Ariana Pradal invited for Experimenter Curator's Hub
After Giovanni Carmine, Adam Szymczyk, Oliver Kielmayer, Patrick Gosatti and Nadia Schneider Willen, it's Swiss curator Ariana Pradal next at the 6th edition of the Experimenter Curators' Hub 2016 in Kolkata. More
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is pleased to partner with Experimenter to present the 6th edition of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2016, on Thursday, 28th, Friday, 29th & Saturday, 30th July 2016 which will take place at Experimenter, 2/1 Hindustan Road, Kolkata 700029, India.
Swiss design curator Ariana Pradal will be representing Switzerland.
About Ariana Pradal
Ariana Pradal Ariana Pradal, trained as an industrial designer, works as a journalist and curator. She writes and works regularly for various magazines and museums in the field of design and architecture. Her articles, books and exhibitions have been printed and presented in Switzerland and abroad.
The Experimenter Curators’ Hub is a crucial platform in developing and sustaining discourse on curatorial practice and exhibition making. Each year the hub invites curators to present and discuss their practice in depth with reference to recent exhibitions curated by them. The 6th edition of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub will bring together some of the foremost minds in curatorship from all over the world.
The participating curators at ECH 2016 are: Ariana Pradal, Cosmin Costinas, Dayanita Singh, Giorgio Galleani, Marta Smolinska, Maud Page, Naman Ahuja, Natasha Ginwala, Rahaab Allana Susie Lingham and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (via video conference)
The 3-day event will see a coming together of Indian and international curators and the visual arts community, critics, writers, thinkers, artists, collectors, theorists and people interested in contemporary visual art practice. This year the curators’ hub broadens its scope by including curators of architecture and design as well as curators of visual art. The Experimenter Curators’ Hub, like every year attempts to further the discussion on curatorial practices and discourse.
Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2016 is presented in association with Pro Helvetia - The Swiss Arts Council and is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Italian Cultural Embassy, Polish Institute & The Park Hotels. Take on Art Magazine is a media partner for the Hub.
DRAFT | The Zurich Conference
An initiative by Khanabadosh (Mumbai) and Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zurich University of the Arts
The Zurich Conference
July 28-30, 2016
Limmat Hall, Hardturmstr. 122a8005 Zurich West, Switzerland
Draft explores contemporary art that produces, contributes to or provokes public debate. It involves nine interdisciplinary collaboratives from nine cities: Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Mumbai, St. Petersburg and Zurich. The conference is focused on the projects developed and carried out by the collaboratives over the past 12 months in their local contexts. The projects intervene in contexts of action, production and discourse, by exploring the imaginary, rendering the latent visible or critiquing concrete circumstances.
Media censorship, state authoritarianism, social injustice, xenophobia, nationalism, various forms of violence, migration, the effects of frantic urbanisation, real estate speculation, commodities trading and repatriation are some of the pressing issues highlighted by these year-long investigations. Artists respond to these circumstances through critique and fiction, by establishing infrastructures, educational programmes and counter publics, and by employing re-enactments and mnemonic techniques. They reveal the consequences of such phenomena and processes on our affective and intellectual life-in short, they draft a different history and a different present. The conference will address the notion of debate: debate as a device for managing conflicts, negotiating standpoints, making things public and defining the space we live in. It will be focused in particular on the debate around the crises of belonging-i.e. who can belong, to what and how much-a subterranean reverb that runs through each of the projects.
Draft was launched in June 2015 with a conference in Mumbai where the positions and working methodologies of the collaboratives and their members were presented. The 2016 conference in Zürich will provide insights into art activities undertaken as part of Draft, and discuss them in terms of their sources and research materials, approaches adopted and their consequences for life-worlds. How do these projects change their context, our worldview or concrete action? How do they maintain dissent and promote complexity? What do they appeal for?
The upcoming conference is also imagined as a research and pedagogical environment; it will be attended by approximately 40 students visiting from universities across Alexandria, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Mexico City, New Delhi, Palermo, St. Petersburg, and Zurich. The students will be in town forNegotiating Space: Art and Dissent, the International ZHdK Summer School 2016, convened in cooperation with Manifesta 11.
Contributors: Giorgio Biancorosso, CAMP (Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, Simpreet Singh), Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Chto Delat (Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nikolay Oleynikov, Dmitry Vilensky), Cosmin Costinas (Para Site), CTC. Curating the City (Sophie Goltz, Alice Peragine), Gitanjali Dang, Anila Daulatzai, Gareth Evans, Gabrielle Goliath, Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty, Rohit Jain, Ju Anqi, knowbotiq (Christian Hübler, Yvonne Wilhelm with Nina Bandi), Qinyi Lim, Jens Maier-Rothe, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk, Alia Mossallam, Riason Naidoo, Ambimbola Odubegsan, Richard Pithouse, Sarah Rifky, Uzma Rizvi, Nils Röller, Christoph Schenker, Teatro Ojo (Héctor Bourges Valles, Laura Furlan Magaril, Karla Rodríguez Lira, Patricio Villarreal Ávila), Xu Peili (Mianbu), Samson Young and Zheng Bo
The conference is open to the public. Admission is free.
