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
le Guignol à roulettes invited by Ishara Puppet Festival 2016
Pierre-alain Rolle from Switzerland to present 'Behind my House' by le Guignol à roulettes at the Ishara Puppet Festival 2016 in Delhi, Chandigarh and Gurgaon.
We regret to inform that owing to unavoidable circumstances - Le Guignol à roulettes have had to cancel their visit to India.
Pro Helvetia New Delhi
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Behind my House
Performed by: Le Guignol à roulettes
Country: Switzerland
Gurgaon
DATE: 07h Feb 2016
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM VENUE: Epicentre
Chandigarh
DATE: 09th Feb 2016 SHOW TIME: 7:30PM VENUE:Chandigarh
Delhi
DATE: 11th Feb 2016 SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheater, India Habitat Centre
Synopsis
This funny and educative glove puppet show teaches children a powerful message about the gift of nature and how to appreciate the greenery around them. As the beautiful gardens filled with flowers disappear and the ugly city grows thanks to the wicked Governor of the Grey City, our hero Boniface tries to stop the workmen with hilarious results. Madam Paulette then prepares her secret weapon, a mug of hot chocolate. Will she be able to stop them in time from destroying everything?
Directed & Written By: Dora Cantero
Language: Musical, Non Verball
Suitable for audiences: family show
Recommended: All Ages
Duration: 50 minutes
Performed by: Le Guignol à roulettes
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Sound Reasons Festival IV | Sound Art and Electronic Music
A festival for sound art, contemporary Jazz and electronic music, in Bangalore Delhi and Goa from 4 Dec 2015 to 22 January 2016.
Sound Reasons IV - festival for sound art, contemporary Jazz and electronic music
A presentation by Sound Reasons in collaboration Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
04 Jan Vadehra Art Gallery | Delhi | Installations - Opening |
04 - 10 January Installations at Vadehra Art Gallery, DELHI featuring Colin Black , Salomé Voegelin, Raul Keller , Shun Owada , Ish S (diFfuSed beats), Shun Owada, Bernd Schurer and Manuel Rocha
10 Jan Experimental Gallery IHC | Delhi | Installations |
10 January Live performance at Amphitheater, India Habitat Center DELHI feat Colin Black , Shun Owada , Ish S (diFfuSed beats), Raul Keller , Shun Owada, Bernd Schurer, Christian Skjødt, Mads Paluszewski- Hau, Derek Holzer and Manuel Rocha
10 Jan Amphitheater IHC | Delhi | Live |
10 January - 16 January Sound Installation feat Christian Skjødt and Mads Paluszewski- Hau at the Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Center
12 Jan Alliance française de Bangalore | Bangalore | Live |
12 January Live Performance Alliance Frances BANGALORE feat Colin Black ,Raul Keller , Shun Owada , Ish S (diFfuSed beats), Raul Keller, Bernd Schurer and Manuel Roche
16 Jan 1 Shanti Road | Bangalore | Installations-Opening |
16 January - 22 January Sound Installation at 1 Shanti Road, BANGALORE feat Colin Black , Salomé Voegelin, Raul Keller , Shun Owada , Ish S (diFfuSed beats), Raul Keller , Shun Owada, Bernd Schurer and Manuel Rocha
About the festival
Sound Reasons is a festival for Sound Art, contemporary Jazz and electronic music which will take place here in India in various parts from the month of December 2015 to January 2016 with performances happening across various cities in India. The fourth edition of the festival brings an interesting mix of musicians and artists from Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Norway and India.
For complete festival schedule visit: www.soundreasons.in/festival/
Press Mention: Art Illustrated / Keeping Score 2015 (volume 3/ Issue 3)
.h.g. - revisiting the fairy tale Hänsel and Gretel
Installation in 9 rooms, one prologue and one epilogue, based on the classical fairy tale of Hänsel and Gretel.
