Biographies

Igor Cardellini is a performance maker and visual artist. In the fields of performance and choreography, his research is influenced by his studies in anthropology, sociology, and political science. His research focuses on established power relations and how performative devices allow them to be questioned. He is a member of the Belluard Bollwerk festival committee, and as a journalist, he writes for various publications. In 2022-2023 he was a resident at Istituto Svizzero.

Léa Katharina Meier (1989, Switzerland) is a visual and performance artist. Using clowning as a performative practice, her research focuses on notions of the ridiculous, abject, and joyous to create a visual and sensory universe that can embrace the audience. From her most intimate failures, she aims to develop a filthy, lesbian sense of humor. On stage, she tries to embody negative emotions to transform them into sources of pleasure. Narration, the body as an archive, grotesque femininity, shame, and infantilism are recurring themes in her work, which has been staged in numerous spaces and theaters in Switzerland, Italy, and Brazil (Arsenic, Tunnel Tunnel, MCBA, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine, Lateral Roma, Istituto Svizzero, Pivô art and research). In 2021, she received the audience and jury awards at the Swiss Performance Art Awards for “Tous les sexes tombent du ciel.” This year, she was a resident at Istituto Svizzero and received the Irène Reymond Foundation award in Lausanne.