Stories from our Programme

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

Kamil Hassim’s Event Horizon: exploring the cultural and scientific notions of black holes

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

Ian Purnell on becoming part of CERN’s community and his first feature film

Kamil Hassim & Ian Purnell reflect on their experiences at CERN

A conversation with sound artist Andrei Van Wyk // the secret life of noise and sound

“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”

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

Adrian Notz on art and AI, ethics and critical thinking

“I wanted to put into proximity these two movement histories”: Jeremy Nedd and Impilo Mapantsula

“The story begins now”: Marc Bauer presents Résilience at Congo Biennale

Multiple moments of suspension with the Zagaza Collective

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

Hominal/Xaba — participation in the making of a new moment

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