Project Labyrinth

A director, artistic director, and freelance graphic designer, Xavier Reyé was born in 1978 and works in Paris, France. He started off as a web designer for Radio Nova and moved on to work for post-production companies such as Digital District and Fix Studio (Quad group). He has collaborated several times with Edouard Salier as an art director and graphic designer on commercials for clients such as NIKE, Coca-Cola, O2, Greygoose, and also on music videos for artists like Massive Attack, Metronomy, and Raphael Saadiq.

Reyé directed music videos for Doctor L, Cassius (toop toop), Soldout (Forever), and Stromae (quand c’est?), as well as the Stromae Tour 2015 and Loïc Nottet Tour in 2017 with Benuts company.

A Singaporean artist and filmmaker, Yeo’s film, A Land Imagined (2018), won the Golden Leopard at the 71st Locarno Film Festival and was selected as Singapore’s entry to the 92nd Academy Awards (Best International Feature Film category). The film also won Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score at the 56th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and is distributed worldwide on Netflix. Extending beyond conventional cinema networks, his many works have been shown at venues like the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; City Museum of Ljubljana; and Singapore International Festival of Arts.

A composer of music of “high drama” and “intense emotion” (BBC), Eugene Birman (born in 1987) has written for leading symphony orchestras, choirs, ensembles, and soloists across four continents in venues ranging from London’s Southbank Centre to Carnegie Hall to above the Arctic Circle. A 2018 Guggenheim fellow, he has appeared on CNN, BBC World TV, Radio France, Deutsche Welle, and others throughout his highly public career. Awarded the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, his work is characterised by a fearless focus on socially relevant large-scale compositions covering the financial crisis, Russian border treaties, and more. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Columbia University, The Juilliard School, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.

Garcia has produced independent films in Asia, studio pictures in Hollywood and the first series on Asian cinema for the US cable TV. He has run and programmed film festivals in Hong Kong, Asia, Europe and the US since the late 1970s. His writing is published internationally by British Film Institute, Cahiers du Cinema, Film Comment etc.

CEO and Artistic Director of the multidisciplinary Helsinki Festival in 2015–18, where he commissioned and programmed the world’s leading artists from Lang Lang and David Hockney to Kyle Abraham, Cate Blanchett and John Malkovich, and from companies of most of the art disciplines and for various media, often with multidisciplinary ethos. As a classical tenor, he has performed on the major stages and festivals with, for example, Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Sir Simon Rattle and Riccardo Muti, in productions of Trisha Brown, Peter Sellars and others. He features in numerous audio and video recordings, having been nominated twice for a Grammy.

Hailed as a child prodigy, Anandi Bhattacharya featured in the album Beyond the Ragasphere conceived by her father, Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, alongside the likes of John Mclaughlin, Jerry Douglas, Pt. Bickram Ghosh and Pt. Tanmoy Bose, which won the Album of the Year (2014) at WOMEX. She was featured in the Songlines magazine, The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine and, alongside artists like Mac Miller and Billie Eilish, in the London Evening Standard’s Albums of the Month and the PopMatters compilation of best artists of 2019. She has also topped the World Music Europe Chart, the Transglobal World Music Charts Europe for Best Album (2018), while garnering the German Record Critics' Award and the Songlines Music Award (2019). She has toured all over the globe showcasing her musical prowess, and recently collaborated with Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar.

Principal Conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra with ten sold-out concerts each season in the Berliner Philharmonie, including the annual New Year's Day concert with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. As a guest conductor Dodds has appeared with major orchestras around the world, including the symphony orchestras of Vancouver, Melbourne, Beijing, Istanbul, Munich and Hamburg. He was born in Canada, grew up in Australia and, as a dual German-Australian citizen, is now based in Berlin.

An interdisciplinary artist, Tubash earned his Master’s degree after graduating from the Moscow State Institute of Radiotechnics, Electronics, and Automations. In addition to technical education, he also studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art (New Art Strategies), British Higher School of Art and Design (Theatre Stage Design), and HSE Art and Design School (Illustration).

Tubash participated in the artist exchange programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. His subject of interest is city as a stratum of cultural, historical, visual, and social layers, with its nonlinearity, ambiguity, and boundaries. His works cover a wide range of media including installation, performance, costume design, graphics, and tour. He is also fond of site-specific projects.