Sebastian Kaiser was born in East Berlin and studied Culture and Theatre in Berlin, Leipzig and Moscow. In the period between 2008-2017 he was dramaturg at the Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxemburg-Platz, where he also curated large-scale political and artistic events, such as “Africa Conference – 130 Years of the Berlinization of a Continent”. He initiated the series of talks about Europe’s future with Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and others. He also co-operated in founding the Pan-European political movement and political party DiEM25.

In 2007 he directed a documentary about the inhabitants of the closed military city Balaklava in Crimea. In 2022 he founded the Artistic Intelligence Network, with which performances and films are produced on the border between art and theory. Between 2014 and 2019 he has taught at universities in Berlin, Leipzig, Oslo and New York. Since 2020 he is Guest Professor at both the Beijing Central Drama Academy and Nanjing University.

DRAGOMIR ZUPANC

Dragomir Zupanc was born in 1946 in Ljubljana and in 1971 he graduated in TV and film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He was the editor of entertainment and recreational programs on TV Montenegro (1985-1990) and the chief director on Radio Television of Serbia (1996-2010).

His work experience includes the realization of many television programs and films, numerous documentaries as well as DVD and VHS releases, among which are performers like Rambo Amadeus and Bajaga i Instruktori.
He has won many awards, including the Gold Medal at the Belgrade Documentary and Short Feature Film Festival (2005) and the Golden Maple for Contribution to Cinematography at the Jahorina Film Festival (2018). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and artistic director of the Days of Slovenian Film Review. He lives and works in Belgrade.

ISKRA GESHOSKA

Iskra Geshoska is a founder and a president of Kontrapunkt – Association for Critical Theory Development, socio-cultural activism and contemporary artistic practices. Since 1994 she has been active in the building of the Independent cultural sector and the contemporary self- organized formats of action in the socio-cultural context. In 2016 she established the CRIC – Festival for Critical Culture where she is the executive program editor. She was Director of the independent Skopje-based Cultural center “Tocka” from its founding until its closing (2002- 2010). In the period 1998–2008, she was an editor at the publishing house “Templum” and the magazine “Margina”. To date she has published over 100 essays and research papers in the field of critical theory, performing arts, visual arts and cultural policies. From 2019 to 2024, she was an external associate and adviser on cultural issues to the former President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski.