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.
Silverlake by Alexandra Navratil at Colomboscope
Swiss artist Alexandra Navratil invited to participate at the Colomboscope Festival in August 2015.
For the third edition of the multidisciplinary arts festival COLOMBOSCOPE, the group exhibition Shadow Scenes curated by Natasha Ginwala and Menika Van der Poorten engages the post-war city Colombo through aspects of urbanization, displacement, gender, ethnicity and sexuality while undertaking a cinematic reading of modernity as a resonant field of violence.
When: 21 - 30 August 2015
Where: Colombo
Curated by Natasha Ginwala and Menika Van der Poorten
Artists: Bani Abidi, Sven Augustijnen, Pedro Gomez-Egana, Camille Henrot, Susanne Kriemann, Lucy Skaer, Agnieszka Polska, Mahbubur Rahman, Jimmy Robert, Anri Sala, Susanne Winterling, among others
Silverlake
Video HD, colour/sound, ca. 12 min, 2015
3 pigment and silkscreen prints
Alexandra Navratil
Artist's statement
I am currently producing a new single channel video-piece titled Silverlake, that will premiere at the Colomboscope Festival. This new work is a continuation of an ongoing investigation and is derived from my previous research, which divulges the history of the chemical industry, the material properties of photographic emulsion and the violence inflicted on bodies and landscapes by industrial production.
The video will be accompanied by a series of 3 pigment and silkscreen prints, which will consist of collages from different microscopic images of silver halides.
Silverlake will depart from a series of events and their consequent media coverage that took place in Germany just before the reunification in 1988/89. The stories that went through the press became well-known under the name of Silbersee (Silverlake) and reported on the catastrophic consequences from years of highly contaminated waste-water irrigation by the Agfa-Orwo company on the Print date 5/30/2015 / Shadow Scenes, Colomboscope 2015 2 environment and the inhabitants of the area of Bitterfeld Wolfen. Silbersee was a highly polluted lake in Bitterfeld, which had originally been a coal mine and had helped to fuel the rapid industrial development of the area at the beginning of the 20th Century. Later it was gradually filled with chemical wastewaters from the surrounding factories. Scarceness in resources and fluctuating prices of raw materials during different historical periods, forced Agfa-Orwo to recycle old films by washing off the emulsion and reusing the film base. By 1988, the lake was the most contaminated place in the whole of Germany. The silver halides, one of the main components of photographic and filmic production, gave the lake its enigmatic name.
I would like to use this historical pretext to develop a fictionalised and speculative narrative, linking thoughts on deferred violence, contamination and embodied memory in a poetic way. This narrative will not recapitulate the story of Afga-Orwo or focus specifically on the German context, but wishes to contemplate these concepts in a more universal manner. In my narration, which forms the ground structure of the video piece, we follow tiny silver fragments of filmic memory as they are washed off the film base, are poured out into the surrounding landscape, seep into the groundwater and are absorbed by plants, animals and inhabitants, becoming embodied and turning the whole environment into a photosensitive plate. This fictionalised account will be interlaced with scientific, medical information and facts and the imagery used for the video will stem largely from the media images that circulated in 1988/89 in the German and International Press
Alexandra Navratil
Switzerland
Conrad Steinmann invited for the 6th Raasrang World Flute Festival 2015
Conrad Steinmann and ‘ensemble diferencias’ will be participating at the 6th Raasrang World Flute Festival 2015.
You are cordially invited to a performance by
Conrad Steinmann and the ensemble diferencias
comprising of Conrad Steinmann along with Priska Comploi, Helma Franssen and Urs Haenggli at:
Jaipur
9 September 2015 at Bar Palladio, Jaipur
Open to all / on first-come first-served basis
Dehradun
11 September 2015 at St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun
Open to all / on presentation of passes
Delhi
12th Sept: Performance at Lotus Temple, New Delhi
Open to all / on presentation of passes
For information on collection of passes visit: www.krishnaprerna.in or
call 011-29247441
About Conrad Steinmann
Born in Rapperswil (Switzerland), he pursued his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he has been a lecturer since 1982.He has given concerts and master classes throughout Europe, in Australia, Japan, Israel, Moscow and North America.He can frequently be heard with Johann Sonnleitner, Ensemble 415,and London Baroque. As an aulos player he reflects a unique interest and knowledge of ancient Greek music. Recordings with Claves, Jecklin, Harmonia Mundi and Divox.
