half of the London/Berlin based electronic synthpop duo, Coyer Koya, who released their debut EP Ease Tension in July 2016. In her monthly radio show Hidden Stories on Colaboradio, she tells stories with words and music about activism, politics and art from various corners of the world. Recent projects include the autobiographical performance series Skewed, looking at selffetishization of musical elements and musicians of colour (debuted at Reflektor Festival 2016). Shanti Suki moderates discussions on these topics in the panel discussion series, The Artist’s Role in Society. She attends KontextSchule at Universität der Kunst, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Berlin. sukiosman.wordpress.com/about Latenightsinsquatbars.org coyerkoya.bandcamp.com mixcloud.com/hiddenstories
Side Room and Barby Asante
The Side Room is an informal initiative, founded by curator Amal Alhaag and artist Maria Guggenbichler in Amsterdam. The project takes the shape of a nomadic meeting room for intersectional feminist, queer, anti-colonial and anti-racist discourses and practices. The activities hosted at the Side Room range from consciousness-raising groups to parties, reading groups to workshops, film screenings to non-sense events and absurd rituals. Barby Asante is a London-based artist, curator and educator who’s work explores space, place and identity. The drive of her work is to create spaces for dialogue, collective thinking, ritual and reenactment. Using archival material in the broadest sense, she is interested in breaking down the language of archive, not to insert or present alternatives to dominant narratives but to interrupt, interrogate and explore the effects and possibilities of the unheard and the missing. This collaboration has been formed through an on going across the water dialogues that have explored their ideas through, Skype calls and exchanges in London and Amsterdam exploring sonic biographies, ancestral and Diasporic language and the connections and differences in the African Diasporic experiences in The Netherlands and the UK. They will also meet and connect together with OOR Salon in Zurich at SHE SPEAKS SILENCE a 3-day gathering and events program, which 41