Jana Astanov’s art spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, creating immersive experiences that connect audiences to ancestral memory, ritual, and the cosmos. Drawing on trance, astrology, and Slavic and Baltic folk traditions, her work invites participants into ceremonial spaces where art becomes a conduit for spiritual inquiry, relational healing, and collective transformation.

Megan Hyde is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist whose work traverses performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Drawing on dreams, memories, and somatic responses, her practice examines transformation, grief, and desire, creating spaces where binaries dissolve and viewers can experience the connections between micro and macro realities. Her immersive projects invite reflection on ways of being outside the frameworks of Western capitalism.

Deema Alghunaim (b. 1984, Kuwait) merges architecture, performance, and visual art to explore the tension between language and land. Her interdisciplinary practice uses site-specific performance, watercolor, and improvised methods to document and reimagine contemporary landscapes and human interaction within them. Alghunaim invites viewers to witness spaces of memory, transience, and possibility.

Kelly Tsai’s SKyGiRLS is a striking portrait series that explores the complexities of identity, representation, and the Chinese diaspora. Through carefully constructed persona diptychs, Tsai embodies women whose stories have been overlooked or misrepresented, creating a powerful dialogue between history, mythology, and personal identity. Inspired by the surge in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, SKyGiRLS is both a personal exploration and a collective reimagining of Chinese womanhood.

Explore the captivating world of Nemanja Popadic, a Vienna-based artist whose work blends performance art with multimedia installations. With a focus on universal emotions and the human condition, Nemanja’s pieces invite deep reflection on life’s timeless complexities. Read on to learn more about his journey, his artistic philosophy, and what fuels his creative practice.