Lotte Andersen (b. 1989, United Kingdom) lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. Through sculpture, collage, installation, sound, performance and video she investigates group dynamics, movement, and its properties. Reflecting on feelings of fragmentation as well as the power inherent in many pieces composing a nuanced whole, she reimagines games and hierarchies. Who will work together? Who will complete the riddle first? Who will decide to abandon the rules? Andersen ́s work has been shown internationally, recent group exhibitions include; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2022) ; La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2022) ; The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019) ; Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul (2019); Tate Lates at Tate Modern, London (2018).

Cecilia Bengolea (b. 1979, Argentina) lives and works between Paris and Buenos Aires. She works on a range of media, including performance, video and sculpture. Using dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Infused with the symbolic energies found within nature and relationships, her compositions are formed around ideas of the body–both individually and collectively – as a medium. Bengolea develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture. Bengolea presented her work at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2021 and 2022); Bourse de Commerce, Collection Pinault, Paris (2021), E.A.T – Engadin Art Talks, Switzerland (2019); Desert X, Palm Springs (2019); Fondation Giacometti, Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018, 2015); Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli (2018); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); TBA21–Academy, Venice (2018); Dia:Beacon, New York (2017); Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland (2017); Spiral Hall, Tokyo (2016); 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016); Hayward Gallery, London (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016, 2010); 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); Tate Modern, London (2015); ICA, London (2015) and 10th Gwangju Biennial (2014), amongst other venues.

Meriem Bennani  (b. 1988, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high-production aesthetics, she explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humour. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies. Bennani’s work has been shown at the Whitney Biennale, MoMA PS1, Art Dubai, The Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Public Art Fund, CLEARING and The Kitchen in New York. Her animated series, 2 Lizards, a collaboration with director Orian Barki, premiered on Instagram during Spring 2020 and was described by The New York Times as “hypnotic…deploying a blend of documentary structure and animation surrealism…both poignantly grounded in actual events and also soothingly fantastical” and its animated protagonists “art stars.” (Jon Caramanica, April 2020).

La Bruja De Texcoco (b. Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. La Bruja is a music and performance project born out of a rejection of masculinity in Mexican music. La Bruja takes traditional Mexican music down a feminine path, into a fabulous world full of extravagance, sequins, masks and huipiles. Presentations and Collaborations: MUAC-UNAM, UACM, National Museum of Popular Cultures, Carrillo Gil Art Museum. Museum of Contemporary Art “Rufino Tamayo”. Theatre of the City “Esperanza Iris”, FIDS (International Festival of Sexual Diversity) CHOPO University Museum accompanied by the INJUVE Orchestra. Festival BAHIDORÁ 2016 AND 2019. House of Lake UNAM. ZÓCALO of Mexico City during the 41st Anniversary of the march for LGBTIQ+ rights 2019. Musical production in the staging of “La Llorona, inheritance of the past, heritage forever”, at the port of Cuemanco, Xochimilco. Violin II of the ITUARTE string quartet of Mexican music. La Bruja has worked with the traditional music group LOS ARRIEROS, transcribing and playing traditional Mexican music, performing in coun- tries such as Peru, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Taiwan.

Alberto Bustamante aka Mexican Jihad (b. Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. He is an architect, cultural promoter, activist and DJ from Oaxaca. He is Creative Director for electronic music label NAAFI, the queer production company TRAICIÓN, the homosocial club CARNE and the brand Psicodelia Mexicana. He has hosted shows on VICE, Onda Mundial, and Redbull Radio. Published in i-D Magazine, Vice, Domus and Junk Jet. He has worked on projects for the Centro de Cultura Digital, kurimanzutto, SOMA, Museo Jumex, LABOR, Fundación Alumnos 47, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Archivo y Material Art Fair. His work as Art Director has been exhibited by the Design Museum in London, Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes in CDMX and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. As a DJ he has performed in forums such as Mutek Montreal, Festival Ceremonia, Lollapalooza, Novas Frequências, Unsound Festival, CTM Festival, WHOLE and clubs such as Berghain in Berlin, Cakeshop in Seoul and Razzmatazz in Barcelona. He is currently developing a podcast for Spotify Mexico and consulting for the creative and entertainment industries.

Chicloso (b. Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. Chicloso is the current project of Fernando Diaz de la Vega Sanchez, a singer and producer from Mexico City. Chicloso was initiated in 2018, with a focus on club music tracks and the production of urban genre beats. At the end of 2020, Chicloso reintroduced the voice and incorporated it into his productions. He is working on an EP to be released in the second half of the year. With his different projects, Chicloso has performed in clubs, festivals, and art institutions in Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and Europe.

Ian Duclos (b. 1995, Peru) is a musician and interdisciplinary artist living and working between Lima, Peru, and Porto, Portugal. His practice is based on experimentation and improvisation through the use of digital technologies, often involving chance operations, remix practices and computer-human co-creation. He has performed and exhibited internationally, collaborating with a diverse range of artists and institutions.

Pablo Flores a.k.a. Monkey Junkie Funky (b. Mexico) lives and works in Xalapa. He is a music producer, DJ and audio engineer. He is the co-founder of the collective Fungi Traxx, an educational platform that offers residencies, events, and workshops to spread club culture. He began his music career in 2015 with releases with Futurable, T.A.U. DNTFCK, Ineffable, N.A.A.F.F.I., and JukeMX. He currently has original and experimental EP’s and different mixtapes for national and international radio shows, including RinseFM, Aire Libre and Radio Nopal. Monkey Junkie Funky’s style covers a wide spectrum of musical genres ranging from dembow, cumbia and afrobeat to bass, kuduro, hard drum, and club generating a convergence of syncopated rhythms, dissonant melodies, and powerful bass.

Mabe Fratti (b. Guatemala) lives and works in Mexico City. She is a composer, cellist, and experimental musician., whose recent albums include Se Ve Desde Aquí (2022) and Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos? (2021). She is interested in experimentation with sound, with sensations, with existence itself to be touched by what one lives and listens to. Through this approach, she frequently collaborates with other musicians, such as Hector Tosta. She has presented in events such as REWIRE Festival, Donau Festival, NRMAL Festival, Festival Umbral, and in spaces such as CENART, Cafe OTO, Botanique Bruselas, amongst others in Guatemala, Mexico, the United States, and Europe.

Naomi Rincón Gallardo (b. 1979) lives and works between Oaxaca and Mexico City. Through an experimental and transdisciplinary methodology, she creates films, drawings, sculptural props, performances and video installations that interweave multiple fields of study, including Mesoamerican cosmologies, queer theory, critical pedagogy, and Latin American decolonial feminisms. Her works have been shown in exhibitions and screenings including the 59th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2022); 34th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); 11th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2020); amongst others.

Santiago Gómez (b. 1992, Colombia) lives and works in Mexico City. He works across video, installation, sculptures and texts  to point out existing realities and to empower new worlds to come. In his work he proposes speculative strategies such as science fiction to explore the relationship between global systems, mythological reserves, and non-human entities, etc. He has exhibited widely, at venues such as Space52, Athens; Museo de la Memoria Histórica Universitaria. Puebla; 4th Festival of Art and Technology, Chile; Universidad Autónoma De Hidalgo. México; Fundación Casa Wabi, Studio Croma, Fería de la Acción, Parque Galeria, Seminario de Cultura Mexicano, all Mexico City, etc.

Agata Ingarden (b. 1994, Poland) lives and works in Paris. Her practice revolves around investigations in the fields of humanities, science fiction and mythical narratives. She works with multiple mediums, including installation, sculpture and video. She has exhibited in institutions and galleries in Europe and the United States, including CAPC Bordeaux (2022), Pinchuk ArtCentre, Kiev (2021) Kunstlerhaus in Vienna (2020), Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2020), Parc Saint-Leger (2020), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Mo.Co Montpellier Contemporain (2019) and the Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau, (Paris 2019). She was awarded a Special Prize by the Future Generation Art Prize 6th edition (2021).

Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, USA) is an artist and filmmaker. Jafa’s films have garnered acclaim at the Los Angeles, New York and Black Star Film Festivals, and his artwork is represented in celebrated collections worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The High Museum Atlanta, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Stedelijk, Luma Foundation, The Perez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions of Jafa’s work include presentations at Luma Arles, France; Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland; OGR Torino, Italy; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. In 2019, he received the Golden Lion for the Best Participant of the 58th Venice Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times.”

Naima Karlsson (b. 1982, Sweden) is an artist and musician based in London. Her practice incorporates photography, drawing, text, and music composition–led by interests in repetition, improvisation, and the abstract relationships between language/image/symbol/sound. Her main instrument is the piano, in addition to organ, keyboard, synth, and percussion. Naima is also an archivist and coordinator for the art and music of her grandparents, Moki and Don Cherry. She has performed at venues such as Blank Forms, Brooklyn, US; Barbican Centre, London, UK; Casa del Lago, CDMX, Mexico; Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France.

Kebra (b. 1990, Brazil) lives and works in Mexico City. She is a DJ, visual artist, interdisciplinary dancer, cultural activist, and researcher. Since 2015, she has focused on Deculonización, a dissident and practical platform that activates memory through the activation of the hips. Visualizing the exchange of knowledge through the creation of communities and political alliances, she posits coloniality as an epistemicidal technology. In addition to performing and programming at music venues internationally, she has also hosted performance workshops at Museo Anahuacalli and Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City.

Alonso Leon-Velarde (b. 1993, Peru) works between Lima and Mexico City. Primarily working in painting, his work combines elements of personal history, science fiction, and contemporary subjects. The artist considers the ways western media travels and permeates South American visual cultures, examining traces of orthodoxy embedded in the landscape. Additionally working in sound, Leon-Velarde’s compositions often incorporate improv and a group of constant collaborators. Leon-Velarde has been included in exhibitions at El Instante Fundación, Madrid; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Drawing a Blank at The Parasol Unit Foundation, London; O’Flaherty’s, New York, and Ginsberg Galería, Lima.

Ligia Lewis (b. Dominican Republic) lives and works in Berlin. As an experimental choreographer, her works are often marked by physical intensity and humor. In her work, sonic and visual metaphors meet the body, materializing the enigmatic, the poetic, and the dissonant. Her work has been presented across Europe and the US, at venues such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Tanzquartier, Vienna; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kaaitheater, Brussels; Arsenic, Lausanne; High Line Art, New York; Performance Space, New York; OGR Torino; Stedelijk, Amsterdam; TATE Modern, London, amongst others.

Paloma Contreras Lomas (b. 1991, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. By employing drawing, sculpture, performance, writing and multimedia installation, Paloma Contreras Lomas addresses subjects such as gender, violence, political inheritance and structure, class segregation and post-colonialism. Her work has been shown at Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, Puerto Rico; kurimanzutto, Mexico; Palais de Tokio, Paris; Lille 3000 Eldorado, Lille; Museo Tamayo, Galería Lodos, MUCA Roma, Alumnos 47, Ladrón Galería and Biquini Wax, Mexico City. She obtained the CIFO Cisneros Fontanals grant (with acquisition prize) for emerging artists and the Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA grant.

La Maga (b. 1994, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. She is a performance artist, cabaret vedette, and DJ. Maga has a background in performing arts, styling, and video art, as well as a night diva in the queer techno scene. She frequently performers across Southern Mexico, specifically on the coast of Oaxaca and in Chiapas. She has also performed in Montreal and Toronto as a guest artist at LGBT+ community events.

