Alex Piasente-Szymański (he/him) is a Berlin-based disabled artist, dramaturge, translator and audio writer. Before studying Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, he studied singing at the HfmDk in Stuttgart and at the Royall College of Music in London. Piasente-Szymański's work and research is dedicated to questions of body politics and its management as well as manipulation through health economics. He is interested in how these issues fit into a wider global political context of political struggle. Together with the performance collective BOIKOTT Piasente-Szymański develop the music theatre piece ‘Vis á Vis’ at the Ackerstadt Palast and collaborated with collectives and artists such as the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, Nico and the Navigators or the choreographer Marie-Lena Kaiser and the artist Anna Lublina.