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Antoine de Perrot, aka Onzgi, is an urban researcher, architect and visual artist. He studied painting and sculpture in Berlin from 1994-96 and architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio AAM USI from 1996-2002, graduated under Prof. Kenneth Frampton. Along with his studies he collaborated with artists and curators, among others Olivier Mosset, Juri Steiner and Peter Weber and trained at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. As an architect he worked for two years as project leader at Yves Lion Architectes Urbanistes in Paris. In 2002 he founded Onzgi studio in Zurich and since 2013 also in Paris. He realized various projects internationally and has been awarded for both art and architecture projects, most recently he was granted an artistic mention at the European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier 2021. Since 2017 he is lecturer for art and architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio and is regularly invited to lecture in universities and institutions.
www.onzgi.com
Mansoureh Aalaii is a medical doctor, choreographer, dancer and lecturer working in Zurich and Paris. She researches the body at the intersection of medicine and dance. With her transdisciplinary approach she has created an innovative method linking medical knowledge to the creative process. She realizes dance performances and is lecturer at universities such as the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, institutions such as Tanzhaus Zurich, Micadanses Paris, Forum Tanz Schweiz. She founded the structure State of the Body. Mansoureh Aalaii studied medicine in Fribourg and Zurich. Both universities hired her to tutor their students in anatomy and histology. She completed an MD in social and preventive medicine and received her ophthalmology accreditation from the European Board of Ophthalmology and the Swiss FMH. She studied sports and dance medicine and investigated somatic practices. She is the responsible for Switzerland for TA.MED for dance medicine. She trained in contemporary dance techniques with Benoît Lachambre, Vera Mantero and Rihoko Sato, among others and worked with Japanese Butoh dancer Iwana Masaki and Body Weather founder Min Tanaka.
www.stateofthebody.org
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Antoine de Perrot, aka Onzgi, is an urban researcher, architect and visual artist. He studied painting and sculpture in Berlin from 1994-96 and architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio AAM USI from 1996-2002, graduated under Prof. Kenneth Frampton. Along with his studies he collaborated with artists and curators, among others Olivier Mosset, Juri Steiner and Peter Weber and trained at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. As an architect he worked for two years as project leader at Yves Lion Architectes Urbanistes in Paris. In 2002 he founded Onzgi studio in Zurich and since 2013 also in Paris. He realized various projects internationally and has been awarded for both art and architecture projects, most recently he was granted an artistic mention at the European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier 2021. Since 2017 he is lecturer for art and architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio and is regularly invited to lecture in universities and institutions.
www.onzgi.com
Mansoureh Aalaii is a medical doctor, choreographer, dancer and lecturer working in Zurich and Paris. She researches the body at the intersection of medicine and dance. With her transdisciplinary approach she has created an innovative method linking medical knowledge to the creative process. She realizes dance performances and is lecturer at universities such as the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, institutions such as Tanzhaus Zurich, Micadanses Paris, Forum Tanz Schweiz. She founded the structure State of the Body. Mansoureh Aalaii studied medicine in Fribourg and Zurich. Both universities hired her to tutor their students in anatomy and histology. She completed an MD in social and preventive medicine and received her ophthalmology accreditation from the European Board of Ophthalmology and the Swiss FMH. She studied sports and dance medicine and investigated somatic practices. She is the responsible for Switzerland for TA.MED for dance medicine. She trained in contemporary dance techniques with Benoît Lachambre, Vera Mantero and Rihoko Sato, among others and worked with Japanese Butoh dancer Iwana Masaki and Body Weather founder Min Tanaka.
www.stateofthebody.org