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SEASON\u2019S GREETINGS<\/strong> to our friends, collaborators, partners, alumni, accomplices, visitors\/readers and all interested parties. REVIEW 2024: PREVIEW 2025: SEASON\u2019S GREETINGS to our friends, collaborators, partners, alumni, accomplices, visitors\/readers and all interested parties. We wish you some peaceful days with your loved ones and a happy New Year. Let’s hope for less chaos and disasters and a positive change towards a better world. There are also some changes coming to the Institute and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe wish you some peaceful days with your loved ones and a happy New Year. Let’s hope for less chaos and disasters and a positive change towards a better world.
\nThere are also some changes coming to the Institute and the Biennale.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>In January, ILEA researcher Dominik Landwehr published an essay in the journal “Schweizerisches Archiv f\u00fcr Volkskunde” on the ongoing research project \u201cSafientaler Gespr\u00e4che\u201d.
\nAlso in January the last part of the indo-swiss exchange program EAE (Environmental Art Exchange, funded by Pro Helvetia) took place in Goa with a residency of the ILEA alumni artist duo Badel\/Sarbach.
\nEnd of March closed the exhibition “Grass Stories” by Dharmendra Prasad at ILEA Gallery at Berghotel Alpenblick in Tenna.
\nIn June the transdisciplinary artistic research project \u201cRiver Landscapes\u201d, of which ILEA is part of, was kicked off at the Zurich Art Weekend with performances and talks. Funded by Pro Helvetia Synergies Grant, this 2 yearlong research project creates a new glossary which acknowledges rivers as landscapes shared by many species and cultures.
\nAlso in June we had to say goodbye to alumni Ben Vautier (18.7.1935 – 5.6.2024).
\nIn July the 5th Art Safiental Biennale kicked off under the title “What if? Songs from Tomorrowlands\u201c, and run until Oct 20. 15 productions by artists from 12 nations took<\/em> a critical look at possible futures and our world in transition. For the first time, four co-curators were responsible for the biennial. In addition to the founder and artistic director Johannes M. Hedinger, these were Anne-Laure Franchette, Josiane Imhasly and Joanna Lesnierowska. During the opening (5.-7.7.) and on three days in July, Aug and Sept several temporary performances took place in the valley.
\nThanks to the continuing cooperation with Pro Helvetia Delhi we were able to host again two artists from India in the ILEA Residency in Tenna: Farah Mulla (June-July) and Sujit Mallik (July-Aug). Both were also included in the Art Safiental Biennale. Farah Mullah also represented ILEA in a group show at Cularta in Laax.
\nDue to insufficient funding, this year\u2019s\u00a0Alps Art Academy\u00a0and symposium unfortunately had to be canceled. However, it was possible to include most of the invited experts in the enlarged publication ILEA Book 2: \u201cWhat if? Letters to the future\u201d (Vexer Verlag), which was presented at the finissage of the Biennale.
\nIn October ILEA was invited for the Conference \u201eLand Art Lives\u201c in Lelystad NL (Oct 3\/4).
\nEnd of October the exhibition “Spatial Solidarities” by Studio Other Spaces closed at the Gelbes Haus in Flims, where ILEA was represented with the ongoing eco-acoustic artistic research project ACLA by Marcus Maeder.
\nIn November ILEA Book 2: \u201cWhat if? Letters to the future\u201d was officially launched in the frame of the Futurological Congress (Nov 29\/30) at L\u00f6wenbr\u00e4ukunst Z\u00fcrich with a performative reading by Ishita Chakraborty.
\nIn December, another book presentation and reading took place at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, together with a lecture on art in the periphery.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>As of 1 January 2025, the sponsorship of Art Safiental Biennale and Alps Art Academy will be handed over from the Beverin Nature Park (in cooperation with the municipality of Safiental and Safiental Tourism) to the newly founded association (Verein) \u201cArt Safiental\u201d. Johannes M. Hedinger, director of both, the Biennale and the Academy for around 10 years, will leave the two initiatives he founded at the end of 2024. From 2025 he will focus on leading the ILEA (Institute for Land and Environmental Art) research center, which is moving to Zurich after 5 years based in Tenna. Both the ILEA Institute and the new Art Safiental association will realign themselves in the coming months and provide information when the time comes. Official communiqu\u00e9:\u00a0https:\/\/ilea.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/offizielles-communique-AS-ILEA-8.24.pdf<\/a>
\nWhat is already lined up:
\nOn Jan 24 6pm there will be another book launch for the ILEA Book2 (What if? Letters to the future) with readings at Vexer Publisher in Berlin.
\nIn February ILEA is attending with the research project \u201cRiver Landscape\u201d att a conference at the Science Gallery in Bengaluru in India.
\nAnd for early summer and fall ILEA is planning two symposia.
\nDetails will be shared in the next newsletter, on our website\u00a0www.ilea.art<\/a>\u00a0and on our\u00a0instagram channel.
\nHere\u2019s to new ideas, shared moments, and exciting collaborations in 2025! We are looking forward to reconnect and wishing you a hopeful start to the New Year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"