About the festival
The sixth edition of the Raasrang World Flute Festival, organized by Raasrang in partnership with the Times of India is scheduled to be held in September 2015. Acclaimed artistes from India and abroad will be performing at the festival.
The list of musicians participating in the festival include:
India: Tashi Bapu (Long Horn) and team
Hungary: Both Miklos (Guitar) and team
Lithuania: Kestutis Vaiginis (Saxophone) with Pt. Sudhir Pandey (Tabla) and Fateh Ali / India (Sitar)
India: Bhimanna Yadav (Sundari) and team
Balarus: Murzina Natallia (Flute) with Babenka Volha (Flute), Stankevich Alina (Flute) and Shunkevich Maryia (Flute)
Switzerland: Mrs. Priska Comploi (Flute), Mrs. Helma Franssen (Flute), M. Urs Haenggli (Flute), M. Conrad Steinmann (Flute)
India: Seshampa7i T Sivalingam (Nadhaswaram), Maheswari Sivalingam (Shruti), K Selvam (Nadhaswaram), M Subramaniam (Tavil), S Gajendran (Tavil), P Subramani (Tavil/ "alam)
Spain: Pedro Bonet and Belén González Castaño (Flute)
Pakistan: Akram Khan (Alghoza) and Zuheb Ahmed Khan (Tabla)
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For complete details visit: www.krishnaprerna.in or call 011-29247441
Announcing recipients of Studio Residencies 2016 / 2017
Pro Helvetia New Delhi announces the names of Indian and Swiss artists who have been selected by the jury to avail the Studio Residency it offers.
Pro Helvetia New Delhi announces the names of Indian and Swiss artists who have been selected by the jury to avail the Studio Residency it offers.
South Asian artists:
Anjana Kothamachu (visual arts) / India
Shaunak Sen (visual arts) / India
Swiss artists:
Lukas Mantel (music)
Marie Velardi (visual arts)
The applications received from the above artists were in concurrence with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Art Council's current mandate. The jury made its decision depending on the application's individual merit as well as on being able to find an appropriate host in Switzerland. Besides, preference is given to artists who are able to demonstrate the possibility of generating follow-up projects.
The selection in India was made by a jury comprising of Dr. Annapurna Garimella, a designer and an art historian who heads Jackfruit, a research and design organization, Shukla Sawant , a visual artist and an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh, Head Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
The selection has been corroborated by Pro Helvetia's Specialist Departments in Zurich.
For more information on Residencies offered by Pro Helvetia click here
Digital Culture
New media has become a key factor in the development of contemporary art and culture. Pro Helvetia is exploring the impact of digitalisation on artistic work with its "Digital Culture" programme.
From 2012 to 2015, Pro Helvetia is exploring the impact of digitalisation on artistic work with its "Digital Culture" programme. The programme is made up of three components, the core one being "Mobile. In Touch with Digital Creation", which aims to support and enhance interactive and transmedia art work in Switzerland. The second focuses on the influence of digitalisation on the promotion and dissemination of traditional art forms. And, with its call for interdisciplinary new media cooperation projects, the third component, Pro Helvetia is striving to strengthen collaboration between art, research and science institutions in the field of new media and technology.
Mobile. In Touch with Digital Creation
Digitalisation in Arts Disciplines
Collaboration Projects in the Field of Digital Culture
Giovanni Carmine invited by Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2015
Giovanni Carmine, Director Kunst Halle St Gallen will be in India to participate in Experimenter Curators’ Hub in Kolkata.
