Hurry, 591 BC –2007: The Musical

Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award and Deutscher Jazzpreis winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, ECM recording artist, composer and performer. He has toured the world playing piano and church organ with leading artists from the classical and jazz idioms.

Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, music, sculpture, photography and public projects. Ever since her college roommate observed "You're always exactly ten minutes late," she has spent the last four decades trying to be on time.

Sally O'Reilly is a writer based in London. Recent projects include the performance collective Big Throw (2024–present), the novella Help in Cucumbers (JOAN Publishing, 2023), and Where They Gather (October House Records, 2022), a spoken-word and music album with Kit Downes.

Myra Eetgerink is a multifaceted performer and maker. After studying physical theater at École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, she trained in contemporary dance in France, Belgium, and later in Berlin, where she is based. She has acted and danced in several German and international film and television projects and is currently making her own work, which incorporates dance, theater, and elements of contemporary circus.

Fernanda Farah’s practice spans contemporary and experimental music, theater, performance, and dance, with a particular focus on language and voice in relation to the body. She collaborates frequently with Dorky Park dance company, was artist-in-residence at Art Omi: Music (Ghent, New York) and at Q21, MuseumsQuartier (Vienna), and co-curates the experimental music and performance series “Labor Sonor” at Kunsthaus KuLe (Berlin).

Hannah Hurtzig founded the Mobile Akademie Berlin (MAB) in 1999, which has since then produced experimental academy models, architectures of knowledge and non-knowledge, essayistic installations and performances, and analog and digital archive units. The MAB’s best-known format is the Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, which has been performed over thirty times internationally since 2004.

Michelle Madsen is a Danish-Argentine multidisciplinary artist working between Berlin and the UK. Her work spans poetry, theater, clown, field recording, tarot, and printmaking. She is a co-director of the award-winning international performance company Bait and part of the Make-Up project space collective in Berlin.

Augustin Maurs is a musician and interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the processes of music making as such, often within their historical, social, and political contexts. His frequently collaborative projects combine music with performance and installations, or take curatorial forms.