Ramón Oliveras (he or no pronouns) is a Swiss musician, composer, producer and multi-media artist from Zurich. As an artist, he aims to challenge norms with his work, use his privilege to foster community and continuously develop his queer practice. He is the artistic director and drummer of the internationally recognised indie groove jazz quintet Ikarus and part of the queer indie rock trio Dalai Puma.
Kim de l'Horizon (without pronouns or they/them), born 2666 on Gethen, studied German language and literature in the Ivory Tower, literary weeping in Biel and witchcraft with Starhawk. Kim's debut ‘Blutbuch’, which has been translated into 17 languages, won the German and Swiss Book Prize, among others. Kim's theatre plays have been invited to the Heidelberg Play Market and won the Hermann Sudermann Prize, among others. Kim also makes rituals and performs, for example at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. They move on the border between literature and painting, art and science, ceramics and Rupaul. Kim likes to shake the images that we have of bodies, that we have of people and non-people, that we have of ‘naturalness’, that we have of ‘we’.
Dorothea Mildenberger (she) (grew up in Munich) has a BA in theatre pedagogy and an MA in transdisciplinarity from ZHdK. She has worked as a performer, facilitator and dramaturge on numerous projects, including at Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Theater Neumarkt and Theaterhaus Gessnerallee. Dorothea co-founded the autonomous cultural venue ‘Der Würfel’ at Zurich Letten, where she curated events on non-hierarchical knowledge exchange. She received the Swiss Audience Performance Award 2019 with the Manifesto Reflex Collective, worked as an opera dramaturge at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and was part of the band ‘Acid Amazonians’ until 2023.
Juana Ferrari (she/he/they) is a Uruguayan digital artist based in Zurich and Rio de Janeiro. As a queer nomad, she works between different artistic disciplines (theatre, performance, visual arts, installation, video games, etc.). Juana's works combine work and personal history: they deal with deterritorialisation and attempt to evade hegemonic structures and disciplines. By placing bodies outside the norm at the centre and mixing the digital with physical reality, Juana's works create new narratives and spatial possibilities to become a glitch in the violent structures of our society.
Mikki Levy Strasser (he) is a Zurich-based stage and costume designer for theatre and film. After the International Baccalaureate, he completed his Bachelor of Arts in Scenography at the ZHdK in 2014. He worked as a stage and costume assistant for several theatre productions at Theater Neumarkt, collaborated with Milan Peschel, Barbara Weber and Laura Koerfer and completed an internship with Nico Beyer in Düsseldorf. In 2015, Mikki became a costume assistant at the Basel Theatre and worked with Thom Luz, Julia Hölscher and Robert Borgmann. Since 2017, he has been a freelance stage and costume designer and part of Hyperlokal, an off-space for theatre and performance. He was part of the festivals Château Jolifanto, RW9 and the Lila Queer Festival. His ongoing dinner project Flamingo Room is a combination of fine dining and various forms of performance.
