Branko is at the epicenter of contemporary Portuguese music. The Lisbon-based producer, DJ, and co-founder of the influential label Enchufada has played a central role in articulating a transatlantic sound that connects Lisbon to Luanda, Rio de Janeiro, and beyond. As a solo artist and a former member of Buraka Som Sistema, Branko has helped shape the global visibility of Portuguese-speaking diasporic music.

His solo work explores the intersections of electronic production, Afro-Portuguese rhythms, and global urban sounds, resulting in collaborations with artists such as Dino D’Santiago, Mallu Magalhães, PEDRO, Sango, and Carla Prata. Through albums like Atlas (2015), Nosso (2019), and Soma (2022), Branko has developed a signature sound that is rhythmic, melodic, and politically attuned—one that challenges borders while honoring local specificity.

Beyond performance, Branko is also a cultural connector—curating festival lineups, producing the TV series Club Atlas, and using his platform to amplify underrepresented voices. His DJ sets and productions embody a politics of relation, rooted in Lisbon’s postcolonial condition yet always reaching outward.

Daniel Wyche is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer, and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments, his solo recordings and live performances are characterized by long-form structured improvisations and multichannel guitar. He has been a curator with the Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago since 2013, where is work has been described as “crucial” by Dusted and “vital” by the Chicago Reader. In March of 2020, Daniel co-founded The Quarantine Concerts in collaboration with Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. The series has been widely praised as a model for online/streaming live music. Along with his solo guitar work, Daniel is involved in several ongoing collaborations, most notably the trio of Wyche, Mark Shippy (US Maple), and Ben Baker Billington, as well as new work with longtime collaborators like Patrick Shiroishi, Lake Mary, and many others.. His most recent solo record, “Earthwork,” was released on American Dreams Records in 2021.

Evelyn Rydz works across drawing, site-responsive installations, and community projects to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and with each other. Her practice explores connections between bodies of water, personal histories, consumer cycles, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems.

Rydz has collaborated on community projects with the University of Massachusetts, ICA Watershed, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and MIT List Visual Arts Center. Rydz is a Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Hugo Brazão is a visual artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and textile-based installation. Born in Madeira Island and based in Lisbon, his work explores the intersection between fiction and reality, often unfolding as immersive spatial compositions that challenge linear narratives and propose alternative temporalities. Using materials such as textiles, wood, pigment, and found objects, Brazão constructs vibrant, layered environments that blur the boundaries between drawing, object, and space.

Storytelling, play, and the aesthetics of displacement are central to his work. Humor, color, and distortion function as tools of both disruption and care—strategies through which he reimagines how bodies, identities, and spaces relate. Whether through sculptural fragments or full-room installations, his practice offers portals into speculative, sometimes absurd worlds that invite both contemplation and disorientation.

Brazão holds an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and has exhibited widely in Portugal and the UK. His work reflects an ongoing interest in how fictional visual languages can be used to question dominant narratives and propose new modes of relation—particularly in dialogue with print culture, queer imagination, and the politics of display.