For more information and details of the programme please visit our website.
Artistic directors: Gitanjali Dang/Khanabadosh and Christoph Schenker/IFCAR
Partners: Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, and Connecting Spaces Hong Kong - Zurich
Supported by: artEDU Foundation, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
Meet Swiss curator Ariana Pradal
Ariana Pradal, industrial designer, journalist and curator will be in India for the Experimenter Curator's Hub in Kolkata and will also deliver a talk in Delhi.
Meet Swiss curator Ariana Pradal
at
KOLKATA
at the 6th edition of the Experimenter Curator's Hub in Kolkata
on 28, 29 & 30 July 2016
Entry by registration
Partner: Experimenter Kolkata
and
DELHI
on Tuesday 2 August 2016
Venue: 125 MCM, Meher Chand Market, New Delhi at 7:00 pm
Gujral Foundation's new venue at Meherchand Market
Topic: Functional Beauty - Design from Switzerland
Entry open to all.
Partner: Gujral Foundation
About Ariana Pradal
Ariana Pradal, trained as an industrial designer, works as a journalist and curator. She writes and works regularly for various magazines and museums in the field of design and architecture. Her articles, books and exhibitions have been printed and presented in Switzerland and abroad. www.pradal.ch
Ariana Pradal studied industrial design at the Zurich School of Art and Design, (now the Zurich University of the Arts, Zhdk). Having gained experience by working in various design offices she decided to switch to a new role within the creative sector: instead of designing objects herself, she started to write about them. She completed a two-year traineeship with Hochparterre, a Swiss journal of design and architecture, while at the same time taking courses at the Swiss School of Journalism in Lucerne. During her time at Hochparterre she wrote articles, designed exhibitions, worked on books and gave lectures - setting the course for her future career. The time was then ripe for a change of direction, working in another country and in another field: Ariana Pradal spent six months in New York with Location.Switzerland, the Swiss economic promotion body, gathering experience and awareness of the worlds of business and diplomacy.
After returning to Switzerland she spent three years working part time for the architectural journal Werk, Bauen und Wohnen, (wbw.ch). At the same time she wrote for other journals, and was commissioned by the Industrial Design section of the Zhdk to work on a project with the Pro Pueblo foundation in Ecuador. She also taught at various universities of applied sciences and sat on juries awarding diplomas. After her engagement at the architectural journal Werk, Bauen und Wohnen she worked two years as architecture critic for the newspaper Sonntag. Today she works as an independent journalist and curator in the areas of design, architecture and related disciplines. Her articles, books and exhibitions have been printed and presented in Switzerland and abroad. In addition she acts as a technical expert advising various cultural and political institutions.In 2010 she was appointed by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for the "Mediation in Art and Architecture award 2010
"www.pradal.ch
Reportagen
Swiss author David Collin collaborates with Indian writer Samrat Choudhury and illustrator Anindya Roy
Reportagen - Swiss author David Collin collaborates with Indian writer Samrat Choudhury and illustrator Anindya Roy
Literature / collaborative project 2016
Reportagen has carried an essay by Swiss writer David Collin and Indian writer Samrat Choudhury.
As part of Phase I, David Collin was in India to carry out a combined research with Samrat Choudhury and Anindya Roy. The trio travelled to Shillong in Meghalaya, a state in East India to explore and research.
In the second phase of the project, Samrat and Anindya will travel to Geneva to work on a story to be published in a future issue of Reportagen.
Reportagen, is an independent magazine which commissions writers to report on social issues which are researched on site and in person by the protagonists, often off the beaten track.
Hello Switzerland / Reportagen 32
By Samrat Choudhury
reportagen.com/magazin
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
Manifesta 11
The eleventh edition is hosted by the city of Zurich and runs from 11 June until 18 September 2016 and carries the title 'What People Do for Money.'
Manifesta, conceived as a nomadic, European biennial of contemporary art, takes place in Zurich this June. This year's edition is the eleventh since 1996 and is supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. The eleventh edition is hosted by the city of Zurich and runs from 11 June until 18 September 2016 and carries the title 'What People Do for Money.'
Manifesta has earlier taken place in Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Ljubljana, Frankfurt, Donostia/San Sebastián, Trentino-South Tyrol, Murcia, Genk and most recently St. Petersburg. As in previous years, Manifesta 11 will present artists, curators and young professionals from different countries, and will continue to innovate and reimagine contemporary art practices.
German artist Christian Jankowski (Göttingen, 1968) has been appointed Chief Curator of Manifesta 11, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland in 2016. Jankowski studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany) and currently lives in Berlin.
More on Manifesta 11 >>
MANIFESTA 11 // PARALLEL EVENTS
Each edition of Manifesta is accompanied by Parallel Events. Their aim is to highlight various aspects of the local and regional art scenes and to create a dialogue between them and the main exhibition.The realisation of the selected projects is organised by the coordinator of the Parallel Events, URS STEINER.
