Marco Grimnitz is an actor, teacher and facilitator, trained at Ophelia Acting Studio in Copenhagen specialising in Meisner technique. He made his feature film debut in the award-winning film Bagland, directed by Anders Gustafson and produced by Nimbus Film.In addition to his work as an actor, Marco is an experienced teacher and facilitator within performative and creative processes, and he also works as a photographer. His practice is at the intersection of narrative, body and presence, and he uses his background to empower the voices of others - both in front of the camera and in the classroom.

Kâlánguak Absalonsen is an author, speaker and advocate who, through her personal narrative as an adopted child from Greenland, explores topics such as identity formation, cultural heritage, adoption and the fight against discrimination and racism. Her work draws on her own experiences and sheds light on the structures and emotions that characterise transnational adoption and belonging. Through her books, podcasts and public engagement, she conveys a personal voice that creates space for reflection and conversation about identity formation and cultural memory. With the publications K and Lille, she has contributed to the literary and cultural debate on adoption and Greenlandic-Danish history.

Yong Sun Gullach is a Danish-Korean adoption activist and performance artist (b. 1967). Her overall aesthetic-political endeavours can be said to be grounded in a deep and persistent insistence that race, identity, gender, body, politics, adoption and symbolic violence and trauma are intersectionally linked. This insistence is concretised through a double articulation of bodily practices (performance and installations) and textual entities that take the form of prose poems, directorial remarks or reflective essayistic texts. This art practice, or set of practices, is motivated by an investigation of identity that balances on the border between the personal and the political.

Annette Cho  works with migration, adoption and identity in a geopolitical context. She examines the systemic failures and structural consequences that characterise the adoption industry, and her practice is an active quest to reclaim a lost culture, language and identity. She asks the question: What does it mean to have a transnational identity? Her artistic work reflects the tension between transnational adoptees' heritage, upbringing and self-understanding - a trauma and grotesqueness with consequences for all parties in the adoption system. Through her practice, she explores and comments on the complexities of transracial adoption from a personal, collective, existential and aesthetic perspective where ethnic diasporas manifest.

Nova Myhre is a Norwegian/Ethiopian artist and music producer based in Copenhagen. Their songs roam through a spectrum of sounds, unbound by genre, constructing scenarios and exploring the possibilities of composition. Percussion, samples, live instruments, and vocals are woven into a dynamic landscape of electronic production. At the core of Nova’s practice is a fluid approach to form and output, where sketches, improvisations, and completed works merge into a visceral collage of sound.

This fluid approach extends across her multidisciplinary work, spanning sound compositions for film, fashion show, art exhibitions and live performance. Nova has released music on labels including 5 Gate Temple (UK) and D.O.T Audioarts (US). Recent collaborations include projects with Dean Blunt and Authentically Plastic. Nova embraces inbetweenness and otherness through her glitchy storytelling, an invitation into a world that redefines what's already existing.

Photo credit: Liv Habel

Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn (PH/NO) is a performer, choreographer, and sound creator, active in both her own and others’ productions within contemporary dance and performance. Her practice explores different ways of thinking, doing, being, and observing as fertile and equally valid forms of expression. Mjåvatn is particularly interested in receptivity, sensing, and listening as methods for approaching the unknown, opening up parallel dimensions, and searching for answers that do not always take verbal form.

From 2013- 2020 Hanna has developed two projects about the experiences around being adopted with performances in TekstLab, and other residencies in Praxis, and Universitetet in Østfold.