Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist based in Zurich. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theater, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. She scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement, both in popular or commercial genres and in the arts. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of contemporary art spaces and museums, including Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2023), Kunsthaus Zurich (Zurich, 2022), the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2019), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2017), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2013 and 2015), Tate Modern (London, 2014), as well as a number of international biennials and large-scale exhibitions, such documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017), the Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva, 2014), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, 2012).

Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre-bending and gender-hacking art practices. She constructs networked installation and multi-player performance in participatory impromptu mode, and drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenario and artwork imagination. She is a Net Art pioneer, having created Brandon (1998–99), the first web art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2019, Cheang represented Taiwan with the mixed media installation 3x3x6 at the 58th Venice Biennale. Crafting her own genre of Sci-fi New Queer Cinema, she has made four feature films, Fresh Kill (1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDØ (2017), and UKI (2023). In 2024, she received the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award. In 2025, she presented the performance HAGAY DREAMING at Tate Modern, London, while her solo show Kiss Kiss Kill Kill is currently held at Haus der Kunst in Munich (until Aug 8). Cheang is the protagonist of the Survey in Mousse #89 – Fall 2024.

Giulia Essyad is an artist whose research revolves around representations of the human body, using her own as raw material. Employing video, photography, sculpture, and performance as mediums and advertising as language, her work delves into the various forms of alienation inherent to the production and consumption of body imagery. In recent works, presented as part of the cycle ROSE PERIOD, Essyad explores representations of the sensory: those elements which, within the body, remain invisible. Pain, pleasure, emotions and thoughts find their way to the surface through intricate references to medical, spiritual, and pornographic media.

John Giorno was a versatile artist based in New York and celebrated for his poetry, performance and activism, including his politically charged Dial-A-Poem project (1968-ongoing). In 1965 he founded Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit organisation to support other artists, poets, and musicians, which produced events and festivals, operated a record label, and provided grants to help with AIDS-related costs. Giorno’s work extended into various media in collaboration with artists and filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, and his partner, Ugo Rondinone. He practiced Buddhism, within the Nyingma lineage, for most of his life, and in 2017 he retired from performing to concentrate on meditation, art, and writing his memoirs. His lasting legacy encompasses his artistic contributions as well as GPS, which continues to operate today and invites artists, poets and musicians to reflect on the work of other artists, poets, and musicians. The exhibition John Giorno: A Labour of Love is currently held at Triennale Milano (until April 13). Giorno is the protagonist of the Survey in Mousse #88 – Summer 2024.

Vincent Grange explores and challenges the conventions of heteronormative society through the creation of alternative realities. His work, which includes unique architectures, artifacts, and machines, invites viewers to engage with and interpret each design choice, unraveling the often absurd narratives he weaves. After gaining his Master’s in Space and Communication at HEAD Genève, Grange co-founded Collectif Kimera, which oversees Espace Dukat, a contemporary art space in Geneva. Additionally, he co-founded Souplex Atelier with his colleague and friend Tanguy Troubat, where he serves as a scenographer and art director. In 2023, he received the Déliée grant 2023 du Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain. In 2024 he was one of the recipients of the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Prize at the Swiss Art Awards.

Tarek Lakhrissi lives and works in Paris. His artistic practice is characterized by a transdisciplinary approach. Combining time-based media and installation with elements drawn from poetry, pop culture and a literary background, Lakhrissi challenges dominant narratives and imagines new possibilities. Lakhrissi has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Louvre (Paris, 2024), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, 2024), Migros Museum (Zurich, 2024), Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin & Dusseldorf, 2024), La Verrière – Fondation Hermès (Brussels, 2022), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2022), Somerset House Studios (London, 2022), Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2022), Manchester International Festival (2021), Kunst-verein Kevin Space (Vienna, 2021), Mostyn Art Gallery (Llandudno, 2021), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2020), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Guarene, 2020), Quadriennale (Roma, 2020), 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Wiels (Brussels, 2020), among others. He currently teaches at ZHdK in Switzerland.

Ursulina de Lombardia is a visual artist born in Italy and based in Switzerland. Raised in Latin America, where she worked extensively in cinema, she developed her artistic practice by approaching the essay as a methodology, merging video and performance. Her work questions the dynamics of power in images, the representations of femininity between queer and postcapitalism, and collectivity as a porous method to cross borders. Her research intertwines the different geographical contexts in which she has lived, distorting and creating complex connections between them. Since 2019, she has been carrying out a study on Italian television and the aftermath of Berlusconism on dissident bodies.

Lovett/Codagnone was a New York-based artist team composed of John Lovett and Alessandro Codagnone, who worked together from 1995 until Codagnone’s death in 2019. Lovett/Codagnone’s art practice used photography, performance, video, sound, and installation to address issues of collective identity and relations of power in social structures, focusing on the absorption of underground tactics of resistance. They derived important theoretical and aesthetic influences from radical figures in literature, critical theory, cinema, theater, and punk. In 2008, together with with musician Michele Pauli, they formed the band CANDIDATE, whose performances featured Jim Fletcher, Gary Indiana, and Kate Valk, among others. Their performances have been presented at New Museum (New York, 2013); MoMA PS1 (New York, 2012); ICA (Philadelphia, 2010); Judson Memorial Church (New York, 2010); and ICA (Boston, 2007). In April 2025, CCS Bard hosts Lovett/Codagnone: Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves, curated by Andrew Suggs. Their upcoming retrospective I Only Want You to Love Me at PAC, Milan, curated by Diego Sileo, opens in June 2025. Lovett/Codagnone are the subject of the Survey in Mousse #91 – Spring 2025.

Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, and Sujanth Ravichandran are three animators and filmmakers from Switzerland. They met during their BA in Animation at Lucerne School of Art and Design. The codirection of PIPES marks their first collaboration, occurred in the final year of their studies. They are now working independently in each of their professional fields. PIPES is proudly queer, sex-positive and humorous with a pinch of kitsch