More: http://www.m11parallelevents.ch/
Open Studio Day | Shailesh BR at Atelier Mondial Basel
An invitation by Indian artist Shailesh B.R. from Baroda, who is currently on a three-month residency at Atelier Mondial, Basel/ Münchenstein, Switzerland.
Shailesh B.R.
Open Studio Day at Atelier Mondial
Dreispitz Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein Studio Nr. 3
Friday 3rd of June 2016: 18.00 - 22.00 H
Saturday 4th of June 2016: 14.00 - 18.00 H
Indian artist Shailesh B.R. from Baroda, is currently on a residency at Atelier Mondial for three months, Basel/ Münchenstein, Switzerland. He got the FICA Emerging Artist Award 2015, which is supported by FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art) and Pro Helvetia New Delhi, Swiss Arts Council.
Shailesh B.R. is dealing with complex mechanisms and simplify them in terms of their physicality and purpose, in order to make them more accessible; mechanics sometimes exist in society irrespective of their actual necessity. His process of ideation begins with numerous drawings that serve as an extension of his daily thought processes; much like a ritual, it is a constant process that documents every possibility of the work. It is not only about the end result. He is involved in every step along the way, be it mechanical or cerebral. He is interested in manipulating objects in order to alter or negate their functionality with an element of satire, which tends to create a sense of discomfort. This discomfort is vital in order to become aware of and understand the dialects of objectification.
Partners: Atelier Mondial, FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art) and Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
Queen-Size
Light designer Jonathan O'Hear will collaborate with Indian choreographer Mandeep Raikhy for his new work Queen-Size and conduct workshops at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts.
Queen - Size / Swiss light designer Jonathan O'Hear in India to collaborate with Indian choreographer Mandeep Raikhy
Performance dates:
Friday 27, Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May 2016
Timings: 7:15 pm & 8:45 pm daily
24 Jor Bagh, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Free Entry (By Registration Only)
To register, email Paushali Dutta on gati.paushali@gmail.com or call 99714061139971406113 with your show preference
IMPORTANT NOTE: This performance is suitable for 18 years and above only
About the event:
Queen-size
A contemporary dance performance choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy Queen-size is a choreographic exploration in the form of a detailed study of intimacy between two men. Located on a bed, the duet examines the nuts and bolts, both mechanical as well as emotional, of an intimate encounter between 2 male bodies.
Credit:
Choreographer: Mandeep Raikhy
Performers and Collaborators: Lalit Khatana & Parinay Mehra
Sound Designer: Yasuhiro Morinaga
Light Designer: Jonathan O'Hear from Switzerland
The production of the work has been supported by Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council, Japan Foundation, Nishit Saran Foundation & Gujral Foundation.
Advanced workshop on Light Design in Bangalore
Facilitator: Jonathan O'Hear from Switzerland
Dates: Sat 4 & Sun 5 June 2016
Venue: Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore
For registration details click here.
A Brief History of Horizontality
A three-day exhibition and film screening by Indian Artist-in-residence Shaunak Sen at PROGR Bern
A Brief History of Horizontality
a three-day exhibition and film screening at PROGR Bern
by
Indian artist-in-residence Shaunak Sen
Opening: Thursday, 26th May 2016, 1800 hrs at the PROGR Attic.
26.5.2016 at 1800 hrs
27.5.2016 at 1400 hrs
28.5.2016 at 12 noon
Co artists: Adiba Muzaffar, Theresa Beyer, Ephraim Bieri, Sarah Purro, Sunita Asnani.
What does it mean to be horizontal?
How does our understanding of the world change when we lie down?
What is the politics of sleep?
In the exhibition 'A Brief History of Horizontality', Shaunak Sen, in collaboration with co-artists, is interested in themes of laterality / horizontality. The exhibition uses object-installations, live performance, sound-installation, video and live animals.
Shaunak, who is currently on a residency funded by Pro Helvetia at the Stadtgalerie at PROGR, is the director of Cities of Sleep (2015, 74 minutes), a documentary on the sleep mafia in New Delhi, India.
Pro Helvetia New Delhi takes this opportunity to congratulate Shaunak Sen on his film Cities of Sleep winning two awards at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, (The Next Generation Best Debut Director Award and the Merit Prize in the Asian Vision competition) and the Best Documentary Award at the New York Indian Film Festival.
*Advisory: The show features a live walrus, those with any allergic reactions to aquatic animals advised to take necessary precautions.
Workshop by light designer Jonathan O'Hear in Bangalore
Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts has invited Jonathan O'Hear to conduct diploma, repertory and community workshops in Bangalore in June 2016.
Swiss light designer Jonathan O'Hear to conduct advanced workshop on lighting technologyon the invitation of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, BangaloreJonathan
O'Hear will conduct diploma, repertory and community workshops. The Advanced Workshop on Lighting Technology is open to public.
Date: Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 June 2016
Time 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Venue: Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts 24-04, BTS Bus Depot Road, Wilson Garden, Bengaluru-560027
To register contact: TransMedia Technologies, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts at tmt.info@attakkalari / +91 9845803045+91 9845803045
About the workshop:
The workshop is meant for lighting designers, choreographers, dancers, and anyone interested in studying light. Jonathan will talk about lighting technology and human interference. He will also present case studies to showcase use of video as light and the use of types of interfaces other than a lighting desk. In keeping with the multifaceted nature of light, the workshop will be a mix of theory, observation and sensing.
About Jonathan O'Hear
Jonathan O'Hear lives in Switzerland and works primarily as a lighting designer for performing arts. 2013 marked his first exhibition as a contemporary artist and his commitment to the Neopost Foofwa dance company as joint artistic and operations director with Foofwa d'Imobilité. His interests in light revolve around three main themes, light as an artistic medium, the use of new technologies submitted to human interference, and light emitting objects. His work is often tainted by the idea that human imperfection transcends technological limitations. His recent collaborations include choreographers Foofwa d'Imobilité, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Prisca Harsch and sculptor Martin Rautenstrauch. Jonathan has conducted workshops on the use of light as an artistic medium, in the Netherlands, India, South Africa and Mozambique, with the support of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. He was invited to show his work by the Villa Bernasconi and the festival Antigel in Geneva.
Partner: Attakkalari Centre of Movements Arts, Bangalore www.attakkalari.org
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is hiring. Finance Officer (Part-time)
Responsible for financial accounting and administrative support to the Liaison Office in New Delhi. Deadline to receive applications 22 May 2016
We are appointing Part-Time Finance Officer
You will be responsible for financial accounting and administrative support to the Liaison Office in New Delhi and will report to the Head of the liaison office and Pro Helvetia's Financial Controller in Zurich, Switzerland (headquarters). You must demonstrate flexibility, trustworthiness and intercultural sensitivity and must have a minimum of 5 years' similar experience. An accountancy degree is mandatory.
To view complete details click here.
Photography in Switzerland - online resource
A new website on photography in Switzerland. Find museums, galleries, collections, archives, libraries, festivals, schools in Switzerland!
ASIP (Association Suisse des Institutions pour la Photographie) has launched a new website to make photographic institutions and initiatives in Switzerland more visible and easy to reach. Find museums, galleries, collections, archives, libraries, festivals, schools in Switzerland.
Photography in Switzerland - online resource
About ASIP
ASIP was founded in 1996 as the Association of Swiss Photographic Institutions. It promotes communication and networking between various institutions, museums, galleries, collections, archives, libraries and schools, and supports political and cultural policy lobbying. ASIP campaigns for the significance of photography in Swiss cultural life.
Current member institutions (as on 1 May 2016)
Archivio di Stato del Cantone Ticino, Bellinzona; Archivio Roberto Donetta, Corzoneso; Basler Mission, Basel; BCU, Fribourg; Bernische Stiftung für Fotografie, Film, Video, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern; Bibliothèque de la Ville Département Audiovisuel, La Chaux-de-Fonds; Bildarchiv der ETH-Bibliothek, Zürich; Camera Arts, Luzern; CEMCAV (Centre d'enseignement médical et de communication audio- visuelle), Lausanne; Centre d'enseignement professionnel, Vevey; Centre de photographie Genève, Genève; Centre d'Iconographie genevoise, Genève; Mediathèque Valais (Centre valaisan du film et de la photographie), Martigny; Collectif'image, Lausanne; Focale, Nyon; Cons Arc, Chiasso; Festival Alt. +1000, Rossinière; Focale, Nyon; Fondation de l'Elysée, Lausanne; Institut suisse pour la conservation de la photographie (Fondation Suisse pour la Conservation et la Restauration du Patrimoine Photographique), Neuchâtel; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Nationalmuseum, Zürich; Imaging &Media Lab, Basel; Mediacentre Fribourgeois , Fribourg; Journées photographiques de Bienne, Biel; Médiathèque Valais, Martigny; MEMORIAV, Berne; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne; Musée suisse de l'appareil photographique, Vevey; (Le) Musée Olympique, Lausanne; Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano; Museum Bellpark, Kriens; Museum für Kommunikation, Bern; Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne; Sammlung Herzog, Basel; Near, Lausanne; Photopera, Genève; Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bern; Staatsarchiv Aargau, Aarau; Ufficio della Cultura, Chiasso.
Supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and Volkart Foundation
FICA Emerging Artist Award 2016
Pro Helvetia is pleased to partner with FICA to award a 3 month residency in Switzerland to the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award 2016.
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council is pleased to collaborate with FICA for the Emerging Artist Award 2016. The award includes a ninety day residency in Switzerland in 2017, round trip air travel from their town in India, a per diem during the time of the residency.
FICA INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR FICA EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2016.
FICA Emerging Artist Award seeks to promote young artists studying or practicing in India who demonstrate extraordinary skill and promise in the visual arts. Selected by an independent jury of distinguished artists and professionals in the field, the recipient gets the opportunity to travel and work in an international residency and exhibit in a solo show in India.
