WEEK 1: May 1 - May 7

Eboshi Ramesh
Bhagyshree ‘Eboshi’ Ramesh, is a queer, POC rapper and one half of Cartel Madras. She is a feminist and lgbtq+ activist and co-founded a non-profit organization dedicated to gender development in the Global South. She was born in Chennai, South India, and grew up in Canada. When she is off stage she is either writing, researching, or recording demos; she is currently working on her second EP. Eboshi and her sister, Contra, started performing as Cartel Madras in 2018 and have since toured Canada, released a mixtape and an EP, and music videos for singles from those projects; in 2019 they signed to Sub Pop Records. Their music is available on all major streaming platforms and they have been featured in publications such as NMF, and Rolling Stone India, Complex and Vogue. In 2020 Cartel Madras will be touring with Sudan Archives in North America and touring in Europe. 

Owen FitzGerald
I’m a writer, musician, dad, and partner living in Durham, North Carolina. I care about narrative and material culture. I am looking for new ways to make noise. Art helps me learn about myself. I try to be kind.

Kate Grube
Kate Grube is a costume designer and music-person living in Chicago, IL. Her favorite sound is the sound of someone jumping into a body of water from a very tall cliff. Her favorite sparkle is a frosty window. Her favorite food is a Chicago hot-dog, and if you haven’t had one, she’s wondering what you’re doing this afternoon.

Adam Void
How to not be influenced by memetic ideas {I’m amazed and confused with this life. So muddy, yet connected and perfect. Everyday is a gift. Thank You.}

Suzi Sadler
Suzi Sadler is a filmmaker / photographer / facilitator based in Brooklyn, NY. They are involved with public programming at 7 Belvidere, an independent art / music / community / anti-capitalist space housed in a shipping container. In 2019, Suzi participated in the creation of a dance, music, theater, live video projection piece entitled Give it a Go which was performed at HERE Arts Center in Manhattan and Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn. Suzi was the Director of Photography for Thanushka Yakupitiyage’s MigrantScape, a documentary/sound piece that gives space to four immigrants to tell their stories of entering and living in the United States. Suzi’s current focus in hosting Ethical Production Discussion at 7 Belvidere and beyond, with the goal to provide resources to anyone and everyone looking to create productions and collaborations with ethical intentions in mind.

Alexander Chaparro
Alexander Chaparro works part time at Housing Court Answers, a non-profit that helps unrepresented litigants in NYC landlord-tenant’s court by providing legal and public rights information. In the other parts of time Chaparro contributes to the Venezuelan publishing initiative Tercer Mundo Editorial; helps facilitate public programming at 7 Belvidere in Brooklyn, a free social space for events and group organizing;  and hangs out with loved ones. 

Jen Swegan
Jennimarie Swegan is a carpenter, musician, fiber artist, and general dabbler who lives in Richmond, VA.

lo bil
I work speculatively with the unconscious, aiming for non-repeatability- whatever happens is the aesthetic. I connect abstracted impulses to sublimated images that generate emotional or energetic flows in my body; I allow the psychic space between performer and audience to direct the performance; i create circumstances for failure to open up the potential for magic; I let real and imagined worlds coexist; I speak thoughts transparently, letting speech affect movement and movement affect speech- hypothetically articulating injuries that were entrenched in states of dissociation and hidden in forms of respectable behaviour. Taking my practice into performance layers on inter-relational complications as I notice how my body responds while being seen by others. The priority is the activation of audience bodies. Performance Art Festivals/Exhibitions: 7a*11D, Summerworks, Itinerant NYC, Month of Performance Art-Berlin, Duration & Dialogue, HATCH/Harbourfront, Rhubarb!!!, Flowchart/Dancemakers, Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro, Sick Theory Conference and Performance Philosophy Biennale.

Fahad AlSuwaidi
I love learning new things, so I pursue knowledge and truth in their essential and most objective form as they are my eyes to a better world. I seek a variety of ways to share the joy of learning, whether from pottery, photography, woodworking, calligraphy, or drumming, as seeing the ‘Aha!’ moment in someone’s eyes means I made them open a new perspective.

