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Common Ground: Discussion with Yulia Kostereva and Rusanda Alexandru
The evolution of Ukrainian artists’ artistic strategies in the last decade, by Yulia Kostereva Yulia Kostereva showed how artists’ methods and strategies have changed during the ten years of war, based on the activity of the platform Open Place. Her presentation will explore how the full-scale invasion in 2022 has affected society, cultural life and
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Central Eastern Europe and Geopolitics
In his new article “Ostmitteleuropa ist ein Bollwerk des Realitätssinns” (in German) for the magazine Schweizer Monat, Jörg Scheller argues that Central Eastern European perspectives have long been marginalized in Western Europe, especially in the context of geopolitics.
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Arts and Social Transformation Lab
For the second year the Living Room invited artists, art educators, researchers, and cultural practitioners to join a five-day laboratory on art and social transformation. The laboratory is designed as a learning and experimenting space for 12 participants to discuss and develop artistic practices engaging with displaced communities, encouraging them to take control of their
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Advisory Board Meeting March 2025
On March 28 and 29, we met with members of our advisory board at the Zurich University of the Arts. Among others, Gwen Burnyeat from the University of Edinburgh (center) gave insights into her research and activism in connection with the peace process in Colombia, Jarosław Lubiak from the Academy of Art in Szczecin (right)
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Art and Peace – Roundtable Discussion
In this public event, Advisory Board member Gwen Burnyeat (political anthropologist, University of Edinburgh) presented her recent book, “The Face of Peace – Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia” . In the following discussion, Advisory Board member Jarosław Lubiak (researcher, Szczecin Art Academy), Jörg Scheller (art historian, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, ZHdK), Rana Yazaji (co-director CAS
The research project Contemporary Art, Popular Culture and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at Zurich University of the Arts. The project examines the potential and limitations of contemporary art and popular culture for peacebuilding in three (Central) Eastern European countries: Poland, Moldova, and Armenia. Recognising a gap in peace studies, which often overlook Eastern Europe, the project aims to connect the arts with peacebuilding by exploring three different types of conflict.
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