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Zurich Meets New York Festival
Dada, Carl Jung, robots, big data, urban systems, typefaces and beyond—Zurich Meets New York, A Festival of Swiss Ingenuity highlights visionary movements and ideas born in Zurich, and their impact on American culture. With almost 100 years of Dada, Zurich now takes the spotlight, and celebrates its role as a 21st-century hub for artistic and scientific innovation.
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10 Years: Switzerland + the UN
10 Reasons Why Switzerland Engages With The United Nations explores the core reasons Switzerland decided to refine its stance towards the UN and become an integral part of its policy and decision making processes.
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nach dem spiel gleich zur afterpar+y
Endlich gibt es das multifunktionale T-Shirt, welches beim Public Viewing punktet und an der Afterpar+y gefeiert wird. Die coolen WM-T’Shirts gibt es jetzt in zwei Farben und mit den passenden Statement.
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Eliane Amherd: Now and From Now On
“… from the bold funk/soul impact of the opening title track (remixed at the end as the percussive section of an escola de samba) to the joyful calypso chorus of Me Fe Tan Pliji to the refined jazz atmosphere of Where is Home…”
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Coming Soon: Christian Lutz-“Power Trilogy”
A quick peek at our last conversation with award-winning photographer, Christian Lutz. Lutz’s fascination with the invisible machinations of powers have taken him from the discreet, subtle worlds of diplomacy—to the inner workings of a Senegalese religious brotherhood—and now to the Niger Delta, the heart of the violence that surrounds the Nigerian oil industry.
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POLITICAL THEATER: PROTOKOLL BY CHRISTIAN LUTZ
Over the course of three years, Geneva based photographer, Christian Lutz travelled with the Swiss diplomatic corp in an official capacity. His own ambiguous relationship to power (“part attraction, part repulsion”) reflected through the camera lens captured a dimension of diplomacy he calls “political theater”. The result is PROTOKOLL, a handsome pictorial study of authority, power and hierarchal systems…
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SHOPPING INCENTIVE:3 DECADES OF COMMISSIONED SHOPPING BAGS FROM FOGAL
For almost thirty years, Fogal, Switzerland’s premier hosiery and lingerie luxury brand, has been in the habit of commissioning custom shopping bags from rising and established art world denizen…
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THE YEAR IN MOMENTS
If you click on the “Links” menu item of the Swiss Institute (New York) website, you’ll find yourself at once thrust into the curatorial sensibilities of Gianni Jetzer. The links are formatted along the lines of “Top Ten Lists” and toy with the often baffling correspondences of expression found on the internet. These top ten […]
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ON STAGE AND OFF AT THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL
This November (2007), The Lucerne Festival presents At The Piano, featuring an international cross section of everyone’s favorite stylists and grand masters: Alfred Berndel, Maurizio Pollini, Leif Ove Andsnes (with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), Andreas Haefliger and the Labèque sisters. Also on hand are the specialists: András Schiff (Haydn); miniaturist Marino Formenti and the […]