Dealing in Distance

is an Indonesian light artist and designer based in Berlin (Germany). Her artistic practice delves into themes of human perception and ephemerality, using light as a universal yet profoundly personal medium to reevaluate how we engage with the world. She contrasts the intangible qualities of light with tangible materials to create ever-changing patterns, movements, and colours that challenge our visual perception. Her work ranges from light sculpture and light photography, to set design and light installation.

is a nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin (Germany). They are co-founder of un.thai.tled collective, platform for Thai diasporic artists based in Germany. Their research about exiled Cambodian artists in East Germany was featured at D21 Leipzig, MDBK Leipzig, and at Kunst Raum Mitte Berlin. Their recent short film I don’t want to be just a memory (2022–24) had its premiere at 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded.

is a Berlin-based musician and performing artist, playing Javanese Gamelan and guitar. His work blends electronic and algorithmic music composition with traditional instruments. Drawing from diverse backgrounds, from engineering to performing arts, his projects span live performance, web sound installations, music theater, and more. His current artistic focus explores the tension between tradition and innovation, while seeking to revalue traditional values within contemporary life. His approach is syncretic, merging multiple cultural influences.

is a Berlin-based Indonesian-Filipina fiction writer, crafter, and trained psychologist. With extensive experience in trauma-and-community-work in Indonesia, she was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. She now designs workshops blending jewelry crafting, psychology, and writing. Working as a freelancer for Tempo Magazine Indonesia, Nelden also contributed to the editorial team of the online magazine Südostasien. In 2025, she was awarded the Literature-Stipend for Writers Writing in Non-German Languages by the City of Berlin.

is a Berlin-based artist and performer with a background in Exhibition Design and Scenography at the University of Art and Design (HfG) Karlsruhe as well as Performance Studies and Design Theory at the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin. His works explore identity at the intersection of gender, race, and class, bridging visual and performing arts. His artworks have been exhibited in Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, and the Vietnamese Women’s Museum Hanoi, offering a nuanced exploration of belonging, migration, and diasporic experiences.

is a Lao dancer and co-founder of the Fanglao Dance Company. She began learning Lao Traditional Dance at six in Vientiane. In 2006, she discovered contemporary dance through a workshop with Lao-French choreographer Ole Khamchanla. Since 2008, she has toured France annually with Compagnie KHAM and participated in productions across Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. In 2013, she founded Fanglao Dance Company to promote contemporary dance and foster international artistic collaboration.

is a Malaysian visual artist and lecturer whose practice examines the entanglements of land, memory, and material trace. Through long-term research, his work investigates how extractive economies and postcolonial regimes imprint onto bodies, maps, and landscapes. Working across installation, fiber art, and cartographic interventions, he often employs natural materials—rattan and oil palm waste—to unearth the silent histories they carry. His recent projects explore how nature is framed through systems of value, and how ecological residues carry the ghosts of erased knowledge.

is a queer Filipino performance artist based in Berlin. Their interdisciplinary, body-centered practice merges improvisation, contemporary dance, decolonial perspectives, drag, and queer dance floor histories as sites for resistance and transformation. Through movement, they explore migration, displacement, and diasporic struggles of loss, memory, and belonging, while imagining new possibilities for queer-centered worlds. They are a participant in the Goethe-Institut's Performance Ecologies Residency, and currently exhibited at Berlin's Schwules Museum.

is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, sound artist, and electronic improviser whose diverse practice revolves around exploring local artistic culture at the intersection of tradition and modernity. In 2019 and 2020, she was honored as Artist of the Year by Hanoi Grapevine, and in 2022, she received the prestigious Prince Claus Seed Awards (Netherlands). Her works have been shown in Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

is a Scottish-Filipino artist based between Berlin and Scotland. Her work, rooted in experimental film and visual anthropology, explores how visual media intersects with collective memory, and the various socio-political realities. She engages with the materiality of the moving image, utilising analogue film, digital video, expanded cinema installation and performance. Playing with the processes of destruction, preservation and reconstruction, her work explores the parallels between these images/processes and the reality they portray.

is an interdisciplinary artist working between Germany, UK and Vietnam. Her practice moves across photography, moving image, installation, and scientific research, exploring how violence and displacement leave traces on landscapes and humans. Her current research returns to Vietnam to investigate the ecological and psychological legacy of Agent Orange, examining how the land continues to hold histories of trauma and transformation, and how art can open new ways of sensing these entangled memories.