Peter RyserDr. Peter Ryser is a Professor Emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He has over three decades of research and teaching experience from various corporate and academic institutions. He was previously a Director at Siemens Building Technologies where he was responsible for R&D, product innovation and patents. Dr. Ryser has a Ph.D. in applied Physics from the University of Geneva, a Masters degree in Experimental Physics and an MBA.
Florence Graezer BideauSenior Lecturer and Senior Scientist at the College of Humanities and at the School of Architecture, EPFLVisiting Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino PhD in History and Civilization (EHESS, Paris) Director of the Minor in Area and Cultural Studies (MACS) between 2012 and 2016Member of the Research group Heritage, culture and the cityAssociated researcher at the China Room Research Group and South China-Torino Collaboration Lab, Politecnico di Torino Associate member of the Laboratoire d’anthropologie culturelle et sociale (LACS), UNIL Member of the EDAR committee (Doctoral Program Architecture and Sciences of the City) at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environment Engineering in EPFL Florence Graezer Bideau trained as an anthropologist and a sinologist, and received her PhD in History and Civilization in 2005. Before joining the Centre for Area and Cultural Studies (CACS) at EPFL in 2010, she was a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Lausanne, where she taught courses in cultural theory and fieldwork methodology. She is Senior Lecturer and Senior Scientist at the College of Humanities where she teaches area studies, anthropology of China, critical heritage studies and urban studies. She has been acting as Director of the Minor in Area and Cultural Studies between 2012 and 2016 and she is currently a member of the EDAR committee (Doctoral Program Architecture and Sciences of the City) at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environment Engineering in EPFL. Since 2015, Florence has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her fields of expertise include anthropology of China, urban sociology, modes of sociability and governmentality. Florence’s research is on the relation between culture and power (making of cultural policy in China; emergence of maker movement (makerspaces) and politics of innovation in China), heritage issues (process of heritagization and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore; implementation of the UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Switzerland; historic urban landscape in heritage policy of Beijing, Rome and Mexico City), and the making of the city (informal resistances toward the violence of urbanism in Caracas, Chennai and Guangzhou; uses of public spaces in Chinese new towns).
Yumeng HouYumeng Hou is a Chinese-speaking researcher at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL. Yumeng received her MSc in Computer (data) Science and is now pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Kenderdine. Her current research involves intangible cultural heritage, computational archives, embodied knowledge, Chinese martial arts, and cultural AI.Before joining EMPLUS, Yumeng was a professional product manager, data analyst, and data storyteller.
Denise Bertschi2020
Manor Art Prize, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau/CH
Solo show, opening: 24.01.2019, curated by Yasmin Afschar
2019
Swiss Art Awards Nomination, Messehalle 3, Basel, 10.–15. June 2019 Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern
MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS Winner with self-published artist publication "We Say We Are Fine. They Say We Are Not."
20.–23. June 2019 & ongoing international traveling exhibitionHelmhaus Zürich
LE FOYER – IN PROCESS 20.11.2019
ACT 4, N°8: Denise Bertschi, Naturama Natural History Museum, Aarau
2018
ARTIVIST Johannesburg, South Africa 5.9. – 30.10.2018
«NEUTRALITY AS AN AGENT»
Solo exhibition, in the frame of the 20th anniversary of Pro Helvetia in Southern Africa, invited by Joseph Gaylard (SA)
*ALTEFABRIK
Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil
15.9. – 28.10.2018
«FOREVER OR IN A HUNDRED YEARS – Denise Bertschi (CH) and Inas Halabi (Palestine)»
Duo show, curated by Josiane Imhasly
MKG Hamburg Museum für unsere transkulturelle Gegenwart
13.4. – 14.10.2018
«MOBILE WELTEN»
Group exhibition, curated by Roger M. Buergel and Sophia Prinz
*ALTEFABRIK
Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil
24.3. – 6.5.2018 «TARNEN, TÄUSCHEN, IMMITIEREN»
Group exhibition, curated by Josiane Imhasly
LOKAL-INT Biel/Bienne
28.1.2018
Film screening: «NAMIBIA RAWCUT»
2017
JOHANN JACOBS MUSEUM Zürich
29.08.2017 – 28.01.2018 COFFEE FROM HELVÉCIA
Curated by Marcelo Rezende (Archiv der Avant-Garden Dresden)
2016
AUSWAHL 16, AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS
Group show, winner of NAB Förderpreis 2016
KUNSTVEREIN Zürich
MANIFESTA Zürich – PARALLEL EVENTS
«How to Waste time, with Denise Bertschi»
Performance-Series, curated by Nico Ruffo and Nele Dechmann
CORNER COLLEGE Zürich
8.12.2015 – 28.1.2016
«COLD.WAR.HOT.STARS»
Group show, curated by Dimitrina Sevova
ROSABRUX, Brüssel
27.1.2015 «PROTECTION ROOM»
Group show
WITS University of the Arts, Johannesburg/SA
12.2.–22.2.2015
«POETICS OF RELATION»
Exhibition project, initiated by Uriel Orlow and Bettina Malcomess
2014
Artsonje Art Center, Seoul South Korea
«Territories of Assembly» Curated by Markus Miessen, Berlin
LiveInYourHead, Genève
«MANDATORY PASSIVITY»
Group show, curated by Lars Bang Larsen
