Zoya Shojaee Sardashti & Martin Toldy
Zoya and Martin met online through a microactivism course Zoya facilitated earlier this year, then met in person when Zoya performed at MACH Festival in Bratislava in June. Their first collaboration, Antigone Entombed, will be presented at the Venice International Performance Art Week in December 2026 and streamed on PAV – Performance Art Video.
The work was commissioned by ECC Performance Art through DigiLiveAiR, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.
Zoya is a performing artist and researcher working across theatre, participatory performance, and dance. They are the founder of Home Soil Projects, a global nonprofit organization that integrates performance research into education and peacebuilding programs.
https://www.homesoilprojects.org
Martin Toldy is a Slovak artist, performer, researcher, and organizer whose interdisciplinary practice combines installation and live performance to explore cultures of care, intimacy, sharing, and togetherness through play, experimentation, humour, and collaboration.
