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and “frmk” magazine. His
work has been translated into thirteen languages
andhas been included inmagazines and collections
in Greece and elsewhere.
Kinga Toth is a visual and sound poet, performer,
philologist and teacher, cultural manager and
activist. She writes and performs in the Hungarian,
German and English languages. Her books
include: Village 0-24 (English, Melting books,
2016), All machine (Hungarian and German,
Magvető-Solitude 2014) and ZSÚR (Hungarian,
PRAE 2013).
Laura Wihlborg is a poet, radio producer, sound
artist and spoken word artist from Sweden.
She won the Swedish national poetry slam
championship in 2008 and has since performed
at several international poetry events, festivals
and venues such as Poetry Parnassus in London,
Harvard University and Poetry Africa in Durban,
SouthAfrica. In 2009, Laura won the Slam!Revue
poetry competition at the International Literature
Festival in Berlin. Laura lives in Stockholmwhere
she produces, writes and directs documentaries
and radio drama for the national public radio.
She is also part of a performance group, creating
digital sound art in public spaces and night clubs
in Stockholm.
Sergio Garau (Sardinia, 1982) has been taking
part in poetry slams, poetry and videopoetry
festivals in Europe and America since 2001. He
has been writing and performing the collective
play IO game over (2010), along with musicians,
videoartists and software developers. Since 2007
he has been leading writing and performance
workshops in Italy and abroad. He has been
recently working for the LIPS (Italian Poetry Slam
League), for Poetry Slam Sardegna and for the
literary review Atti Impuri . His
work has been published on the internet, in DVDs,
albums, anthologies and reviews, but he mostly
works live. He won his first international poetry
slam in 2004, his best one in Madrid 2014, the
first Italian SlamTeamChampionship in 2002 and
the first Italian Videopoetry Festival in 2005, both
in Rome. He came in 3rd at the European slam
cup in 2015, and last at the first slam world cup
in Paris, 2007. He is part of the sparajurij writers’
collective.
Ireneaos Koullouras was born in Limassol in
1965. From 1975 to 1991, he worked as a bassist
in Cyprus, England and Germany. Ιn 1994,
he moved to the USA to enrol at the Berkley
College of Music, where he obtained a BA in
Professional Music. He studied with Ron Carter,
Charlie Banacos and Ed Barker, performed with
well-known musicians such as Ofer Ganor, Amos
Hoffman, Avishy Cohen, Christos Rafaelides,
Steve Hass, Walter Smith, Asaf Uria, Rea Bar
Ness and Bruno Piroth, and regularly performed
in Boston and New York with jazz bands. In
2001 he moved to Athens, Greece, where he
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