Goda Palekaitė is an artist, writer, researcher and curator working in the intersection of contemporary art,performance, artistic research, literature, and anthropology. Her practice evolves around projects exploring the politics of historical narratives, the agency of dreams and fiction, and alternative discourses of knowledge. In the last decade she presented installations, films and performances in solo and group shows in various venues in Europe and beyond. Since 2024 she is the curator of the Alternative Education Program at Rupert, Vilnius. She is an author of three books as well as various essays and experimental texts. Goda Palekaitė holds a BFA in fine arts, MA in social and cultural anthropology, Post-Master in artistic research, and Ph.D. in visual arts.

Dariia (Dasha) Chechushkova graduated from the Grekov Odesa Art College (2014–18) and studied art theory at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv (2018–23). Following the war of aggression against Ukraine, she was forced to move to Lyiv. In her artistic practice, she deals with the transformation of ideas and concepts into new forms and creates “total installations” inspired by her diary notebook featuring drawings of modern folklore. In addition, she works in a number of media, including photography, video, drawing, painting, poetry, embroidery, and happenings. Her works often deal with the ways in which individuals interact with their environment and how this “harmony” changes with their (life) circumstances. Her current interests focus on memory, monuments, mimesis, and the meaning of tradition. She lives in Odesa and Lyiv, Ukraine.

Clara Herrmann has been the head of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, the international and interdisciplinary residency program of the Academy of Arts since 2019. The program hosts studios in the Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano and at the Academy in Berlin. From 2013 to 2018, she was head of the Digital Solitude program at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She has developed numorous fellowship programmes of all disciplines for the diverse residency places such as the project Mensch Maschine. She studied literature, law, and cultural management in Konstanz, Berlin, London, and Frankfurt (Oder). She is a member of the Advisory Board for Artistic Research of the GKFD and co-spokesperson for the Working Group of German International Residency Programs (ADIR). She is co-editor of the publications Der digitale Kulturbetrieb (2019), The AI Anarchies Book (2024), and Im Schlangenhain – Nella Serpentara (2024), and most recently curated the exhibitions Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings (2023) and The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within (with Tomke Braun, 2024). Herrmann lives and works in Berlin.