Laura Den Hondt is a Belgian actress and performer who lives and works in Geneva. Born in Liège in 1993, she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in dramatic arts. In 2015, she enrolled in the Bachelor’s programme at Theatre at the Haute école des arts et de la scène, La Manufacture HES-SO in Lausanne. In 2018, she created Femme en appartement, a performance about meltdown and loneliness at the Théâtre du Loup during the CDD.8 festival. Then J’ai vu, ventre (…), at the Centre culturel des grottes in Geneva, a short poetic piece about her abortion. At the same time, she collaborated with Nina Negri on four shows: M.La Multiple in 2019, Sous Influence in 2021/2022, Violence Forest in 2023/2024 and La révolte des Zozios, currently on tour. She performed in Lionel Baier’s Foucault en Californie in 2022/2024. In 2021, she became an associate artist at L’Abri in Geneva and began researching the transformation and construction of her image. She explores these themes by linking digital technology to the performing arts and will present a work-in-progress of the Exhibition.exe project at the Mapping Festival in 2025 with her Geneva-based company, PNJ.
Guilhem Causse is a French director, and artist who lives and works in Marseille. Born in 1993, he enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier in 2012. There, he developed his work focusing on the relationship between image and sound, in the form of installations and video projections. After obtaining his DNSEP in 2017, he developed a research around the work Solaris, which he adapted into a series of video and sound works in the form of hypnotic and immersive installations. Among other projects, he exhibited for Boom & Drawing Room at La Panacée – Montpellier in 2017 and 2019. He was then invited to create a sound piece for the Intelligence Artificielle Vivante exhibition in Pont-du-Gard in 2021. In 2018, he co-directed Knit’s Island, a documentary filmed exclusively within an online video game, which explores the relationships players have with reality and the virtual space they inhabit. He is continuing with La Vraie Vie, a documentary series also filmed in a video game, co-produced with Arte, as director and technical director. This year, he is collaborating as technical and artistic director on the first version of Exhibition.exe presented at the Mapping Festival.