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Embodying Transformation Through the Arts
On May 6th 2024, a case study on Contemporary Art and Peacebuilding in Armenia was presented at the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 2024. In collaboration with the Berghof Foundation and the Centre for Social Change Nepal, we organised the workshop “Embodying Transformation through the Arts”. It aimed at exploring a holistic understanding of social change…
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Symposium: Art in Times of Culture Wars, Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznan, 2023
This symposium invited artists and scholars from Poland who are concerned with the country’s ongoing culture wars about issues such as e.g. abortion or blasphemy laws, LGBT rights, migration, freedom of speech, role of the church. The aim was to present and discuss their respective works and methods with a view to ethical as well as…
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Insights into the Research Project in The Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Rada Leu and Jörg Scheller published an article about their research in the Republic of Moldova in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: “With the war in Ukraine, other post-Soviet states are also moving into the spotlight of Western media attention, such as the Republic of Moldova, which borders Ukraine. This week, the “European political community” met…
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Arts in Uncertain Times: Socially Engaged Art Practices
The two-day workshop and one-day conference Arts in Uncertain Times organised in May 2023 at the HayArt Center in Yerevan offered a practice-oriented space for Armenian artists and cultural workers who self-identify as socially engaged and/or attempt to contribute to a peaceful future. During and after conflicts, artists engage in different ways and through different…
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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