FICA is pleased to be collaborating with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi for the Emerging Artist Award 2016.
Deadline: 30 June 2016
The award includes:
A ninety day residency in Switzerland in 2017, round trip air travel from their town in India, a per diem (including local travel) during the time of the residency.
A solo exhibition at the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, developed in collaboration with FICA
Requirements for applicants:
The applicant must be between 18 and 35 years of age.
The applicant needs to be an Indian citizen.
Overseas Citizens of India and Non Indian Residents are not eligible.
In case the applicant is chosen as the recipient of the award he/she should agree to all
For Terms and Conditions and application procedure visit: ww.ficart.org/eaa-2016-call-for-applications
Exhibition “Le Corbusier - Mastering the Image” travels to Bangalore
A presentation by the Embassy of Switzerland in India, on the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier.
On the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier, architect of international repute, the Embassy of Switzerland in India has organised a tour of an exhibition called "Le Corbusier - Mastering the Image".
This exhibition, also an important part of the "Year of Swiss Innovation in India 2015-2016" was presented in Chandigarh, New Delhi and Ahmedabad last year. In 2016, the exhibition will travel to Mumbai and Bangalore.
In Bangalore, the exhibition Le Corbusier - Mastering the image is presented in collaboration with the NGMA and swissnex India. It will open at NGMA on 7 April 2016 at 7:00 pm.
Venue: NGMA Bangalore
Date: Opening on 07 April 2016 at 7:00 pm
Exhibition on view till 23 April 2016
To attend the opening, register at https://goo.gl/by1b8F.
This exhibition is not limited to the photographic representation of the achievements of Le Corbusier. Photography becomes both a tool for promoting or disseminating and a means of artistic and visual research. Specialists of the work of Le Corbusier and of photography have had different approaches to this little explored subject so far.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the major figures of the twentieth century: his architectural practice and thought have profoundly influenced several generations of architects and urban planners, and his legacy still contributes in shaping contemporary environment.
A good many exhibitions have already been devoted to the multiple facets of Le Corbusier's work, but his relationship to photography, although it touches on many aspects of his varied career, is a theme that has so far received little attention.
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AK v/s Blackout
Thomas Heimann, Bruno Steiner and Simon Wunderlich from Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland will be visiting Mumbai this May for a talk and presentation.
Thomas Heimann, Bruno Steiner and Simon Wunderlich from Ausstellungsraum Klingental (A city-funded exhibition space run by local artists in Basel, Switzerland) will be in Mumbai on the invitation of Blackout curated by Shazeb Arif S.
AK v/s Blackout
Talk and presentation on
How do creative communities work in diametrically-opposite worlds of India and Switzerland?
Wednesday 4 May 2016 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
at Space 118, 118 Wadibunder Road, Mazgaon, Mumbai - 400010
Directions to Space118 http://www.space118.com/contact.html
Presentations by
Thomas Heimann, Bruno Steiner and Simon Wunderlich representing their own artistic practices and Ausstellungsraum Klingental, a city-funded exhibition space run by local artists in Basel, Switzerland / www.ausstellungsraum.ch
&
Shazeb Arif S. representing The Blackout Festival, an urban subculture experiment that started in Mumbai in 2012 and opened its first international edition in Basel in 2015
www.blackout-festival.com
Partners:
Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Blackout, Space 118 and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
Welt-Klimakonferenz // World climate change conference
Swiss film Welt-Klimakonferenz (World climate change conference) by Rimini Protokoll to be screened at Fanatika Film Festival 2016
Pro Helvetia New Delhi and Fanatika Film Festival
present the screening of the Swiss film
Welt-Klimakonferenz (World climate change conference)
by Rimini Protokoll
on 25 March 2016 at 5:00 pm at the Gujrat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad
Entry as per festival rules.
About the film:
At the beginning of December 2015, France's capital is host city for the next international climate conference. Representatives of 195 countries will meet here to risk the next step-towards a legally binding climate-protection agreement.
This mammoth-scale drama of diplomacy, aimed at protecting the world's atmosphere, lends itself to being arranged into individual acts and scenes playing out on main stages and secondary stages.There are preliminary discussions and background discussions, negotiations in individual working groups, with fine nuancing of verbal formulations. Parties will battle with one another, block and ignore one another, with each insisting on their own position. Alliances will be formed and power relationships will be adjusted (again).
Accordingly, after an opening ceremony the audience in the Hamburger Schauspielhaus theatre will leave their red upholstered seats; in sub-groups they will be "sworn in" regarding their respective negotiating tactics.
When the issue is that of revealing the "culprit" - in other words the causes of climate change - it is all about facts. By contrast, when developing options for action the matter at hand is ultimately values. Which risks should the world community take on? What cost is it prepared to accept to protect the population in areas menaced by droughts or floods? Is it more important to expand electricity networks for renewable energies than to preserve marvelous landscapes? These are all decisions based on political, economic, and indeed ethical issues.
