Kirstin Burckhardt (b. in South Africa) is a visual artist and clinical psychologist combining video and performance with sound and spoken word. Critically drawing upon her training in psychology and neuroscience, her practice addresses power dynamics intertwined with the body. Continuously questioning what defines a body, her artistic research focuses on interpersonal space as a locus of sensitivity, conflict, empathy, transgenerational trauma, and the complexities of healing.

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Mario Asef is an architect and conceptual artist based in Berlin. His projects address both ecological and socio-political issues and confront questions related to their spatial and linguistic representability. His works are divided into three methodological categories: the field of language as a structurer of physical space, the field of history and writing about history as a construction of mediated reality from a post-colonial point of view, and the scientific field of transdisciplinary enquiry and exchange. He is co-editor of "Akusmatik als Labor: Kultur-Kunst-Medien." He cooperates with Amarodrom e.V. an intercultural youth self-organization of Rom*nja and non-Rom*nja and is chairman of Errant Sound e.V. a project space for sound art in Berlin and is co-director of Dystopie Sound Art Festival.