.h.g.
installation in 9 rooms, one prologue and one epilogue
Based on the classical fairy tale of Hänsel and Gretel
Bangalore
8, 9, 10, 11 January 2016 at Goethe - Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
Timings 5pm and 8pm / entry every 20 mins / Suitable for 12+
Entry: by registration / tickets available on bookmyshow.com
Kolkata
23, 24, 25, 26 January 2016 at South City International School, Kolkata
Timings 5pm and 8pm / entry every 20 mins / Suitable for 12+
Entry: by registration / tickets available on explara.in
Fairytales belong to a deeply intimate and personal territory that defies age. Trickster-p again takes a fairytale as a theme, in order to work on a subject that belongs to the collective imaginary, disregarding facts to dive into a universe of images, memories and sensations evoked by the story. .h.g. is a reading - and revision - of the classical fairy tale of Hänsel and Gretel, in the shape of an installation where theatre and visual arts merge. The spectator walks through 9 different physical-sensory rooms accompanied and guided by earphones. Each room is a world on its own, a passage into universes suspended halfway between reality and dream: here the mind slips into the imaginary and the external spectator becomes integral part of the experience.
The installation evolves along the points of rupture and intersection of the story, in search of the links between the world of childhood and the world of adulthood. Hänsel and Gretel is a beastly, cruel and merciless story It is a story made of sounds and silences It is a story of bones and flesh, of food and hunger It is a story about home, then about forest, then again home It is the story of two children who go into the thick of the forest holding hands It is a story with both a clean and ferocious smell. Suspended between ferocity and childlike lightness, .h.g.strives to be an experience both aesthetical and sensorial.
More about .h.g. at: http://www.trickster-p.ch/?pagina=1661
About Trickster-p
Trickster-p arises out of the encounter of Cristina Galbiati and Ilija Luginbühl and is intended as an artistic research project which pushes at the boundaries and is at the crossroad of different art forms. Initially their research focused specifically on the centrality and physicality of the performer; as time went on, their focus has shifted from a more narrow definition of theatre to include expressions that transgress genre boundaries, both conceptually and formally resulting from the mixture of extremely heterogeneous artistic media.
More about Trickster -p at http://www.trickster-p.ch/?pagina=1380
Partner: Think Arts
Anne-Marie Kenessey at Bangalore Literature Festival
Swiss poet Anne-Marie Kenessey has been invited by the Bangalore Literature Festival.
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with
Bangalore Literature Festival presents
Swiss poet Anne-Marie Kenessey
When: Wednesday 5 Dec 2015 at 12:30 pm
Venue: Hotel Royal Orchid, Near KGA, Bangalore
Entry: Festival rules apply
Session: War & Peace - In Verse: Anne-Marie Kenessey, Mani Rao, Neal Hall and Per Bloch
About the poet:
Anne-Marie Kenessey is a Swiss poet based in Zurich. Her German poems have been published in various literary magazines, amongst others, SpracheimtechnischenZeitalter no. 190 (Berlin, Germany), Wespennest no. 156 and no. 164 (Vienna, Austria, August 2009 and May 2013), poet no. 14 (Leipzig, Germany, March 2013) and allmende no. 88 (Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2011), in the anthology Jahrbuch der Lyrik no. 30 (Munich, 2015) and in the Swiss national newspaper Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich, December 2012).
Anne-Marie's first book, the poetry collection "Im Fossil verstecktsich das Seepferdvordir" (Edition Isele, 2012), received the award of the Canton of Zurich in July 2012. With a selection of new poems she won the Munich poetry prize in December 2012. She has been invited for readings by Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in 2013, as one of the four most important German poetry debut works of the year 2012, by LiteraturhausNÖ, Krems, Austria in 2014 and by Leukerbad International Literary Festival in 2015.
Anne-Marie's poems have been translated to Hungarian by Hungarian writer GyörgyDalos and have appeared in the cultural magazine Magyar LettreInternationale, Budapest, August 2015. Since 2009 she is editor of the Swiss literary magazine orte. Her translations of French poems and short prose into German have been published in it. She has language skills in German (native), English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian andholds a Master of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Zurich. From 2000 - 2014 she worked as a full time employee in the private sector. Since 2015 she is working as an independent writer.
