[…] Galbiati and Luginbühl revisit the fairy tale as an intimate journey where the spectator, whether young or adult, walks the path indicated by the voice on headphones alone with oneself, one’s ghosts and imagination. The rooms to be covered are bare, some dark, smelling of wood. Inside them are a few traces, signs of an inner turmoil or, more simply, clues to reknit the threads of the narrative. In these rooms, the aesthetic combines with the sensory. They are also spaces where ecstasy meets fear. Where, for a moment, we too have stepped back in time, recalling that fairy tale, the first time we were read or told it. The strength of .h.g. lies essentially in having used simple registers, without presumption, with the one aim of captivating through a synthesis of the tale with the “scent of sounds” and their evocative power. Well, we find the project fully successful.

Volksblatt (Liechtenstein)

Trickster-p

The game

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Eutopia

The stories of the Earth have changed in nature and scale: we do not write stories to tell about the creation or the course of the world, but to avert its end.

Book is a Book is a Book

Ts'ui Pen must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occurred that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

Nettles

At what age does one stop being an orphan? Who loses the father, let’s say at sixty, can he be defined an orphan? At ten yes – but at forty? (...)

Twilight

Choreography for the dying light

Sights

We met blind people. Some were born blind, others lost their sight over time. We asked them to tell us how they see

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Room by room audio journey around the fairytale Snow White

.h.g.

Installation in 9 rooms, one prologue and one epilogue

Awaken the sleeping giants

Trickster-p — Projects — Awaken the sleeping giants

Conceived as a two years research and transmission project devised by Trickster-p and Sandbox Collective, Awaken the sleeping giants has involved art practicioners from Switzerland and India to explore interspecies entanglements and hybridization as a possibile key to read the future relation between humans and Nature.
A possible different coexistence between different species is something that concerns us all - regardless of our geographical origin and artistic background - and a reflection on these topics cannot fail to compare different experiences and points of view in a process that proposes diversity and hybridisation as a possible vehicle of knowledge and key to interpreting reality in a dynamic relationship between local and global scales.
Starting from these considerations, Awaken the sleeping giants has brought together art practitioners from different backgrounds and contexts involving them in a common reflection that could lead to shared conclusions to be declined in individual daily practices and in a broader transmission.

Credits

Research group

Aruna Ganesh Ram (Bangalore) Cristina Galbiati (Novazzano/Lugano) Maria Da Silva (Genève) Nimi Ravindran (Bangalore) Paramita Saha (Kolkata) Yves Regenass (Basel)

Supported by

Awaken the sleeping giants is part of Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council programme “To-gather”.