ART IN ACTION
Switzerland
START-UP
Power To The People
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a non-profit association dedicated to encouraging and highlighting the creative and intellectual potential of refugees. The project starts in Zurich, and it aims to expand regionally in Switzerland and eventually the world.
In this comprehensive and lively program, refugees are encouraged and trained to create and guide their city tours, bringing their ideas and background in the game.
More than tours, these are experiences in which both visitors and locals encounter art, cuisine, culture, science and sustainability in unique ways while discovering the most vivid and exciting spots in the city. Each tour is an opportunity for the positive exchange of experiences, ideas and contact between guides and participants. Everyone is welcome and can decide what his/her contribution to the tour is.
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Natalia Sierra is the creator of this promising start-up. Get more information here.
ART BASEL & UNHCR
invited artist
Natalia Sierra is one of the participating artists of the UNHCR project “Art Stands with Refugee Women”, whose artistic posters are exhibited in the city of Basel during the exhibition ART BASEL 2019 until World Refugee Day on 20 June.
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Participating artists include Alfredo Jaar, Tania Bruguera, Bouchra Khalili, Miriam Cahn and François Burland, the refugee artists Hayv Kahraman, Allam Fakhour and Natalia Sierra Poveda (with the support of the Zurich University of the Arts) as well as photographers Emmanuel Jambo, Helena Christensen and Reza.
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The posters will be auctioned to raise funds for the Made51project, which benefits refugee entrepreneurs in the crafts and design sector. Bid here: https://bit.ly/2wFmZY8.
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Full story.
https://www.unhcr.org/dach/ch-de/aktuelles/art-stands-refugees/art-stands-with-refugees-en
REFUGEE SHELTERS & PUBLIC SPACE
WORKSHOP
leader
STORYTELLING FOR INCLUSION
speaker
"We have all heard the saying "WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU, MAKES YOU STRONGER" and Natalia's story is an illustration of perseverance in the most difficult times and keeping one's inner flame alive. Come and get inspired by her positive outlook on life."
OUR ZÜRICH
workshop
Experience the city and reconnect with it in the most creative way. We want to inspire you to craft the memories of Zurich through photography in many different formats.
Bring your camera and 3 photos of the spots you love the most to share your personal Zurich with us.
GRÜSSE AUS ZÜRICH
postcards/exhibition
The complete collection or single postcards are for sale. Contact me for details.
Natalia Sierra at Vernissage Grüsse aus Zürich - MATERIAL RAUM FÜR BÜCHER
Hosted by MATERIAL RAUM FÜR BÜCHER
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MAPPING & CONNECTING
installation/reserach
Mapping and connecting is an artistic and social project that performs aerial photography and mapping of neighbouring territories where refugee shelters and art-based spaces lie using DIY techniques with helium balloons, go-pro cameras and recycled elements.
The project started in a module of the MAS ART AND SOCIETY of the ZHdK in February 2018. The DIY technique was presented and the first mapping was done. Motivated by the personal experiences of a member of the group, who is currently an asylum seeker and lived in the refugee camps and the experiences as artists and Zurich residents of the other members of the module, the group decided to independently start the self-organised Mapping and Connecting project, which explores through artistic and social means the geographical proximity and big potential that lies between immigrants and residents co-living in Zurich. Every stage of the process involves a direct collaboration of refugees and artists living in the shared territories.
At the present time Mapping and Connecting counts with an artistic installation showing the technique and production of the maps; open discussions about urban space, refugee shelters, connecting artists and immigrants and a research online platform and audio data-base.
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Co-Directed with Corinne Soland (http://corinne-soland.ch)
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ABOUT A MARKET
multimedia exhibition
Located in the Viadukt of the Kreis 5 in Zürich, Switzerland, the MARKTHALLE IM VIADUKT is not simply a place to buy or sell local and international products, moreover a space where ideas, experiences, traditions, customs and conversations within local producers, sellers, residents, visitors, families and friends are in constant exchange.
This project is an exploration of how one can approach, experience and perceive a place through old and new technologies. With polaroid photographs, a documentary short film, 360degree videos and fictional short stories, ABOUT A MARKET is an essay on the different posibilites each media can bring to reflection on storytelling, everyday life situations and the importance of social spaces.
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Short documentary film
360d videos
(scroll right and left inside the video)
Polaroid album with captures from the market