March 21 // Conference

Tamara Antonijević writes and works as a dramaturg and artistic collaborator in performance, theater, and dance pieces. She studied Dramaturgy at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and holds an MA from Institute of Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany. The role of text in the collaborative process is in the focus of her interest and research. She teaches dramaturgy and co-hosts the MA program Live Art Forms at ADBK Nuremberg. She’s a Phd candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Zuzana Žabková is an artist, dancer, and choreographer who explores the body as a prophetic apparatus, always in touch with something beyond itself. In her work, she often starts from a place of wounds, weakness, and brokenness, embracing these as holy strategies for survival. She is interested in somatic fiction and collective play structures that serve as laboratories for imagining and training new forms of social relations. She works both independently and collaboratively, rethinking values around work and care. She is the co-founder of björnsonova, a platform, fictional character, community, and multifaceted dance form with roots and connections spanning various temporal, spatial, and artistic dimensions. Zuzana holds an MA from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Faculty of Visual Arts in Brno. She lives and works between Frankfurt am Main and Prague.

Nik Timková creates multimedia works that blend visual signs through a magical ritual process. Her installations often incorporate ready-made, graphic design, and textile elements, alongside digital collages that mix traditional witchcraft iconography with contemporary pop culture. Using Photoshop as her "magic wand," she merges digital and mythical worlds on ritualistic objects. Timková studied at Central Saint Martins in London and graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She won the Oskar Čepan Award in 2017, is a member of A.M. 180, and co-organizes Creepy Teepee. She also works as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician from Los Angeles. Hedva is the author of the essay collection, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom, published in September 2024 by Hillman Grad Books. They are also the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good (And Other Stories, 2023) and On Hell (Sator Press, 2018), as well as Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain (Sming Sming and Wolfman Books, 2020), a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their artwork has been shown in Berlin at Gropius Bau and Haus der Kulturen der Welt; in Los Angeles at JOAN, HRLA, in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time, and the LA Architecture and Design Museum; in London at TINA, Camden Arts Centre, and The Institute of Contemporary Arts; in New York City at Amant Foundation and Performance Space New York; in South Korea at Seoul Museum of Art and Gyeongnam Art Museum; the 14th Shanghai Biennial; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich; Modern Art Oxford; MASS MoCA; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano; and in the Transmediale, Unsound, Rewire, and Creepy Teepee Festivals. Their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House (2021) and The Sun and the Moon (2019). In 2024, they were a Disability Futures Fellow, funded by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.