Participants

Abduljabbar Alsuhili (Alumnus Atelier Gothenburg 2018) is a young Yemeni cultural activist. He is the representative director of the art critics group “Rawbit Cultural and Media Foundation” and a ICORN artist in Helsingborg, Sweden, as well as the co-founder ECHO organization that aims to advance educational and cultural empowerment for the Yemeni youth in and outside of Yemen.

Filia Milidaki (Alumna Atelier NEXT 2019) is Filia Milidaki is a psychologist, senior market researcher, dancer, founder of Social Cooperative Enterprise “Cinesthesia”. Her curatorial experience started in 2014 with Eye’s Walk Digital Festival, at the island of Syros. Eye’s Walk Digital festival is an innovative festival that connects the unique architectural legacy of a city, the public space and the local community through Video installation, Digital technologies and Performing arts.

Leila Ahmadi Abadeh (Artist in Residency) is an interdisciplinary artist, theater maker, and writer with a BA in Puppet Theatre (2018) and Cinema diploma from the Iranian Youth Cinema Society (2016). As a playwright, their notable projects include "They Live in Us", "Anyway, I Failed", and "The Womb House".

Nadeem Mazen (Artist in Residency) is a visual artist and Exhibition curator From Jerusalem, graduated of contemporary visual arts, Birzeit University, Works/volunteers at Yabous cultural centre, Jerusalem since 2007. Nadeem's work explores various societal and local questions, deeply rooted in his experience as a Palestinian living in Jerusalem.

Patricia Habchy (Artist in Residency) is a Lebanese artist. After graduating in Performing arts from the USJ university of Beirut, she travelled to Europe to make a master degree in contemporary playwriting, but soon realised that she needed more than one front door to give shape to her thinking. Since her first inquiry, she experienced clowning, storytelling, pedagogical projects, collective creations, physical theatre, writing, circus dramaturgy, outdoor and street presentation.

Tuba Emiroğlu (Artist in Residency) is a researcher working in the field of anthropology of body and movement, senses and landscape. Since 2016, she has been exploring the body with the Axis Syllabus technique and continues her creations in this field through national and international dance meetings and performances. With an academic background in sociology and political science, Tuba deepens her work on body and movement through intersections with posthuman theories and landscape anthropology.