Musician in Residence
Xavier Charles, Vanja Dabić ∞ Kumah, Philipp Eden, Jason Kahn, Eva-Maria Karbacher, Ivar Roban Križić, Antoine Läng, Frantz Loriot, Natalie Peters, Marina Tantanozi, Nora Vetter, Ute Wassermann, Sara Zlanabitnig
Guest Artists
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Hans Koch, Lea Krebs, Antoine Rubin, Gregory Stauffer, Dafni Stefanou, HannaH Vyborg Walter
Workshop Leaders
Jason Kahn, Ute Wassermann, Nicolas Y Galeazzi, Dafni Stefanou, Gregory Stauffer
Speakers
Stefanos Petrakis, Florian Eitel, kuda.org, Fabienne Abramovitch, Cyril Bondi, Nicolas Y Galeazzi, Jason Kahn, Michael Kunkel, Davorka Begović, Andrej Mirčev
Xavier Charles
Xavier Charles, born in 1963, is a leading figure on the European new music scene. He studied clarinet with Jacques Di Donato, with whom he has recorded and performed. An irreproachable virtuoso, he invents his own unique language and embraces the most adventurous music. Xavier Charles is essentially an improviser, and has collaborated with numerous musicians in France and abroad. He has developed techniques inspired by matter, everyday sounds and contemporary musical languages. His experiments have taken him to the frontiers of noisy rock, electroacoustic music, jazz, traditional music and musique concrète. His work as an improviser brings into play the question of listening and ways of renewing it. For several years now, he has been working as a composer, exploring the question of the written or drawn interface and the way in which temporality can be left behind.
Vanja Dabić ∞ Kumah
With roots in classical piano practice, Vanja Dabic focuses on exploring the instruments in the way that resonate with her inner melody and that challenge the preconceived musical structures. She has a great interest in the nature of sound and its vibration, as well as the effect it has on the breathwork of both performers and the audience. In recent years, she has been exploring the music of Indonesia through the studies of ethnomusicology and anthropology in Central Java, and familiarised herself with the Maqamat musical system Her interests brought her to the research studies of non-institutionalised music learning among the Gamelan communities in Central Java, and the Tarawangsa tradition in the Sunda region (Western Java).Throughout the years she collaborated with number of sound artists by the use of piano and other acoustic instruments, or an electronic set-up, performed solo classical and ambient works in Serbia, Croatia, Czech, UAE, China, Slovenia, and Indonesia. Since 2016 Vanja has been an active member of a Sound Art Collective “Tse-Tse-Fly Middle East”, using Sound Art to reflect on the social issues regarding events in the Middle East and the diaspora of the UK.
Philipp Eden
Philipp Eden is a musician (piano, electronics) and curator based in Basel, Switzerland. Whether music-related or curatorial, he is motivated by the intent to create synergetic exchanges between individuals and communities. Central aspects in his work are the practise of improvisation and the cultivation of the Listening; Current projects: Solo, trio with Marina Tantanozi and Frantz Loriot, trio with Beat Keller and Lionel Friedli, the trio “Divr”, duo with Joaquin Ortega and duo with Quentin Conrate. Further collaborations with, among others: Andria Nicodemou, Audrey Chen, Evelinn Trouble, David Meier, Dominique Girod, Lotus-Eddé Khouri, Tizia Zimmermann, Xaver Rüegg, Vincent Glanzmann. Philipp is a founding member of the Zürich-based collective Gamut, with which he’s involved in various artistic projects, and has been curating a concert series and a festival.
