Zine Contributors
Alexandra Mauriello
Alex Mauriello is an artist and designer whose work explores the intersections of nature, technology, and memory. With a background in visual design and research-based practice, their work examines how digital interfaces reshape perception and archival systems. Rooted in material experimentation, they use found objects, natural materials, and digital distortions to create pieces that blur the boundaries between organic and artificial systems. Their recent work investigates the idea of "natural data," treating landscapes and geological formations as information carriers. Mauriello has contributed to exhibitions and experimental publications that engage with speculative narratives and contemporary digital culture. @paper___organismo
Andrea Hackl
Andrea Hackl is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. While the human body is one main channel of her creative practice, she cherishes the alchemy of different disciplines. She is a poet, using different media to explore, create & express. Central themes to her work: transformational processes, empowerment, freedom and, often, the interconnection between our inner emotional and outer landscapes. Her performance project DREAMER has won the Award for Best Interdisciplinary Live Performance at Lensdans Festival Brussels. Her films are being presented at festivals world wide and have won awards for BEST EXPERIMENTAL / ART FILM or BEST VIDEO POETRY. www.andreahackl.com @andreahacklprojects
Anton Lushankin
Anton Lushankin is (visual) poet, writer, playwright and translator, born in Kyiv, Ukriane. Since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War he resides in his hometown. His work appeared in multiple publications including TAB Journal, orangepeel, Cream City Review, Lenticular Lit and Teiresian. He has too many ideas to really be able to manage them properly, but currently he’s finishing M.Sc. in Architecture, while working on a closet musical “DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!!” (based on the eponymous album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), a memoir-in-essays about the Russo-Ukrainian War and a multitude of short stories.
Christina Bauernfeind
Christina Bauernfeind is an artistic researcher and performance artist based in Heidelberg, Germany. Their work explores identity, intersectional equality and the deconstruction of naturalized narratives through collaborative, site-specific, autobiographical performative practices. Based on academic studies in Philosophy, English Literature, Linguistics and Art Theory, with a focus on queer aesthetics, they work in longterm artistic research projects that find various multi-media hybrid formats in between pop and subcultures. For i am monster they have been collaborating with visual and media artist Hannah Uszball and sound artist Sebastian Horn.
Clara Chacón
Clara Chacón is Bolivian poet, illustrator and animator based in London. Her work revolves around human experience both tangible and intangible often using metaphor to explain circumstances. She has a Ba(hons) in Illustration Animation and a Master in Animation both from Kingston University. Instagram: @little_sayubu
Collette Rayner
Collette Rayner is an artist, writer, and lecturer working between Scotland and the Netherlands. Her practice moves fluidly between film, experimental animation, text, and drawing. She is currently the co-director of INN, a new residency space in rural Fife. Her work has been screened, published, and exhibited with Edge of Frame(London), Boundless Film Festival, Fetfilm (Stockholm), Macau Experimental Video Festival (Macau), The Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), 45th Parallel Literary Journal (Portland, USA), The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), 3 137 (Athens), Two Queens (Leicester), Gutter Literary Journal (Glasgow), Hoax (London), Standpoint (London), and Collective (Edinburgh). www.colletterayner.com @collectte_call
Fran Hayes
Fran Hayes is an interdisciplinary artist working across 3D modelling & animating, installation, writing and sculpture. Her first solo show ‘Thick, Stretchy, Sticky Space’ was at IMT Gallery, London, from May to July 2024. Fran has exhibited locally and internationally, most recently in Itoshima, Japan, March 2025. Other significant exhibitions include a collaborative performance installation with Ika Schwander for Rooms Festival, Maastricht, The Netherlands, ‘through the eyes of a pigeon’ (2023) in Cape Town, South Africa, which she curated as well as exhibited in with Nick Rushton, and ‘The Way We Were Tenderly’ (2023), London, with Alice Palm.
