Giants. Eine Reise ohne Ende

Lena Appel is a director, performer, and author who lives between Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. Her work spans dance, performance, and visual art. Recurring motifs in her work include shadows as a doubling of meaning, the investigation of psychosomatic effects of social and political conditions, as well as collaborations and relationships on a content and structural level. Her works have been shown at Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt LAB, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Deutsches Filminstitut und Filmmuseum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and saasfeepavillon, among others.

Leonie Chima Emeka works as a curator, author, and provenance researcher with a focus on colonial collections in Germany. Her articles have appeared in specialist journals such as African Arts and Positionen. Texte zur Zeitgenössischen Musik. She is co-founder of the former project space Parfümerie Frankfurt, where Giants 2024 was shown in its first adaption. She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

Irish-German artist Aisling Hayes lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. In addition to her theatre and performance practice, she develops musical works that unfold between sound, movement and expression.

annu koetter develops artistic formats that interweave social, participatory, and imaginative approaches. annu works in the fields of performance, choreography, dramaturgy, and dance and movement education, and is a freelance author for audio description in dance. annu understands choreography as a meeting place for different disciplines, with a particular focus on the collaboration between human and non-human bodies and their poetic and political dimensions.

After studying dance in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and completing a bachelor's degree in theater studies in Leipzig, annu is currently completing a master's degree in choreography and performance at JLU Giessen.

Nikki Buzzi works in the fields of music, installation, media, performing arts, film, instrument making, and education. They have exhibited work at TheI.S.R.O., the Nida Art Colony, the Bern Music Festival, the Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart, and the Istituto Svizzero in Milan. Buzzi headed the Electronic Studio at the HfMDK Frankfurt and taught there, as well as at the ZHdK and the Srishti Institute Bangalore.

Carla Renée Loose works as a costume designer and fashion designer in Berlin. Her work explores clothing as a territorial marker and focuses on the (textile) surface as a multidimensional boundary between body and space, on which temporalities as well as reality, narration, and fiction are reflected. In 2021, she completed her master's degree in fashion design at the KHB Weißensee and was awarded the European Fashion Award. She then participated in interdisciplinary exhibitions and residencies, including at the Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, as part of the Berliner Salon 2022 at Kraftwerk Berlin, and in the Goethe Institute Bangladesh's localinternational exchange program. She is particularly interested in experimental surface design and material development, as well as the porosity of attributions in performative and public space. As a costume designer, she most recently worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Theater Bremen, and Schauspiel Köln, as well as at Frankfurt L.A.B, Ballhaus Ost, and the Sophiensaele.

John Hussain Flindt is an artist and filmmaker. He studied at Chelsea College of Arts in London and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His most recent solo exhibitions include “Shadows or Objects” at the Jean Claude Maier Gallery in Frankfurt (2023) and “belly to belly” at the Parfumerie in Frankfurt (2024).

Rachel Ashton is a filmmaker and artist. In her work, she interweaves documentary film and fiction, exploring memory, realism, and social dynamics. She studied at Goldsmiths College in London and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Her work has been exhibited and shown internationally, including at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf, the UA Collection Vienna, the Kunstverein Braunschweig, and the Goethe-Institut Dublin. She lives and works in Berlin.