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 [...]
News
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. [...]
FIBD OFF OFF: The 4th “Prix Couilles au Cul” for exceptional artistic courage went to Jamonyqueso (artist) and Chino with Tenso Tenso (authors) (Equatorial Guinea) for [...]
The ERC-ARTIVISM team went to Marseille to participate in the interdisciplinary meeting “Migrations, nos voix, nos chemins de traverse”, organized by Lucie Bacon, Amandine Desille and Noémie [...]
October 9, 2018 PhD student and member of ERC-ARTIVISM team, Federica Moretti presented her research “Mobilizing Creativity. Carnival as political performance and means of expression” at the [...]
Together with ERC filmmaker Pascal Bernhardt, ERC ARTIVISM PI Monika Salzbrunn has realised the first ARTIVISM short film, « Defilé Maddalena La Superba à Gênes ». Following the ARTIVISM [...]
Prof. Yasumasa Sekine is the former president of JASCA, the Japanese Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology. He has lead an important project on Street Anthropology (ストリート人類学) [...]
On 27th June, Prof. Monika Salzbrunn will present the ARTIVISM project during an information event about the European Research Council. This presentation will take place at Amphimax (414) from [...]
Le carnaval et ses doubles : du « carnaval queer » au « charivari des quartiers » ou les déclinaisons de carnaval à Nice entre normes et résistances Conference of Nathalie Gauthard, Professeure [...]
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
