Alan Alpenfelt and Giulietta Mottini

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Alan is a Swiss performance and installation artist, theatre director and trainer. As of 2021 he coordinates Luminanza - a reactor for Swiss contemporary drama in the Italian language. He was co-awarded tbe Swiss Performing Arts prize in 2022 together with his fellow artists of the Ticino-is-Burning movement. Alan's interest is on audience-based art and how to guide it into having a specific role in the dramaturgy. He has shown work at Ural Industrial Biennial (Russia), AltoFest (Malta & Naples), Castel dei Mondi (Andria), Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection (London), FIT Festival (Lugano), Marrakech (Morocco), SonOhr Bern, and the UBU prize winning LAC’s Lingua Madre project (Before the Revolution Remix by Ahmed El Attar). He staged Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek and adapted radio plays for the stage by Dürrenmatt and Beckett. He was selected for Rencontres du Théâtre Suisse (2016).

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Born in 1994 in Lausanne, Giulietta Mottini is a writer and literary critic. A graduate of the Swiss Literary Institute and ENSATT, she was awarded the Ernst Göhner scholarship for young talented artists from 2019 to 2021. She published her first poetry text, (une) existence, on a weekly scale in the journal Nioques (Fabrique editions), followed by two short stories, Dead Letter Mail (Hèbe editions) and Comme un bonbon (Plaisir de Lire editions). She is the librettist for the creation of the Operalab collective, Dernière expédition au pays des merveilles, which was staged in January 2025 at the Comédie de Genève. Her play Ne surtout pas diminuer les nuisances was staged at the Tour Vagabonde by Buro d’Archi. In the spring of 2025, she was in residence at the Maison Rousseau et Littérature to work on her novel À peine une motte de terre. Since 2021, she has also been a literary critic for Viceversa Littérature.