From Viareggio to Köln, Prof. Monika Salzbrunn explores how local and global struggles are staged during carnivals. She addresses how satire and political claims can be at the heart of festive [...]
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L’ambivalence des relations Nord-Sud au prisme des missions du 19ème siècle Lors du dernier week-end de l’exposition Derrière les cases de la mission : l’entre-prise missionnaire [...]
The Festival International MBOA BD in Douala and Yaounde celebrates its 10th anniversary with the theme Afrofuturism. ERC ARTIVISM congratulates and participates with a documentary, a [...]
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During 10 days, from 2 – 12 May, the ERC ARTIVISM project participated in the Film Workshop organized by Ethnocineca in Vienna, Austria. With fellow anthropologists and visual artists, [...]
As every 1st of May for the past 20 years, the Santa Capelina is celebrated in Nice on the Rauba Capeu. Fish soup, hand-made hats and the Santa are its main ingredients. The Batucada play all [...]
The first independent carnival is being prepared in Genoa in different places, La Libera Collina di Castello, CSOA Terra di Nessuno as well as Circo Burrida, with float constructions, [...]
The study of carnivals paves the way to an understanding of the social and political context wherein this festive event takes place. In Nice, a glance at the floats of the 2019 carnival leads the [...]
The 2019 Viareggio’s carnival is characterized by fewer floats directly representing political issues. Bullying, solidarity, women rights, critiques to individualism and social media, (plastic) [...]
Yannick Deubou Sikoué is the delegate of the annual comic festival MBOA BD in Cameroon. This year 2019, the festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, 27.-30. November in Douala and 4.-7. [...]
ARTIVISM
Exploring new artistic forms of political expressions in multicultural cities, ARTIVISM investigates artistic resistance in times of crisis and/or in oppressive conditions. ARTIVISM seeks to understand how social actors engage artistically in order to bring about social, economic and political changes.
Monika Salzbrunn, principal investigator
Monika Salzbrunn
Monika Salzbrunn, the project’s principal investigator, holds a full professorship in „Religions, Migration, Diasporas“ at Lausanne University. Her fields of expertise include art and activism, festive events, carnival, visual anthropology, transnational social spaces, Sufi brotherhoods, undocumented migration, urban spaces, West Africa, (Senegal), North Africa (Tunisia), United States, Europe and Japan
Raphaela von Weichs
Senior researcher
Comics in Cameroon
Maura Soupper
Secretary
Federica Moretti
PhD Candidate
Carnival in France
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Film-Maker
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