Name: Jari Malta

Nationality: Uruguay

Born: 23/10/1985

Jari Malta (Montevideo, Uruguay) researches about issues like gender, sexuality, race, migration, subcultures, belonging and critical animal studies. His investigations have brought him into different fields, from fictional writing and theory to curatorship or theater.

He holds a BA in Philosophy, a BA in Comparative literature and a MA in Creative Writing. He also took part of the Independent Studies Programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and conformed the research group Critical Genealogies of Sexual Disobedience from the South (National University of La Plata).

He worked in different cultural institutions like the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Spain), MACBA, Fundació Miró (Spain) or Smålands Nation (Sweden). As a result of his collaboration with Marta Echaves he co-curated the exhibition Casa Matriz (Espai Colona and Angels Gallery, Spain) and participated in the publication of Anales Coloniales.

Jari Malta (Montevideo, Uruguay) studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature. He took part of the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA and conformed the research group Critical Genealogies of Sexual Disobedience from the South (National University of La Plata, Argentina) . Combining creative and theoretical writing, his work mainly deals with questions like gender, race and its subcultural expressions.

Jari Malta (Montevideo, Uruguay) es licenciado en filosofía y literatura comparada. Participó en el Programa de Estudios Independientes del MACBA y formó parte del proyecto de investigación Genealogías Críticas de las Desobediencias Sexuales desde el Sur (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina). Combina la escritura literaria con la teoría, prestando especial atención al género, la raza y sus manifestaciones subculturales.

Name: Raúl Hott      

Nationality: Chilean

Born: 1984

Website: http://raulhott.net/

Raúl Hott is an architect, artist and educator that does work about the body. He designs collective experiences for public spaces and natural environments. His projects are communal initiatives and actions that invigorate democratic access to the arts and public life, injecting horizontal participation and vitality. He is an artist whose work spans ephemeral architecture, sound, choreography, writing, graphic design, and numerous other fields. Raúl holds an MFA in New Forms from Pratt Institute.

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Raúl Hott is an architect, artist, and educator that does work about the body, designing collective experiences for public spaces and natural environments. His projects are communal initiatives that invigorate democratic access to the arts and public life, injecting horizontal participation and vitality. He is an artist whose work spans architecture, sound, healing, choreography, writing, graphic design, and numerous other fields.

Raúl holds an MFA in New Forms from Pratt Institute. He has been particularly drawn by pedagogy, teaching in different Art and Architecture Schools since 2007. He is currently based in Athens, Greece, where he participates as a fellow resident of Capacete, a Brazilian experimental education program featured in Documenta 14. To participate in this Residency Program, Raúl was awarded with the Motel Capacete Fellowship from Chile.

Raúl Hott’s work has been featured at the Point Centre for Contemporary Art (Cyprus), Art in Odd Places Festival (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY), Ed. Varie Gallery (NY), Blackburn 20/20 Gallery (NY), Mykonos Biennale (Greece), Espacios Revelados (Chile), NAVE (Chile), and HALLE14 (Germany), among many others

Name: Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki

Nationality: Greek

Born: Athens

Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki (Athens, GR, 1979) earned a bachelor in Fine Art and Education from Athens Schools of Fine Art (2012) and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2015), she participates in CAPACETE Athens (2017), founder of Yellow Brick project (2016). Recent exhibitions include: TAF Foundation “The place in the End” (2017), Art Fair Rotterdam (2017), “Rocks in Stock”(Solo show) at Joey Ramone, NL (2016), “Reframe Memory” at Benaki Museum, Athens, GR (2015); “An island folded as a dry bread” at Upominki, Rotterdam, NL (2015); “Performative Labour-ISM”, Month of performance at ZK/U Centre for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, DE (2014); “Pantone Green and a Glass of Lemonade” in collaboration with Jessica Dunleavy supported by Snehta Residency and funded by British Council EUNIC, at Bhive, Athens, GR (2014). She lives and works in Rotterdam (NL) and Athens (GR.)