From most environmental-protection activists' perspective, the most recent climate summit, Warsaw 2013, was anything but a triumph. It has been talked of as a "farce", a "fiasco".Agreement was only reached on minimum compromises. And one single word almost doomed the whole event to failure...
Honoured with honorable mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2015 in the category Hybrid Art
With: Rosemarie Benndorf, Satya Bhowmik, Schirin Fathi, Hartmut Graßl, Bernd Hezel, Marlene Klockmann, Boris Koch, Mojib Latif, Klaus Milke, Juliane Otto, Florian Rauser, Michael Sahm, Vera Schemann, Sebastian Sonntag, Ana Soliz L. de Stange, Freja Vambourg and others...
Directing: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
Set management: Dominic Huber
Dramatisation: Imanuel Schipper / Jörg Bochow
Scientific consultation: Florian Rauser
More about the film http://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/project_6528.html
About Rimini Protokoll: http://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/about.html
Studio Residencies - Call for applications!
Pro Helvetia announces call for applications for three-month studio residencies in 2017. Application deadline - 1 March 2016.
Pro HelvetiaIn collaboration with its liaison offices, Pro Helvetia supports residencies in India, China and South Africa.
Swiss artists and cultural practitioners (e.g. curators, event organisers, mediators) in the areas of the visual arts, music, literature, design and interactive media, theatre and dance are eligible to apply. At the same time, Pro Helvetia facilitates residencies in Switzerland for artists and cultural practitioners from the above-mentioned regions.
1. Studio residency 2017
A studio residency (3 months) in, India, China, Southern Africa or, conversely in Switzerland, gives artists the chance to gain a broad insight into a different cultural environment. The aim of the residency is to find inspiration, establish networks and contemplate new projects and cooperations. In addition to a place to work and accommodation, Pro Helvetia will provide specific coaching. The Swiss Arts Council covers the cost of travel, insurances and per diem expenses. Applicants may apply three times in total for a Pro Helvetia studio residency.
1.1 Selection criteria- convincing track record: personal artistic activity above and beyond regional level - context-related motivation- adequate foreign language skills A maximum of four applications can be considered per region.
1.2 Applications Applications must be submitted by 1 March 2016 via www.myprohelvetia.ch. Applications must be written in English.
Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of House of Electronic Arts Basel to visit India
Sabine Himmelsbach to talk at CeC 2016 in Shillong and at Experimenter Kolkata and Shrishti School of Art and Design, Bangalore.
Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of HeK, will be in India to deliver a talk at CeC 2016 in Shillong and at Experimenter Kolkata and Shrishti School of Art and Design, Bangalore.
Kolkata | 24 February 2016
at Experimenter Kolkata
Entry open to all
Shillong | 26 - 28 February 2016
On the occasion of the tenth edition of Carnival of e-Creativity
at NEHU (North Eastern Hill University) |Meghalaya Department of Arts & Culture, Shillong
Bangalore | 3 May 2016
at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Entry open to all
Data Cultures. Artistic Practise in a Data-driven Society
Examples from the program at HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel)
The presentation will focus on works from the field of media arts that reflect life in a world increasingly controlled by data and that raise questions on the societal, political, cultural and social effects brought about by a data driven society. Works shown and discussed are devoted to the potentials offered by the use of the media technology to design sustainable and livable digital and material conditions. Artists raise questions about the importance and position of the individual within our technologically linked society and offer alternatives to a standardized data world. They show new possibilities and opportunities to design our own networks and help us to shape the future of our data society.
Specific strategies explored by artists shown in the presentation include DIY, hacking, sampling, immersive and technologically innovative environments, and the use of algorithms for a generative development of visual material. Examples will come from exhibitions from Himmelsbach's curatorial practice at the HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel).
Partners: The Academy of Electronic Arts, Experimenter Kolkata and Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Gregory Stauffer presents 'Walking' in Delhi and Dhaka
Walking is a solo performance by Swiss performer and choreographer Gregory Stauffer.
Date/ venue
Delhi: 30 March 2016
as part of Expressions, International Contemporary Dance Festival 2016
Venue: Shri Ram Centre Delhi at 7:00 pm
Entry open to all.
For passes register at teamworkarts.com/teamwork-dance-show/
Or contact Revathy at +91- 9811031527/ revathy@teamworkarts.com
Dhaka: 2 & 3 April 2016
Venue: Goethe-Institut Dhaka / Dhaka
Swiss performer and choreographer Gregory Stauffer is educated in fine arts and physical theatre. In 2009, he started the company "le cabinet des curiosités" which explored and created mainly site-specific performances. He will present "Walking", a solo performance, in March 2016 in Delhi and Dhaka. He is part of the international artist collective Authentic Boys.