Jason Kahn
Born 1960 in New York, Jason Kahn is a artist, musician and writer. He lives in Zürich. Kahn has presented his installations and public-space interventions internationally. These works focus on the idea of space: the conceptual and physical juncture points, its production and dissolution, and our relation to it as a political, social and environmental medium. As an electronic musician, guitarist, vocalist and percussionist Kahn performs as soloist and collaborates with others in the context of free improvised music. He has also composed numerous electroacoustic pieces and graphical scores. His work can be heard on over two hundred releases. Kahn’s written work has appeared in books, magazines and as liner notes to audio publications. His other activities include sound pieces for radio, film, dance and theater. Various art schools have invited Kahn to give talks and workshops, including the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, École Supérieure d ́Art de Mulhouse, Cal Arts and Huddersfield University. Top of page
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson
Born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson studied composition at Indiana University with John Eaton and Iannis Xenakis, and with Gunther Schuller and Jacob Druckman at the Bershire Music Centre, Tangelwood. In 1974, he was awarded the first John W. Work III Composition Fellowship. In 1974, Nelson moved to New York. And from 1974 to 1994, he worked in the field of Creative Music Education. and played with his contemporaries William Parker, Hamid Drake and many others. He worked with the Lincoln Center Institute and the Guggenheim Museum until he moved to Switzerland, more precisely to Biel, in the mid-1990s. Kalvert-Nelson is active internationally as a composer and improviser, notably with the Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson Unit. His works have also been performed in North and South America, Europe and Japan. He has composed works for music theatre, orchestra, choirs, chamber music, as well as works for free-improvisation ensembles. As a composer, Nelson works with improvised as well as fully composed music. In addition to being a composer and trumpet played, Nelson is also a writer. His most recent book “Words By Memory And Other Words” was published in October 2019. Top of page
Eva-Maria Karbacher
Eva-Maria Karbacher, born in Zurich in 1992, is a saxophonist and improviser who works in the border areas between free improvisation, contemporary music and jazz. Her music explores the different sound possibilities of the saxophone and combines these with melodic elements. Improvisation and a curiosity for new sounds form the core of her musical work. Eva-Maria Karbacher has performed throughout Europe as a solo improviser as well as in various formations and ensembles. She currently plays in the duo Karbacher-Vryzas (with Dimos Vryzas, violin), in the trio UMIAK (with Alfred Zimmerlin, cello and Christian Moser, oud), in the duo Interrupted Lava (with Lara Süß, voice), in the duo Around the Corner (with Victor Barceló, percussion) and in the Unorthodoxjukebox Orchestra. Top of page
Hans Koch
Hans Koch has quit his career as a recognised classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing/Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene. Top of page
Lea Krebs
Born in 1984, lives in Biel. Lea Krebs is a visual artist and exhibits regularly in various museums and institutions, works freelance on various art projects and has been an enthusiastic music lover since her early years.
Artistic Statement: My explorations of form, space and colour are formally abstract. Basically, my work is very visual; form, colour and materiality play a central role. Between chance, intuition, experiment and precise intervention, my creative process can be described as a conceptual approach. This approach always leads to reflection and a subtle interplay between viewer, space, perspective and interpretation. Through my way of producing a work of art, which is partly beyond my direct influence, I also play with the viewer’s attitude and gaze. The works can be understood universally, no prior discourse or prior knowledge is required. The point is to trigger a feeling or emotion in the viewer, such as attraction or curiosity. Top of page
Ivar Roban Križić
Ivar Roban Križić (*1990, Zagreb, Croatia) studied Double Bass at the Jazz Department in Graz and is currently pursuing an Artistic Research Doctorate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, focusing on the epistemology of free improvisation. His artistic practice encompasses a wide variety of international projects, spanning contemporary jazz, experimental music, and free improvisation. His research delves into the concepts of flow, reflection, and musical cognition. Through his research, he seeks to explore the various cognitive states that performers experience during improvisation and, concurrently, create performative frameworks that enable the coexistence of both musical and reflective aspects within the same context. Top of page
Antoine Läng
Antoine Läng is a vocal artist and composer. He works primarily with voice, breathing and physical mechanisms that can produce sound in resonance with the body and the place where they take place. This relationship to space is currently being extended to other aspects of his musical work that relate to places of listening and perception: Sound spaces that are only made audible through sound. Läng sings in the groups Le Recueil des Miracles, Babeleon, ARFI, Giallo Oscuro, whispers and blows in the Insub xtet and the Insub Meta Orchestra, carries out electro-acoustic experiments with Love Motel or performs in duets with Jason Kahn and solo with megaphone or jew’s harp. Top of page
Frantz Loriot
French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot performs as a soloist and is active in several international ensembles, working mainly through improvised music practices. He regularly contributes to interdisciplinary projects involving dance, theater, image, poetry and space. Over the years, Loriot has developed a unique and radically personal musical language. He breaks with tradition and constantly seeks to push himself and his music towards ever-wider horizons. His constant development prompts him to reflect on the relationship between his own practice and philosophical and political theories.