Name: Gian Spina

Nationality: Brazilian

Born: 1984

More information: http://gianspina.com

Gian Spina was born in São Paulo (Brazil) and lived, studied and worked besides others in San Diego (USA), Vancouver (Canada), Bordeaux (France), Berlin and Frankfurt (Germany).

From 2003 to 2005 at the Vancouver Film School, from 2005 to 2006 film-theory with Prof. Carlos Augusto Calil at the University of São Paulo and from 2007 to 2008 architecture at the Escola da Cidade.

In 2010 he moved to Germany, where he studied at the Vilem Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts,  later on with Prof. Burghart Schmidt and Prof. Juliane Rebentisch at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach am Main (Germany) he received a scholarship from the Rotary-Club Offenbach am Main in 2011.

He has finished his master thesis oriented by the Philosopher Prof. Fabien Vallos at the École des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux.

In 2015 he started working as a professor at the art department at the Escola da Cidade where he taught for one year. He works part-time with the platform lanchonete.org.

Today he writes, periodically to the to the World Policy Institute and Arts Everywhere. As well as a guest professor at the Art Academy of Palestine, in 2017 take part at art residence program organized by the Dokumenta 14.

Has crossed the Balkans and the Central Asia with a bike, the West Bank, the Himalayas walking and speaks fluently 5 languages.

Name: Nikos Doulos

Nationality: Greek

Born: 1978

Nikos Doulos is an Amsterdam based artist, born and raised in Athens, Greece. He obtained a bachelor degree (BFA) in painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and a Masters (MFA) in public space art from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in the Netherlands.

Doulos’ interest lies on inclusive modes of knowledge production achieved through discursive practices and temporal interventions. In his work, he creates malleable situations/conditions as participatory infrastructures and ‘soft’ knowledge generators. Walking holds a predominant part in his practice.

He is the founder of NIGHTWALKERS – a collectively practiced nocturnal walking project investigating the contemporary identity of the flanêur. NIGHTWALKERS has been performed in the Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, Italy, Hungary and South Korea to name a few.

Doulos predominantly engages on research trajectories under the umbrella of Expodium – an ‘urban do tank’ that utilizes artistic means to address urban challenges and the ever-changing nature of cities.

He has presented collaborative projects at the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), Bildmuseet (Umeå), participated at the Impakt Festival (Utrecht), the Athens Biennale: #4 AGORA and the 53^rd October Salon and has lead workshops for UNIDEE – Cittadelartte Pistoletto Foundation and the University of the Arts, Uniarts Helsinki among others.

He is a co-curator of ‘Unmaking The Netherlands’ program initiated by Expodium and a co-editor of the Unmaking or How To Rethink Urban Narratives publication. He teaches periodically at the University of the Arts, Uniarts in Helsinki. He works collaboratively.

Nikos Doulos’ participation at Capacete-Athens is generously supported by Mondriaan Fonds.

www.expodium.nl

www.unmakingthenetherlands.nl

http://nightwalkersexpodium.tumblr.com/

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Nikos Doulos is an Amsterdam based artist, born and raised in Athens, Greece. He obtained a bachelor degree (BFA) in painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and a Masters (MFA) in public space art from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in the Netherlands.

Doulos’ interest lies on inclusive modes of knowledge production achieved through discursive practices and temporal interventions. In his work, he creates malleable situations/conditions as participatory infrastructures and ‘soft’ knowledge generators. Walking holds a predominant part in his practice.

He is the founder of NIGHTWALKERS – a collectively practiced nocturnal walking project investigating the contemporary identity of the flanêur. NIGHTWALKERS has been performed in the Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, Italy, Hungary and South Korea to name a few.

Doulos predominately engages on research trajectories under the umbrella of Expodium – an ‘urban do tank’ that utilizes artistic means to address urban challenges and the ever-changing nature of cities.

He has presented collaborative projects at the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), Bildmuseet (Umeå), participated at the Impakt Festival (Utrecht), the Athens Biennale: #4 AGORA and the 53^rd October Salon and has lead workshops for UNIDEE – Cittadelartte Pistoletto Foundation and the University of the Arts, Uniarts Helsinki among others.