Pro Helvetia has partnered Experimenter, Kolkata for the past five years, right from the very inception of the Curators' Hub in 2011. Curatorial exchange has been one of PHND's focuses with the objective to initiate dialogue and debate with Swiss practitioners.
This year Pro Helvetia New Delhi has invited
Giovanni Carmine, Director Kunst Halle St. Gallen, to participate.
Date: 23 - 24 - 25 July 2015
Venue: Experimenter Kolkata 2/1 Hindusthan Road, Gariahat, Kolkata, West Bengal 700029
Entry by registration.
To register contact Mohor Mukherjee at mohor@experimenter.in or call on +91 33 4001 2289
About the event:
The Experimenter Curators' Hub is a platform to discuss, debate and comprehend the theoretical aspects of curating while discussing the challenges and concerns curators face. It encourages an exchange of views and possibilities of collaboration between curators and institutional frameworks.
About Giovanni Carmine
After working several years as an independent curator and art critic - realizing among other projects and books with Norma Jeane, Christoph Büchel and a temporary exhibition in former Swiss military Bunkers (Unloaded, 2002) - Giovanni Carmine is, since 2007, director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (www.k9000.ch). There he has curated shows by Swiss and internationals artists like Ryan Gander, Mai-Thu Perret, Gedi Sibony, Loris Gréaud, Shahryar Nashat, Matias Faldbakken and Navid Nuur. He was artistic coordinator of ILLUMInations, the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2011 and was also co-editor of the Biennale catalogue. He lives and works in Zurich and St. Gallen.
For more information on:
Experimenter Kolkata www.experimenter.in
Kunst Halle St Gallen www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/home.html
Partners: Experimenter Kolkata and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
The Draft Project
Draft is a year-long project that is anchored in nine cities across the world, and will engage with critical discourses and practices in relation to the public sphere.
Draft collectively considers how contemporary art can initiate, invoke and contribute to public debates. A year-long undertaking, the project is anchored in nine cities - Bombay, Cairo, Cape Town, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Zurich -and opens with a three-day conference in Bombay on 4 June 2015.
Draft encounters and tests public spheres and the consequences of staking claim to them through contemporary art. In doing so, it also chalks out the relationship between the seemingly disparate contexts of these cities that are, in fact, always intensely entangled.
The opening conference-and the project at large-convenes a cross-disciplinary crew of artists, curators, philosophers, anthropologists and the like, who cooperate as collaboratives in wound up urban contexts.
Draft is imagined as a kind of agent provocateur; exploring our reality, such as it is, by hinting at the possibility of what else could be. If no context can ever be truly exhausted, then each exploration is a renewal of the promise of debate.
This longue durée project is, somewhat, bookended by two conferences; the closing conference takes place in Zurich in the summer of 2016. In the critical interim, a range of engagements, including research and workshops, will be realised in each of the cities. Expanding on the conference's discussions they will set the pace for the site-sensitive artworks that will be realised in early 2016.
Draft is not 'about' the city but it mobilises this complicated ecosystem as a springboard for thinking through questions, claims, potentials and problems around an infinite spectrum of contemporary artistic and philosophical concerns and practices.
The project intends to do this in a transnational scenario of home-grown artistic interventions, which question the notion of identity in a world that is nothing if not hybrid.
The project intends to do this in the scenario of public spheres, which question extant public spheres in an epoch where dissenting contexts are rife with the rumbling sounds of deep matter, deep memory, deep alienation and what have you. Draft is a proposal because every context is equal parts potential, problem and provisional.