Loriot performs regularly throughout the world (Europe, USA, South America, Japan and the Middle East) and has been invited as artist-in-residence by various festivals, venues and ensembles. He is also one of the organizers of the Zwei Tage Zeit, festival dedicated to various practices of improvised music in Zurich. After living in Paris and New York, Frantz Loriot has been based in Zürich (Switzerland) since 2012. Top of page
Natalie Peters
Natalie Peters is a vocalist with a focus on improvised music. She also works interdisciplinarily in the fields of theatre and poetry. Born in Heidelberg in 1976, she grew up in the southern part of Germany. Natalie began her career as an actress for theatre and experimental cinema. In 1998 she moved to Berlin. Subsequently, she developed improvisation and performances with musicians, exploring the power of the human voice in its authentic and very personal expression. Working with her own body has always been the basic element for Natalie to develop her approach to a fresh and creative use of her own voice as an instrument. Consequently, she deepened her passion and completed her training at the Feldenkrais Institute in Heidelberg in 2014. Over a longer period of time, she worked intensively as a duo with trumpeter Guy Bettini. She has also shared the stage with Sebi Tramontana, Paul Lovens, Guillaume Gargaud, Luca Pissavini, Lino Blöchlinger, Sara Käser, Alfred Zimmerlin, Thomas Rohrer, Jacek Chmiel, the Butoh dancer Gyohai Zaitsu and many others. Natalie has lived in Locarno/Switzerland since 2004. Panelle 10, the name of Natalie’s studio, is an open space for musicians, actors and artists of all kinds. She leads the Ensemble Sous-Sol. Natalie leads her own performance group and also organises the concert series Frequenze Libere in Locarno. Top of page
Antoine Rubin
Antoine Rubin was born in Saint-Imier in 1990. He now lives in Biel, writes texts, turns them into books or performances, experiments with devices, takes part in exhibitions, is trained in anthropology, uses his methods to gather material, reproduces it in different forms, especially through narrative, and among a thousand other little things, willingly undertakes the construction of a fire to spend the night outside. His writing favours ethnographic methods combined with poetic forms. Top of page
Gregory Stauffer
Gregory Stauffer is a performer, choreographer, researcher and teacher. He performed with the noise band Lune from 1996 to 2003 and again in 2019. Between 2000 and 2001 he discovered Land Art practices at the Beaux-Arts in Geneva, which deeply inspired him, and developed a multi-disciplinary outdoor practice. At the same time, he cultivated his first vegetable garden. The practices and ethics of ecological gardening have marked his work ever since. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in physical theatre at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri in Verscio in 2006. He is a performer with the Büro für zeit + Raum in Berlin, for which he won the prize for most outstanding personality at the 2008 Kontrapunkt festival. He founded the Le cabinet de curiosités company in Geneva in 2009, touring in Switzerland and abroad. His work was presented at the Journées de danse contemporaine suisse in 2013, 2015 and 2017. He is an associate artist at the Arsenic in Lausanne from 2018 to 2020, where he is creating the permanent platform Tuesday is Danceday. From 2007 to 2018 he was a member and co-founder of the video-performance collective Authentic Boys. He works at La Manufacture in Lausanne as a mentor for Bachelors and as a teacher of in situ performance practices. He is a guest teacher at the HEAD, CFParts, Marchepied, HKB and Scuola Teatro Dimitri. He is in his 3rd year of training at the Tamalpa Institute in Freiburg-im-Breisgau. Between 2021 and 2022 he directed the research-creation project Processus créatifs durables en arts vivants. He was awarded the Liechti Foundation arts prize in 2022. Top of page
Dafni Stefanou
