Sarah Amsler is a queer white eco-social researcher, writer, poet, educator, editor, relational practitioner and land steward in training. Their work focuses on how binary, hierarchical and extractivist ways of knowing and being shapeour minds, bodies and relationships and what it takes to undo them. As a researcher, they study how modern modes of relating separate us from the land, each other, our nonhuman relations and metabolic life itself, and how we care for collective health in this condition. As an educator, they work with ontological and affective pedagogies that loosen the grip of the normalized ways we sense, make sense, communicate, bear bodies, organize living and dying together, grieve, love and go on. As a writer, they apprentice with spiritual-political artistries of language and poetry that try to constellate realities pried apart, provide portals to different scales of queer existence, stimulate the senses to widen and synthesize, and transmute dehydrated meaning into more erotic flow. As a relational practitioner, they see de-institutionalizing (re-rooting and re-routing) desire, multiplying intimacies, queering commitment and fortifying human and more-than-human relational ecologies as essential for liveable futures and as art-life practices of cosmological care. Find them online at https://sarahamsler.com and @ssamsler on Instagram.

Dani Bershan is an artist and independent researcher working on relational structures and the politics of intimacy on the intersection of visual and performing art and ecology. Through her work – ranging from sculptures and performance to social practices and sound – she propose relational gyms: spaces of encounter where complexity can be held - systems and practices where self-composting and intimacy can be rehearsed as ways to deepen and widen our relational literacies and rehearse connection;

#rehearseconnection 

Dani co-founded and directed FATFORM (NL), and is co-founder and co-organiser of ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE at Performing Arts Forum (FR). Her work and collaborations have been presented at ao. 29th Sao Paulo Biennale (BR), De Appel Arts Centre (NL), Centre Pompidou Kanal (BE), Berliner Festspiele /MaerzMusik (DE), KunstenfestivaldesArts (BE), Berlin Art Week (DE), W139 (NL), Portikus (DE), NAS Gallery Sydney (AU), Capacete (BR), Paradiso (NL), Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival (NO), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SE), Le CentQuatre (FR), CentroCentro (ES), Tempo Festival (BR) and Triennale Luxembourg (LUX)

Dani d’Emilia (they/them) is a queer-non-binary-white-italo-brazilian artist and educator working in the intersections of performance & visual arts, somatic practices, radical pedagogy, and social-relational-ecological justice. Their art-life practice is guided by a yearning for ‘metabolic intimacy’, a sense of responsible attunement with the web of inseparability that connects all relations, human and beyond. Guided by the force of Radical Tenderness, and grounded in transfeminist and decolonial sensibilities, Dani is especially interested in political practices of healing that intertwine artistic, somatic, affective, ecological and spiritual spheres. Dani has been part of the collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (CA/BR) since 2017 and is a co-founder of the immersive theatre company Living Structures (UK) and the art space Roundabout.lx (PT). They were previously a member of the collectives La Pocha Nostra (US/MX, 2011-16) and Proyecto Inmiscuir (ES/MX, 2015-17), and a collaborator of AND Lab Centre for Research in Art-Thinking & Politics of Coexistence (PT/BR, 2018-21). Dani is currently developing a research project entitled Abscission, in collaboration with Brazilian trans photographer Gabz404, in which they explore queer deviations from anthropocentric ideas of individuality and superiority as portals to activate a broad reflection on what we need to intimately and systemically leave behind in order to make room for other forms of coexistence and metabolic reciprocity to inhabit us. Dani is also a facilitator of the course Facing Human Wrongs course hosted by the University of Victoria (CA), and coordinates residency programmes focusing on the role of the arts in helping to nurture cognitive, affective and relational resilience as we face ever-widening social and ecological collapses. www.danidemilia.com

Irena Radmanovic is a Brussels based multidisciplinary artist and worker. She specialises in accumulation of experiences, most of which can hardly be included in a regular CV. Feeling the wonder in all things, she is interested in the transforming potential of objects and materials, through many collectives and constellations she is part of she found the way to apply this research also to the human sphere. Learning together and through the other, cherishing change as a value and not as a threat, experiencing new love relationships with the world, human and non human. She recently focuses on exploring all sorts of non-verbal languages, mostly focusing on sound and energetic travel. She is currently following a three year formation in Chinese Medicine.

Red Vaughan Tremmel's work explores spaces of play and pleasure, as historically significant sites of social struggle where people negotiate complex constellations of power.  He is particularly interested in the erotics of play and its relationship to intimacy, alternative and oppositional knowledge production, re/membering, and politics. He is a historian and professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Chicago, a co-facilitator of Elsewhere and Otherwise at the Performing Arts Forum, the director and co-producer of the documentary film Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival (2012), and co-creator of Subjects of Desire: Objects of Resistance, a multimedia installation commissioned for dOCUMENTA(13). He is a past fellow of the Social Science Research Council; Tulane University's Newcomb Institute; Columbia College’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Program; the University of Chicago’s Center for Gender Studies Program; and the James Hormel Sexuality Program.