Artas Foundation
| Artas Foundation (artasfoundation) |
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| Legal form: | Foundation, endowment |
| Purpose: | Initiation of art projects in conflict regions |
| Chair: | Heidi Tagliavini |
| Managing directors: | Dagmar Reichert |
| Consist: | 2011 |
| Seat: | Zurich |
| Website: | www.artasfoundation.ch |
The Artas Foundation is a Swiss foundation for art in conflict regions based in Zurich . It was founded in 2011, financed by private donations. The Artas Foundation initiates its own art projects and accompanies them in their implementation. In addition, it is building a competence center for the research and discussion of art in the context of conflict mediation, peacebuilding and international cooperation. Together with the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), she organizes the postgraduate study program “Arts and International Cooperation” (CAS).
The Artas Foundation is recognized in Switzerland as a non-profit foundation and is subject to the federal supervision of foundations.
aims
- To set up a competence center for art in the context of conflict mediation and peacebuilding in Switzerland.
- To initiate art projects on site after wars or violent conflicts in reconstruction or democratization processes.
- To support diplomatic conflict mediation processes and peace-building mediations by independent state or supranational institutions through specific artistic interventions.
- To conduct research in order to analyze previous artistic work that took place in the context of conflict mediation and peacebuilding and to accompany new art projects in a reflective manner.
- To network individual artistic initiatives in connection with conflict mediation and peacebuilding and to stimulate international exchange of experiences
activity
Artas Foundation is an operational foundation that is financed by donations and donations and initiates its own projects (it is not a charitable foundation and does not process non-invited applications for support). The foundation is active in three areas:
Art in reconstruction
Artas Foundation initiates and organizes art projects in regions affected by violent conflicts, e.g. B. Concerts, dance or theater performances, exhibitions or film days in cities, villages or refugee camps. Based on detailed research, they are carried out in close cooperation with local artists and the peacebuilding organizations that are active in the conflict region. They happen with a view to sustainable empowerment of local artists.
We do not count trauma treatment through specific, medical art therapy, as well as the long-term operation of cultural centers to the scope of the foundation.
Art in mediation processes
Artas Foundation explores ways of accompanying and supporting diplomatic mediation processes through artistic expertise. In the context of international or state peace policy initiatives or mediations, she coordinates with the mediators or mediation teams. The art contributions are aimed at the negotiating delegations of the conflicting parties, important opinion leaders or the general public and are tailored to the respective phase of the negotiation process.
Research and networking
Artas Foundation accompanies the projects initiated by the foundation through reflection and researches and prepares studies on artistic initiatives that have taken place elsewhere in the context of conflict mediation and peacebuilding. The aim is to make existing experiences accessible and to bring interested groups together.
literature
- Teacher's Studio No. 2 in Ertsakhe, Ochamchyra District Newspaper, February 2016 (in Abkhazian) link
- artasfoundation in the WoZ, June 18, 2015 link
- Connecting Spaces in Artline, December 27, 2014 link
- Connecting Spaces in NZZ, December 13, 2014 link
- Connecting Spaces in the art bulletin 12/2014 link
- Tskaltubo Art Festival in NZZ on Sunday, October 12, 2014 link
- Bring Your Own Chair II in the Tages-Anzeiger August 27, 2013 link
- Art Camp im Zett (magazine of the Zurich University of the Arts) May 2013 link
- Art in Dialogue I in the 2012 annual report of the HD Center, Geneva link
- Swisspeace: Abkhazia: A cultural center as a meeting place for civil society (Sabine Jenni, 2016)
- P-art-icipate: The possibility of international partnership (Marcel Bleuler)
- Duty-free warehouse: what art can do. Interview with Dagmar Reichert (2015)
- KOFF Newsletter (April 2015)
- WOZ: When the contradictions travel with you (Stephanie Danner, 2015)
- Art Initiatives in Peacebuilding: An Instrumentalization of Art? (2016)
- Art bulletin : Art and regions of conflict - The initiatives of artasfoundation (Marcel Bleuler, 2014)