Gabriela Milkova Robins
Gabriela Michele (Gabriela Milkova Robins) is a Macedonian poet and PhD candidate based in St Andrews, Scotland. She was the 2023 StAnza Poetry Festival Poet-in-Residence, supported by the Edwin Morgan Trust, holding the Translation Award. Her work has appeared in the AI Literary Review, Seedlings, The Ekphrastic Review, OKNO.MK, Diversity, and three Macedonian anthologies, among others. Her performances include features on UK radio “Supernova”, at StAnza, Hame-ish, Fill This Space, and Struga Poetry Evenings. Her visual poetry has featured at StAnza 2023 in her collaborative exhibition entitled “Peeking” and she was a featured artist in the off-page 24 visual poetry exhibition and the off-page Kallax 2025 StAnza exhibition. Her poem Yield first appeared in the AI Literary Review. @gabrielamilkovarobins
Gel Press
Gel Press is an archival experiment in ambiguity working around, through and underneath. Obsessed with things beyond comprehension, the project is a mirror of the synaptic relation of everything, existing in the world and to the world. I, we, my, our intention is to create a fluidity, an unblocking of trueness. Where everything is fluid and jittering at the same time. As long-time collaborators, we recognised our urge to wring out texture and sensation from language and therein lies the intent of the cosmology. Gel Press is co-founded by Georgia Bloom (@eventuallyswallowed, and Anouska Manion (@noo_noo_vibes).
Ginny Darke
Ginny Darke is a Welsh poet based in Bristol, U.K. She has been shortlisted for the Foyle Young Poets award and the Creative Futures award. Her work has been published with ‘Poetry Northern Ireland’, ‘Anthropocene’, ‘The Remnant Archive’ and ‘Ink, Sweat and Tears’. Instagram: @ginny.darke
indexthumb
indexthumb is a filmmaker and performance artist working with queer perceptual processes to investigate frame-based bodies and the growing entanglement between physical and virtual space. Centering their non-binary body as a queer site of investigation, they use contemporary movement improvisation and somatics to explore the errors, invisibilities, and hybrid spaces that emerge from our interactions with screens and images. They have presented their work as everything from multi-channel installations, to films on Hollywood Boulevard, to underground Berlin bunker performances. www.indexthumb.com @indexthumb
Jamie Yuan
Jamie Yuan is a multidiscliplinary artist currently studying at the University of the Art London. She explores different mediums in order to build worlds, such as design, painting, music, and writing. A thinker and storyteller at heart, she draws from the obscure and the esoteric. She aims to be bold and incisive, having just the right amount of irreverence for art’s ability to communicate and inform. Currently, she maintains her own multimedia project at ersatz-heart.com.
Kate Mohanty
Kate Mohanty is an avant-garde saxophonist based in Brooklyn and is a long time member of Brooklyn's DIY music scene. kate is avidly committed to the process of improvisation & collaboration. Disappear Here, Mohanty’s second solo effort, was released in October 2019 on friendship tapes. Kate’s albums are completely improvised upon recording. Mohanty's debut solo recording, The Double Image, was released via GP Stripes in April 2017. in addition to solo efforts, Kate has participated in a wide variety of artistic projects; including scoring short films, accompanying dance & theater performances, as well as appearing on numerous albums for a wide variety of music projects. In addition to music, kate is a writer and published a solo book of poetry entitled Back from Brooklyn in 2011.