Partners: Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, and Connecting Spaces Hong Kong - ZurichZHdK
Supported by: artEDU Foundation and ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Project directors:
Gitanjali Dang / Artistic Director Khanabadosh, Bombay
Prof. Christoph SchenkerHead of IFCAR, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich
Participants:
Alice Peragine, Hamburg
Ashok Sukumaran, CAMP, Bombay
Christian Hübler, knowbotiq, Zurich
Christoph Schäfer, Hamburg
Christoph Schenker, Zurich
Cosmin Costinas, Para Site, Hong Kong
Cuauhtémoc Medina, Mexico City
Dmitry Vilensky, Chto Delat, St. Petersburg
Giorgio Biancorosso, Hong Kong
Gitanjali Dang, Bombay
Hector Bourges Valles, Teatro Ojo, Mexico City
Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Mexico City
Iris Long, Beijing / Shanghai
Jens Maier-Rothe, Beirut, Cairo
Jasmina Metwaly, CairoAlia Mossallam, Cairo
Ju Anqi, BeijingLi Zhenhua, Shanghai / Zurich
Laura Furlan, Teatro Ojo, Mexico City
Nikolay Oleynikov, Chto Delat, St. Petersburg
Ntone Edjabe, Chimurenga, Cape Town
Patricio Villareal, Teatro Ojo, Mexico City
Philip Rizk, CairoKarla Rodríguez, Teatro Ojo, Mexico City
Prasad Shetty, Bombay
Qinyi Lim, Para Site, Hong Kong
Rohit Jain, Zurich
Samson Young, Hong Kong
Shaina Anand, CAMP, Bombay
Sophie Goltz, HamburgRupali Gupte, Bombay
Sarah Rifky, Beirut, Cairo
Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Chto Delat, St. Petersburg
Yvonne Wilhelm, knowbotiq, Zurich
Zinnia Ambapardiwala, CAMP, Bombay
For more information on the project click here.
Sound Reasons III - sound installations at Clark House, Bombay
Sound Reasons III in Mumbai presents sound installations by Marcus Maeder and Salome Voegelin from Switzerland and Farah Mulla and Ish S from India.
Sound Reasons is a record label and a festival for sound art and contemporary electronic music which promotes contemporary practitioners from Switzerland and India, amongst others. Sound Reasons started off as a record Label in 2009 releasing music and curating and organizing sound art installations and electronic music performances. These activities later diversified and amalgamated into the first edition of the Sound Reasons Festival in 2012, which featured influential artists, like Bernd Schurer and Jio Shimizu. At Sound Reasons praxis has always been the focus while exploring various mediums and processes like composing music, creating a festival and producing live performances and sound centric installations.
As a medium, sound art encompasses a number of activities and forms, such as sound installations, noise, radio art, experimental electro-acoustic music and music concrete, to name a few. Each of these forms has its own details and depths, and should be analyzed according to its own distinct aesthetics.
Here at Clark House Bombay, the installations presented cover a very important spectrum of sound art like the science/ art cross over work which presents the sonification and visualisation of very complex data from the trees so that they can be understood across another medium. There is also an the invocation of 'listening processes' here as some of the works have been initiated spatially as they explore the timeless continuum of the now and the becoming of an observer via sound. And in this becoming, the imagination becomes more important than the reality, the virtual more significant than the real. The fleeting experience of sounds and noise is the construct of the individual themselves and not of their histories and their cognitive developments. Part of the work develops spatially and its discovery unfolds itself in the present, bringing with it the experience of sound and listening.
3 to 7 June 2015 / 11:00 am - 7:00 pm daily.
Clark House Initiative
c/o RBT Group, Ground Floor, Clark House building, Colaba, 8 Nathalal Parekh Marg, Bombay
Contact: +919820213816 | info@clarkhouseinitiative.org
Salome Voegelin
5 METER CONDUIT
2 Headphones, Sound/ Music Player
Farah Mulla
AURAL MIRROR
Sound installation | 2 Speakers, Microphone, Computer
Marcus Maeder
TREES : PINUS SYLVESTRIS
2 Channel Video, 2 channel Audio, Touch Screen, Installation
Ish S (diFfuSed beats)
SITTING STILL
6 Channel Audio | Sound Sculpture
A three-day conference, Draft conceived by Khanabadosh, Bombay, and Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) is a year-long project that is anchored in nine cities across the world, and will engage with critical discourses and practices related to the public sphere.
www.draftprojects.info/
soundreasons.in
One and one make eleven
An exhibition on contemporary art from India at Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland showcasing works of nine Indian artists.
