The ERC Artivism Team is participating at the The ESA Research Network Sociology of the Arts Conference in Helsinki. The Conference is organised by the University of the Arts (Uniarts) Helsinki, [...]
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Laboratorio of Sociologia Visuale (Genova) and Observatori de la Vida Quotidiana (Barcelona) are organising the event Art, Visuality and Social Research. Tales from the field, next Thursday 11 [...]
The ERC Artivism Team is writing a comic book as part of the research project “Art and Activism. Creativity and Performance as Subversive Forms of Political Expression in Super-Divers [...]
The 11. International Festival of Comic Art MBOA BD is online from 16 – 19th December 2020. This first complet digital version manifests unexplored paths in comic art and [...]
PhD Students and members of the ERC Artivist Team, Federica Moretti and Sara Wiederkehr, together with PhD Student and ERC Artivist affiliated, Serjara Aleman organised the workshop “Migration, [...]
On December 8, 2020 Prof. Monika Salzbrunn and Dr. Raphaela von Weichs participated at the Research Colloquium of the Institute of Social Sciences of Religions (ISSR) at the Université de [...]
December 1, 2020 PhD student and member of the ERC Artivism team, Sara Wiederkehr presented her research “Art and Politics: Social imaginaries in the Streets: An anthropological approach to [...]
As part of Prof. Monika Salzbrunn’s Master Seminar « Migration dans l’art, art dans la migration et artistes migrant.e.s », Dr. Hannah Wadle presented the interactive Workshop “Museum of [...]
Prof. Monika Salzbrunn and PhD Student Federica Moretti from the ERC-ARTIVISM team participated in the International Colloque “Tra Rito e Mito: il Carnevalle nella cultura europea”, [...]
In Winter 2020, the ERC-ARTIVISM research and film team returned to Viareggio to participate in the two last corsi of the carnival, attend the proclamation of the victories and follow the most [...]
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
Michèle Jaccoud Ramseier
Secretary
Federica Moretti
PhD Candidate Carnival in France
Sara Wiederkehr
PhD Candidate Street art in USA
