° 1983

Lives in Zürich (Switzerland).

[Romy Rüegger](http://farfar.ch/) is an artist based in Zürich. She works with performances, audio installations and choreographed spaces. She is author of experimental audio pieces, staged conversations, notations and texts that are being performed, red, published and broadcasted. She often works in collaboration with other artists, hosts and organizes performances, lectures, seminars and film evenings. Together with a group of people she currently runs a residency space in Zurich. In her recent work she compares the production and trade of images of "the other" in early industrialization to today's image and clothing production, with a focus focusing on the role of women and children in Switzerland's first workers strike. (Performed and exhibited: Rooftop Readings Basel, Oslo10 Basel, Kunsthof Zürich, IPA Istanbul 2013) She is co-editor of the publication *This book is a Classroom* (Passenger Books, Berlin/Toronto 2012) and co-founder of the conversation setting *Politiko Kafeneio*. Her publication *Reading Recorded Voices / A Play for Recorded Voices* (Edition Fink, Zurich 2013) will be launched 6th of November at *Les Complices* in Zürich. [More](http://www.withwith.ch/news/)