Projekte

"Notational System on Neutral Background" evolves from expanded ongoing research on problematic entanglements of Swiss economic policies. Swiss mythologies and self-identifications of neutrality and innocence still (partly) persist when it comes to discussions of colonial …

Para-Residency addresses the need for redistribution networks across practices and hemispheres. My commission amounts to an investment in the Para-Site School, supporting two additional and unlikely SPK residencies in Southwest Colombia. But it also gathers video documentation …

A Film for People is a short film-in-process about the entanglements between creative labor and the public and corporate sponsorship of art. Part documentary and part speculative fiction, the film focuses on sites in Portugal, where the artists are currently working. Here, it …

A rough, 14-minute collage, developed in December 2020. It begins with the council chamber of the city of Johannesburg, and ends with scenes from the Constitutional Court. The score is based on recordings from council meetings addressing corruption in the government's pandemic …

A short comic guide by Haitham Charles Haddad and SPK resident Fadwa Naamna, with recommendations for foreign travelers who wish to visit Palestine. The work emphasizes the importance of knowing where to source information - especially when traveling to a region of …

Piero's cough contained a trace of phlegm. He had the sudden itch for a cigarette, an itch he had forsworn after reluctant then successively engrossing readings of The Easyway to Quit Smoking , which had divested him of the addiction while simultaneously reviving his faith in …

A film/interface project that explores the lives of remote gig platform workers between India and USA, mostly working for Amazon's Mechanical Turk (Mturk). The film addresses an intentionally opaque space of labor. Platforms like Mturk employ thousands on a short- to very …

Money is an inconvenient topic in the art field. We don’t hear much about it, apart from bitter declarations that there is not enough. What kind of communication protocols and standards are needed in order to improve working conditions? The general silence about money has …