About

Chandenie Gobardhan (she/they) is a London-based, Netherlands-born artist known for their distinctive movement style. In this curated melting pot, elements of Bharatanatyam, several street styles, and contemporary dance come together. Their work challenges industry norms, bridging gaps between forms. Grounded in their Hindostaanse heritage, Chandenie’s practice continually experiments with form and structure, creating works that share important but often unheard stories. Their commissions include Tate Britain, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, The Place, Nike London, Messums Wiltshire’s Festival of Dance, and FABRIC’s Yuva Gati.

Damsel Elysium (they/them) is the solo project of UK based multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Djenaba Davis-Eyo.An alchemist of body, space, object and the metaphysical, Damsel is a holistic world builder using sound, video, performance and other artistic mediums whose deeply intuitive practice crosses the boundary between experimental sound art, avant-pop, performance art, contemporary classical, analog and electronics, blurring the lines of genre, discipline and expectation. Their work explores anticolonial and neurodivergent practice, paradoxes of the manmade and natural world. Working almost entirely with improvisation somatic techniques, subtle energy, ancestral knowledge and the subconscious, they are an architect of hypnagogic activation to draw attention to quantum details and initiate alternative realities. Their multi-medium approach explores site-specific non-performance spaces of history and sacredness. Inspired by contemporary and Fluxus movements, performance becomes ritual and the stage an altar. Damsel’s work has appeared in Tate Modern, Southbank centre, V&A museum and Fondation Beyeler to name a few. Their first record released on AD 93 earned them recognition across a multitude of creative spaces; music, fashion, art, design and even film scoring. They are an avant-garde artist on the rise collaborating with FKA twigs, Celeste, CKTRL and working with brands and art spaces such as Gucci, IITTALA and Simone Rocha.

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.