One and one make eleven
- an exhibition on contemporary art from India
at Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland from 23 April 2015 to 28 June 2015.
Curated by: Eveline Suter23 April - 28 June 2015
One and one make eleven, contemporary Art from India gathers nine positions from the extensivecontemporary art scene in India. The exhibition focuses on forms ofdialogue, exchange and collaboration between artists, their subject,with other actors and the audience. The Indian artists do so by usingall media and make reference to topics of their everyday life, to living in the big city, the resource problems and Pollution, given the population explosion or the traditional gender ratio that does not fit into the modernmetropolitan life. The invited artists are born between 1964-1989 andlive in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai.
Artists: Atul Bhalla, Prerna Bishnoi, Cop Shiva, Archana Hande, Reena Kallat, Nandita Kumar, Prajakta Potnis, Sumakshi Singh, Surekha
Photo credit: Archana Hande
For details visit: www.kunsthauslangenthal.ch/index.php/india.en.htm
FICA Emerging Artist Award 2015
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is pleased to be associated once again with FICA for the Emerging Artist Award 2015. The award includes a twelve-week residency in Switzerland awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
The Emerging Artist Award seeks to promote young Indian 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.
The Emerging Artist Award 2015 is made possible through FICA's partnership with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Art Council and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
The Award includes
A twelve-week residency in Switzerland awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
(round trip air travel from Mumbai or Delhi & per diem during the time of the residency)
A solo exhibition at the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
Eligibility:
The applicant needs to be between 18-35 years of age.
The applicant needs to be an Indian citizen currently residing in India.
For the application process visit: www.ficart.org
Deadline for submission of applications is 30 June 2015
CeC 2015, the 9th annual Carnival of e-Creativity
Swiss musician Lionel Denton will be representing Switzerland at this years Carnival of e-Creativity.
The 9th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2015) is scheduled to take place in Shillong, Meghalaya from 1 May to 3 May 2015.
Swiss musician Lionel Denton will be representing Switzerland at this years Carnival of e-Creativity. Lionel Denton's participation at CeC 2015 is supported by Pro Helvetia -Swiss Arts Council.
Venue:
1 & 2 May 2015 // Indian Council for Social Science Research - North East Regional Centre (ICSSR-Nerc), North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU).
3 May 2015 // in the KJP Assembly Conference Centre Hall (opposite the District Library).
CeC 2015 consists of presentations, performances, exhibits and screenings, involving direct and indirect participation of e-Creative practitioners of all description from around India and the world.
Lionel Dentan (Da Saz)
Da-Saz has produced a wide variety of productions over the last few years and their music compositions and sounds are always shifting. Filled with surprises and always out of the ordinary their sound is always fresh and spans the whole spectrum from acoustic to electronic music. The nouveau project is about experimental electronic music composed and performed with analog Synths. There is a big difference in influences sounds and composition from Da Saz's debut album 'Jet Lag' released by Phat Phish Records to the new album 'Sulphabric' released in 2012. As Lionel Dentan puts it "I believe in experimentation, trying new ideas... it (the live set) is now formless, shapeless,including just sounds and Ambient tones, floating around, like abstract art... you can decide what you hear or sonically imagine".
For details on CeC click here
Cartographies at Jugnee Contemporary Dance Festival
A series of films on choreographic interventions in the urban landscape, Cartographies by Compagnie Philippe Saire will be screened at Jugnee Indo-contemporary Dance Festival in Mumbai.
A series of films on choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Cartographies is a project created by Compagnie Philippe Saire.
The dance videos will be screened as part of Jugnee Indo-contemporary Dance Festival in Mumbai.
