MARIO DE VEGA (1979, Mexico City) - mariodevega.info

Through site-specific interventions, sound, sculpture, actions and publications in diverse formats, his research explores the value of failure, vulnerability and simulation. His work has been exhibited in different contexts throughout Mexico, North America, South Africa, India, Russia, Japan and around Europe. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.

JOKE LANZ (1965, Basel) - suddeninfant.com

Joke Lanz has worked as garbageman, factory worker, sales assistant, caretaker, housekeeper, carpet dealer, chicken farmer, record shop owner, night watch, sauna assistant, roadie, secretary, cleaner, nude model, part-time single father, chocolate producer, bike messenger...Just to name a few! But most of all, Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet improvisation and Noise. Major themes of his works are childhood experiences, sexual eruptions, psycho mechanisms, auto-aggression. For this Spektrum event Joke Lanz will create a special spoken word performance where he'll talk about his own life, strange encounter and the impossibility of being rational in irrational times.

MARGARET RORISON (1983, Baltimore, MD) - margaretrorison.com

Margaret Rorison is a curator and filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. She works with language, sound, and imagery to create installations, films, and live 16mm projections. Her work is an impressionistic exploration into the visceral nature of memory and experience. Her work has been screened at various venues and festivals including, Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, The Maryland Film Festival, Mono No Aware VI & VII, Sonic Circuits Festival, Microscope Gallery, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and The High Zero Festival. Rorison is the co-founder and curator for the experimental film series, Sight Unseen and a member of The High Zero Foundation. She is in Berlin for the month of November, working as an artist in residence at Lichtenberg Studios.

Margaret will screen a collection of recent, short 16mm films.