Week 2: May 8 - may 14

Celia Peters
Celia C. Peters is a Black American filmmaker creating compelling, organic futurist stories about intriguing, authentic characters of color. She is a lecturer at the Ohio State University, a member of the WGA and sits on the board of the Columbus Black International Film Festival. Her screenplays have been prize-winning and recognized in competition. Her short films have screened in New York, Washington D.C., Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and London; also on public and cable television. She has produced content at Afropunk, New York Comic Con and California African American Museum (LA). Peters is an honors graduate of University of Michigan with a B.A. in French and Political Science, and holds an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. As well, she has done graduate studies in clinical psychology at NYU. She’s currently developing her sci-fi feature film GODSPEED for production. 

Zoe Tuck
Zoe Tuck is a queer transgender poet based in Northampton, MA. Author of Terror Matrix and Soft Investigations, co-curator of the But Also reading series, she teaches poetry workshops and offers other services such as literary publicity and marketing, small press consultation, tarot readings, and more. A former member of the editorial collectives of Timeless, Infinite Light and of Hold: A Journal, she continues this work with Belladonna* Collaborative and the Operating System. She is currently working on building the Threshold Academy, an experiment in radical pedagogy and a future bookstore + alternative educational space, in Western Massachusetts. She is serializing her epic poem, the book of bella, here, and writing a reading blog here. 

Nick Mcmillan and Alex Santilli: The Medicine of Improvisation
We are musicians that reside in Chicago. We have taken an unconventional route as artists and people working and studying different forms of theatre, a cappella, music theory, philosophy, cooking, landscaping. We are passionate and driven by our experiences in learning through our local community of thinkers, makers, writers, activists, and organizers.

Sarah Myers
Sarah m. (they/them) currently resides in Philadelphia. They are a collector and maker of crafts, and love all weird domestic, feminine, “not real art” connotations that go with them. Right now their favorite song is Kansas by Orville Peck. The book on their bedside table is Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. Their favorite food is pierogis with sour cream and apple sauce and lost of caramelized onions.

SeeVa Dawne + John Beckmann
SeeVa Dawne is a writer and performance artist born in Austin Texas. Her practice is dynamic, encompassing performance, writing, site-specific theater, spatial installation, video, and cyanotype. She currently lives and works in Athens Greece. In 2018, she was awarded two performance residencies in Athens and Mykonos for her theater work, To Mavreli ,and solo dance research, The UnWritten Rules. Her most recent collective work was exhibited at Athens Festival of Queer Performance. She is mostly concerned with the experience of the mind-body connection in all aspects of her work; a somatic practice that can be expressed across mediums. In 2011, she apprenticed with NC gum-bichromate artist, Alan Dehmer, whom she first learned contact printing and cyanotype. She now explores cyanotype printing in realms beyond contact printing. 

John Beckmann launched Axis Mundi in 2004. He studied architecture, interior and industrial design, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Environmental Design from Parsons School of Design. Beckmann’s honors include a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (1998) and a McDowell Colony Fellowship (2010). He both edited and contributed to The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), one of the first books to grasp the implications of digital technologies on the fields of architecture and design. Beckmann has also been a visiting critic at Yale School of Architecture, Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design, and he has been a featured guest on Bloomberg TV, NBC’s Open House, and nominated two times for HGTV’s Designer of the Year. His highly anticipated anti-monograph — AXIS MUNDI Inconsistent Consistencies: I Wish I Could Talk in Technicolor, is forthcoming from Black Dog Press, London, 2020.


Hannah Katz
Hannah Katz is a multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Her work is process-oriented, rooted in ritual and craft histories. In 2018, she received an Emerging Young Artist Award of Excellence from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She is an avid reader and home cook. 

Aya Razzaz + Kasey Kinsella
Aya Razzaz is an Arab American activist and performance artist. After studying choreography at Hampshire College, she moved to Philadephia to pursue a career in alternative, political performance. For the past year, she has both taught various forms of dance as well as participated in the Headlong Performance Institute, an intensive residency for performance art. The history of displacement and revolution in her family, and the innate human desire for intimacy and physical contact are what drives Aya to create work.

Kasey Kinsella: As a spiritual seeker and change maker, Kasey moves between feeling deep grief and gratitude for being alive today. She was drawn to SotA in 2018 following a 5-month course in Thailand that centered on the spiritual and inner dimensions of sustainable community and movement building. Her desire was to immerse herself in creative community and try on artists’ ways of seeing and expressing. After School, Kasey pursued training in physical theater and experimental performance in Philadelphia. She taps into immense pleasure through emergent clown and movement co-creations.

Yasmin Reshamwala
Yasmin Reshamwala is a Brooklyn-based musician and artist. After moving to NYC in 2003, she juggled her love for music and visual arts by playing in bands such as Justice of the Unicorns, Tigers and Monkeys, and Lavalier while pursuing a career in Production Design. Her design work has ranged from costume supervision on a film by artist Matthew Barney to art direction for rapper Pusha T. She is currently working as an arts educator and music manager. 

Week 3: May 15 - May 21

Maria Judice
M is a visual storyteller working in cinema, writing, photography, and public art. M holds an M.F.A from CalArts in Film/Video. Wired Magazine called M a “filmmaker provocateur.” Practicing “autonomy first”, her role as an artist is to interrupt the signal to noise, propaganda imagery and missive narratives. 

Julian Prince Dash
Julian Prince Dash. Social practice artist utilizing education, cut and sew, embroidery, technology and art to empower youth. With nearly 15 years under his belt. His goal is to own and operate a factory that provides training and employment that is fully independent and off the grid creating clothing from seed to retail. Think willy wonka but with clothing. His current factory: Holy Stitch! is located in San Francisco. His personal clothing brand can be found on local influencers and worldwide celebrities. 


Eliah Eason + Tula Honkala
Tula (she/they): Resides in Baltimore and P.G. County MD. They spend most of their time skating and traveling up and down the east coast and LA. They love climbing trees and hate filling up their gas tank. She has a background in mixed media sculpture and ceramics and has attended art school from 2012-2019. She has also worked on small farms in Baltimore city and Tennessee concentrated in permaculture. Currently she is working on looking for educational opportunities in environmental politics and experimenting with cooking and baking. 

Eliah (he/they): Is a trans actor/writer/anti-clown/con-artist from Portsmoth, Virginia. He holds a BFA in acting from New York University where he studied experimental theatre. His performance background includes devised theatre, autobiography, contact improvisation, embodied voice work, Grotowski, clown, anti-clown, film, sketch comedy, Shakespeare, and screaming in a punk band. Currently he is rehearsing for a devised work entitled “Mother Men” and writing and performing in New York’s only bouffon troupe called ‘The Boof’.

Serena Hocharoen
Serena Hocharoen is an artist working in installation, print, zines, fiber, sound and ceramics. The objects and spaces she makes are representations of dreams: dreams of remembering comfort, belonging, and transcendence. Originally from the Midwest, she is currently based in Philadelphia and holds an MFA in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and a BA in Studio Art and Chemistry from Grinnell College.


Marion Horowitz
Marion Horowitz is a clown, artist and educator in Philadelphia, PA. She creates fantastical rituals, environments and performances designed to bring us in touch with our ancestors, our ecosystems, and each other.

Danny Soto
Danny Soto is a songwriter living in Columbus OH. His love of dark comedy and emotional ass music gets funneled through his esoteric spiritual worldview into a pursuit of meaning and great recipes.


Katie Obeda
Katie is a multidisciplinary artist from Michigan who is currently studying Sexuality and Human Environment at Concordia University in Montreal. Through passions of zine-making, music-playing, movement meditation, and wandering aimlessly, they aim to explore and further develop their play-based practices. Their work aims to explore themes of friendship, communication, identity in place, the body and desire.


Eleanoar Edreva
Eleonora Edreva is an artist, researcher, smeller, educator, collaborator, worker, renter, and mischief-maker born in Burgas, Bulgaria and raised on the occupied Odawa, Ojibewe, and Potawatomi lands referred to as Chicago. Eleonora strongly believes that our senses contain skills and ways of knowing the world that systems of power have been devaluing for centuries as part of their ongoing efforts to disconnect folks from their bodies and capacities for pleasure and embodies learning. The artist’s work orients around intentional sensory experiencing as bringing people more fully into individual and collective strength and creating strategies for more abundant love and liberation as we attend to the unjust conditions of living and learning under capitalism and white supremacy. To that end, Eleonora creates relational, participatory, and play-based tools for navigating the world as our most whole selves, as well as actively orienting towards healing in our human, more-than-human and land-based relationships.