Dafni Stefanou is a Greek dancer, choreographer and teacher, born in 1976. She graduated from the National Dance School of Athens and was selected to participate in the x-project postgraduate course at the P.A.R.T.S. School in Brussels. As a dancer she has collaborated with many choreographers, dancers, visual artists and musicians. Since 2008, Dafni Stefanou has devoted herself mainly to improvisation as a means of instant composition between dance and music. She also develops personal works in the form of site-specific performances. She has or had the opportunity to collaborate with artists such as Angeliki Stellatou, Billie Hanne, Dimitris Papaioannou, Dimitra Lazaridou-Hadzigoga, Le Quan Ninh, Frank Gratkowski, Esther Klinkers, Julyen Hamilton, Ilan Manouach, Irena Tomazin, Jonas Kocher, Kris Verdonck, Konstantinos Mihos, Lily Kiara, Marjolaine Charbin and many others. In 2012, she also created the solo One by Biel choreographer Susanne Mueller-Nelson. Dafni Stefanou lives in Biel/Bienne (CH) since 2015. Since summer 2024, she is a certified Skinner Releasing Technique™ (SRT). Top of page
Marina Tantanozi
Marina Tantanozi is a Basel-based flutist and improviser, also working in sound art. She explores music-making in various settings based on improvised music practises, reflecting on the notions of communication, temporality and active listening. Active in various artistic and curatorial contexts, she has collaborated with musicians and collectives such as Frantz Loriot, Andria Nicodemou, Tom Malmendier, Philipp Eden, Martina Berther, Eve Risser, Alfred Zimmerlin, Jonas Kocher, Hans Koch, Clara de Asis, Silvan Schmid, Peter Schärli, Xavier Fertin, Lucas Niggli, Gamut Collective, Insub and many others. As an improviser she has performed solo and with different bands in major festivals such as Irtijal Beirut, Borderline Athens, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Archipel Genève, Musikfestival Bern etc. She is the co-curator of the series MurMur (2024 – ) in Basel, as well as of the No Ordinary Festival for Experimental Sounds in Thessaloniki, Greece. Top of page
Nora Vetter
Nora Vetter (*1992 in Winterthur) plays with viola, electronics, voice, body, light and objects, improvises and composes in the broad field of experimental music, performance and installation, but above all in the expanses in between, e.g. as violist and composer for Semblance [FR] and latenz ensemble [CH], as organiser and improviser with the collective Kulturbrauerei Luzern, as performance artist in the collective VAMM!, in the duo mutual support. Working on common structures, patterns and their effects are important aspects in works that are mostly developed site-specifically, including several performances and concert concepts for Alpentöne Festival Altdorf, impuls Festival Graz, Festival Voix Nouvelles [FR] and attacca Festival Basel as well as premieres of her own works at Lucerne Festival Forward, KlangHalt St.Gallen or Neofonia Ensenada. Collaborations with the Rote Fabrik Zurich, IRCAM or the Mullbau Lucerne as well as concerts at the Aarhus Jazz Festival, NOF Thessaloniki, Manifeste Paris and taktlos Zurich, collaborations with visual artists and works in the field of (music) theatre at the Schauspielhaus Zurich complete her versatile field of activity.
Nora is the winner of the Double Mentor 2023 from Migros Culture Percentage and the Berlin Atelier Central Switzerland 2025. Top of page
HannaH Vyborg Walter
A violinist becoming a cyborg, a vyborg, they create formats and fictions for inter-species communication and performance across distances. Sympoietically they explore means of traveling as soundbytes and pixels through telematic space-times. Vyborg obtained their artistic diplomas in prestigious institutions in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt and Paris. In Switzerland they have been specializing in Master Programs of Contemporary Music (Basel Music Academy) and Transdisciplinarity (Zurich University of the Arts). In their becoming they are encouraged through scholarships (including Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Swiss Federal Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Artists) and awards like the swiss contemporary music competition Concours Nicati 2017. They perform with WeSpoke, Ensemble Vortex, the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Ensemble Musikfabrik or Ensemble Modern at major festivals in Europe. HannaH is founding member and artistic director of the Collective Mycelium. Since 2021 HannaH Vyborg have a PhD position in the SNSF funded project “Spatial Dis/Continuities in Telematic Performances” at ZHdK and are part of Florian Dombois’ PhD group in the Transdisciplinarity research focus and at the University of the Arts Linz. At ZHdK HannaH is teaching in the MA Transdisciplinary Studies in the Arts since 2019. Top of page
