What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall

Caroline Bachmann, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, did her artistic education at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Geneva, Switzerland. She has been working in Spain 1987-90 where she co-founded the agency V.I.T.R.I.O.L. in Barcelona in 1990, and in Italy 1991-2002, participating in the ORESTE projects in Rome 1997-2000 that were featured in the Italian pavillion at the Venice Biennale 1999. Her work has been presented in solo and group shows in Italy and Switzerland. She has been a professor painting and drawing at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva since 2007. Stefan Banz, born in Sursee near Lucerne, Switzerland, read art history, German literature and literary criticism at the University of Zurich. He was co-founder of the museum of contemporary art Kunsthalle Luzern in Lucerne in 1989 and the museum's artistic director 1989-93. He has been working as a self-taught freelance artist since 1993, using various media and techniques (photography, video, painting, installation). He has been awarded various prizes for his work which has been presented internationally in solo and group shows. Banz was appointed as curator for the Swiss pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2005 and works also as a writer of fiction and dramatic works and of critical texts on art and artists.