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BIOGRAPHIES
YAN DUYVENDAK
Co-creator
Yan Duyvendak was born in
Holland and lives in Geneva
and Marseille. Trained at the
École supérieure d’art visuel de
Genève, Yan has been making
performances since 1995. Yan
has presented works at, among
other venues, the Fondation
Cartier in Paris (Soirée Nomade,
1995), the Festival for performing
arts EXIT, Helsinki (2001), Art
Unlimited Basel (2002), the
Museo Reina Sofia de Madrid
(Don’t Call It Performance, 2003),
the Guangju Biennale (2004),
Image Forum, Tokyo (2005),
the Ménagerie de verre, Paris
(2006—09), the Vooruit, Gand
(2007), the Festival d’Avignon
(2008) and Theaterspektakel
Zurich (2009). Yan’s video works
appear in numerous public and
private collections, from the
Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon to
the Museum für Kommunikation
in Bern.
ROGER BERNAT
Co-creator
Yan has received the Swiss Art
Award three times (2002, 2003
and 2004), the Namics Kunstpreis
für Neue Medien (2004) and
the Network Kulturpreis (2006),
among others. In 2010 Yan
received the most prestigious
Swiss award for contemporary
art, the Meret Oppenheim Preis.
Yan has taken part in many
residences, from the Cité des
Arts in Paris to the atelier
Schönhauser in Berlin to Pro
Helvetia’s Swiss Artistic Studio in
Cairo (2007, 2008 and 2009).
Roger Bernat studied direction
and dramaturgy at the Institut
de Teatre (Barcelona) and
was awarded the Graduation
Prize in 1999. Between 1997
and 2001, along with Tomàs
Aragay, Roger founded and
led General Elèctrica, a centre
for the creation of dance and
theatre. Among other theatre
pieces, Roger has written and
directed 10.000 kg (Special
Critic’s Prize 96/97); Domestic
Comfort (Dramatical Text Critic’s
Award 97/98); Album; Trilogie
70; Bona gent; LALALALALA;
Fuge State (Amnèsia de fuga);
Everything’s Perfect, or Das
Paradies Experiment. Roger has
directed including Polaire; The
Tribe (la Tribu); Vero, or What
Everyone Knows but No One Dares
Say (Vero ou Ce que chacun sait
mais personne n’ose dire). Roger
is currently touring with Domini
Public and Le Sacre du Printemps,
Please, Continue (Hamlet) and
Pending Vote.