Research Residency
From April to September 2023, Tara Lasrado, co-founder of ARVAE, is on a research residency in the SAE Greenhouse.
arvae cultivates grounds for transdisciplinary collaboration together with artists, scientists and other practitioners/experts. arvae was part of the «Mobile Soils» collaborative dinner series at SAE Greenhouse in 2022. The focus of the research residency is on questioning practices on transdisciplinary exchange and production; while sustaining the projects, relations and community we initiated together last year. This research residency is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (Innovation and Society).
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Reading sessions
As part of the research residency of arvae, we invite you to the greenhouse for a series of reading sessions – centering decolonial feminist perspectives on agroecology. Every monday, from 5 pm to 7 pm.
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Artist in Residence
arvae is hosting the research-based photographer Ana Nuñez Rodriguez for a mini-residency in the Greenhouse! In the context of Ana’s trip to Switzerland as part of Food Culture Days, she will join us from May 21-24. Ana’s contribution «cooking potato stories» is part of the Schpensa archive. it is a playful confrontation of difference voices and the collision of perspectives. an invitation to immerse in the complex system of meanings and narratives around the potato.
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Collage Partage
Carolina Tokars Wernick initiates an exercise on transdisciplinary exchange. Holding space for vulnerabilities. To name them. Acknowledge the breaks, the pauses. Give space for imperfections and no-solutions. Bringing together practices of reading, writing, collaging, eating, questioning, sharing…
This workshop series takes place in the SAE Greenhouse Lab.
Monday, 12 May from 12:00 – 19:00
Monday, 26 June from 12:00 – 19:00
with a sharing moment on 26.6 at 18:00 with Carolina on the process and her practice.
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