Stories from our Programme

Artist share stories, experiences and work from their residencies and research trips in Switzerland and Southern Africa.

Bringing their artistic worlds together: Yann Longchamp reflects on his collaboration with Joshua Chiundiza

“…to find my own voice, my own style, my own subject matter”: Thando Mangcu reflects on her residency

“Pulling sound”: Zoë Binetti on collective sensorial theatre

About community and safe space building: Arafa Hamadi reflects on their residency

“We have as much to teach as we have to learn”: Sylvia Arthur reflects on her research trip in Switzerland

Liquid states: Magali Dougoud submerges into turgid waters to develop an emancipatory feminist imaginary

“A lot has been lost and shifted”: Mbali Dhlamini on breathing life into archives

Dust and absence: Claudia Kübler contemplates deep time in the Cradle of Humankind

On healing and the extractive politics of cultural exchange: A conversation between Dunja Herzog & Taonga Julia Kaseka

“Our meeting was full of chance and sparks”: An interview with Marilú Mapengo Námoda and Teresa Vittucci

Slow processes for long-distance exchange: Lindiwe Matshikiza reflects on being a ‘critical friend’ for Jessica Huber

Sarah Elena Müller & Orakle Ngoy: Switching roles to understand each other’s realities

What a Residency Be? | A video series by Mitchell Gilbert Messina  

“This for me is a research lab to look at new ways of teaching and knowledge exchange” : Flurina Rothenberger on collaborating in Katlehong

Valentina Pini: “Objects of great banality that little by little become loaded with meaning and acquire a magical value”

Georgia Munnik: “listening to two people have a conversation in a language I did not understand”

Miranda Moss & Daniel Brownell: Science is happening!

Goldendean: Mxnifes(u)topia

Reflections, reports and impressions about encounters and projects from artists and partners.

“The trip fostered new friendships and support structures”: A travelogue by Sascia Bailer

Motherbox on creating a home for multidimensional practice of many shapes and sizes

Sounding an echo-chamber of African and diasporic music: An interview with Zara Julius

Interrupted but not derailed: Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2019/20 as digital publication

Fana Tshabalala: “Expanding our knowledge artistically”

2019 Seminar in Taipei: Finding common ground in cultural difference

Lindiwe Matshikiza: “My world is bigger; I think of myself as an artist in Africa as opposed to a South African artist”

Gysin-Vanetti: Turning constraints into creativity

Christa Dee: Reflections on Contemporary Curatorial Practice