Co-Directeur (specialised in film and gaming) 

Aike Lütkemöller

Jan Bolen

Alex Hodge is the producer of K(o)orts Shortfilmfestival and The Overkill Festival. She has been working for Sickhouse for some years and has been running tankstation , one of the most amazing cultural hotspots of enschede.

Alex Hodge

Chris Spruijtenburg

Clara Pasteau is graphic designer and coder, working from Paris.

In 2022 Clara created the identity and the website of The Overkill Heal Royal with Manon Bachelier.

Clara Pasteau

Dagmar is the bar manager of Sickhouse since January 2023. She has been a volunteer since day one of The Overkill!

Dagmar van den Bogaard

Erik Peters (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher engaging with the worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytelling, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new universes of being. They weave pathways between the myths and realities of possible worlds that are persistency emerging from a world in planetary crisis.

Their research-based and collaborative practice is situated in an interdependent web of ecologies and technologies, human and non-human beings. Within their work, queer methodologies are evoked to create immersive scenarios about possible futures; imaginative worlds staged as spatial and interactive installations, workshops, performances and audiovisual works. Their work explores themes such as queer ecology, glitch feminism, eco-poetics and more-than-human symbiosis. 



Erik is a guest curator of The Overkill festival in 2023 and 2024. They also exhibited their installation "The world's green is rotting Lime at The Overkill 2023 "

Erik Peters

Gert-Jan Bos

Visual Artist and Speculative Designer born in Madrid.

From a very early age Ivan has used the language of comics as a means of expression.

The stories he writes and draws are build around speculative futures and digital dystopias. Giving images to complex and abstract concepts such as dataism, technofeudalism, post-nature, the ecological dilemmas it implies and the problems that these currents soak my generation is a key motivation for him.

Ivan is part of Shaman Garage, the narrative game studio supported by Sickhouse in 2023. Thanks to this program together with Pablo San Gregorio and the mentorship of Zuraida Buter, the studio created "

". A text-less comic-game hybrid about data, interaction and digital identity. In this click & click adventure you will have a single button to advance in the story.

Ivan McGill

Kostis Stafylakis is an artist, theorist, author and curator with a PhD in Political Science. He is teaching theory and fine arts at the 

 School of Fine Arts and the University of Patras. He has co-curated exhibitions such as the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI-, the 4th Athens Biennale AGORA, Weasel Dance at Goethe-Institut Athen, “Twisting C(r)ash” at the Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. He is currently Artistic Director of ViZ Laboratory for Visual 


IIn 2023, Kostis was the co-curator of The Overkill festival " 

" and created together with Theo Triantafyllidis the HYPER LARP of the festival.

Kostis Stafylakis

Louisa Teichmann a Rotterdam based digital artist working with themes around gaming and the effect of new technologies on our perception of reality. By analysing gameplay methods and implementing them into RL settings, she is creating scenarios in which the viewer turns into the protagonist of an interactive fictional narrative. http://www.louisateichmann.com/

Louisa Teichmann created our first Mozilla Hub in 2020, together with Noemi Biro. In 2021 she presented her LARP " EtherAxis" at The Overkill festival and in 2023 she is supporting us in creating playful hybrid events.

Louisa Teichmann

Co-Directeur (specialised art and research)

Marie Janin

Niels F. Rodenburg is our public relations person and host of The Ultimate Indiemash.

Niels F. Rodenburg

Noah Freriksen

Mathematician and Interaction Technologist born in Madrid.

During his studies in Berlin, he discovered the world of game development. He got amazed by the combination between technology and creative work involved in games and decided to shift his career to support creative works with his knowledge about coding and mathematics.

Pablo is part of Shaman Garage, the narrative game studio supported by Sickhouse in 2023. Thanks to this program together with Ivan McGill and the mentorship of Zuraida Buter, the studio created "

Pablo San Gregorio

The Rodina is a post-critical design studio with an experimental practice drenched in strategies of performance art, play and subversion. 

In 2020 they created the virtual multiplayer space for the exhibition of the online version of the Overkill festival. They are the designer of Sickhouse website.

The Rodina

Yari Rabadán is our volunteer coordinator, online communication person and host of Stitching to Resist.
She's from Mexico City, was abducted in December 2020 -the year of the bug- and put into Enschede, where she has lived ever since.

Yari Rabadán

Zuraida Buter is an award-winning playful culture and playful arts curator based in the Netherlands. She curates, initiates, consults and documents events focused on playful culture and games. With her international network she brings people together for creation and playful experiences. 

 she is involved in curating talks, play and game exhibitions at different festivals, events and institutes such as Incubate,

(WiGNL) she aims to stimulate diversity in the game industry.

Zuraida was a guest for our symposium the first time in 2016 and is participating, advising, visiting since then. In 2019 she was a mentor in our SickLAB, in 2020 she started Exploration mode with Marie and in 2021 she curated a part of the game program of the Overkill. In 2023 She is the mentor of our SickGame Production trajectory.

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