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Research Exhibition SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND #2 – Controversy Out Loud

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Opening 31 May, 7 p.m.

witha lecture performance by Saar Magal (Video design and editing: Benjamin Krieg)

The second part of the SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND exhibition and program of events, “#2 Controversy Out Loud” refers to the Richard Wagner Year 2013 and his connection with Swiss politics of memory.

Works by Tal Adler/Karin Schneider; the „The Pressure Group to Transform the Lueger Monument into a Monument against Anti-Semitism and Racism“; Sasha Huber; Tina Leisch; Saar Magal and the “Café Temelín” reveal strategies for a artistic approach to figures, places, and stories that are “ambivalent” and “problematic” in terms of the politics of memory.

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Over the past several...

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Research Exhibition SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND #1 - Undesirable society, inconvenient company

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"Miss Roma", video still, Tamara Moyzes

The current program of exhibitions, films and event „SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND“ adresses the social exclusion and persecution as well as the cultural and political selforganisation of Roma, Sinti and Yeniche people in Switzerland and Europe.

The regulation of public space through a ban of begging or other policies of spatial exclusion will be linked with the question of distribution of wealth and the „making-invisible“ of poverty. But also, counter-strategies will be formulated. Furthermore, the program will discuss questions of political exile, border and migration policies.

The issue of political exile will be revisited in the second core theme of the program. In relation to the „Richard Wagner Year“ 2013 the program will critically discuss the production of the artistic genius as a strategy of commodification and politics of location. Different projects...

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SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND - from March 5th at Shedhalle

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„An undesirable society“, Marika Schmiedt

SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND - from March 5th at Shedhalle

Shedhalle will carry out an annual program of exhibitions, films and events, entitled „SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND“:

On the one hand side, the program will bring up the issue of social exclusion and persecution, but also political and cultural self-organisation of Jeni, Sinti and Roma in Switzerland aswell as in Europe. The regulation of public space through a ban of begging or other policies of spatial exclusion will be...

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