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    Highlights Performing Arts and Film

    New PEERS Cohort meets at Cima Citta / Ticino. From left to right: Anna Wohlgemuth, Anouk Hoogendorn, Yvonne Schmidt, Lawrence Agbetsise, Klearjos Papanicolau, Ginan Seidl
    New PEERS Cohort meets at Cima Citta / Ticino. From left to right: Anna Wohlgemuth, Anouk Hoogendorn, Yvonne Schmidt, Lawrence Agbetsise, Klearjos Papanicolau, Ginan Seidl
    • Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
    • Promotion of Talents and Careers
    • Cooperation and Internationality
    • External Funding
    • Event Highlight
    • Reading Tips
    • Worth Visiting
    • Milestone
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    «For rhetoric, the most important set of rules in the last two thousand years, the art of finding («inventio»), which is a technique of discovery as much as a provider of impetus and order, was both spontaneous and regulated. Likewise, the art of research and retrieval can only be mastered by those who proceed according to plan while also seeking the opposite, coincidence.»

    Prof. Anton Rey, Head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF)

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    Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

    In 2022, the annual RESEARCH ACADEMY was dedicated to «Interventions» and featured Florian Malzacher (Germany), Dana Yahalomi (Israel) and Christina Zimmermann (HSLU); the event alternates annually with ZDOK www.zfiction.ch, the Zurich Feature Film Conference, titled «Please Don’t Tell: Storytelling Beyond Magic Formula»; planned to take place every year and launched in 2022 with an inaugural conference titled «Performing Arts in Contexts PAC - PERFORMING ARTS IN CONTEXT», 1st Annual Meeting of the International PAC General Assembly in Zurich. https://www.pac-now.online/

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    Promotion of Talents and Careers

    Third cycle for film, dance and theatre artists in two PhD programmes funded by swissuniversities, Transdisciplinary Artistic (Linz University of the Arts), and Artistic, Artistic-scientific (Linz, Graz, Stockholm, Potsdam-Babelsberg universities of the arts), as well as the Pre-Doc PEERS with the aim of supporting young artists who want to do a PhD.

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    PEERS Summer Residency / Ginan Seidl / Experiment Tonos
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    Cooperation and Internationality

    «Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education», an Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant headed by Charlotte Schallié, University of Victoria, Canada. With partners in 16 countries, the research project comprises a team of 52 scholars, 13 artists and practitioners from 36 museums, schools and human rights groups dedicated to studying the Holocaust and mass atrocities committed in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Syria and Canada.

    The IPF also engages in lively exchange with researchers from Switzerland’s other universities of applied sciences (ZHAW, HKB, HSLU, FHNW, ECAL) and Accademia Dimitri, with the departments of film studies and psychology at the University of Zurich, theatre studies at the University of Bern and UNIL, as well as with individual EPFL and ETHZ researchers.

    → Overview «Cooperation und Internationality»

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    External Funding

    Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, «The Answering Machine» investigates the possible roles of assistants capable of speech as artificial pets, mechanical mothers, child machines, lovers or powerful actors. Theatre as an experimental setting, a joint project with computational linguistics, psychology and media studies.

    «Cinémémoire.ch expanded», the online archive of Swiss film history, features over 40 portraits and interviews.

    → Overview «Research Projects»

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    Event Highlight

    PAC (see above) aims to establish an international network of teaching faculty, researchers and artists and thus a permanent conference for the fields of applied theatre, theatre education, performing arts, theatre in social areas, community theatre, theatre in schools, theatre studies and others. It enables participates to articulate their interests and establish new working groups.

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    Reading Tips

    «Der Schauspieler ist das Theater» (The Actor is the Theatre) (Michael Tschechow, Alexander Verlag). Lectures for actors: Hamlet and Hitler, King Lear, Grock, the Clown, Michelangelo, Actors of the Future.

    «Michael Simon – FERTIG gibt’s nicht» (Michael Simon, Theater der Zeit). An interactive illustrated book on the theatre artist’s approaches to designing his performative scenes and spaces for drama, dance and music theatre.

    Photo by Maria Cheilpoulou, choreography Nora Werren, danced by BA dancers. Research with Contemporary Dance.
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    Worth Visiting

    Over 200 filmmakers and ZHdK members met with international experts at the ZFICTION.22 Feature Film Conference to discuss contemporary demands on storytelling, dramaturgy and the influence of narrative models in films. The lectures and panel discussions were recorded and published open access: https://blog.zhdk.ch/zfiction/zfiction-archiv/zfiction-22-archiv/

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    Milestone

    For the first time, the Department of Performing Arts and Film conducted a valorisation process, whose findings will be incorporated into a 2023 structural report. The department’s research performance in the last three years served as a basis for discussion. The report will include an individual documentation (IFD), an extract from the research database (FDB) and questions concerning output/impact, the promotion of emerging researchers, cooperation, networking and international reach, third-party funding, teaching-research transfer.

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