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 [...]
News
The ERC Artivism team participated in the Carnevale di Viareggio on February 22. – 26. 2020, where they presented the film directed by Professor Monika Salzbrunn “Créer, Résister, [...]
During the Mboa BD Festival celebratated in Douala, from 20 to 23 November 2019, and Yaoundé, from 27 to 30 November 2019, the ERC Artivism team presented the film “Créer, résister, [...]
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 the celebration of the fifth anniversary of Libera Collina di Castello in Genova, Italy, October 5, 2019, the ERC Artivism team presented the film “Créer, résister, exister” [...]
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 [...]
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
