Maaike Gouwenberg is an independent curator with a love for performative practice, staging projects that start from collaborations and overlap with theatre. Based in two cities located in a river delta, Maaike regularly travels from Rotterdam to New Orleans and vice versa. In New Orleans she co-founded the platform Deltaworkers, a nomadic artistic production and residence program that investigates the southern states of the U.S. as one of the last mythical places in the West.