Bambí Benkö is a queer Dutch/Hungarian non-binary artist with a focus on ceramics, sculpture, participatory performance and political intervention. Within their sculptural work, they are interested in creating intimate liminal sci-fi environments and ritualistic spaces, using scent, light and sound to entice desire. In 2012 they founded Tools for Action, under which collaborations are realized with artists, activists, hackers, choreographers, shifting between activist, cultural and educational contexts with the aim of developing new forms of assembly and political action. For three years they are invested in dream work as a collective healing practice to metabolize trauma and to unfold the radical imagination. They can be contacted at: bambi(at)toolsforaction.org.

Jakub Simcik is a video artist, curator and educator. He has exhibited internationally and his work is part of the collections of Ivo Wessel and the Free State of Saxony. He received his formal training at the Glasgow School of Art (2008-2009) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig (2009-2015). Jakub shaped the project El Martillo (2010, Eclectic Electric Collective, predecessor Tools for Action) and Red Lines Barricade at the COP 19 in Paris, 2015.

Josse is a choreographer, digital artist, teacher and costume maker, working at the intersection of physical performance, embodiment practices, and media art. Their practice combines live performance with ethereal post-internet aesthetics, often incorporating interaction design, generative art, photogrammetry and web development. In 2023, Josse founded performance platform Nobody’s Movement, where artists and communities can collaborate to explore their interrelated embodied experiences. They are dedicated to creating awareness of how information exists in and through bodies. And to keep exploring the poetic and narrative potential of hybrid performance, blending documentary theatre, with evocative multisensory designs.

nat skoczylas is a gender/queer artist, anarchist, writer and activist, living between Berlin and Massia(ru), Estonia. They run femAle, a queer feminist, anarchist brewing project since 2020 and hold collective cooking experiences for artistic and activist gatherings. nat’s practice concerns food and fermentation as social spaces of interspecies interaction, transformation and metaphor. In their collective collaborative practice using word, performance and facilitation, they explore the utopian, the unknown, the mystical, the radical and the revolutionary from a trans/queer/feminist lens. They’re deeply invested in mutual aid, transformative justice, abolitionism and decolonial, anticapitalist practices. nat developed and produced the Delegation of Slippery Affairs performance for the inauguration of the new Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2024.

Christy Westhovens is a visual artist, hacker, researcher and builder of machines. She designs tools to measure and translate natural processes into intuitive somatic experiences. In addition she explores collective machine building as a form of pedagogy, where playing, exploring, shaping, and adapting personal experiences in relation to the environment are central. The practice aims to foster awareness and control over the technologies that continually surround us. Christy worked on several Tools of the Tools for Action sensoriums, including dream machines and facillitated the workhop Rainbow Warriors at BAK Basis in Utrecht.

Maru does community organising with Tarwekracht in Rotterdam Zuid, where a lot of their work is getting neighbours, institutions and entrepreneurs to roll up their sleeves and do things together. Alongside that they are working on several projects that bring strangers together on a bigger scale, to get people out of their bubbles and give them a moment of sonder. Maru was previously Education Officer at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and is currently studying psychology. Maru shaped the projects Now Is The Time Of Monsters, 2017 at the Wiener Festwochen and CPH-Alt in Copenhagen.

Carmen Branco van Gelder is a visual and conceptual artist who recently graduated in Fine Arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy. Carmen uses different tools and crafts in search of conveying the right visual translation to a theme or feeling. She defines her work as divergent and transformative. Carmen worked with Tools for Action at Berry (Dreammachine 03).

Sarah Kerbosch is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and designer, with a background in fashion design and psychology. She focuses on the effect of space, colour and tactility on well-being, discovering how space influences the body and vice versa. She uses textiles in combination with other materials to create worlds in which her fantastical creatures live. She collaborates with Tools for Action on large scale sewing works such as the Hammer, the inflatable Bom and Dream Chapel.