Ute Wassermann
Ute Wassermann studied visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg with artists from Fluxus and Happening like Henning Christiansen and Allan Kaprow, and subsequently visual arts, music and singing at the University of California, San Diego. For many years she tours the world as an improviser and performer of contemporary music. In the last decade she has been increasingly realising audiovisual voice performances / installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles. At the core of her research is an ongoing and uncompromised exploration of her voice. Ute Wassermann´s singing transcends the human voice resulting in multidimensional sculptural sounds oscillating between electronic, animalistic, inorganic and human qualities. She takes this to the extreme by creating a visceral sound space through the use of different types of microphones. In her solo album strange songs for voice and birdcalls (treader, uk) she embodies a hybrid vocal persona with swirling, trilling, screeching, sighing, breathing and singing tone-colours. Furthermore she extends and alienates the voice including the use of bird whistles, lo-fi electronics, resonators, fieldrecordings and every day objects. With her performances she creates imaginary acoustic habitats in which her chameleon-like voice collaborates with the voices of other-than-humans sounding from raw materials and objects. Top of page
Sara Zlanabitnig
Sara Zlanabitnig is based in Vienna since 2005. Her artistic interest as a musician as well as an organizer focuses on free improvised, experimental and electronic music. She is part of the collective Fraufeld (to increase the visibility of female musicians), the collectively organized festival Jahresendzeitschokoadenhohlkörper, the Donaufestival in Krems, the initative mitderstadtreden and of the artistic direction of echoraum. A diverse and non-commercial, subcultural approach is a central concern. As a flutist Sara Zlanabitnig moves between fields of electronic and improvised music. She researches unconventional sounds, tries out effect pedals, fancies false fingerings, quarter tones and multiphonics. Borders between music styles are very open to her. Top of page
Florian Eitel
Florian Eitel is a historian, anarchism researcher and museum curator. He studied history at the Universities of Bern, Valencia (Spain) and Neuchâtel. He completed his PhD on the history of anarchism at the University of Fribourg in 2016. In his dissertation Anarchist Watchmakers in Switzerland (Bielefeld: transcript 2018), he reconstructs the lifeworld and transnational connections of anarchist watchmakers in the valley of Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura) in the second half of the 19th century. Florian Eitel has accompanied and advised various projects on the subject of anarchism, including the exhibition Anarchy! Facts and Fictions (Strauhof Zurich, 2016), the theatre play Dix petites anarchistes (Compagnie Mezza Luna, 2022), the documentary Le Jura libertaire (Cave, broadcast in 2023) and the feature film Unrueh (Cyril Schäublin, 2022). In his many years of research and teaching, Florian Eitel has also dealt with the history of anarchism in the 20th century, with a particular focus on the role of music in the political socialisation and mobilisation of anarchism and libertarian circles in Switzerland. Florian Eitel has been curator of the history department at the NMB Neues Museum Biel since 2017. Top of page
kuda.org
Art collective _kuda.org, founded in 2001 in Novi Sad/Serbia, is focused on experimental and critical arts. Through a dynamic inter-disciplinary and trans-artistic program of workshops, art residencies, performances, and sound experiments, kuda.org addresses social issues and catalyses education, growth and transformation for artistic expression, for the local community and the wider public. The kuda.org collective carries out its activity in various formats through exhibitions, symposia, performances and public actions, often independently or in co-production with other artists and art associations.
The kuda.org collective has realized and presented its activities in the US, Europe, and the Souteh-east Europe region in collaboration with a wide range of institutions, from museums of contemporary art, galleries, cultural centers, as well as art groups, informal organizations and schools.