Film Screening:
Date: 30th April 2015 at 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue: Prithvi Theatre,Juhu
20,Janki Kutir,Juhu Church Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400049
Entry as per festival rules.
The following six films will be screened:
Cartographie 2 – Les Arches
by Philippe Saire // Switzerland, December 2002
Cartographie 3 – Interface
by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud // Switzerland, 2002
Cartographie 5 – Rue Centrale 17-19
by Alain Margot // Switzerland, November 2004
Cartographie 7 – Le Bassin
by Philippe Saire // Switzerland, April 2008
Cartographie 8: L’Îlot
by Mario Del Curto // Switzerland, April 2008
Cartographie 10 – Le Jardin des Colombes
by Philippe Saire // Switzerland, July 2012
CARTOGRAPHIES are a series of short films also termed as videodance, which are choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Switzerland. The aim is to search for new ways of printing bodies on landscapes and creating fresh identities for urban spaces. In order to make a permanent record of these ephemeral interventions in the cityscape, the work is filmed thus giving a specific for to the interpretation, identity and memory of the city.
About Philippe Saire
Philippe Saire was born in Algeria and lives in Switzerland. In 1995, the Compagnie Philippe Saire inaugurated its own creative workspace, the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Situated in Lausanne, the theatre is entirely dedicated to contemporary dance. The Theatre is host to performances of international stature, but also supports dance performances by local companies in order to encourage their development. Amongst the highlights of the theatre's annual programme are the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Printemps de Sévelin Festival, which is dedicated to the work of young, contemporary choreographers. Artists-in-residence programmes complete the list of the theatre's regular activities.The Compagnie Philippe Saire has created 25 shows to date, with more than 1'000 performances in 160 towns and cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company.
For more information visit: www.philippesaire.ch
Quantum of Disorder | Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich
The exhibition «Quantum of Disorder» is the result of a collaboration with the artists-in-labs programme ICS/ZHdK. Showcased are works between arts and science.
The cooperation project "Quantum of Disorder" is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia as part of its "Digital Culture" initiative.
Quantum of Disorder
5 February to 10 May 2015
A collaboration between Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich and artists-in-labs program ICS/ZHdK, curated by Sabine Schaschl and Irène Hediger.
With works by Thomas Baumann, Cod.Act, Attila Csörgő, Alexandre Joly, Peter Kogler, Pe Lang, Carsten Nicolai, Semiconductor, Troika
The exhibition "Quantum of Disorder" and its supporting program are a result of the eponymous cooperation project between the ICS/ZHdK artists-in-labs program and Museum Haus Konstruktiv. Against the backdrop of the solo exhibition on computer artist Vera Molnar (which is taking place at Haus Konstruktiv simultaneously) and the curatorial work of the artists-in-labs program in art and science, there arose the idea of creating a platform for trans-disciplinary approaches in contemporary art. Established ordering systems and design systems, the definition of algorithms and parameters, with which certain forms are generated or functions are activated, mathematical calculations, and scientific deductions all serve as a basis for constructivist-concrete art, and for the artists exhibited here. Here, the incorporation of disorder and deviation is an essential and (to an equal extent) interlinking element.
The group exhibition "Quantum of Disorder" presents a number of artists, and groups of artists, who create their works by means of new technologies and programming engendered by the interplay between order and disorder, system and deviation. Principles of order emerge as a common denominator, providing the basis for both artistic and scientific practice. The exhibition presents nine artists, or artists' groups, who offer an insight into various possibilities regarding algorithmic and systematic applications.
For more details click here.
Focus Photography Festival invites Mirjam Spoolder
Swiss artist Mirjam Spoolder will present 'Nine Times Nine', a photographic interpretation that she has worked on during her residency in India.
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and FOCUS Photography Festival 2015
in collaboration with Bombay Electric invite you for
NINE TIMES NINE
a photography exhibition by Swiss artist
Mirjam Spoolder
Opening on 12 March 2015
On view until 26 March 2015 // open 7 days // 11 am - 7 pm
Venue: Bombay Electric, 1, Reay House, Best Marg, Colaba, Mumbai 400001
Walk and talk with the artist
on 14 March 2015 at 4:30 pm.
Duration: one hour
Venue: Bombay Electric, 1, Reay House, Best Marg, Colaba, Mumbai
About the artist:
Mirjam Spoolder received a grant supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and IAAB / Ateliermondial in Basel, Switzerland for a residency in Delhi, India. The work Nine Times Nine, comprising of 9 images is an outcome of her stay in Delhi where she has had the possibility to work, develop and create her artistic work further.
Born in the Netherlands, Mirjam has lived and worked in Basel, Switzerland since 2007. She studied sculpting at the art Academy in Enschede and Theatre in Rotterdam. Finally, after moving to Switzerland, she finished her education in Master of Fine Arts in Basel in 2010. Over the years Mirjam has developed a way of combining three mediums in one form of art: sculpture, design and performance art. She reflects art into fashion design by producing individual art pieces and transforms them into performance art. Through photography she tries to capture those three mediums together in one image.
At FOCUS Mirjam presents Nine Times Nine, a series of 9 photographs which represent the nine districts of Delhi. Next Mirjam will develop nine wearable objects out of these patterns. With this work Mirjam aims to crossover four different mediums into one form of art: photography, design, sculpture and performance art.
Partners: FOCUS Photography Festival Mumbai 2015 and Bombay Electric.
For more information on Mirjam Spoolder visit: www.mirjamspoolder.blogspot.com
For more information on Bombay Electric: www.bombayelectric.in/about
For more information on the festival: http://focusfestivalmumbai.com/
Press mention: Art Illustrated / Short Shorts / Volume 3 - Issue 3
Swiss artists at Kochi Biennale 2014
The works of Swiss artists, Christian Waldvogel, Julian Charrière and Marie Velardi are up on display at the Kochi Biennale 2014, which will be open for public viewing until March 2015.
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014 / Whorled explorations
The work of all three artists relates to the theme of the Biennale which is Whorled Explorations, which draws across axes of time and space to interlace the terrestrial with the celestial.
Opening / Flag hoisting on 12 / 12 / 14 Aspinwall House at 12 noon
Official Introduction of KMB 2014 by 13 / 12 / 14 Aspinwall House at 4:00 pm
For more information on the work being presented by the artists at Kochi Biennale click here.
For more information on the artists:
Christian Waldvogel - www.waldvogel.com/works
Julian Charriere - www.julian-charriere.net/
Marie Velardi - marie.velardi.ch
Mirjam Fischer, a freelance Swiss book publisher and writer will be the Editor of the Biennale's short catalogue and review catalogue. The objective of this collaboration is to increase and intensify Pro Helvetia - Swiss Artist's engagement and emphasise the potential of intercultural engagement and skill sharing.
The works of the Swiss artists will be on display at the Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi. Aspinwall House is a large sea-facing heritage property in Fort Kochi on the way to Mattancherry. The large compound contains office buildings, a residential bungalow and a number of warehouses and smaller outer-lying structures. Aspinwall House will be a primary venue of the Biennale, hosting numerous artist led projects and events spaces.
The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) is engaged in promoting art & culture and educational activities in India; primary amongst them the hosting of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. KBF works around the year to strengthen contemporary art infrastructure and to broaden public access to art across India.
Partner: Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014 - kochimuzirisbiennale.org
Christian Waldvogel , Julian Charrière and Marie Velardi's participation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014 has been supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
DAMUS India article Nov 2015
Birdly in India
swissnex India and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council bring you an opportunity to fly like a bird. Explore ‘Birdly’, a truly incredible Swiss innovation.
Ever dreamt of flying? swissnex India gives you a chance to make this dream come true. We bring to India a truly incredible Swiss innovation called Birdly.
Birdly is a full body flight simulator and virtual reality machine, with sensory-motor coupling in which you embody a Red Kite and fly over a virtual landscape. In short, you experience flying like a bird in virtual reality. Visualized through Oculus Rift (a virtual reality headset), the experience is heightened by sonic, olfactory, and wind sensations along your flight path. Birdly was developed at the Zurich University of the Arts(ZHdK), IAD Interaction Design for the BirdLife Center Switzerland in 2014. Their first demo video went viral, with over a million views in one weekend, and the story was picked up world-wide by major technology blogs and media outlets. Take a look at the video.
Where: swissnex India#26, Rest House Crescent Road, Bangalore, Karnataka
From March 10, 2015 8:00 am - March 17, 2015 5:00 pm
Schedule
Open talk at swissnex India, 13th of March, 6.30 pm. Join us for a talk by the inventors. The first 30 people to arrive will get the chance to try Birdly. Register here.
Birdly at Rangoli Metro Art Center, 14th of March, 11 am to 6 pm.
No online registration necessary.
Open talk at IIT Madras, 16th of March, 5 pm. Join us for a talk by the inventors.
Open slots for flying Birdly: From the 10th to 13th of March, slots need to be booked online.
Please be on time. Book your slot now!
The distance between two thoughts
A presentation by artist-in-residence Sachin George Sebastian at Rote Fabrik, Zurich Switzerland.
Open Studio // Artist Sachin George Sebastian at Rote Fabrik in Switzerland.
Sachin George Sebastian, the FICA Emerging Artist Award recipient for 2014 has completed his three-month residency at Rote Fabrik, Zurich which was supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Sachin is presenting
The distance between two thoughts
and is hosting an open studio day on 18 March 2015
from 6 - 9 pm at his studio in Zurich.
The event is open to all.
To view invite click here.
Percussion maestros from Switzerland and India come together
Lucas Niggli and Pierre Favre from Switzerland and Aneesh Pradhan from India will come together this March at the Peninsula Studios in Delhi.
An initiative of Pro Helvetia New Delhi to bring together maestro percussionists from Switzerland and India to create work during a 4day intensive workshop. This initiative is towards a long term potential project of organizing a tour for the artists later in India.
Lucas Niggli, Pierre Favre from Switzerland and Aneesh Pradhan from India will come together to work from 9- 12 March 2015 at Peninsula Studios in Delhi. They will do a recording session on 13 March and present their work to an audience on 14 March 2015.
Pierre Favre
To read about Pierre Favre click here.
Lucas Niggli
To read about Lucas Niggli click here.
Aneesh Pradhan
A disciple of tabla maestro Pandit Nikhil Ghosh, Aneesh Pradhan is a leading tabla soloist and accompanist to vocal and instrumental music and dance. He has inherited from his guru a considerable repertoire of traditional tabla solo compositions from the Delhi, Ajrada, Lucknow, Farrukhabad and Punjabgharanas. A recipient of several awards, Aneesh is a popular performer for classical and inter-cultural music concerts at most prestigious concerts and festivals in the country and overseas. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the India Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia. He was also a Research Fellow at the Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia. He regularly conducts lecture-demonstrations, workshops and participates in seminars, at various universities and other educational institutions in India and abroad. His teaching assignments in the past include short terms as artist-in-residence at the University of New England, Australia, and as guest lecturer at the Music Department, University of Mumbai.
Aneesh has a doctoral degree in History from the University of Mumbai. A keen researcher of trends in performance, music education and patronage that unfolded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, he writes frequently on music for newspapers, journals and other publications in India and abroad. He is deeply involved in creating and developing educational material related to Indian music and is the author of a children's book on tabla and a recent publication entitled Tabla: A Performer's Perspective. Aneesh is Founder-Director of Underscore Records, an independent online record label that he established with vocalist Shubha Mudgal. Along with Shubha, Aneesh also curates a festival called Baajaa Gaajaa: Music from 21st Century India which celebrates and showcases the diversity of music from India.
Directions to The Peninsula Studios