He is a co-curator of ‘Unmaking The Netherlands’ program initiated by Expodium and a co-editor of the Unmaking or How To Rethink Urban Narratives publication. He teaches periodically at the University of the Arts, Uniarts in Helsinki. He works collaboratively.

Nikos Doulos participation at Capacete-Athens is generously supported by Mondriaan Fonds.

www.expodium.nl

www.unmakingthenetherlands.nl

http://nightwalkersexpodium.tumblr.com/

Name: Jota Mombaça

Nationality: Brazil

Born: 1991

Writer and performance artist

Is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and academically studies on the relations between monstruosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south. Current works are the collaboration with Oficina de Imaginação Política (São Paulo) and the artistic residency along with Capacete’s 2017 at Documenta (Athens/Kassel).

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Jota Mombaça, 1991

Writer, performance artist and researcher

Is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who owns a master degree in Social Sciences by UFRN (BR). At the bachelor degree, s/he had researched the topics of subaltern voice and knowledge, anal studies, negative anthropofagie, de-colonial thinking and cuir aesthetics in a dialogue with the artist Pêdra Costa; and hers master’s project was on the relations between monstruosity and humanity, specially in what concerns the topics of social inexistence, the end of the world as a political demand against normative violence and hers own experience as an impoverished non-binary fat racialized person of brazilian periphery. Besides, s/he is interested in kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south. Current works are the collaboration with Oficina de Imaginação Política (São Paulo) and the artistic residency along with Capacete’s 2017 at Documenta (Athens/Kassel

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Name: Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi

Nationality: Brazil

Born: 19

Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi  Ex-bank clerk , ex-receptionist, ex-employee in telemarketing, ex-assistant to xxx, ex-child carer, ex-dancer, ex-wife, ex-, ex-insurance broker, ex-student. She was expelled from the Universidade Federal da Bahia due to institutional racism. Black, author, performer, she moves interdisciplinarily across the arts.

Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi

http://musamattiuzzi.wix.com/musamattiuzzi

Skype: michelle.mattiuzzi

musamattiuzzi@gmail.com

Name: Gris García

Nationality: Mexico

Born: 1986

Gris García (1986/Monterrey, Mexico).

She is an artist and an independent curator. Her work is centered around contemporary practices and those hybrid productions that emerge from dialogues and correspondences with the other. She studied Visual Arts at the UANL, Mexico. She has exhibited her work in México, Spain, Russia, Colombia and Canada. She has also studied the MA in Artistic Research and Production by the UB thanks to the study grant offered by FONCA CONACULTA. She has also been part of MACBA’s PEI (Independent Study Program) a Master’s program in Museistic studies and critical theory. She has curated projects such as Balmes 88 for a3bandas and Las condiciones posibles and amongst her most recent Casa entera. She was curator-in-residence at Lugar a dudas September-2014/ March-2015  and professor in curatorial and critical studies at ITM University in Medellin, Colombia. Currently is part of TuerCo. a multidisciplinary team who gives technological advisory for artistic projects.

Name: Sol Prado

Nationality: Argentinia

Birthdate: 1985

They artwork and research is focus on create fictions (writing, performance, installations, workshops) through the use of ironic and parody procedures to dismantle, by intensification method, the perverse structure of the neoliberal paradigm.

It considers that the re-actualization of fascism´s mechanisms is expressed by means of a fine and cosmetic artillery of domestication whose final objective is the privatization of the common forces and thinking.

Sol Prado. Artist, independent researcher and performer.

Currently working in Capacete – Documenta 14 art and politics program, Athens – Kassel.

Studied at the Independent Program Studies in Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), directed by Paul B. Preciado. Her works of art and collective research have focused on create fictions (writing, performance, installations, workshops) through the use of ironic and parody procedures to dismantle, by intensification method, the perverse structure of the neoliberal paradigm.

She considers that the re-actualization of fascism´s mechanisms is expressed by means of a fine and cosmetic artillery of domestication whose final objective is the privatization of the common forces and thinking.