ARTIVISM

Art and Activism:
Creativity and Performance
As Subversive Forms of Political
Expression in Super-Diverse Cities

Carnivals

 

©Monika Salzbrunn

ARTIVISM

Art and Activism:
Creativity and Performance
As Subversive Forms of Political
Expression in Super-Diverse Cities

Mural Art

© Sylvain Besençon

ARTIVISM

Art and Activism:
Creativity and Performance
As Subversive Forms of Political
Expression in Super-Diverse Cities

Carnivalesque


©Monika Salzbrunn

ARTIVISM

Art and Activism:
Creativity and Performance
As Subversive Forms of Political
Expression in Super-Diverse Cities

Comics & Cartoons

©Waka Waka

News

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.

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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.

Meet Monika Salzbrunn, principal investigator, and her team

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

Michèle Jaccoud Ramseier

Secretary

Federica Moretti

PhD Candidate Carnival in France

Sara Wiederkehr

PhD Candidate Street art in USA