About the artists
Watch me bake
Watch me bake is an enabling performing arts collective based in Uppsala with the aim of promoting the presence of movement-based art. The association consists of professionals active in dance and performing arts, where each individual has their own interests that are explored both individually and in groups. Watch me bake organizes events with a focus on creating a space for artists and audiences to meet in a permissive environment with low thresholds. The occasions frequently focus on work in progress where artists can show something that is under development and the audience gets the opportunity to “test-talk” about the experience using various methods presented during the events.
Jen Rosenblit
Jen Rosenblit (1983, USA) makes performances based in Berlin after many years in New York City, surrounding architectures, bodies, text, and ideas concerned with problems that arise inside of agendas for togetherness. Rosenblit’s works lean toward the uncanny, locating ways of being together amidst (un) familiar and impossible contradictions. Desire and sexuality linger as reoccurring points of departure without demanding a singular aesthetic or representation. Rosenblit is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, a 2023 La Becque (Vevey, CH) artist in residence and has collaborated with artists including Simone Aughterlony, Miguel Gutierrez, A.K.Burns and Philipp Gehmacher.
Louis Schou-Hansen
Louis Schou-Hansen (b. 1992, Aarhus, DK) is an interdisciplinary artist and performer employing choreography, theory, text and installation to situate the body as a domain of fiction. From here, its work dives into assemblages of corrupted bodies, failed sex, re-animations of history, and the production of desire. Louis holds an MA from The Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and a BA from Oslo National Academy of Dance (KHIO). Their works have recently been presented by venues including the ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), NADA – New Art Dealers Alliance (New York), Dansens Hus (Oslo), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen) II Magazine (Rome), Black Box Theater (Oslo), Centrale Fies (Dro), Copenhagen Contemporary (CPH), Suprainfinit Gallery (Bucharest), and My Wild Flag (Stockholm). In 2023, they were shortlisted for the Sandefjord Kunstforening’s art prize together with Harald Beharie, and since 2024, they have initiated and curated MIND EATER, a festival for emerging arts and performance, together with Runa Borch Skolseg.
Laia Estruch
Laia Estruch was born in Barcelona 1981 where she lives and works. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2010) and studied Performance Art and Sound Art at The Cooper Union University in New York (2010). The artistic practice delves into the language of the body and the voice, on the threshold between sculpture and performance. Her projects analyse the emotional possibilities of the a cappella voice and the body, opening a space for reflection in relation to the performative nature of language, sound recording and its oral archive. Sculptural sets, conceived as scenes or spaces of experimentation allow her to activate the body and the word through the voice, sound and gesture.
Laia Estruch has received grants, awards and residencies and has presented performances in numerous museums and festivals in Barcelona, such as MACBA, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, to the Fundació, Joan Miró in Barcelona, the Picasso Museum, but also internationally such as, Travesía Cuatro GDL, México (2024); ‘After Paradise’, Triënnale Kortrijk, Bélgica (2024, Chapelle des the Beaux-Arts, Paris (2017). Currently she presents an acclaimed solo show at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid (2025). She is represented in private and public collections and is part of the Public Heritage of the city of Barcelona with the donation of the sculpture 'Playground Scene' installed in the Contemporary Art Center Fabra I Coats, MACBA Collection.
Maja Fredin
Maja Fredin was born 1992, in Uppsala and is currently living in Stockholm. She has an MFA i CRAFT!, textile art from Konstfack 2022. The artistry is built on performative installations that allow the viewer to become part of her everyday choreography. She sees her works as a reflection of society— the fetish for consumerism, dysmorphophobia, food, and her own decay. With a broad mix of humour and rancid kitsch, she twists and turn reality, expand delusions, and invite the audience to interpretation of the already impossible world that we live in. Her art dwells in the borderland between laughter and profound seriousness with a strong believe that art can truly make a difference. In 2023 Fredin was the Maria Bonnier Dahlin grant recipient, and she is represented at KiN - Konstmuseet i Norr and the collections of Maria Bonnier Dahlin foundation.
Deva Schubert
Deva Schubert is a choreographer with a focus on vocal practices based in Berlin. She was born 1991 and has studied dance in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen and at HZT Berlin, as well as Fine Arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. At the intersection of dance, installation, and digital media, her works address questions of intimacy, collectivity, and synergies of transdisciplinary practices. As a dancer and performer, she has worked for Isabelle Schad, Michael Portnoy and Julie Favreau at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, documenta 14 and steirischer herbst. In 2020, she participated in the education and exchange programme danceWEB at ImPulsTanz. Her work was shown at Kunsthalle Zürich, Gessnerallee Zürich, Uppsala Art Museum / Revolve Closer 2019, Radialsystem Berlin, and Transart festival in Bolzano. In recent years, she has been researching the connection between AI and culture with Mosaick Collectiv. Her current work Glitch Choir premiered in June 2023 at Reinbeckhallen Berlin and is opening Tanztage Berlin 2024 at Sophiensæle. In 2024 she was awarded the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award for the work.