More on the poet at
www.edition-isele.de/shopersatz/index.php?aktion=detail&id=426
literaturfestival.ch/wwkd15/deutsch/autorinnen-und-autoren.html
www.poetenladen.de/anne-marie-kenessey.htm
www.viceversaliteratur.ch/author/9140
About the festival: bangaloreliteraturefestival.org
Cie Gilles Jobin presents QUANTUM in India
Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin, recipient of the Swiss Grand Award for Dance 2015 presents QUANTUM, an innovative dance performance in Bangalore and Delhi.
Q U A N T U M
by Gilles Jobin (Geneva - CH) recipient of the Swiss Grand Award for Dance 2015
In the frame of the "Year of Swiss Innovation in India", the Embassy of Switzerland along with Pro Helvetia Swiss Art Council and swissnex India, invites the Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin with QUANTUM.
Gilles Jobin and his dance company will perform in:
Bangalore on the 26th and 27th of November 2015 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall
New Delhi on 4th and 5th December 2015 at Kamani Auditorium
About QUANTUM
QUANTUM is an innovative dance performance by Gilles Jobin, choreographer of international acclaim and German visual artist Julius von Bismarck. Gilles Jobin developed this choreography after his residency at CERN - The European Organization for Nuclear Research, world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is based on the concept of kinetic movement in particle physics.
QUANTUM takes the quark as muse, fusing choreography and installation art into an ode to subatomic randomness. Six dancers vibrate, scatter, and whirl beneath a gyrating quartet of industrial lamps, programmed to respond to the slightest movement, while Carla Scaletti's soundscape from particle collision data provides the sonic ether.
QUANTUM is a stunning example of the kind of mutual inspiration that can happen when artists and scientists work alongside one another.
Workshops
Gilles Jobin will also lead choreographic workshops for dance professionals, students, scholars and/or scientists around the idea of "movement generators" developed during his CERN residency and the creation of QUANTUM.
Bangalore workshop at Attakalari on 26th and 27th of November
Delhi workshop Danceworx on 3rd and 4th of December
Links
Gilles Jobin homepage: http://www.gillesjobin.com/spip.php?rubrique306
Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/ciegillesjobin/channels
QUANTUM (filmed by SESC TV-Brazil) http://danca.sesctv.org.br/espetaculos?id=41
QUANTUM press: http://www.gillesjobin.com/spip.php?article1173
Interview with Michael Doser in CERN in NYC: http://sciencefriday.com/segment/10/03/2014/dance-and-physics-collide-in-quantum.html
Gilles Jobin on Technology, Science and Art: https://vimeo.com/123666479
ARTS@CERN collide@cern http://arts.web.cern.ch/collide
Anne Golaz at Delhi Photo Festival
Swiss photographer Anne Golaz invited by Delhi Photo Festival 2015 to talk about her work.
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with the Delhi Photo Festival 2015
present
a talk by Swiss photographer Anne Golaz
on
"Since no one will ever return to the same place"
on Tuesday 3 November from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts CV Mess, Janpath, New Delhi
The talk is an outline of the main moves driving Anne Golaz's photographic practice such as escaping and returning. She will present her unreleased work Raven; a personal body of work that she has developed over the past ten years. Anne will also introduce her Finnish series and her experience in working in an artists' collective.
For more information on Anne Golaz visit: www.annegolaz.ch
Direction to the festival: By car: Please make sure that you enter the festival through Gate 1 or Gate 3 of IGNCA. By public transport: the nearest metro stop is Central Secretariat (Gate 2) and you can get an auto rickshaw or shuttle bus, or walk to the venue.
For information relating to the festival visit: www.delhiphotofestival.com
The exhibition 'Le Corbusier – Mastering the image' comes to Delhi
On the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier, the Embassy of Switzerland in India brings the exhibition Le Corbusier - Mastering the image to Delhi.
On the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Swiss architect Le Corbusier, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Embassy of Switzerland in India in collaboration with the Musée des beaux-arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds presents the exhibition
'LE CORBUSIER - MASTERING THE IMAGE'
at the Embassy of Switzerland Nyaya Marg, Chanakya Puri, Delhi.
Opening on 6 Nov at 6.30pm
On view until 23 Nov 2015
Entry by registration only.
