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GIUSEPPE DORONZO

Giuseppe Doronzo (1987, Barletta, IT) is an Italian saxophonist and composer based in Amsterdam. Music Revelation 2018 for All About Jazz, he is considered as “One of the most exciting fresh voices in the jazz and impro scene in the world” (Trouw/Jazzism).
He focuses his research on the baritone saxophone, aiming to explore a vocabulary that bridges his background in contemporary classical music, jazz improvisation and micro tonal makam music. He has performed internationally with artists covering various fields of the international art scene including Michael Moore, Joe Lovano, Vince Mendoza, Mariem Hassan and Han Bennink. His composition works have been supported by the FPK and performed in international festivals and venues including the Shanghai World Music Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival and the Bimhuis. Besides his music ensembles, he writes for film, dance and contemporary circus. In 2018 he founded the Amsterdam based record label Tora Records. He has been giving music workshops and lectures in several spaces and institutions together with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (NL), New York University (US) and Marmara University of Arts (TR).
ROMAN ERMOLAEV
Roman Ermolaev (1991, Saint Petersburg, RU) graduated from the VAV Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2017. In the same year, he won the EYE Research Lab Award for best audiovisual work at the EYE Filmmuseum. In January 2018, he received the Young Artsupport Amsterdam Award, and his graduation project Holy Land became part of the EYE Filmmuseum collection. His work has been exhibited in various galleries, institutions and Film Festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, his films have been screened in the different film festivals including IFFR. He was teaching fine art in Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018-2019.
Roman is a multidisciplinary artist working on the intersection of film, animation, photography and installation art often approached through the analysis of historical events and their affects on the precarious living conditions of an expats living abroad. Concerned with the shifting paradigm for a foreigner as an unstable element of the society, he aims to explore the potential for an alternative course of history. As a contemporary image maker, Roman sees it as his responsibility to scrutinise the events, images and symbols of the past and remould them into the reality orientated towards the future.
MICHELA TROVATO GIANCARDILLO

Michela Trovato Giancardillo (1992, Roma, IT) graduated in 2017 from the Master in Cultural Studies from the KU Leuven (BE), after obtaining her bachelor in History and Tutelage of the Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence (IT). From 2015 to 2019 she worked as a curator and project manager in the Artist in Residence WOW Amsterdam. During her work at WOW Amsterdam, she produced a multitude of projects that reflected the multidisciplinary character of the residency. Facilitating and producing multidisciplinary and site specific projects has been at the core of her practice for about six years.In 2019 and 2020 she worked as a project manager for Museumnacht Amsterdam, where she was in charge of the outreach programme of the stichting in order to broaden the audience of the Museumnacht event.Since September 2021, she is working as a producer for Sonic Acts.
ANDREA KNEZOVIC
Andrea Knezović is a visual artist, researcher, cultural programmer and educator with a MARes in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam and a BA from the AVA-Academy of Visual Arts Ljubljana. Her artistic practice plays with semiotics and dialectics of value by examining — through poetic gesturing — correlations between institutional and identity politics. Knezović’s discursive research interests center around topics of liminality, value production, future mythologies of the cultural institutional practices and consequently their strategies of institutional care. Her practice can be understood as a close reading of subversive, liminal landscapes in which the individual negotiates the ideological mechanisms of cognitive capitalism within wider socio-political scopes. She investigates various identity protocols by probing different systems of self-care, strategies of re-imagining institutional mythologies and futures of collective psycho-cultural health. She uses speculative fiction as a forensic method to excavate and design research narratives.
Knezović is a board member of Salwa Foundation. She contributed to various discursive journals including MIT - Thresholds Journal, Lish Journal, University of Amsterdam Simulacrum Jurnal- Tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur and Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean (Young Slovenian Artists). Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world and is part of the SCCA-DIVA Archive collection. In 2013 and 2015, she was nominated for the Essl Art Award.