Giulia Essyad’s research revolves around representations of the human body, employing video, photography, sculpture, poetry, and performance as her mediums. Her works utilize her own body as raw material, delving into the various forms of alienation inherent to the production and consumption of body imagery. In her ongoing cycle BLUE PERIOD, she employs the color blue as a lens to explore the visual lexicons of alterity, ranging from the blue liquid replacing blood in menstrual product advertisements to the erotic fixation on the fictional character Violet Beauregarde, famously associated with “blueberry inflation”. In her more recent works, presented as part of the cycle ROSE PERIOD, Essyad explores representations of the sensory: those elements which, within the body, remain invisible. Pain, pleasure, emotions, and thoughts find their way to the surface through intricate references to medical, spiritual, and pornographic media.

Choreographer and dancer Emma Saba has worked with Collettivo Cinetico, Clara Delorme, Cosima Grand, and Marie Jeger. In 2022, she created her first solo, la fine di tutte le cose / l’inizio di tutte le altre, co-produced by Emergentia. She is a member of Collectif Foulles, co-creating Medieval Crack (2022) and Le cerveau mou de l’existence (2024). A graduate in contemporary dance from Manufacture – Lausanne (2021), she combines dance, singing, and self-hypnosis to revisit her classical musical heritage. Supported by Reseau Grand-Luxe and (ac)compagnons in 2024-2025, her next work premieres at Pavillon ADC in 2025-2026.

Diana Policarpo is a visual artist and composer working with drawing, video, sculpture, text, performance, and multi-channel sound installations. Her work explores gender politics, economic structures, health, and interspecies relations through speculative research, creating performances and installations on vulnerability and empowerment in the capitalist world. She has exhibited globally, with recent solo shows at Manifesta 15 (Barcelona), McaM Shanghai, Kunsthal Aarhus, Helsinki Biennial, and Whitechapel Gallery (London). Winner of the Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP 2019 and illy Present Future Prize 2021.

Sultan Çoban works at the intersection of the visual and performing arts. Her practice is characterized by a formally self-conscious exploration of space, time, and sound and engages in the question of how cultural identity is staged and performed. In most of her works, she draws on elements from specific cultural contexts to represent and recreate a certain period in time. She examines the translation and transferability of emotions between different linguistic and social contexts as well as performed identity. Sultan wears a lot of faces but rarely her own.

Bunny Dakota is half of the visual and performance art duo Industria Indipendente, a performer and resident creator/DJ of the happening Merende, one of the most popular and ever-evolving queer parties in Italy. Her approach to music is akin to writing: known for her long sets, she blends sound archives and high-intensity beats, collaborating artistically with vocalists and sound artists. In 2020, she co-founded Radio India with a group of artists from the Italian performance scene, where she curates various music programs. Together with Steve Pepe and Yva & Toy George, she released the album Taiga (2021) through NERO Klub. In her sets and creations, she experiments with long sonic journeys, shaking the dancefloor like a moving superorganism, bringing to life fictional worlds made of the South, electricity, romance, high tides, and fragmented sensuality.