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Invitation to the Artas Community Event 2024

Meeting Point: 26. November, 2024, at 18.00 h, Kanzleistrasse 107, Surprise Street Magazine office

Dear friends of artasfoundation, come by and join us at the office of Surprise Street Magazine in Zurich to get the latest insights on our art projects aming at social transformation and to share your questions with us ...

We’ll start the programme at the Surprise Street Magazine office in Zurich, where Surprise journalist Diana Frei and artasfoundation team member Mara Züst will discuss how socially engaged (artistic) work can take shape through creative approaches. At 19.00 h, we’ll move to the nearby Kulturbüro Zürich, an initiative supporting cultural creators with technical support. Here, we’ll introduce a large-scale collective painting from the Sharing Stories project and share insights into a joint artistic process across geographic and generational borders. In 2025, the painting will travel with us to Abkhazia¹ where its empty spaces will continue to be filled.

We look forward to welcoming you! Please, register by e-mail.
 

Discussion Series Art in Conflict – Gessnerallee Zurich

11. December 2024, 17.15 h CET 
Stall 6, Gessneralle 6, Zurich & Zoom 

Economy, War and the Role of Art?
with Robert Bachmann (Public Eye, Switzerland)

The current issue of Art in Conflict is dedicated to the topic of Russian Grain Plundering in Ukraine and sheds light on the connections between the war in Ukraine and Switzerland’s commodity trading hub, based on research by Public Eye, which can be accessed via the link above. The global significance of this trading hub, combined with the international involvement of the Swiss financial sector, exposes Switzerland to the risk of contributing to the financing of conflicts and crises. Building on the text, we will delve into the methods used for investigating sensitive topics. Moreover, we aim to discuss with you whether and how geopolitical contexts can be integrated into artistic projects in the field of peacebuilding.

Robert Bachmann is a political analyst at the NGO Public Eye. He examines the global impacts of Switzerland’s commodity trading and financial sectors, as well as their regulatory and political frameworks. Previously, he implemented peacebuilding and human rights projects in Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo on behalf of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

The discussion is held in English. The event will take place in Zurich as well as online on Zoom. To sign up for the Zoom link, please, e-mail us by the day before the event. 

This event is part of a monthly series that is organised by the CAP, a joint initiative of artasfoundation and the ZHdK in cooperation with Theater Gessnerallee. If you wish to be regularly informed about the agenda of the discussion series each month, please, sign up for our Art in Conflict invitation list here. 


Next Dates: 

Wednesday, 15. January 2025 
“Conflict Engagement” Through Art 
with Dana Caspersen (conflict analyst, dance practitioner, USA)
Gessnerallee, Gessnerallee 8, Zürich

Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Living Room – A Space for Artists, Organisations and Communities

The Living Room is a connecting space for displaced communities from Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian artists and international artists and cultural workers collaborating in varied social and artistic forms. 

Besides the activities organised by artasfoundation, the space will also host other projects that simply need a space to work. 

The physical space is accessible for artists, organisations and communities involved in social transformation and looking for a space to practice, rehearse, gather, exchange, perform or simply meet. 

Submit a request for booking the space