Siddhartha Lokanandi is the owner of Hopscotch Reading Room, an English language bookstore in Berlin that centres on non-western & diasporic perspectives. Their aim is to expand and deepen the experience of the non-western world in the realms of discourse and literature. They complement this with an extensive programme of events—readings, discussions, screenings and workshops and reading groups—that draws upon the vibrancy, political agency and the cosmopolitan texture of the city.

Saskia Holmkvist is a visual artist and Professor of Contemporary Art at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. Her practice is concerned with translation processes and the un-fixing of historical narratives.
She involves agencies and forgotten artist´s performances as catalyst in activating dialogues, critical listening and oral speculation around history. Always working with a diverse array of people, Holmkvist considers these individuals as the main agents of the transformative potential. Zooming in on gestures and fragments as to reconfigure histories into layered entanglements is part of the aesthetic and theoretic fabric of her practice. She works in a circular mode of connectivity, bringing together themes of historic erasure and limits of translation into works of performance and moving image.