HANDJOB

Seongji Jang (they/them) is a set designer and animation filmmaker whose artistic practice focuses on materiality, queerness and embodied narrative forms. They explore the hand as a site of labor, memory, care and desire.

For the installative performance “BUTCHPOSITION”, which was created in 2024 at the Staattheater Darmstadt, they explored masculine, queer and

trans* sexuality through the animation of gestures and hands. They are currently working on the long-term project “On the Palm, Sleeping Souls”, which deals with hands, work, sexuality and care. The project takes on a performative, video-artistic and installative form.

Born in Seoul, Seongji studied animation at the Korean National University of Arts and stage design at the UDK Berlin. In recent years, he has worked at Schauspiel Köln, Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Münchner Kammerspiele, among others. seongjijang.com

Sascha Malina Hoffmann (they/them) makes theater and performances and is interested in life realities and counter-realities - in digital, topographical and other multi-directional dramaturgies. This means more open narrative spaces in which players, dancers, technicians and the audience move and meet. The content is often about power and violence, as well as questions of resistance.

Works created during and after her studies (Otto Falckenberg School, Munich, directing) have been shown at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatstheater Mainz, PAD (Performing Arts and Digitality) Festival, Berliner Ringtheater, Körberstudio Junge Regie, Münchner Kammerspiele, Tanzfaktur Köln, and Kampnagel Hamburg, among others.

Since undergoing hormone replacement therapy with testosterone, more and more hair is growing on Sascha's hands, the skin is also changing - becoming thinner - the veins underneath more visible. People now think these hands are gripping harder and tighter.

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Denise Lim (she/they) is a Singaporean dancer and choreographer based in Berlin, working across theatre, film, and site-specific contexts. Her collaborative practice explores the body’s encounter with objects and environments - how it shapes and is shaped, invites and resists proximity, pleasure, and the gaze. Through improvisation and score-based methods, she cultivates heightened states of presence and experimental modes of witnessing. Recently, Denise deepened her research through the study of Thai traditional massage in Chiang Mai - expanding her somatic approach, and exploring touch and intimacy within movement practice.