Forever Lost

Yulia Arsen is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of dance, theater and contemporary art. She studied contemporary dance in Munich (Iwanson) and Kassel (SOZO vim) and then presented her own creations at Radialsystem (Berlin), mumok (Vienna), SAAL Biennaal (Tallinn), WHAT NEXT festival (Limerick), Iridescent festival (Bucharest) and others. Her solo "plastic bag" was selected for AEROWAVES Twenty 22. In 2023, her solo "the whip" premiered at ImPulsTanz. Based in Paris in 2025, she founded her company Bedroom Community as a space for embodied reflection and collective rethinking of post-Soviet cultural codes.

Wassily Bosch is a Paris-based experimental musician, composer, and sound curator. Under the scenic name "dolphin hospital" and other aliases, he explores extended techniques in electronic music, employing a hauntological approach and aesthetics through the use of obsolete equipment. Drawing on samples from vast archives and spontaneous sonic encounters, Bosch creates immersive soundscapes that lie between ritual dark ambient and post-vaporwave/glitch. His work often appears as part of video art projects—both solo and collaborative—as well as in film projections, contemporary dance, and theater performances.

Natalya Petrikowa is a sound artist, producer, and live electronic performer (DAWless), working at the intersection of sound art, experimental dance music, and new media. She creates interactive and adaptive audio works that explore the relationship between technology, sound, and perception to enhance sensory experience. Her performances often incorporate melodies and poetic texts, weaving narratives rich in cultural and emotional resonance. In addition to her solo work, she collaborates as a sound designer and composer in the GameDev industry and regularly performs free improvisations with other musicians. She also participates in contemporary digital art exhibitions in collaboration with media artists.

Asya Ashman is a dance artist and performer whose work explores hierarchies of attention, deconstructed entertainment, and the eerie. She holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from HZT Berlin and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Hertfordshire. Her practice spans performances, games, and workshops, emphasizing collaboration and cross-disciplinary experimentation across all age groups.

Pavel Pakhomov is an independent performer, musician, promoter, and graphic designer based in Berlin. He is the organizer of Act, a series of events focused on experimental music and performance. Pavel performs solo as well as part of the projects Marzahn and Falsche Menschen. In addition to his solo work, he collaborates as a vocalist, percussionist, drummer, and electronic musician.

Elikuka is a collective formed by Oleg Eliseev and Evgenii Kukoverov, it emerged in 2007 with a bold, rule-breaking approach to art. Drawing on art history and museum conventions, Elikuka subverts norms with humor and surprise, blending Dadaist absurdity with joyful imagination. Collaboration and friendship are central to their practice, working with groups like XY (Iceland), RatRights (Austria), and Gelitin (Austria), among others. They are also members of the punk band I.H.N.A.B.T.B. and Evgenii's solo music project, which won the Soratnic Prize in 2012. In September 2022, Elikuka left Russia due to their anti-war stance. Now based in Paris.

Ivan Anisimov (bottom escape) is a photographer, cinematographer, and filmmaker based in Paris. He works with documentary photography, visual archives, as well as experimental and documentary cinema. At the core of his artistic practice lies the exploration of broken connections: between place and memory, body and society, personal and collective experience. His approach merges photography, film, and video as forms of poetic documentary observation. For him, the act of capturing reality is not so much a gesture of testimony as it is a ritual — a way of preserving what is slipping away, with particular attention to images devoid of explicit authorship or expressiveness, almost impersonal, as if made “without will,” as though reality inscribed itself directly into the frame. His interest lies far from aesthetics and closer to the everyday logic of registration, where the document becomes a trace, a residue — a fleeting form of memory existing on the edge between personal gaze and anonymous systems of storage.