Resources
Publications
artasfoundation has published booklets on some of its projects. They give a multifaceted view of the work done on the ground and provide an artistic reflection on the activities undertaken.
artasfoundation
General Overview
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Artists in Exile
Exchanges with artists who arrived in Switzerland due to the war in Ukraine
With works of Anna and Vitalii Cherepanovy
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Bring Your Own Chair
Abchasia and Samegrelo, Georgia
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Warp & Werft
Shida Kartli, Georgia
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Resort to Art
Tskaltubo Art Festival, Georgia
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Art in Mediation
Recollections and Reflections from a Colloquium
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Background texts
The background texts assemble reflections and questions about artistic initiatives in sensitive conflict regions, strategies and perspectives in the area of art production, international cooperation, cultural management, peacebuilding and humanitarian work.
Sandra Frimmel, artasfoundation (2020): Caucasus Analytical Digest
No. 118/December 2020, Arts in Society
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Dagmar Reichert (2020): Mit Kunst Grenzen überwinden
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Marcel Bleuler (2018): Was macht Kunst in der Konfliktzone?
Empirische Beobachtungen zu einer „dialogischen Ästhetik“
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Dagmar Reichert (2016): Art Initiatives in Fragile and Conflict Affected Regions
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Manuel Sager (2015): Opening Speech of the Forum ‚Art in Conflict‘
The Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) about the role of the arts in conflict transformation.
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Dagmar Reichert (2015): Art in Peace-Building: Working with Paradoxes
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Dagmar Reichert (2015): Kunst als Beitrag zur Friedensförderung – neue Entwicklungen
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Martin Dahinden (2013): Conflict-Affected Situations: What Can Art and Culture Change?
Eröffnungsrede des Direktors der Schweizer Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit bei einer Veranstaltung zur Rolle von Kunst und Kultur in Entwicklungs- und Demokratisierungsprozessen.
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Dagmar Reichert (2011): Das Vermögen der Kunst
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Gunnar Olsson (2008): Untitled
This essay, motivated by Michael Caton-Jones’s movie „Shooting Dogs“ (2005) about the genocide in Rwanda, analyses mechanisms of power and their cartographical logic.
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Media reports
artasfoundation works together with journalists to make resources about knowledge, personal contacts (artists, activists, cultural organisations) and experiences in conflict regions accessible to a wider public.
Newspapers / Magazines
“JOGGING”
Theater gegen alle Umstände
WOZ Nr. 48 / 26.11.2020, p. 24, Kultur / Wissen
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Teacher's Studio (2016)
Ertsakhe (Regional newspaper of Ochamchyra),
February 2016 (Abkhazian)
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Kunst und Konflikt – Wenn die Widersprüche mitreisen
WoZ, 18.6.2015
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Connecting Spaces
Asarika Info, 4.1.2015 (Russian)
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Connecting Spaces
Artline, 27.12.2014
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Connecting Spaces
NZZ, 13.12.2014
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Connecting Spaces
Kunstbulletin, 12/2014
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Tskaltubo Art Festival
NZZ am Sonntag, 12.10.2014
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Bring Your Own Chair (2013)
Tagesanzeiger, 27.8.2013
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Art Camp
Zett (Magazine of Zurich University of the Arts), May 2013
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Art in Dialogue (2012)
Annual report 2012, HD Centre, Genf
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Online reviews
Open Air Games
Sputnik Abkhazia, 10.2.2016 (Russian)
Open Air Games
Ekho Kavkaza, 9.2.2016 (Russian)
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Radio/Audio
Look into the Feuilletons with Dagmar Reichert, founder of artasfoundation
SRF 2 Kultur, 14.09.2023
Podcast
„Unsere Arbeit ist Samen streuen.“
NAH DRAN – Stimmen im Kontext von Krise, Flucht und Ankommen. Naomi Gregoris spoke with Dagmar Reichert. Fondation Beyeler, 5.10.2022
Podcast
Eine Joggerin in Beirut
SRF1, Kontext, 2.12.2020
Report
Künste im Gespräch
Firas Abou Fakher: „Als Musiker nimmt man Risiken auf sich“
SRF2, Kontext, 4.3.2020
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Kunst trotz Repressalien:
Betroffene erzählen
SRF2, Kultur kompakt, 27.2.2020
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Georgien
Ein Land im Dazwischen
SRF2, Kontext, 29.10.2019
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Künste im Gespräch
Friedensarbeit und künstlerisches Engagement?
SRF2, Kontext, 15.7.2015
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TV reports
Documentation about artasfoundation
arttv, 30.11.2021
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Curator′s Initiative – Open Air Games
Abaza TV, 10.2.2016 (Russian)
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Tskaltubo Art Festival (2013)
Georgian TV Station
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Bring Your Own Chair (2012)
Georgian TV Station
Report
30. April
Georgian TV Station Imedi, Morning Show, 13.6.2011
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