Max Manzano (b. 1991, Mexico) lives and works in Tepoztlán. He is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser and poet. His creative work revolves around the exploration of improvisational musical and poetic traditions in danger of disappearing, and their relationship to community life and resistance. His interest in improvisation and spontaneous composition draws on music such as son huasteco, free jazz, flamenco cante jondo, Afro-indigenous music from the Colombian Caribbean, and Indonesian gamelan orchestras, to name a few. He has performed with artists such as Ana Ruiz, Germán Bringas, Remi Álvarez, Naima Karlsson, Mauricio Sotelo, Elliott Levin, Ajay Heble, Blaise Siwula, Diane Roblin, Didier Petit, Claudia Solal, Phillipe Foch, Don Malfon, Daniel Jodocy, MIsha Marks, Anne Waldman and Juan Vicente Anaya, among others. He currently co-directs, with Ana Ruiz, the Kóryma Orchestra, a free jazz and organic music ensemble; and with Carlos Greco Pantoja, the original music group, Los Verdaderos Subterráneos.

Garush Melkonyan (b. 1993, Armenia) lives and works in Paris. His work mainly combines video, sculpture and installation, exploring the invisible codes that structure communication, discourse and language. Experimentation and improvisation within an already defined framework play an important role in Melkonyan’s practice, as they allow for the creation of a new collaborative environment. His works have been exhibited in group exhibitions, screenings and festivals in venues such as Palais de Tokyo, Paris; La Panacée, Montpellier; Nordenhake Gallery, Mexico City; La Villette, Paris. He had solo exhibitions at Jean Claude Maier Gallery, Frankfurt and Lasecu, Lille3000. He was a resident at Lafayette Anticipations and Martell Foundation. In 2017, Melkonyan received the Thaddaeus Ropac Prize.

Jao Moon (b. 1986, Colombia) lives and works between Colombia and Berlin. He is a dancer and choreographer whose work looks at the Latin American diaspora in Europe, gender identity and processes of socio-political assembly in migratory contexts. He has worked and collaborated with Kampnagel Hamburg, Sophiensaele Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Ballhaus Naunynstrße, Jupiter Art Land Edinburgh, and The Centre Pompidou, Paris. His latest collaboration and works include Infinite II Performance with Michele Lamy X Matt Lambert, Julia Stoscheck Collection, Berlin (2022); The Lifetime of Fire Performance, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin (2022); and an upcoming performance with Enad Marouf (And Now it is Night), premiering at Kampnagel (K3) (March 2023).

Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990, USA) lives and works in New York. She is an artist who works with photography, video, and installation. Recent selected solo exhibitions include SculptureCenter, New York (2022); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2022); and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (2023). Nguyen’s films have been screened at New York Film Festival, New York; IFFR, Rotterdam; Berlinale, Berlin; and Yebisu Festival, Tokyo. Recent group exhibitions have been held at the Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2023), the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2022–2023); ‘GHOST 2565 Triennial’, Bangkok (2022); Greater New York 2021 at MoMA PS1, New York (2021); Made in LA at the Hammer Museum and The Huntington (2020–2021); and ‘Bodies of Water: 13th Shanghai Biennale’, Power Station of Art (2021).

Bruja Prieta (b. Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. She is a DJ, multidisciplinary artist, and producer of events for the LGBT+ community in Mexico and abroad. She is influenced by the magic of chaos, percussions, voices, and experimental sounds that converge with body, spirit, and the pleasure of sweating in an energetic atmosphere.

Lauro Robles aka Lao (b. Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. He is a producer and DJ with more than 10 years of experience. His work has focused on the production of proactive and experimental electronic dance music for the alternative dance floor. In recent years he has also positioned himself as a producer of urban and pop music. In his electronic production, Lao works with recontextualized classical sounds that interweave with local sounds to create avant-garde dance pieces that rethink his identity. He is a member of the NAAFI label where he is A&R and head of his own Extasis Records label as well as Baby Thug, a new Mexican urban music imprint. He is a 2014 Alumni of Red Bull Music Academy. Lao has performed in electronic music clubs such as Berghain (Panorama and Saule), Razzmatazz, OIL club and Circus Tokyo, as well as music institutions such as the Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall, Mutek Festival, Sonar Festival and Coachella Music and Arts Festival.

