The DRAFT Project
DRAFT, anchored in nine cross-disciplinary collaboratives across nine countries is jointly presented by Khanabadosh (Mumbai) and Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zurich University of the Arts.

Draft June 2015-July 2016 
Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Mumbai, St. Petersburg and Zurich

Initiated by Khanabadosh (Mumbai) and Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zurich University of the Arts, Draft considers contemporary art that produces, provokes and contributes to public debates. The undertaking is anchored in nine cross-disciplinary collaboratives in Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Mexico City, St. Petersburg and Zurich.

Draft started in June 2015 with a three-day conference in Mumbai. The Zurich conference will take place in July 2016. In the critical year-long interim, a range of engagements, including research and workshops, have been realised in each city. These convergences have set the pace for site-sensitive artworks that are currently taking shape.

Zurich: IFCAR (Christoph Schenker), Rohit Jain and knowbotiq (Christian Huebler and Yvonne Wilhelm) Rohstoffwechsel-Postcolonial Swiss Metabolism, May-July 2016 Switzerland's commodity business is caught up in colonial and neoliberal economies, but public debate on such involvement is absent. With knowbotiq's performative intervention, the project seeks to understand and reveal aesthetic and affective processes bound up with commodity trade and the public culture accompanying those processes.

Draft Zurich conference / July 28-30, 2016
ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland