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Omar Porras, is an actor and a stage director, born in Bogota in 1963.
He forms in the dance and in the theater during artistic experiences in Europe.
It is in 1990 when he bases the Teatro Malandro in Geneva, center of creation, training and research where he develops a personal creative approach, based on the movement. His theatrical technique is inspired at the same time by western and oriental traditions, as the biomechanics, the Balinese, Indian and Japanese theater.

In 2014, he is appointed director of the Theater Kléber-Méleau, settled in the former gas plant of Renens (VD). He will take up his post on July 1st, 2015.

Professors Magistretti and Ansermet welcome Vincent Kaufmann: “Littérature et médias : l’atrophie de la représentation” (Literature and media: the atrophy of representation).

Professors Magistretti and Ansermet welcome Christian Bernard, Director of the Mamco.

Christian Bernard is a French museum director. After heading the Villa Arson in Nice, he founded the Mamco, Geneva’s museum of contemporary art, in 1994.

Former director of the Grand Theatre in Geneva, Jean-Marie Blanchard directed the Wagner Festival which was held in Geneva from September 26th to November 5th, 2013.

Jean Liermier has been the Director of the Carouge Theatre in Geneva, since 2008. He holds a degree from the École supérieure d’art dramatique in Geneva and made his début in theatre in 1992 under Claude Stratz, Hervé Loichemol and Philippe Morand, to mention just these three. He was assistant producer to André Engel in the Centre dramatique national de Savoie and also participated in the production of Pirandello’s Des Grelots du Fou at the Comédie Française, under Claude Stratz. Whether it be drama or opera, Jean Liermier directs the classics in such a way that they can be enjoyed by everyone. He staged The Marriage of Figaro at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy in 2007, Molière’s “Médecin Malgré Lui” at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre in 2007, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard by Marivaux in 2008, L’École des Femmes in 2010, Harold and Maud in 2011, Figaro! in 2012 and Sophocles’ Antigone last autumn. At the moment he is directing Le Malade imaginaire at the Théâtre de Carouge.

Hervé Loichemol, born in Mostaganem (Algeria), studied drama at the École du Théâtre National de Strasbourg. As an actor, he has performed Marivaux, Aristophanes, Musset, Shakespeare and Pirandello, among others. As a director, he has presented several productions at the Festival d’Avignon: Vie de Gundling, Héraklès 5 and Hamlet-machine by H. Müller (1983), L’École des femmes by Molière (1984) and Lever les yeux au ciel by M. Beretti (2006). Between 1994 and 2000 he worked in Bosnia (Hamlet-machine by H. Müller in Sarajevo and on tour, Quartett by H. Müller and Dans la solitude des champs de coton by B.-M. Koltès). From 1999 to 2002 he was administrator of the Château de Voltaire and artistic director of the Auberge de l’Europe in Ferney-Voltaire. He has directed the Comédie de Genève since July 2011. He has also taught at the Comédie de Saint-Étienne, the Théâtre National de Strasbourg and the Conservatoires of Lausanne and Geneva. His most recent productions include Les Juifs and Minna von Barnhelm by G. E. Lessing (Comédie de Genève, 2011), Le Citoyen by D. Guénoun (Comédie de Genève, 2012), Siegfried, nocturne by Olivier Py and Michael Jarrell (Comédie de Genève, 2013) and Shitz (Comédie de Genève, 2014).

Vincent Barras, doctor in medicine and historian, is ordinary professor at the University of Lausanne (history of medicine), and also teaches at the Art University of Geneva (sound theory). He has published books, essays, articles on the history and theory of the body, medicine and psychiatry, contemporary poetry and music, and has translated works by Galen, Adorno, Cage, Sanguineti among others. Among his recent publications are : Neurosciences et médecine (Revue d’histoire des sciences, 63, 2010 (ed., with J.-Cl. Dupont) ; Le courrier du corps au XVIIIe siècle (with S. Pilloud and M. Louis-Courvoisier), Lausanne, 2013 ; Maladies en lettres, 17e-21e siècles, Lausanne 2013 (ed., with M. Dinges)

Marie-José Mondzain is one philosopher and French writer. She is also research director at the NCSR(NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH) (Group of political and moral sociology, French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences EHESS). Specialist of the image, she studies the relationship with the image, whether it is the iconoclasm since the Byzantine period or its more recent works on the look nature and the way to say what we see and to show. Marie-José Mondzain also wondered a lot about the violence of the images and is interested in the contemporary art.