Please register at ndh.events@eda.admin.ch to attend.
About the exhibition
Visiting the exhibition "Le Corbusier - Mastering the Image", it's over 150 black and white and colored photographs that visitors can discover through its different sections. Many of the black and white photographs have been taken by Le Corbusier himself were shown for the first time in India, enhancing also the importance of Swiss born architect in India, and one of his most important construction of his career, the urban plan development and construction of the city of Chandigarh, in collaboration with his cousin, Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, and British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.
Curated by the Musée des beaux-arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds the exhibition is a partial adaption of the exhibition "The Constructed image. Le Corbusier and Photography" curated by international specialists of Le Corbusier's work as well as photography that crossed their approach of a subject rarely studied until then. The different sections have been curated by Lada Umstätter (general curator), Tim Benton, Jean-Christophe Blaser, Veronique Boone, Catherine de Smet, Isabelle Godineau, Anouk Hellmann, Michel Richard, Arthur Rüegg, Klaus Spechtenhauser and Sophie Vantieghem.
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.
Throughout his life, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) used images in a variety of ways. His travels were opportunities for him to collect a great many documents that he later used in his work as an architect, urbanist, theoretician and artist. Drawing from this vast iconographic reservoir to illustrate his writings and exhibitions, he developed innovative communication strategies. He supervised the documentation of his creation with a sharp, demanding eye, which makes him the genuine co-author of certain photographs devoted to his architecture.
Moreover, Le Corbusier also experimented with composition and lighting in his personal photographic work, which remains largely unpublished. The recent discovery of thousands of negatives now provides an opportunity to observe his creative processes and confront them with his pictorial work. For the architect, photography thus served both as a means of note-taking and as a tool for experimentation with forms. Beyond his own creative work, Le Corbusier was also one of the first to conscientiously and systematically construct his image and that of his works through the medium of photography, drawing on the work of several renowned photographers for this.
This legacy continues to stimulate contemporary photographers, who now revisit his work with the freedom that historical distance allows.
Nik Bärtsch to tour India with zen-funk quartet RONIN
Swiss pianist & composer Nik Bärtsch will tour India this November 2015 with RONIN, a quartet that proceeds with the work on his 'ritual groove music'.
Swiss pianist, composer and producer Nik Baertsch will be in India on the invitation of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. Nik Baertsch will tour India with the zen-funk quartet RONIN founded in 2001. RONIN proceeds with the work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Thomy Jordi (he replaced Björn Meyer on the bass in 2011) and Sha (bass/contrabass clarinet).
Tour schedule:
DELHI / Thursday Nov 26th
The Piano Man Jazz Club
Entry open to all
KOLKATA / Friday Nov 27th
Jazz Fest
Entry as per Festival rules
BANGALORE / Saturday Nov 28th
Jazz in the Garden VR Bengaluru
Entry as per Festival rules
GOA / Sunday Nov 29th
GOA International Jazz Live Festival at 7:00 pm
Entry as per Festival rules
Note: Please visit www.prohelvetia.in for venue details closer to the event.
About Ronin
With the zen-funk quartet RONIN founded in 2001, Nik Baertsch proceeds with the work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Thomy Jordi (he replaced Björn Meyer on the bass in 2011) and Sha (bass/contrabass clarinet. Percussionist Andi Pupato joined the band 2002-2012). Their music consistently follows the same aesthetic vision under various instrumental guises: creating the maximum effect by minimal means. Despite the multiplicity of the band's influences, Ronin's music always possesses a strong individuality. They incorporate elements of disparate musical worlds, be they funk, new classical music or sounds from Japanese ritual music.
However, these forms are never merely juxtaposed in a post-modernist fashion but instead amalgamated into a coherent new style. Ultimately, these sounds and rhythms are highly idiosyncratic. The music consists of very few phrases and motives, continually combined and layered in new ways. Ronin thus creates a consistent aesthetic across all levels of musical expression. Composition, phrasing, sound structure, performance, and musical form all combine to form a system of interrelated elements. (Michel Mettler)
Visit Ronin on Facebook: www.facebook.com/nikbaertschsRONIN
For more information on Nik Baertsch: www.nikbaertsch.com
View video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YoHk9zdK0o
Anne Golaz at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Swiss photographer Anne Golaz who will participate in the Delhi Photo Festival and Photo Kathmandu invited by Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru.
