Marcel Rickli „Cryomancer“, Rhône Glacier, August 2025

Master Class – Converging Waters

Join the Master Class on Tuesday, September 9th to gain insights into the making of the exhibition "Converging Waters – Kumo, Kawa, Kōri" and the dynamics of art–science collaborations. Artists, scientists, and the curatorial team will guide participants through the exhibition process and explore how art, science, and technology can inspire sociocultural change in the context of climate change.

This Master Class will share insights into the making of the exhibition “Swissnex Window#10: Converging Waters – Kumo, Kawa, Kōri” and the broader dynamics of art–science collaborations. As a side-event to the exhibition, it invites artists, scientists, curators, and all those interested to join Swiss members of the team.

The artist Marcel Rickli, scientist Prof. Michael Döring, and the curators and producers of the exhibition Irène Hediger and Flurin Fischer from the artists-in-labs program will guide participants through the exhibition process and explore how technology, artistic and scientific practices can contribute to sociocultural transformations in the context of climate change.

Program

  • 9:30am – Doors open

Event start time

Speakers

Organized by

Since 2003, the artists-in-labs program has been facilitating artistic research by way of long-term residencies for artists in scientific laboratories and research institutes. This programme is part of the Department of Cultural Analysis (DKV) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and promotes sustainable collaboration between artists and scientists of all disciplines, not just in Switzerland but all around the world. These long-term interdisciplinary and cross-border collaborations provide artists with an opportunity to critically engage with the sciences and their experimentaland aesthetic dimensions. This includes explorations of the site of the laboratory, as well as a range of scientific topics, methods and technologies.

  • artists-in-labs.ch
  • Swissnex

With the support of

  • Zhdk
  • PWRI
  • ZHAW
  • Universität Zürich
  • Presence Switzerland
  • Swiss Pavilion
  • Swissnex