Other Realms

Panel Moderator মm. (read: mwo, just like the bangla alphabet) is a DJ, curator and community organizer based in Dhaka & Vienna. They play with percussions, rhythms, bass, and drama to tease out experiences of time and energies. They work predominantly with genres, styles and rhythms of the global South and Black Atlantic to perform sonologies of collaborative music histories across the larger regions and its diasporas in metropoles of elsewhere. They curate and mix along movements of sounds, diasporic collaborations and hybridity, brought together with nostalgia, collective memories and embodied cultures of music and dance.
It is important for them to be in conversation with the dance floor and, often, critical of how such spaces are made and for whom, with a tendency to center queerness and reclaim ideas of nightlife and dance from Euro-American club culture.
As a club culture curator and organizer, they are interested in: self-organized communities; safer spaces and accessibility practices; queer-feminist post-colonial and post-human praxis in club contexts; global-South dialogues in club economies; and collective experiences of sound and movement that are both somatic as well as cerebral.
They are one of the founding members of Karkhana Collective, a not-for-profit artists' collective based in Dhaka where they explore critical and accessible practice of music, sound and dancefloor organizing. They are also a founding member of Spice Mixers (@spice_mixers), a collective based in Vienna that works with music, dance and art to create queer & trans BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour)-focused spaces where different cultural and social experiences of diaspora and migrant communities in Vienna can be celebrated.

Panelist AnouchK Ibacka is a trans no binary afro cuban and congolese with french pass.
Multi disciplinary human and I enjoy to create and hold spaces for people.
I like fluidity, flexibility and connexion.
Facilitating constellations, a healing tool based on a traditional Zulu practice, allows connection with our ancestors and many hidden and not-so-hidden feelings entangled in our biographies.
While healing together, this work helps us to see situations from different perspectives, so we can live our lives with more lightness and responsibility.

Panelist Rma is a genderfluid marathi dandelion-moon-being temporarily living in a human body. They are a care worker, space holder, and multidisciplinary artist. Rma's work weaves together themes of earthly and cosmic entities, the metaphysical, liberation, grief, eroticism, and Love. You can listen to them talk their shit heartfully on their independent podcast, the dandelion.

Panelist Sadaf Javdani is a writer, somatic facilitator and community organizer. After teaching anthropology in academia for a few years, they stepped away to root their work in movement organizing and collective care. For the last few years, Sadaf has offered embodied practices to QTI*BIPoC communities. Their writings have appeared in platforms including New Socialist, Jadaliyya, The Guardian and Kohljournal.