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About

 

Draft explores contemporary art that initiates, provokes and contributes to public debates. It involves nine interdisciplinary collaboratives from nine cities: Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Mumbai, St. Petersburg, and Zurich. Over a period of one year (2015–2016), the collaboratives developed and carried out projects in their local contexts.

 

The projects intervened in contexts of action, production and discourse, by exploring the imaginary, by rendering the latent visible or by critiquing concrete circumstances. Media censorship, state authoritarianism, social injustice, xenophobia, nationalism, various forms of violence, migration, the effect of frantic urbanisation, real estate speculation, commodities trading and repatriation are some of the pressing issues highlighted by these year-long investigations. Artists respond to these circumstances through critique and fiction, by establishing infrastructures, educational programmes and counter-publics, and by employing re-enactments and mnemonic techniques. They reveal the consequences of such phenomena and processes on our affective and intellectual life – in short, they draft a different history and a different present.

 

Bookended by the opening conference in Mumbai 2015, and the closing conference in Zurich 2016, Draft undertook various projects, including research and workshops, in each of the nine cities. A series of publications documents these site-sensitive artworks and events.

 

The conferences and the project as a whole brought together a cross-disciplinary group of artists, curators, philosophers, anthropologists and the like, who cooperated as collaboratives in wound up urban contexts.

 

Draft was initiated and coordinated by Khanabodosh, Mumbai, and by the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zurich University of the Arts.

 

People

Events

WHAT IS YOUR MISSION?

09­–2017

DECANONISING THE UNIVERSITY

06­–2017

LIBRARY

12­–2016

ORCHESTRATIONS

11­–2016

EXERCISES ON TRIALS

10­–2016

AT NIGHT, LIGHTNING

08­–2016

DRILL MAN (Premiere)

07­–2016

DELINKING COMMODITY TRADING

07­–2016

BOW CONVERSATIONS

07­–2016

SIGHTING OF THE NEW MOON

07­–2016

STAATPRAATJIES

06­–2016

ELEGY

06­–2016

THE CHARTER

06­–2016

COLLECTIVE AMNESIA

06­–2016

INFLUX III

06­–2016

LETTER OPENING

05­–2016

PARADE – ANOTHER PLANNING IS POSSIBLE

05­–2016

SOMNYAMA NGONYAMA

05­–2016

QUNUSA! BUHLE

05­–2016

SOFT CORE – PROTECTION PROCEDURE

05­–2016

ELSEWHERE – STRUGGLES ACROSS THE SEA

04­–2016

LIMIT EXTENSION ANNIVERSARY

04­–2016

WHAT IS A GARDEN?

04­–2016

OPENING R AND R

03­–2016

"AND MANY IMAGES CAME UPON ME"

01­–2016

STATEMENT REGARDING CHANGE OF LEASE

09­–2015


Publications

ONLINE (Cape Town Collaborative)

11­–2020

BOOK (Hong Kong Collaborative)

11­–2020

POSTCARD EDITION (Hamburg Collaborative)

11­–2020

BOOK (Cairo Collaborative 2)

11­–2020

BOOK (Zurich Collaborative)

04­–2020

DVD EDITION (Beijing Collaborative)

06­–2019

BOOK (Mexico City Collaborative)

11­–2018

NEWSPAPER (St.Petersburg Collaborative)

05­–2018

HANDMADE BOOKLET II (Cairo Collaborative 1)

09­–2017

HAND-MADE BOOKLET I (Cairo Collaborative 1)

06­–2017


Contact

Draft is a project conceived by Gitanjali Dang, Khanabadosh, Mumbai, and Christoph Schenker, Institute for Contemporary Art Research IFCAR, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK.

 

E-Mail 

contact[at]draftprojects.info

 

Artistic directors

Gitanjali Dang
Artistic Director Khanabadosh, Mumbai
Phone: +91 98 20 414851
Website: http://khanabadosh.info

Prof. Christoph Schenker
Head of IFCAR Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich
Phone: +41 43 446 6101
Website: www.ifcar.ch

 

Project associate (2015-2016)

Phalguni Desai, Mumbai
Linda Jensen, Zurich

 

Office

IFCAR Institute for Contemporary Art Research
Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
Pfingstweidstr. 96 / P.O. Box
CH – 8031 Zurich
Phone: +41 43 446 61 01
Email: info.ifcar[at]zhdk.ch

 

Partners

Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich, ZHdK

 

Supported by

artEDU Foundation
Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen

 

Website design and programming 

Hubertus Design, Zurich
taywa gmbh, Zurich

 

Image captions and credits

Cairo collaborative: Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk: Out on the Street, 2015, film still. Courtesy: the artists. Cape Town collaborative: Sethembile Msezane, Untitled (Freedom Day), 2014, Courtesy: the artist. Hamburg collaborative: Alice Peragine, Application Operation, 2014, site-specific performance at Galerie Genscher Park Hamburg. Courtesy: the artist. Photograph: Marcel Peragine. Hong Kong collaborative: Samson Young, Liquid Borders, 2012 – 2014, image documentation. Courtesy: the artist. Photograph: Vanessa Law. Mexico City collaborative: Teatro Ojo, NO?!, 2008, image documentation of first action: Each generation wants its own 1968, Zocalo Square of Mexico City. Interventions and creation of image-actions in public spaces in Mexico City, forty years after the 1968 Student Movement. Courtesy: the artists. Mumbai collaborative: CAMP, From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013, video still. Courtesy: the artists. Shanghai collaborative: Ju Anqi, There's a Strong Wind in Beijing, 1999, film still. Courtesy: the artist. St Petersburg collaborative: School for Engaged Art, Chto Delat, Atlas is Tired, 2014, performance documentation. Courtesy: the artists. Photograph: Vadim Lurie. Zurich collaborative: knowbotiq, MacGhillie_just a void, 2010. Courtesy: the artists. Photograph: Christoph Oeschger.