Kevin Chen
Kevin Chen is a spoken word poet and video game programmer living in Brooklyn, New York, author of the 2017 IndieCade Award nominated visual novel Four Horsemen and narrative ghostwriter for many smartphone games. He has written and performed spoken word pieces at the SalON! experimental variety series at The Brick, Cuckoos Open Mic at SoHo Playhouse, and Easy Paradise at KGB Bar, among many others, in a performance career that has spanned well over a decade. He can be found on Instagram as @verticalblankinterrupt
Lauren Dana Smith
Lauren Dana Smith is a research-based multidisciplinary artist, writer and psychotherapist based in Taos, New Mexico. Smith’s practice centers sculptural, digital, video and sound compositions to process land/body politics through a feminist lens. Her works have been presented nationally and internationally, most recently at the CICA Museum in South Korea and at the PASEO Project in New Mexico. Smith has published and presented widely on art psychotherapy, traumatology, pediatrics and palliative medicine. Smith is a co-founder of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective. She holds an MPS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she is a faculty member. @laurendanasmith
Maike Helbig
Maike Helbig, based in Hanover, has a long path as painter, expressionist, photographer, make-up artist and hair stylist and has been working as photographer in varied projects since 1994. Her ambition is to capture and show beauty; the aesthetic and proportion of everything. Every object is unique, if you desire to show this. She aims to present faces, bodies and all things in their maximum expressive power. She's producing campaigns, record covers, products, cultural events and society pictures and video projects.
Matt McKinzie
Matt McKinzie is a multimedia artist whose work encompasses writing, filmmaking, curation, archival research, and performance. He graduated from Emerson College in 2021 with a B.A. in Visual and Media Arts and a Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His films have screened at MIX: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival, 8-Ball TV, and the Film-Makers' Cooperative. Matt has curated programs of film and video art that have screened in the U.S. and internationally at such venues as Spectacle Theater, Millennium Film Workshop, Mana Contemporary, and Cinema Catalunya.
Olivia Burgess
Olivia Burgess is an internationally acclaimed movement artist, filmmaker, and photographer. She holds a BFA in dance performance from Fordham University and the Ailey School and a Master’s in Interaction Design from UAL’s London College of Communication. She has performed alongside FKA Twigs, Beyoncé, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Olivia explores the human experience through staged installation, performance, dance, and video. She is currently deepening her movement practice through the study of somatic movement and Butoh. Her work has been showcased at Ars Electronica, Hypha Studios, Dances With Films NY, Fisheye Film Festival, Cine Paris Film Festival, New Renaissance Film Festival and Gallery Kollectiff.
Rachel Sun E.
Rachel Sun E. is a fine artist and graphic designer based in Brooklyn New York. Her aesthetics embrace storytelling, and themes of embodiment, myth, and empathy. She is currently working on a creative writing and mixed media project exploring feminine trinity philosophies, and is looking for collaborators.
Riley Tu
Riley Tu is a London-based artist working with moving image, music, and installation. Her practice explores body politics, self-representation, and algorithmic resistance in digital spaces, drawing on feminist theories. Through 3D animation, she sculpts bodies as sites of tension between internal experience and external control. Tu’s work has been shown internationally, including BFI Southbank, Oberhausen, and Salón ACME. She was nominated for Best Animation Short at New Renaissance Film Festival, is part of British Council International Touring Programme, and has received grants from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. She holds an MFA Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. @riileytu
Riverstone (Yuying Song)
Riverstone (Yuying Song) is a London-based poet whose work draws deeply from personal experience, exploring connections between individuals and the universal themes of love and mystery. Her writing reflects her “wanderer” identity, navigating the space between two cultures and embracing a fluid, non-binary self-recognition that transcends traditional notions of male and female. Meanwhile, by reimagining mythologies and religions, she delves into the blurred lines between divinity and humanity, often situating her work in the liminal spaces of “in-between”—neither this nor that—where chaos becomes a creative force.
Vincent Katz
Vincent Katz is a poet, translator and musician. He has published several books of poetry, including the recent collection, DAFFODIL (2025). Vincent is currently writing a book about three artists — the poet and critic Edwin Denby, the photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, and the painter and printmaker Yvonne Jacquette — and how they lived together and supported each other, as well as a larger group of friends and artists, in order to make art. It is always challenging to make art; in our times ever more so. vincentkatz.net
Zara Joan Miller
Zara Joan Miller works across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group 2023). Her work has been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO, In Vitro, Default Den Haag and has appeared in Fieldnotes journal, Motor Dance Journal, Hotel, MAP, Another Gaze and Worms Magazine. @zarajoanmiller
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