Inaugural Conference and Official Launch, 5–7 December 2019,
Zurich University of the Arts
Shared Campus is a new cooperation platform for international education formats and research networks that has been launched by eight art institutions from Asia and Europe. This conference marks the beginning of our ambitious initiative and exciting alliance. As we are committed to transcultural awareness as the basic stance and to transcultural collaboration as the fundamental practice of our activities, the conference will discuss several interrelated questions: How do we encounter the unfamiliar? How do we allow for difference? How do we deal with the manifold implications of uncertainty and contradiction?
The conference will lay bare and explore Shared Campus as a kind of heterotopia. We will address questions and problems, test experiences and ideas, and negotiate these in interjections and objections, in discursive or in experience-oriented settings and artistic performances. These various formats will stimulate future inquiry in five main sections:
1. Sharing
2. Collaboration (in the Arts)
3. Dealing with Otherness
4. Coping with Contradiction and Uncertainty
5. Institutional Framing – Structure vs. Dynamics
The conference sessions on 6 and 7 December will be followed by the final presentations of the international graduate semester programme Transcultural Collaboration, the most comprehensive education format of Shared Campus to date, including 30 creative practitioners from eight art institutions across all arts disciplines.
The conference is free and open to all. Its official language is English.
The registration for the conference has been closed, but you are still welcome to participate:
- 5 December (Opening): No registration needed
- 6 and 7 December: Please register directly at the conference, room 5.K11 (5th floor, section K, room 11)