Pepx Romero (b. Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. A playwright, performer and scene director, their artistic career expands beyond the limits of the theatrical tradition, venturing into various disciplines, such as performance, advertising and visual arts. They are the artistic Director for drag collective Bonita Mx, founder and performance curator of the queer performance collective Traición in CDMX. Their artistic work has been presented in inde- pendent, institutional and mass entertainment venues such as Palacio de Bellas Artes (CDMX), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Whole Festival (Berlin), Sónar Festival (CDMX), Tag Festival (CDMX), Festival Ceremonia (CDMX), Nrmal Festival (CDMX), Teatro Ricardo Castro ( Durango), Centro Nacional de las Artes (CDMX), Museo Universitario del Chopo UNAM (CDMX), Museo Experimental El Eco UNAM (CDMX), Festival Cumbre Tajin (Veracruz), Centro de Artes Indíge- nas (Papantla, Veracruz), Centro Cultural del Bosque (CDMX), 38 Muestra Nacional de Teatro (León), Mustache Mondays (Los Angeles), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (CDMX), La Teatreria (CDMX), Cine Tonalá (CDMX), Festival Kuir Bogotá (Bogotá), Festival Internacional de la Diversidad Sexual (CDMX).

Luiz Roque (b. 1979, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo. Attracted by the power of image and, in particular, by sensations that stem from the sense of vision, Luiz Roque’s work crosses different territories, such as the genre of science fiction, the legacy of Modernism, pop-culture and queer bio-politics, in order to understand and propose ingenious and visually sensual narratives. The plasticity of the allegories he uses in his films takes us through the current conflict between technological advancement and contemporary micro and macro power relations. Most recently, he was included in The Milk of Dreams (2022), The 59th Venice Biennale.

Jacolby Satterwhite (b. 1986, US) lives and works in New York. He is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of labor, consumption, carnality and fantasy through immersive installation, virtual reality and digital media. He uses a range of software to produce intricately detailed animations and live action film of real and imagined worlds populated by the avatars of artists and friends. These animations serve as the stage on which the artist synthesizes the multiple disciplines that encompass his practice, namely illustration, performance, painting, sculpture, photography and writing. Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally, including most recently at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2023); FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2022); Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, PA (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021); and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2021).

Diego Vega Solorza (b. 1990, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. He is a dancer, choreographer and author of contemporary dance and director of Trazo, Ciclo de Danza y Espacio. Dedicated to the study, exploration of the body, movement and creation, he collaborates with artists who bring diverse disciplinary approaches to their dance discourse in order to expand dance into alternative formats of presentation. Founder and director of Nohbords, a Contemporary Dance and Visual Art project which he directed from 2014 to 2020. His stage work has been presented in theatrical venues such as the Teatro de las Artes del CENART, Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo, Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, Salón de Danza de la UNAM, Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris within the framework of the Festival Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, in the X Encuentro de las Artes Escénicas del FONCA and Teatro Macedonio Alcalá, in Oaxaca de Juárez.

Héctor Tosta (b. Venezuela) lives and works in Mexico City. He is an instrumentalist and frequent collaborator of Mabe Fratti.

WangShui (b. 1986, USA) lives and works in New York. Their work explores divergent structures of perception. Through video, sculpture, painting, and installation, they examine the psychosomatic loops that form our experience of the world. The artist’s polyvocal practice seeks to integrate diverse personal experiences and research into trauma, architecture, and media. Their work has been exhibited at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, NY; 2022 Biennale de Lyon, France; Hammer Museum, LA; Hessel Museum of Art, NY; SculptureCenter, NY; JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Germany; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; The Shed, NY; New York Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), NY; amongst others.

Osias Yanov (b. 1980, Argentina) lives and works in Buenos Aires. His practice includes performances, parties, installations, sculptures and videos. His practice intersects queer theories, night parties, group bonds and eroticism as a tool of knowledge. His work has been exhibited at the 11th Berlin Biennale; 11th Gwangju Biennale; Gasworks, London; Nora Fisch Gallery, Buenos Aires; Zarigüeya/Alabado Contemporáneo, Quito; MALBA, Buenos Aires; among other places.