into societal, scientific, and political themes within the context of the body. Currently, he is
deeply involved in researching rituals and performances, merging the language of Afro-Brazilian
religious culture, Butoh, and contemporary dance. Concurrently, he recently completed hissecond production with Netflix and has also taken on a small role in the series “Concordia,”currently being filmed in Berlin.

Together Howard Ryan (Hauras) and Margot Lystra (unruly earths) craft new sensory touchstones for a collapsing world.

Our works
… manifest sonic, material, and sensory flows
… explore thresholds between dissolution and emergent form
… embody our captivation with what it is to make amidst undoing

In resonance with this exhibition, we collaborate in order to acknowledge, reckon, prepare, and act: that living within collapse might involve, not only loss and struggle, but vivid connection, new visions, and collective growth.

Together Howard Ryan (Hauras) and Margot Lystra (unruly earths) craft new sensory touchstones for a collapsing world.

Our works
… manifest sonic, material, and sensory flows
… explore thresholds between dissolution and emergent form
… embody our captivation with what it is to make amidst undoing

In resonance with this exhibition, we collaborate in order to acknowledge, reckon, prepare, and act: that living within collapse might involve, not only loss and struggle, but vivid connection, new visions, and collective growth.

Exocé is a multidisciplinary Afrocentric Artist: Artistic performer, dancer, model, visual artist and artistic director. He mostly performs alone in improvisation and creation of stories or in the transmission of a language for other creators. His dance style is experimental storytelling.
He considers himself as an Afropean because he was born in 1995 in Paris of Congolese parents, so he has a double culture.
Marked by a story between two worlds, Exocé grows up in a very humble environment and understands very early on that through Art he can break all barriers and reach the sensitivity of the people around him. Thanks to his years of experience, Exocé confirms himself as a dancer (Krump / Hip-hop) with Afro/Contemporary influences and starts to develop his own body language. His dance is mostly based on improvisation, expressing the true self in the present moment. He is also a visual artist and has started a series of afrofuturistic/afro cosmic/ afropunk analog collages that then gave birth to a fashion brand KASAPIO.
He has collaborated with many artists like Patrice, Swift Guad, Katerinha, Sevdaliza or Stéphane Ashpool. His artistic universe is Afrocentric, a return to the African roots linking ancestrality and modernity within the diaspora.

Asa Maynard is a Berlin-based double bassist from the United States. He has performed as a soloist and with ensembles throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and Moritzburg Festival in Germany. He studied at The Juilliard School and Yale University and brings a keen intellectual lens to his creative projects. Asa is particularly interested in the subjects of psychology, spirituality, perception, and time/space.

Bruno Rocha is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of moving image, music and visual arts. His practice has a strong focus on video and postproduction and has a special interest in colour grading. His projects are underpinned by his interest in ethnography, intersectionality and cultures, with an interest in embodiment and performing arts. Bruno has collaborated on different theatre projects creating music and soundscapes.

Lara’s work explores through multi-mediums how in-between spaces can become refuge in a world whereby  bodies are increasingly seeking shelter. This research acknowledges the importance of a non-naive  symbiosis for future multi-species survival. How can we tell stories through bacterial and ancient  knowledge? How can we collage a biography that recognises all of the bodies that construct ‘us’? Spiritual, microbial, vegetal, animal, geological, ancestral, digital, hybrid, social. 

More-than-ever our practices must carve space for seemingly sentient bodies amongst the noise of the  strictly human. Lara’s research explores camera-less photography, micro-capturing, sound recording,  performance and sculpture as mediums to draw attention to the invisible forces that co-exist around us.

Emily Colipí (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist working across the fields of sculpture, video and performance. Colipí’s work approaches themes of language and anthropology, migration and materiality.

The natural world and raw materials are at the core of the practice. Colipí looks to question our role in retaining cultures through re-establishing a connection with the land, exploring the relationship between person and object, through the interception of body.

With a particular emphasis on place, ancient traditions and indigenous teachings are explored through physical acts on the land in a bid to find a lost connection.

Educator, creator. In her current practice, (she/hannah) explores themes of freedom of movement in public spaces, democratizing information exchange, and inter-generational education models.

She prefers to work with audio as a medium and is the co-founder of Community Sound Lab, a workshop series for young learners.

Sophie Spiral (they/them) is a dance artist and researcher currently writing a PhD at the Free University Berlin on the role of dance in navigating the climate crisis. They have been leading workshops on the topic of embodied climate justice via the InterPlay method since 2016 after participating in the InterPlay Arts & Social Change for Emerging Leaders program in Oakland, California. Sophie experiences dance as a guide to learn about the entanglement of life, to feel how change and transformation are possibilities of every moment, and that to care for the earth we must also learn to radically care for ourselves.

www.sophiespiral.com