art+argument @ Geschlossene Gesellschaft - Heute Offen!

On the 29th November 2018 Nicole Bachmann, Søren Berner, Mayo Bucher and Annette von Spesshardt Portatius assembled to debate the motion: The artist is an engine of social change. 

Speaking for the motion Berner and Portatius were passionate in their defence of the active, effective artist. Artists effect social change - and not only that, cannot avoid doing so. 

Bachmann and Bucher dismissed the argument. Artists are prostitutes who sell their services and the artist who claims to bring about social improvement should be regarded with great suspicion. Social workers, police, teachers and the like are those who bring about social change. 

Thus it continued in a heated fashion, though ultimately Bucher and Bachmann won the public vote. Very warm thanks to the participants and to the audience who came on a busy Zurich evening during Kunstszene: Zürich. 

art+argument@ GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT –HEUTE OFFEN! 29 November 2018, 7pm

art+argument @

GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT –HEUTE OFFEN!

Thursday 29 November 7pm

KUNST: SZENE ZURICH

TREFFPUNKT AMBOSS RAMPE

ZOLLSTRASSE 80, 8005 ZÜRICH

Nicole Bachmann, Søren Berner, Mayo Bucher and Annette von Spesshardt Portatius

debate the motion:

The artist is an engine of social change

art+argument is a forum for discussing culture where the unspeakable may be said. Four cultural experts in two opposing teams debate and discuss a motion that they have been assigned. Each participant has been given a position opposing or defending the motion, and each has five minutes to argue their case uninterrupted. Thereafter the speakers challenge each other, and the audience may in turn question the speakers. The event ends with a vote for the more persuasive team. Each speaker must play his or her assigned role, regardless of whether they agree or not. Speakers benefit from temporary immunity: what they say during the debate is not necessarily their opinion and they cannot be held to their word afterwards.

GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT –HEUTE OFFEN! curated by Brigitte Dätwyler and Monica Ursina Jäger is one of Visarte’s contributions to KUNST: SZENE ZURICH

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art+argument @ A Portrait of a Young Building as an Artist by Artists: Result!

Mitchell Anderson, Hamed Rashtian, Mirjam Bayerdörfer and Una Szeemann in action at the Löwenbräu last night, debating whether artists should - might - be curators. Mirjam and Una were victorious!  

Many thanks to the wonderful speakers and to the audience. 

art+argument @ A Portrait of a Young Building as an Artist by Artists

art+argument @ 

A Portrait of a Young Building as an Artist by Artists

Mitchell Anderson, Mirjam Bayerdörfer, Hamed Rashtian and Una Szeemann 

debate the motion

Artists should not be curators

10^thApril 2018, 7pm

F Space Carpet Gallery Space F

Löwenbräu, 2nd Floor

Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich

A Portrait of a Young Building as an Artist by Artists is an exhibition curated by 12 art students from the F+F School of Art and Design. Occupying an empty gallery space on the second floor of the Löwenbräu, the students create a ‘portrait’ of the building by inviting all the artists currently working and showing in the Löwenbrau, including themselves, to contribute an art work. They will build an eccentric landscape from the art works offered by those who wish to participate, installing them on the cut carpet pieces left over from the recent Larry Bell exhibition at Hauser and Wirth Gallery, Zürich.

art+argument is a forum for discussing culture where the unspeakable may be said. Four cultural experts in two opposing teams debate and discuss a motion that they have been assigned. Each participant has been given a position opposing or defending the motion, and each has five minutes to argue their case uninterrupted. Thereafter the speakers challenge each other, and the audience may in turn question the speakers. The event ends with a vote for the more persuasive team. Each speaker must play his or her assigned role, regardless of whether they agree or not. Speakers benefit from temporary immunity: what they say during the debate is not necessarily their opinion and they cannot be held to their word afterwards.

Please join us!

art+argument @ Photobastei, 22 February 2017

Many thanks to Livio Baumgartner, Marco de Mutiis, Natalie Keppler and Sarah Zürcher for their lively debate, and to Daniel Blochwitz, our gracious host. 

Thanks also to the audience, human and canine, for their interest and engagement!

art+argument @ Photobastei, Wednesday 22 February, 7pm

Livio Baumgartner, Marco de Mutiis, Natalie Keppler and Sarah Zürcher debate the motion:

Documentary is not art

in the context of the Arnold Odermatt retrospective exhibition at Photobastei.

22nd February 2017, 7pm

Photobastei, Sihlquai 125, Zurich

art+argument is a forum for discussing culture where the unspeakable may be said. Four cultural experts in two opposing teams debate and discuss a motion that they have been assigned. Each participant has been given a position opposing or defending the motion, and each has five minutes to argue their case uninterrupted. Thereafter the speakers challenge each other, and the audience may in turn question the speakers. The event ends with a vote for the more persuasive team. Each speaker must play his or her assigned role, regardless of whether they agree or not. Speakers benefit from temporary immunity: what they say during the debate is not necessarily their opinion and they cannot be held to their word afterwards.

Please join us!

art+argument bei visarte, 27. August 2016, Helmhaus Zürich