Swiss photographer Anne Golaz who is visiting India and Nepal to participate in the Delhi Photo Festival and Photo Kathmandu in November will deliver a lecture at the Faculty Colloquium at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru.
Date/ venue: 29 October 2015 // Bangalore
Faculty Colloquium at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore
In November, Anne Golaz will be participating in the Delhi Photo Festival in India and Photo Kathmandu in Nepal.
About the event
Swiss photographer Anne Golaz who will be in South Asia on the invitation of the Delhi Photo Festival and Photo Kathmandu will be travelling to Bangalore to participate at the Faculty Colloquium at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore.
About Anne Golaz
Born in Switzerland in 1983, Anne Golaz graduated in 2013 from the Photography Master Program of Aalto University of Art and Design in Helsinki. She wrote her master thesis On Photobooks and Narratives. She has also studied at the Photography School in Vevey and has spent 6 months in NYC at the School of Visual Arts.
Her photographic approach deals mainly with the representation of rural communities and questions fundamental notions such as the sense of belonging to a place or the complex relation with nature.
Anne Golaz's first work Rural Scenes has been exhibited in several countries. Her series Chasses (Hunting Games) was published by Infolio in 2010 and was among the selected works for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in New York. Anne Golaz was part of the young photographers selected for the publication and the exhibition ReGeneration2.
Her Finnish series Metsästä (From The Woods) was exhibited for the first time in the Images Festival 2012 in Vevey CH and in several places since then. Metsästä was published by Kehrer Verlag and part of the selection of the best photobooks of 2012 by the Aperture Paris Photo First Book Award.
For complete bio visit: www.annegolaz.ch/bio
Partner: Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
For more information:
on Anne Golaz - www.annegolaz.ch
on Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology - srishti.ac.in/
DATA CANVAS - sense your city
An exhibition on innovative visualizations on how citizens sense and make sense of their environment, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru.
A presentation of swissnex India in partnership with
Lift, NGMA Bengaluru, Gray Area, City of Geneva and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council,
the exhibition "DATA CANVAS - sense your city"
will be held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru.
Opening: Tuesday 27th October 2015 at 6:00 pm
featuring a short talk by Thoraia Binzagr, Swiss interaction designer.
On view from 28th October - 31st October
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
Details
Can we measure and understand the quality of life of our cities? Join us and discover answers and different intepretations through a selection of 8 projects from artists from all over the world.
Data Canvas Exhibition, which has already been a success in Geneva, Shanghai and Shenzhen aims at showing innovative visualizations on how citizens sense and make sense of their environment. As an example, measures of pollution, dust, light, sound, temperature and humidity collected through the use of a sensor have been incorporated into several winning projects. The project was developed jointly by the swissnex network, Lift and Grey Area.
The exhibition will end with a one day event related to innovation and digital technologies titled Lift India.
Swiss Gaming Pavilion at NASSCOM Game Developer Conference
Meet Swiss game designers at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference in Pune.
Presenting Swiss games and game developers
to the biggest gathering of gamers in India,
NASSCOM Game Developer Conference (GDC), Pune.
Location: The Westin Pune 36/3-B,Mundhwa Rd, Koregaon Park Annexe, Pune, Maharashtra
Date: November 05, 2015 10:00 am - November 07, 2015 5:00 pm
Entry: By regstration
Workshop by Swiss game designer Chris Solarski on 5th November at Mahratta Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA).
Swiss Gaming Pavilion: will be set up at the Westin Hotel, Pune on 6th and 7th November, showcasing exciting and innovative games.
Visit the Swiss Gaming Pavilion to try your hand at:
1. Antyz, The Odyssey of Time by DNA Studios
2. Schlicht by Mr. Whale's Game Service
3. FAR by Mr. Whale's Game Service
4. Metamorphose by Aprobado studio
5. Violet - pale noise by Melanie Vetterli
6. OKO by Nadezda Suvorova
7. Mulkin by Fabian Brunner, Dominik Troxler
8. Blindflug Studios
Commemorating the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier
On the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier and the Year of Swiss Innovation in India, the Embassy of Switzerland in India has planned special events.