Synopsis:
"I walk for 60 minutes, with a drum, with a flute, but mainly with my sole body evolving and changing in this gesture born from the loss of balance and the fall. This performance is a tribute to the ground that supports our changing verticalities and supports our dreams and ambitions. A focus on the height of the foot upon the ground that one treads and the trace that is emerging in our journey towards death. Wandering as a way of being in the world where the landscape, the mind and body are connected to each other to form a musical chord, in the words of Rebecca Solnit."
Gregory Stauffer
Credit:
Choreography and performance: Gregory Stauffer
Dramaturgy: Marius Schaffter
Sound: Ariel Garcia
Lights: Antoine Frammery
Set and costume design: Jérôme Stünzi & Gregory Stauffer
Photography: Chloé Tun Tun
Administration and distribution: Tutu Production
Production: Le cabinet des curiosités
Co-production Théâtre de l'Usine, Genève & Reso
Supports Pro Helvetia, Reso - Swiss dance network, Ville de Genève, République and Canton de Genève, Loterie Romande, Nestlé pour l'Art
Partners: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh and Goethe-Institut Dhaka, Teamwork Arts Pvt Ltd and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Photo credit: Chloé Tun Tun
Gregory Stauffer's Walking http://flowandfire.tumblr.com/
Swiss specialists invited to mentor at Kochi Students' Biennale
Andreas Vogel and Sandi Paucic invited to deliver a workshop for the Student's Biennale, which is part of the Kochi Biennale's educational initiative.
Swiss specialists Andreas Vogel and Sandi Paucic invited to conduct workshops for The Student's Biennale, which is part of the Kochi Biennale's educational initiatives that seeks to extend and strengthen art educational practices and infrastructure. Fifteen young curators will be trained by an advisory and mentor group towards a Student's Biennale exhibition that will run parallel to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.
The Kochi Biennale Foundation, in collaboration with The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) and Foundation for Indian Art and Education (FIAE) has developed Students' Biennale (SB), an exhibitory platform which runs parallel to the Kochi Biennale.
Workshop dates:
Delhi - 12/ 13/ 14 March at The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art / FICA New Delhi
Bangalore - 16/ 17/ 18 March at Srishti SAchool of Art and Design Bangalore
About Andreas Vogel
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vogel (1968): Head of Department, Design and Fine Arts, Bern University of the Arts HKB Andreas Vogel received his doctorate after studying Art History, German Literature and Urbanism at the German Universities of Konstanz and Bonn in 1997 at the University of Jena with a study on late absolutism urbanism. This was followed by activities at various museums, including 1999/2000 as curator of the <Kunstverein Konstanz>. From 2001-2015 Andreas Vogel worked at the F+F School for Art and Design in Zurich: from 2001 to 2009 as head of foundation program <Gestalterischer Vorkurs> and as a lecturer in the field of art and cultural history. He became vice director in 2009, then from 2011 he was director of the F+F. In 2015 he changed job and became Head of Department <Design and Fine Arts> at Bern University of the Arts HKB. As a journalist and author Andreas Vogel was responsible for various books and catalogues on architecture, art in public space and contemporary art, including publications on Ian Anüll, Kühne/Klein, Christa Ziegler, Constantin Luser, Jörg Niederberger, Clare Goodwin and many others. Important curatorial projects are <A Tout Prix> at FriArt Gallery (CH-Fribourg) in 2007or <Um jeden Preis> at Helmhaus Gallery (CH-Zurich) in 2008, or - on behalf of the Arts Council Pro Helvetia - the staging of the publication series <Cahiers d'Artistes> at the SwissArtAwards in both 2010 and 2011 at the Basel Art Fair. From 2006 to 2014 Andreas Vogel was member of the Art Commission of the City of Zurich and is currently a jury member of the Guggenheim-Prize Commission.
About Sandi Paucic
Sandi Paucic Born 1963 in Croatia. MA in Art history at the University of Zurich. Artist and teacher of Art history since 1989. 1992-2000 scientific collaborator at the Swiss Institute of Art Research in Zurich. Deputy project leader of the publishing project 'Biographic dictionary of Swiss artists' between 1993-2000. Several publications on Swiss art. 2000-2011 director of the F+F School of art in Zurich, since 2011 co-director of the F+F School. 2002-2014 Co-organiser and curator at 'K3 Project Space' in Zurich. Since 2008 curator of the Helen Dahm Museum in Oetwil - Switzerland. Co-author of the official Swiss curriculum for art and design schools on the level of higher professional education. Since 2011 Project leader for the Swiss contributions to the Venice Art and Architecture Biennale at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
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Swiss artists Never Crew at St-art Delhi
Never Crew, the Swiss duo known for their ability to interact with a variety of mediums and environments part of St+art Delhi 2016
Never Crew, the Swiss duo renowned worldwide for their ability to interact with a variety of mediums and environments, have been invited to be part of St+art Delhi 2016 to represent Switzerland in this collective art project.
Never Crew will create a big mural on a prominent wall in the city as well as participate in the exhibition at ICD. For the exhibition they will paint a piece on two containers which will also host a selection of their studio's works inside (previously realized in Switzerland), in the form of a site-specific installation.
