MATCH 1 – NAVAL BATTLE
Frontex x Sumud Global Flotilla

In a bleeding wet battle, the sea becomes the main territory of dispute in our world. Sand, water, and life itself have become matters of colonial conflict.

In the middle of today's most important battlefield, the naval police FRONTEX tries to protect the fortresses of privilege where mega-corporations keep their offices and continue their practices of pinkwashing while we all die at sea, and the sea itself dies too.

But maybe climate activists, our last hope, will manage to break the blockade of colonial naval policing!

Maybe?

Go Greta, go!

MATCH 2 – ONLINE BATTLE
New Wave R4d Pill x Corporate Feminism

In this battle, we will closely follow the newest techniques of gender torture. Our villain, R4d Pill, has never left his bedroom before and will discover the world for the very first time with us.

But not everything will be easy for him, as he will encounter a Corporate Feminist for the first time, a character who promises salvation through branding, inclusion strategies, and LinkedIn language.

Can she save us from Techno Feudalism and its radicalized warriors?
Team: TBC 

The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks is a long-term art project active since 2021, composed of multiple actions such as a performance wrestling show (an ever-changing evening), a panel series coordinated by activist Chihiro Geuzenbroek, workshops, a publication, and a research trip to Bolivia to study and collaborate with the anarcho-feminist movement Mujeres Creando. It also gave birth to BIXARIA – Queer Brazilian Club Night.

The motto of the project is inspired by the Latin American form of wrestling, Lucha Libre, in which social characters enact current social conflicts, opening spaces for grief, anger, comedy, and dreams for the future.

The project contributed to the development of the methodology Re-telling Structures, in which theatre is understood as a place where structural power, as well as the ways the world works, can potentially be rewritten in terms we would like them to be. This is done by replacing key elements in order to destabilize current understandings and regimes.

Thais Di Marco (they/them) is a Queer Roma descendant, performing arts director, and multidisciplinary artist from São Paulo, Brazil, from the Candomblé community of Redandá in Cipó-Guaçú and Caixeira do Divino priestess of House of Nagô in São Luís. Since 2017, they have been based in Amsterdam.

In 2018, Thais graduated from DAS Choreography in Amsterdam, conducting research in Benin, West Africa, on post-colonial aesthetics under the mentorship of artist Romuald Hazoumè. Their work intersects decolonial movements and the arts, with collaborations including the EZLN guerrilla in Mexico, the independent space Bon Gah in Iran, Lucha Libre wrestling master El Gladiador, the anarcho-feminist movement Mujeres Creando in Bolivia and currently organizing with the Roma movement in Europe. In 2024, Thais was awarded the 3 Package Deal grant by the city of Amsterdam in partnership with Framer Framed.

Thais has collaborated internationally under the direction of Norwegian choreographer and activist Mia Habib, promoting community-based art practices. In 2023, they were a guest teacher at the Master's in Dance program at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and presented at De Singel’s Radiant Nights.

They are the director of Stichting The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks, BIXARIA - Queer Brazilian Club Night and CIRCULO - Decolonial resistance, priestessing, chanting, and women’s drumming. Their work blends critical thinking, experimental art and comedy. Thais has recently premiered a new group piece called “The Obsessors - Exorcism Show” in co-production with De Singel, ICK - Dans Amsterdam and others.