Exhibition & film screening
Chandigarh I Oct 10-24
Exhibition: Le Corbusier - Mastering the Image
On the occasion of the Year of Swiss Innovation in India and on the 50th death anniversary of Le Corbusier, the Embassy of Switzerland in India and the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi present the exhibition 'Le Corbusier - Mastering the Image.'
Click for information on film screening/guided walks
Entry details: Government Museum and Art Gallery Sector 10 I Exhibition timings: 11.00 am to 7.00 pm Contact Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
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Book release and moderated dialogue
New Delhi I Oct 13
Book release 'Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms' by William J.R. Curtis, architecture historian
Join us for the release of the book 'Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms'by William J.R. Curtis, architecture historian and Lecture, moderated dialogue and open interaction on 'The journey continues from Le Corbusier's Chandigarh to future smart habitat...'
Panelists for the moderated dialogue: William J R Curtis (UK), Rahul Mehrotra, architect (India), moderated by Prof. Alfredo Brillembourg, Chair of Architecture and Urban design, Federal Institute of Technolgy, Zürich.
Entry details: 06.00 pm onwards I Embassy of Switzerland, Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri I Entry by registration I Kindly furnish a photo ID at the entrance I Read more
Event organized by the Embassy of Switzerland in India in collaboration with Architecture + Design
Andrea Bianchetti to read from his book 'Estreme visioni di bianco'
Swiss-Italian author Andrea Bianchetti will represent Switzerland at the Long Night of LiteratureS and the EU Languages Day and will read to audiences in Jaipur and Goa.
You are cordially invited to a reading by Swiss-Italian author
Andrea Bianchetti
from his book Estreme visioni di bianco
The reading will be in Italian and English and will be accompanied by a performance by Ledwina Costantini from the Swiss-Italian theatre company, Opera retablO.
Delhi
25 September 2015 at the Long Night of Literatures
at 6:00 pm at the Instituto Cervantes, 48 Hanuman Road, New Delhi
Timings: Registration: 5:45 pm; Event: 6:00pm
Entry by prior registration / email longnightlit(at)gmail.com to register
Registration Opens: Monday, 14 September 2015
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 22 September 2015
RSVP: longnightlit(at)gmail.com
Gurgaon
26 September 2015 at the EU Languages Day celebrations
at 4:30 pm (tbc) at the Cyber Hub, DLF Cyber City, Phase 2, Gurgaon.
Open to all
Jaipur
27 September 2015 at Bar Palladio at 8:00 pm
Open to all on a first-come first-served basis
Goa
30 September 2015 at the Literati Book Store at 7:00 pm
Open to all
About the author
Andrea Bianchetti (1984) lives in Sorengo, Switzerland. A graduate in German literature from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and a masters in Italian literature from Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Andrea currently teaches Italian literature in Ticino. In 2007 he published his first book of poems, Sparami! Amore di cera, followed by a second book of poems in 2012 called Estreme visioni di bianco. Carneficine, published in 2013, comprising of a uniquely long poem, inspired a theatrical performance by Opera retablO, under the direction of Ledwina Costantini. In addition, Andrea Bianchetti is the editor of the literature magazine "Cenobio". He also reviews new books on the Swiss Italian Radio (RSI). In 2015 Andrea Bianchetti won the Pro Helvetia prize for his new project, Gratosoglio.
In partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland and other European partners which include Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, German Book Office, Institut Français en Inde, Insituto Cervantes, British Council, Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, Austrian Cultural Forum and the Polish Institute.
Venue partners in Jaipur and Goa: Bar Palladio Jaipur and Literati Book Store Goa.
Performance Process
To mark its thirtieth anniversary, the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris has designed an event devoted to performance art, a medium at the intersection of several different disciplines.
Pro Helvetia's Centre Culturel Suisse, situated in the heart of the Marais district in Paris, is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Federal Counsellor Alain Berset opened the jubilee production "PerformanceProcess", which presents Parisian audiences with highlights of Swiss performance art from the pioneers of the 1960s to the discoveries of today.
