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Dream Adoption Society

• Marta Nawrot, Maciej Gniady, Jagoda Wójtowicz, Bartosz Zaskórski, Michał Staniszewski, NOVIKI, Wojtek Markowski, Zbigniew Bzymek, Krzysztof Garbaczewski

• Dream Adoption Society is an artistic collective initiated by Krzysztof Garbaczewski and Michał Staniszewski.

• Krzysztof Garbaczewski is theater director, stage designer. On the basis of his own adaptations he creates productions, which are often called theatrical installations. One of the hottest names in Polish performing arts.

• Michał Staniszewski is one of the few creators of video games in the world that can combine courageous author's ideas with the commercial market. Since the 1990s he has been a member of Plastic, a demoscene studio, creating digital art in the form of virtual multimedia performances, or "demos". In 2017 he's received the Paszport Polityki award in the category of digital culture.

Gavin Butt

• Attenborough Chair of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. He has published widely on queer art and performance, and works more broadly on histories of experimentalism between the visual and performing arts. He is author of Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, editor of After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance, and co-editor of Post-Punk Then and Now. Between 2009 and 2014 he was co-director of Performance Matters, a creative research project addressing the cultural values of contemporary Live Art. He is currently researching a book on post-punk art and music in the city of Leeds.

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Johannes Paul Raether

• Artist who lives and works in Berlin. At the center of his work are constructed identities (Avataras, Alter-Identities or Self-Sisters) emerging at various sites in public space where they research, teach, and tell stories. In the guise of his so-called self-sisters, named Transformella, Protektorama, or Schwarmwesen, Raether challenges conventional assumptions about identities, bodies, and technology. Raether’s works and performances were shown at the 9th Berlin Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Fridericianum, Kassel, and transmediale 2017, Berlin.

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• She works at the interface of diverse media, employing video, performance, sculpture, installation, and stage design. She is a graduate of intermedia studies from the University of Fine Arts in Poznań in the video studio of Marek Wasilewski. She created the ephemeral Sandra Gallery and was a co-founder of the radical hip-hop group Cipedrapskuad, and is a member and co-founder of the moped gang Horsefuckers M.C.