Marianna Maruyama is an artist and writer living in The Hague. She works with performance, sound, sculpture, and writing. Her productions, which are often conceptually grounded, cultivate interconnection and entanglement through broad topics including translation, heritage, ecology, and love. She is also deeply interested in Rome and its insect life. She has led and contributed to many research projects and collaborations, often concentrated in The Netherlands, Italy and Lithuania. She collaborates with historians, curators, restorers, composers, data scientists, entomologists, and botanists, and others. Her work has been performed and exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), documenta14 Parliament of Bodies, Kassel (DE), Manifesta 11, Zurich (CH), The Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL), IMPAKT festival, Utrecht (NL), the Radiophrenia festival Glasgow (UK), and CAC Vilnius (LT).

Hessel Veldman is a veteran of the Dutch musical avant-garde and published several legendary cassettes on his label Exart in the early 80’s. His experimental soundscapes are laced with industrial elements, creating a hypnotic, dark undercurrent of sounds. Besides operating under his moniker Y Create, he was a member of the improvisation group Gorgonzola Legs and kept working intensively with Fluxus artist and Dutch underground cult-figure Willem de Ridder. The home-taping era shaped his free approach to music. His diverse musical practices have been traversing several decades by now and he continues to play music according to his own insights and intuitions.