lisa laurent is an artist based in Geneva. lisa’s primary medium is choreography. The work explores the representation of lisa’s own body through a lens of reflexivity and self-derision. With a particular interest in the tension between control and exposure, lisa engages in a continual dismantling of form – physical, emotional, and spatial. The performances present porous situations that question perception, heighten sensorial experience, and encourage deeper awareness and connection through acute emotion and vulnerability. lisa is the recipient of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2025.

Emi Curty currently lives and works in Geneva. Her artistic practice explores the body, its representations, and its transcriptions within pop culture. Attentive to everything that shapes her gender, she reappropriates these codes by pushing them to the extreme. Accessories, as symbolic charges, incarnate themselves, merge into the flesh, become gaze, posture, attitude. The creation of frontal images and the establishment of an ambiguous relationship with the audience are two central elements of her work. She uses gestures, perceptions, and words—sometimes violently—to defend herself against domination and to resist an oppressive system that dictates the norms of the body and identity.

Zeltia Robin is a performance and visual artist. She develops a body of work that explores the relationships between body, image, and power through the codes of popular culture, reality TV, and social media. Having always dreamed of becoming a “famous actress” herself, her work delves into the desperate quest for recognition and prestige by embodying stereotyped and humiliated characters. Her universe brings seduction and violence into tension, as well as vulnerability and power. She highlights the commercial logics underlying the construction of public identities. The body then becomes a product, a projection surface, a tool of power, but also a space of resistance.

Mélissa Biondo unfolds her research in the fields of identity, power dynamics, and entertainment. She explores elements inherent to the realm of the image—such as surface and void—which she fetishizes and pushes to the extreme in order to sculpt perception. The body, presence, tension, and attention become both materials and territories for experimentation. Her approach embraces humor and play as much as strangeness, horror, and the morbid. Mélissa Biondo invites the audience into a space of ambiguity and shifting perspectives, where performance becomes both a means of emancipation and an invitation to projection and play.

Joseph Baan is an artist and educator whose practice engages in art, performance, education and collaboration as ways of forging creative survival. They are interested in the complexities of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing forms of solidarity that do not homogenize, but affirm difference. They see performance as a way to become receptive to one’s own alterity within the problem of relating, offering the possibility to have embodied experiences that one does not identify with. Their current research investigates the political currency of incoherence and performative strategies of ambiguity, unfeeling, and confusion, asking what aspects of performance might angle towards non-sovereign politics and engage in the unfinished work of liberation.

bela (they/them) is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin and Prague. They are known for a performance merging pungmul – a Korean folk act rooted in agricultural traditions and linked to past social movements – and vocals inspired by extreme metal. bela shapes pungmul into the ritual for queer rage and grief with sub-heavy distortions and cries. Their LP Noise and Cries, co-released on Subtext UK and Unsound PL in April 2024, debuted their raw vocals for the first time. Spanning over 5 basement ritual songs and 2 grounding ambient scenes, it comprises a fierce reflection on the precarity of life back in South Korea, queer identity, severance of relationships, and endurance.

Luc Häfliger (aka Gotgha) is a composer, performer and artist based in Zurich. Their music investigates the interspaces of noise, metal and club music. The sonic output of these investigations are shown in clubs, as multi-channel pieces and installations. As a performer and composer they work often together with Joseph Baan. Together they perform Bl0wn. This particular project got nominated for the 2023 edition of the Swiss performance art award. Häfligers works were shown in national and international Institutions like Tanzhaus Zürich, ZKM Karlsruhe and LAC Lugano Art Museum as well as in underground clubs.

Opened in 2005, Codalunga is a section of Nico Vascellari’s studio in Vittorio Veneto, a town of 29,000 inhabitants tucked away in northeastern Italy. Conceived as a public space for exhibitions, performances, and artistic experimentation, it emerged within a context not traditionally receptive to contemporary cultural debate. Proudly independent and entirely self-funded, Codalunga has welcomed more than 200 events featuring artists such as Charlemagne Palestine, Jimmie Durham, Enzo Cucchi, William Basinski, Black Dice, Arto Lindsay, Prurient, Ghedalia Tazartes, John Duncan, Banks Violette, Ari Marcopoulos, Mat Brinkman, and Diego Perrone, among many others. Over the years, it has grown into an international point of reference, a place where artistic voices resonate far beyond its secluded setting.

DJ Marcelle is a true icon of sonic experimentation. With her unmistakable three-turntable setup, she creates improbable collisions between genres, eras, and contexts: raw techno, dub, electronics, post-punk, field recordings, singeli, dancehall, animal sounds, electronic, avant-garde et cetera converge in unpredictable and radically free mixes. Active for decades in clubs, museums, radio and festivals, she has released numerous records on labels such as Cortizona, Jahmoni and Klangbad. Her latest album is called Sorry, No Service. Earlier this year she released an EP Sorry, No Silence with all proceeds going to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Her sets don’t just entertain – they provoke, delight, and teach.