The Centre Culturel Suisse (CCS) is the Swiss Arts Council's oldest office abroad.
Swiss performance: from Jean Tinguely's happenings to the present day
With "PerformanceProcess" the two directors of the CCS in Paris, Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, have developed a new format specifically for the jubilee event, combining exhibition and festival. Overall, 46 Swiss artists and groups from the fields of visual and performing arts will be showing works and documentation connected to performance over the coming three months. The list of participants contains several internationally renowned names, but also offers opportunities for coming across fresh talent. Among those taking part are dancer and choreographer La Ribot, who lives in Geneva, Kassel and Munich based artist Urs Lüthi, originally from Lucerne, and Roman Signer, a blasting artist from Eastern Switzerland. Lesser known names there to be discovered include Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Aldo Walker and Anna Winteler. Twelve art practitioners are provided with a monographic exhibition for a period of five days each. To start off, the series spotlights Jean Tinguely and his auto-destructive machines created in 1960. The spatial design of the rooms at the Paris centre for the "PerformanceProcess" project is a production of the Geneva-based architecture duo "Bureau A". And finally, graphic designer Ludovic Balland from Basel is there to set up an electronic work of reference in real time.
For more information - www.pprocess.ch
Long Night of LiteratureS 2015
An evening of literary encounters in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian and Polish with authors from Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain, UK and India.
When: 25 September 2015 at 5:30 pm
Where: Instituto Cervantes, 48 Hanuman Road, New Delhi
Entry by prior registration only
To register email longnightlit(at)gmail.com
Registration from Monday 14 September 2015 to Tuesday 22 September 2015
The evening will be in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Hungarian and Polish.
About the event
An evening of readings, The format encourages audiences to listen to many authors through the course of the evening. Each author reads to an audience of about 12-15 people for 20 minutes. Then the audience moves to the next room to listen to another author. This concept allows the audience close interactions with the authors.
List of participating authors:
Andrea Bianchetti / Switzerland
Aisling Fahey / UK
Asha Miró / Spain
Constantin Simon / France
Danko Rabrenović / Germany
Gábor Lanczkor / Hungary
Josef Haslinger / Austria
Katarzyna Bonda / Poland
Raj Kamal Jha / India
About Andrea Bianchetti / Switzerland
Andrea Bianchetti (1984) lives in Sorengo, Switzerland. He is an Italian literature teacher in High School in Ticino. He started his writing career in 2007 with his first book Sparami! Amore di cera, (Viganello, Alla Chiara Fonte, 2007). Andrea Bianchetti is also editor of the literature magazineCenobio and strictly collaborates with the Swiss Italian Radio (RSI) as commentator of new books. In 2015 he won the Pro-Helvetia prize for his new project entitled Gratosoglio.
Presented in collaboration by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Embassy of Switzerland and other European partners - Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, German Book Office, Institut Français en Inde, Insituto Cervantes, British Council, Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, Austrian Cultural Forum and the Polish Institute.
To learn more about the authors click here.
Blackout Basel - September 2015
'Blackout Basel' is a 5 month-long residency project curated by Shazeb Arif S who is currently on a residency at Atelier Mondial in Basel.
The Blackout Festival: Swiss edition / September 2015, facilitated by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and Atelier Mondial (Basel), is based in Ausstellungsraum Klingental.
The project will research sub-culture and experimental artistic practices in Switzerland, besides building a new experimental community with contributions from other artists and projects in Europe and from all possible quarters around the world with a vision to build an international cross-disciplinary festival in Basel.
The framework of #blackoutbasel is to build an experimental community with multiple events. Upcoming events include:
05 Sept 2015 (1700 hrs)
Opening of exhibition: the private Blackout collection
11,12,13 Sept 2015 (all day and night)
Non-stop festival within the exhibition and in public spaces including 3 midnight events
In the public space - a live cinema project, a fashion show and a live witch hunt.
20 Sept 2015 (1700 hrs)
Closing: posh auction turns flea market
For more information click here.
