Islandman
Turkish electro-acoustic trio from Istanbul that fuses downtempo electronics with psychedelic and Anatolian influences. Their sound blends mellow electronic frameworks, chilled grooves, and danceable beats with spacey, psychedelic guitars and shamanic rhythms, sometimes drawing on African influences.
Islandman describes their music as neo Turkish psychedelia, honoring heritage while updating it through contemporary production. The result is a hypnotic, immersive sonic experience that bridges cultures, eras, and musical genres.
Ahmed Eid
Palestinian musician and artist whose work bridges traditional Arabic sounds with global influences. Born in 1987 to parents in political exile, Eid grew up partly in Ramallah before moving to Berlin, where he continues to live between both cities. His musical formation spans classical, jazz, and Arabic traditions, creating a rich and versatile artistic language.
After releasing more than ten albums with Bukahara, he began his solo career in 2024 with the EP Aghani Akhira (Last Songs). His work addresses themes such as colonialism, resistance, and social justice, expressed through poetic and metaphorical lyrics. His upcoming album min ghazze labaghdad, min haifa la beirut continues this trajectory. He founded the Palestine Music Space in Ramallah, supporting young musicians through free education and creative resources.
Roda De Santo
Is a Lisbon-based Afro-Brazilian music collective that reimagines ancestral traditions through a contemporary sonic lens. Their work draws deeply from the sacred songs of Afro-Brazilian religions, especially Umbanda, transforming these cantigas de terreiro into immersive musical experiences. They are blending layered percussion, rich vocal harmonies, and subtle electronic elements, emphasizing spirituality, community, and collective energy, reflecting the living and evolving nature of these traditions.
Stine Deja
Last Survivors explores the fate of humanity in a world shaped by extreme environmental conditions and rapid technological evolution. The project draws on speculative research questioning whether human biology could be enhanced, such as by integrating tardigrade genes to increase resistance to radiation and other harsh forces. From this premise emerges the possibility of a new, hybrid life form.
With a playful and humorous approach, she creates monumental figures that merge human bodies with the resilient qualities of tardigrades. These hybrid creatures suggest an evolutionary leap, organisms designed to endure the most hostile environments on Earth and beyond.
Aérosculpture
It brings air to life through poetic, helium-based installations and luminous aerial performances. Transforming public spaces into dream-like environments, the company creates works that reveal the unseen forces around us.
Steel Grass is shining like polished steel, it sways with the wind, making air currents visible.In its gentle motionit reflects the lively, ever-changing dance of molecules. Yet in moments of stillness, it transforms into a silent, silver blade reaching toward the sky, capturing both motion and calm in a single, mesmerizing gesture.
Het Danspaleis
Let’s dance! The mission is to keep older people in the Netherlands active and socially connected through dance and music. Like a true “fuel station of joy,” it gets people moving and helps combat loneliness, inviting everyone to join a growing movement of care, energy, and human connection.
Dance and music act as a universal language, effortlessly crossing boundaries of culture, belief, social status, and personal identity. They serve as a powerful icebreaker, making genuine encounters and meaningful connections possible. Het Danspaleis is an inclusive community of both active and vulnerable older adults, alongside family members, caregivers, volunteers, and partners.
Campagnie Barks
Is a contemporary circus company created around the desire to play with gravity.
Conceived as a play of anti-gravity forms, the work unfolds, both mechanical and organic, echoing the ever-changing nature of the universe. Blending whimsical inventions with impossible acrobatics, Moon plays with variations of gravity, offering a gentle farewell to weight and a reimagining of space and time. Bodies drift, objects transform, and the familiar becomes strange and weightless. This is not just a performance but an immersive experience –where movement, imagination, and suspension merge into a poetic vision of another world.
Kexin Hao
This playful workshop invites participants to collectively create a giant paper chimera, a hybrid creature brought to life through drawing, movement, and voice.
Using the surrealist “cadavre exquis” method, participants draw on a 10-meter paper roll, each adding a body part without seeing the whole. As the process unfolds, a surprising creature emerges.
The workshop culminates in a lively parade, where the chimera is activated and transformed into a living, dragon-like presence.
Cyril Lancelin
Walk in to Pyramid Curbs is a large-scale inflatable installation that blurs the line between sculpture and architecture. Composed of intertwined tubular forms, it rises into a loose pyramid-like shape, resembling a burst of colorful roots or looping pipes emerging from the ground.More than a static sculpture,it invites exploration - people can wander inside its inflated passage.