Tomas Gonzalez (SUI) studied Arts and Humanities at the University of Lausanne and graduated from the University of Performing Arts, Manufacture-HEARTS, where he has been teaching since 2018. His research focuses on the processes of copying, imitation and reactivation. He also works with directors such as Jérôme Bel, Milo Rau, Yan Duyvendak, Stefan Kaegi, Mohammad Al Attar and Sara Leghissa as an artistic collaborator.
Igor Cardellini (SUI) graduated from the University of Lausanne in Anthropology, Sociology and Political science. His research focuses on established power relations and the way in which performative devices allow them to be questioned and open up ways towards their subversion. He writes for several Swiss newspapers and is a member of the committee of the Belluard Bollwerk festival. In 2022-23 he is resident at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. Through queer perspectives, he explores monstrous human figures and the political dimensions of the body, drawing inspiration from Roman statuary.