Maria F. Scaroni, originally from Brescia, has been active in Berlin since 2004, both in the field of experimental contemporary dance as a dancer and choreographer, and in community building through workshops and by hosting events within queer culture. Since 2009, she has been collaborating with American choreographer Meg Stuart (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 2018), with whom she has developed a deep interest in polymorphic physicalities and altered states of consciousness, becoming increasingly engaged in exploring the socio-political consequences of collective behaviors. Maria hosts workshops that reuse the legacy of postmodern dance—such as energy techniques, contact improvisation, and improvisation games—intertwining them with anti-oppression practices to enhance somatic competence in support of a culture of connection. In 2016, she joined the Berlin-based collective Lecken, organizing erogenous raves with an engaged dance floor, engaging with the intersection between art and activism. Since 2021, she has been hosting the Social Pleasure Center, a community space dedicated to somatic post-activism, joyful queer feminist militancy, radical redistribution of resources, and temporary social choreography.

Alessandra Pomarico is an independent curator whose projects emerge at the intersection of art, pedagogy, social research, the poetics of relationships, community-building, and nano-politics. She holds a PhD in the Sociology of Migration (University of Salento), a degree in Theatre and Cinema History (La Sapienza, Rome), and a degree in Performing Arts/Arts Administration (Sorbonne, Paris). She is a registered journalist and has published essays and articles in various books, specialized journals, and exhibition catalogues. She is currently part of the editorial team of artseverywhere.ca, where she curates the section on Radical Pedagogy. She currently collaborates regularly with the Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria), a university of art, architecture, and design, where she teaches Practices and Politics of Art, and with the Frankfurt Hochschule, where she teaches Art as Social Practice. Recent initiatives include Free Home University (since 2013), an artistic and pedagogical experiment involving international and local artists for collective learning through art and social research, organized in several sessions per year in collaboration with local communities. Since 2014, she has also been working on Il Parco Comune dei Frutti Minori, a project for rural and social regeneration developed in collaboration with organic farmers, activists, artists, and migrants. Since 2012, she has been involved in Ammirato Culture House, a co-managed, multidisciplinary cultural and social space dedicated to research, experimentation, and the production of arts and culture. She is also part of SoundRes, since 2004, an international program of residencies, a festival, and a summer school focused on contemporary music and sound art.