Schedule:
The St-art Delhi container exhibition
On display from 29 January 2016 - 29 February 2016at ICD (Inland Container Depot), Tughlakabad, near Okhla Industrial Area, Delhi
The St-art Delhi Festival
St+art Delhi 2016 will be the third edition of the St+art Festival in Delhi. Ten international artists and ten Indian artists along with a few special guests from the Indian contemporary art sphere will be invited to realize public interventions across the city and also to create a unique art exhibition at the ICD (Inland Container Depot), the biggest dry port in Asia, which is located in the industrial area of Okhla. ICD will be the venue of St+art Delhi 2016 exhibition. The parking lot of ICD will host a massive walk-through installation made using more than 100 shipping containers.
About Nevercrew
NEVERCREW is a swiss based street artists duo composed by Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni. They work together since 1996.
Working together since 1996, Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni developed the issue of the confrontation (between two persons, between ideas, between forces) and at the same time, interacting in the public space, they extended this confrontation outside in a direct way, making this perennial dual "discussion" one of the hubs of their work. From this take shape what they call "sections" and "living structures."
NEVERCREW see these "structures" as models of living systems, overviews that are made perceptible in their totality and in their structure by the act of sectioning, which allows to see them (and if desired, to explore them) as they are inside while maintaining the perceptible global shape. They apply and generate a double vision, or "simultaneous vision", layered in sets/systems that start from the individual mechanical or natural components up to the overall composition given by the association of different subjects, and then finally expand out automatically in a direct and personal relationship with the observer and the environment.
More about Never Crew: http://www.nevercrew.com/
More about St-art Delhi: http://www.st-artindia.org/
Partner: St-art Delhi
Press Mention:
Be-Street / dated 29 Jan 2016
Corinne Maier presents PAST IS PRESENT
Swiss director Corinne Maier will present 'Past is Present' to audiences in Bangalore, Mumbai and Pondicherry
The Swiss director Corinne Maier studied Cultural Sciences and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim in Germany until 2009. Since then she has remained committed to creating her own performances in a range of contexts, including a series of solos on the philosophy she has devised.
Bangalore
2 and 3 February 2016 at Rangashankara, Bangalore at 7:30 pm
Tickets: Rs. 200/- available on: www.bookmyshow.com and at the venue
Pondicherry
5 and 6 February 2016 at Adishakti, Pondicherry at 7:00 pm
Entry: Open to all
Bombay
11 February 2016 at National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) at 7:00 pm
Tickets: Rs.300/- 250/- & 200/-Box Office: 26 Jan 2016 for members / 29 January for the public
Duration 90 minutes
The performance is in German with Slovene and English surtitles.
The magic of documentary theatre lies precisely in its potential to utter global narratives through individual stories. The performance Past is Present is the result of Corinne Maier's collaboration with Shaheen Dill-Riaz, a Germany-based documentary film artist of Bangladeshi origin. His award-winning documentaries have caused something of a stir in his home country and in his family circles. Corinne Maier takes a documentary approachcumentaryge, we only ask for to portraying Shaheen's life - how he lives it, what he dedicates his time to and what his family is like. Each and every scene from his life invokes the reality of the global world - project-driven professional life, family scattered across four different continents amidst radically different cultural realities...
Direction: Corinne Maier
Performance: Shaheen Dill-Riaz, Anne Haug
Set design: Valerie HessDramaturgy: Kris Merken
Sound design: Bernhard la Dous
Technique: Thomas Kohler
Production management: Franziska Schmidt, stranger in company ℗
Co-production: Kaserne Basel
Photo: Brigitte Fässler
Thomas Seelig to visit India
Thomas Seelig co-director Fotomuseum Winterthur will be in India to deliver a talk at Travel Photo Jaipur and Photoink Delhi.
Travel Photo Jaipur and Photoink have invited Thomas Seelig co-director Fotomuseum Winterthur to deliver a talk in February 2016.
Programme
Delhi
3 February 2016 - Talk at Photoink, New Delhi
Talk on Exhibiting Photography Today at 5:30 pm
Entry open to public
Jaipur
6 February 2016 - Talk at Travel Photo Jaipur
Talk on The New Grand Tour at 10:30 am
Entry: as per festival rules
Thomas Seelig (*1964 Cologne) studied Visual Communication at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, followed by a curatorial study program at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht/NL. He joined the Fotomuseum Winterthur team in 2003 as collection curator. Since 2013 Seelig is co-directing the museum with Duncan Forbes and realized group- and thematic exhibitions like "The Ecstasy of Things" (2004), "Research and Invention" (2007), "Karaoke" (2009) as well as "Concrete - Architecture and Photography" (2013). Next to monographic exhibitions on James Welling, Yann Mingard, Peter Piller and Taiyo Onorato&Nico Krebs he co-curated the retrospective of "Mark Morrisroe" together with Beatrix Ruf. Most recently the museum introduced the innovative exhibition and display format www.situations.fotomuseum.ch
Press Mentions:
Business Standard / 28 Jan 2016
