Martin Hansen (AUS/DE) is a Berlin-based choreographer and artist working in performative media, within both theatre and gallery contexts. Throughout their body of work, they seek to activate and unfold queer temporalities around the dancing body and the economies of power that sustain the theatre. Their practice departs from a proposition of ‘Choreographic Inhabitation’: a combination of somatic, technical, and fantastical practices through which to build affective worlds and logics from which dance emerges. In this way, Martin’s work uniquely melds concept and practice to foreground the audience experience whilst honouring their deep capacity for engagement. Since 2015, Martin’s works have been presented at venues such as Tanzfabrik, Bärenzwinger, Sophiensaele and Radialsystem (Berlin), PACT Zollverein, Rencontre Chorégraphique Internationales De Seine Saint Denis (Paris), Charleroi Danse and KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Dancehouse and Dance Massive (Melbourne), Aerowaves (Aarhus). Martin was a Danceweb scholar in 2013 and was named Germany’s Dancer of the Year by Tanzmagazine in 2012.

James Paul is an artist whose media are sound, video, space, light, and time. Their work is experienced on stage, screen, radio, and internet, or can be seen in the flesh in galleries and museums around Australia. James makes work that focuses on physical experience, amplifying imperceptible things to their scale of direct encounter. This work is fuelled by obsession with properties and behaviours of the physical world; duality, chaos, topology, and semiosis. Recent performance works include HERCULES and They Divided the Sky (for Daniel Schlusser Ensemble and City of Melbourne), Wake in Fright (for Declan Greene and Malthouse Theatre), and NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER (for Aaron Orzech & City of Melbourne).