Since 2003, the artists-in-labs program has been facilitating artistic research by way of long-term residencies for artists in scientific laboratories. The program promotes sustainable cooperation between artists and scientists in Switzerland and around the world. These long-term interdisciplinary and cross-border collaborations provide artists with an opportunity to critically engage with the sciences and their experimental and aesthetic dimensions.
The International Residency Exchange projects aim to build up international networks in Art and Science with the goal to establish sustainable and long-term collaborations between scientific and cultural institutions worldwide.
Our international art-science residencies in science laboratories provide artists with the opportunity to engage with scientists for several months on a global scale. The (cultural) setting and framing as well as the historical traditions are responsible for results in the sciences and in the arts. Therefore the possibility of a transcultural and transdisciplinary dialog and by juxtaposing concepts and procedures of different countries and knowledge cultures, offers a significant room to reflect on ideas and ideologies of the other, the foreign or the unfamiliar, and to explore a range of scientific topics, methods and technologies as well as the site of the laboratory, in renown science laboratories worldwide.
More information: www.artistsinlabs.ch/en/residency_programs
Indo-Swiss Residency Exchange 2012 - 2013 / Participating Artists and Institutions:
Neha Thakar, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Dominique Lämmli, National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India
Indo-Swiss Residency Exchange 2011 - 2012 / Participating Artists and Institutions:
Surekha Anil Kumar, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland
Adrien Missika, National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India