Fabienne Abramovitch
Born in Paris in 1959, she studied political, economic and social sciences. A writer, producer, filmmaker and choreographer, she has created around twenty performances in Geneva, where she has lived since 1980. Since 1991, images have played an important role in her work. It was a natural progression for Fabienne Abramovich to produce and direct her first films. A long-standing supporter of culture and cultural players, she is also director of the Association Action Intermittence and a member of the Collectif genevois de la grève féministe. In 2021, she was awarded the “Médaille de Genève reconnaissante” by the City of Geneva for her atypical artistic career and her tireless commitment to artists. Top of page
Cyril Bondi
Cyril Bondi (1980) has been a drummer and percussionist since 1994. A key figure on the Swiss music scene, he is a founding member of the groups La Tène and Yalla Miku, as well as the duo Cyril Cyril. In the field of experimental music, he has worked on projects such as diatribes, Boxing Noise, Bondi Martel Schiller and many others. Bondi is also a composer, mainly in collaboration with d’incise, but also under his own name. He leads the Insub Meta Orchestra, a large experimental ensemble of 65 musicians, and is one of the coordinators of the INSUB label/collective. Until 2018 he played with the jazz trio Plaistow. Since 2021 he has been a member of the committee of Action Intermittence and proposes advices and support for musicians at the FGMC (Fédération Genevoise des Musiques de Création). Top of page
Nicolas Y Galeazzi
Nicolas Y Galeazzi is a freelance artistic researcher, curator, teacher, and coach for productive misunderstanding. For about ten years, he co-curated the post-graduate platform for Artistic Research Practices a.pass. He is the founder of the transformative coaching platform MISE-EN-DISCOURSE, co-founder of performance collective I AM A PERMANENT MEMBER and of the Brussels-based artist movement STATE OF THE ARTS (SOTA). As such, he is also the initiator and main editor of the SOTA Arts Almanacs (2019 and 2023). His research is always an act of performance, and performance is an act of research. His practice focuses on reinventing the wheel of pedagogy, epistemology, alternative economics, and ecology – things that perform our lives. Through curating situations of debate, by coaching, with dramaturgic support, bookmaking and performance, he engages in subtle transformation. Initially trained for theatre, he crosses over to diverse positions in performance art, installation, publishing and artistic research, which provokes a constant search for the redistributions of responsibilities. That said, the commons might be his art form. Top of page
Michael Kunkel
Michael Kunkel, born in 1969 in Winz-Niederwenigern/Ruhr. Studied musicology and general rhetoric at
the University of Tübingen, 2005 doctorate at the University of Basel. 2000-2006 worked as a journalist (Basler Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger, etc.). 2004-2015 Editor-in-chief of the multilingual magazine Dissonance. Since 2007 head of research at the FHNW School of Music, lecturer, also at the Musicology Department of the University of Basel. 2016-2023 Curator of “Next Generation”, the student programme of the Donaueschingen Festival for New Music. Research, writings, curating, teaching, radio programmes, exhibitions, primarily on contemporary music. Journalistic work and own artistic projects (especially conceptual art and punk music). Top of page
Davorka Begović
Davorka Begović (Zagreb, 1984) is a freelance musicologist and independent curator from Zagreb, Croatia, working in the field of contemporary experimental music and related art forms. For the last 18 years, she has been working in the field of culture and art as a selector and a producer, primarily of music projects, but also theatre, contemporary dance, multimedia, and film projects. Currently, she is a member of the curatorial team of KONTEJNER ǀ bureau of contemporary art praxis, where she acts as a sound and music curator. Begović is an associate lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, but she also runs experimental sound workshops and listening sessions and participates in international conferences. Top of page
Stefanos Petrakis
Biel-based, Greek expatriate, open-source enthusiast Stefanos Petrakis, has been trying to strike a balance between supporting open-source and working as a programmer using open-source technologies for the last decade and a bit more. Prior to that he completed a B.Sc. in Computer Science, a M.Sc. in Cognitive Sciences and did academic research in the area of Computational Linguistics. His conviction that community-powered and community-supported software is a sensible way to develop software has urged him to join the Drupal project as a volunteer module developer and maintainer and that has been a fun ride so far. Next to programming, he is also active as a volunteer on Drupal.StackExchange.com where users can seek technical support for Drupal. He hasn’t reached Budha status yet, but has managed to collect some Karma points along the way in the form of “thank yous” by people that he was able to assist and enable to reach their goals via Open Source Software. Top of page
Andrej Mirčev
Andrej Mirčev is an academic, visual artist and dance dramaturge from former Yugoslavia. He currently serves as postdoctoral fellow at the Bern Academy of Arts (HKB), where he works in the SNSF-funded project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge. He received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, where he was also Fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” (2017-2018) with a research on iconoclastic performances and the politics of images in the context of Yugoslavia. His scientific and artistic research engages in establishing aesthetic trajectories between memory and performance studies, spatial theory, intermediality, and critical pedagogies. Prior to HKB, Mirčev was Guest Professor at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG) and the Department for Stage Design, University of Arts Berlin (UdK). His recent publications include: monograph: The Poetics of Performance Diagrams, Cambridge University Press, (2024); co-editor (together with Sabine Gebhardt Fink) Revolving Documents – Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art, diaphanes (2024) and editor of the Performance Research volume on Diagrams & the Diagrammatic, Routledge (2023). Top of page
