Gamze Öztürk (Turkey, 1987) is a visual and performance artist based in Rotterdam, mainly focusing on live art, installations, and textiles. She visualizes the silent languages of women in restricted social structures and patriarchal societies. By investigating symbols and motifs in body politics, native rituals and narratives, she explores hidden poetic language in handicrafts such as rugs, carpets, and embroideries. Through long-duration performance and installation, she evokes these ancient rituals that have been preserved for hundreds of years. More recently, she has been investigating the symbolism of Oya embroideries across Anatolia, which have functioned as a means of communication for women silenced in the public sphere.

During her time at Roodkapje, she wants to explore how rituals and shared experiences can be reimagined in a contemporary, collective context through movement, food rituals, and intimate gatherings.

Goretti Pombo (Curaçao, 1994)  is a multidisciplinary artist and explores the duality between playfulness and unease. At its core, her practice is both introspective and connective, inviting viewers into layered spaces that explore identity, expectation, and wonder. She thrives in the in-between—where contradiction gives way to new meaning. Softness becomes a form of resilience, and absurdity a lens for truth.

Music videos, religion, memories and unsettling encounters feed into a visual language that resists traditional storytelling, embracing emotional logic instead. With this, Pombo imagines and translates worlds that reflect her lived experience in the form of scenery and characters—often taking shape as large-scale fabric dolls, but not limited to them. Her practice is distinctly multidisciplinary, encompassing drawing, textiles, video, zines, and performance—approaching each with a spirit of constant experimentation as research. For Pombo’s time at Roodkapje, she wants to focus on storytelling as a medium to expand and share her stories.

oji nauli (Indonesia, 2003) is an ever-evolving music producer engaging with history and fictions to build, discover, and give continuity to politically-censored worlds and rhythms. Looking at the consent-manufactured, political turn of events – a global fascist coup – oji yearns for an internationalist people’s power. Also known as Mesin Slat, they perform live and as a DJ, sometimes in drag or tied up, sometimes with their lover as the duo slatspace, and sometimes with friends – telling lost stories of stubborn, sometimes difficult love. As they always try to experiment with the ways their sonic compositions interact with their communities, their music naturally evolves into different forms, such as film, video, performance, rituals and games. Big time lover.

At Roodkapje, they will combine research, gathering, and music to explore the potential that our imaginaries have, to connect with our predecessors, and translate our hopes and stories into day-to-day strategies.

Irene Cassarini also known as Guenter Råler is a music producer, DJ, multimedia artist and curator from Italy, now based in The Netherlands. Their immersive work takes shape at the intersection of sonic exploration and visual storytelling. Active in the local nightlife, Irene runs several queer and feminist collectives involved with the promotion of alternative music and creation of safer spaces, such as Queer In Wonderland, FLUID and Club Hits Different. Driven by their interest in how our lives intersect with ecology, technology and the digital realm, they dive into speculative realities and dream their own utopias.

In Roodkapje they want to explore the many possibilities that collective art can open through The Happenings. Expect blurry boundaries between the tangible and the virtual, where dreams intertwine with reality through improv and playful approach, creating space for free-form and unbounded creativity.

Tisa World is a multidisciplinarian – primarily a vocalist, a composer and a conductor. With her voice, language and presence, she resides in the now; inventing interaction models that reach beyond the grid. When performing, she sources a song from the beyond, imaginatively plays with structures, narratives, poetry and emotion. In her research, she mystically traverses the practices of composition and improvisation, emphasizing their emancipatory potential. Driven by her insatiable curiosity for humans, imagination and emotions, she performs, exhibits, curates and publishes around the world: promiscuously, collaboratively, spontaneously and with great joy. 

In Roodkapje she’s looking forward to work with fellow residents, to create and cross-pollinate between personal practices and each other’s collectives, in her case: the Singing Club and Mystery Sessions. She’s interested in the ways of interaction, collectively building and enjoying the moment of presence – the now. Be courageous and expect to be challenged!

Repelsteeltje is a non-binary interdisciplinary artist living and working in Rotterdam. Their artistic practice is focused on ways of working collectively and non-hierarchical, using infrastructures like mutual aid and squatting to reclaim space in the city. Their work is a form of pro-active documentation, using observations from political engagement to build spaces of reflection. This takes the shape of printed matter, re-enactments, sounds and events. It is about sharing knowledge for, with and by the communities they are a part of and manifests in actions, gatherings and performances. There, they bring together artists, activists and other skillful nerds to make zines and art prints. 

In Roodkapje they are looking forward to unexpected collaborations, to organize gatherings and release a movie, to get inspired and inspire others and also, share resources and get some back

Viana is a Brussels-born singer-songwriter, writer and artist, currently living in Rotterdam. In 2022, Viana graduated in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Erasmus University College Rotterdam, with a major in Political Philosophy and a minor in African Dynamics. Her academic background influences her practice, which is often intertwined with research and theory. Her voice is her main instrument. She likes jamming, improvising and bending genres – tools to break boundaries. She explores performance in its broader sense: as a conversational tool merging sound, visuals, theatricality and storytelling. Beyond music, she writes poetry, which she distributes through the city via stickers (and sometimes reads out loud), she develops audiovisual projects together with other musicians and filmmakers, she writes blog posts and long essays, and she designs DIY websites. She also bakes bread.

At Roodkapje, she will explore the theme “Red Hoods”, combining research, music, poetry, and live interaction with the public, discussing the different meanings of the word Hood, asking questions that shed light to its many socio-political perspectives, exploring the negotiation between the perception of the self and someone’s (perception of) safety in their “hood”. She is interested (and angry) in the paradoxal codes and etiquettes prescribed to different individuals in the streets..

Influenced by, and using the imagery of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, she reflects on advice she received since she was a young girl, on “how to avoid the big bad wolves out there”, while asking: What if there was a wolf under my own hood too? She wants to create a space to explore questions, share experiences, perspectives and be angry together against “the wolf”, while simultaneously exploring the wolves inside ourselves. How do our hoods define the roles we take?

Emir Karyo (2000) is a graphic designer, multi-disciplinary artist and a mischievous explorer based in the Netherlands, originally from Istanbul, employing various storytelling tools such as airbrush, sculptures, and screens to deliver a multi-sensory impact. Through exploring distinct yet interconnected techniques with synthesizing analog and digital workflows, he finds common ground between graphic design and fine arts.

Through his work, Emir aims to take the viewer on a journey from the familiar to the unknown, where reality and fantasy intersect, and where the absurd and satirical coexist. These portals lead into a realm where the mundane becomes magical and where the over-privatized aspects of daily life are mocked and humorously criticized. In his methodology, improvisations and last-minute ideas are welcomed on a red carpet, while mistakes are entities that are celebrated during their catwalk. 

NDNMK Solutions
“Ideology management”
11:11
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In the Hamburger Community – Test Site, NDNMK’ will investigate how to make music and literature in a decentralized way where the audience can co-write/create, both physically and digitally. In addition, they will use different methods of world building in order to build new common worlds that cultivate empathy and new myths. Using different magical, occult and ritual practices to map this new world and to collectively look for different futures.