Robert Ireland lives and works in Lausanne (CH), where he graduated at ECAL in 1987. Parallel to his artistic practice, he was assistant professor at EPFL and at ENAC (Natural Architectural and Constructed Environnement Section) from 1991 to 2007. He was teachercoordinator at Collège des Humanités in Human and Social Sciences at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for HEAD Genève. Since 2007, he is professor in the Master Program MAPS, Arts in Public Spheres of the ECAV (CH).
Co-author of the book L'évidence du paysage (Infolio, Gollion), he has as written several essays about the work and the artistic practice of artists and architects, as well as critical texts. He regularly exhibits in museums and galleries (MCBA, Lausanne, Musée de Pully, Kunsthaus Aarau, Musée Rath, Geneva, Galerie Skopia, Geneva...) and develops interventions in public space (Burier, Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva).
Federica Martini, PhD, is an art historian and curator. She was a member of the Curatorial Departments of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin, Musée Jenisch Vevey and Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts/Lausanne. Since 2009, she is head of the Master program MAPS, Arts in Public Spheres at ECAV, Sierre. Recent publications include On Curating : Performing the Exhibition (2012) ; Marco Fedele di Catrano : Unbearable dissertation on a broken fine (cura, 2011) ; Just Another Exhibition : Histories and Politics of Biennials (co-authored with V Martini, Postmediabooks, 2011) ; "Una Biennale, motte Biennali : dalla Grande esposizione universale alla montra globale" (in Studi Culturali, Il Mulino, April 2010) ; "Questions of Authorship in Biennial Curating" (co-authored with V Martini ; in E Filipovic et al, eds, The Biennial Reader, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010).
