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I, DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH ART
I, DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH COMMUNITY
I, DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH ACTION
I, DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH DEBATE
I, DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH EXCHANGE
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ART
Simonetta Rossetti
2021 Participant
I try to re-discover art looking at the “objets trouvés“. Using our eyes in the way suggested by Charlotte Perriand (les yeux en éventail) we can see more and more.
EXCHANGE
SUBHASH CHANDRA NATH
2021 Participant
If we try to do something good then everything is possible, art is the main means of good and beautiful work.
ART
SUBHASH CHANDRA NATH
2021 Participant
If we try to do something good then everything is possible, art is the main means of good and beautiful work.
ART
Đinh Thị Lan Hương
2021 Participant
Awareness brings change. Art has surprising ways to amplify awareness. Being enchanted by non-human forms can be an exercise of "listening" to new ways to co-inhabit this globe. Hope to find more creative force in nature and in human connections like these to work for an ecological future.
ART
renata pelegrini
2021 Participant
Awareness brings change. Art has surprising ways to amplify awareness. Being enchanted by non-human forms can be an exercise of "listening" to new ways to co-inhabit this globe. Hope to find more creative force in nature and in human connections like these to work for an ecological future.
ART
Nathalie Jendly
2021 Participant
Celebrate Create Daily Care How I do Together With you
ART
Philip Lee
2021 Participant
To drive up awareness of the need for change we begin with small changes by me and you - from the smallest of scales that join together to become large scale and eventually global change for good.
ART
Paul Regan
2021 Participant
This is the last time for this time.
ART
Alessandra D’Aloia
2021 Participant
We need to make an effort to deeply connect with the necessities of our world and our environment. We will have to change ourselves, to open space for the new, to be less selfish and help people in need. Art is such a powerful tool to help us be more conscious.
EXCHANGE
Nicholas Serota
2021 Participant
At a time when the cohesion of society is threatened by visible inequalities in wealth, housing, health and education, the museum can provide a place in which ideas can be tested and new solutions proposed.
ART
Dorothee Elisa Baumann
2021 Participant
Unlearning modernity and progress is the (he)art of my work, research. Looking into the past to imagine a possible sustainable future. Listening carefully to all actors (not only humans, but also the biosphere such as plants and animals), giving them a voice.
EXCHANGE
Claudia Paetzold
2021 Participant
Among the keys to approaching the Resource Hungry theme is a genuine awareness of the interconnectivity of species and elements alike paired with a thorough exploration of the natural processes of growth and evolution the respect of which will necessarily lead to a responsible cohabitation."
ART
Tugba Tarim
2021 Participant
Art is a vehicle for social change.It can give voice to the politically or socially disenfranchised.Not only a painting or sculpture but a song, film or a novel can rouse emotions in those who encounter it,inspiring them to rally for change.We can build an engaged community & enliven it through art.
EXCHANGE
Matthias Böttger
2021 Participant
HOW CAN WE – HUMANS, ANIMALS, PLANTS, FUNGI, BACTERIA AND MACHINES – LIVE TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH?
ART
Beatrice O'Connell
2021 Participant
Reaching out to collaborate with others to reevaluate our place in this world and behave as if we are a part of this marvellous ecosystem. Trying to break the cycle of overconsumption of resources.
ART
Elyssa Sophia Assaf
2021 Participant
Understanding the lifecycles of materials and their systemic implications can help dissect transhistorical narratives of oppression and inequalities within a variety of planetary chains and transform object-environment relations.
ART
Trojans Collective
2021 Participant
We are designers, yet our main aim is to expand and stretch the borders of design. We protest, we work on past and present, we are political, and we believe design is not about form or function, but a way of understanding and thinking our current context, now more than ever.
ART
HIER
2021 Participant
"We reach a point where rethinking the use of resources, materials, and energy should not be a vision but rather a given. A diet for everyone in their resource hunger."
ART
Tejal Gala
2021 Participant
Art, today, is a powerful medium to call forth leaders and individuals alike to reinvent resource consumption systems. Verbier Art Summit has started a powerful dialogue centered at the intersection of several existing industries and futuristic ideas.
EXCHANGE
Manoela Hartung
2021 Participant
I believe knowledge is one of our most powerful tools nowadays. Only by exchanging knowledge and actually listening to one another we can reevaluate our actions, change and move forward!
ART
Christian Mooney
2021 Participant
"Change is coming whether we like it or not"
Greta Thunberg
ART
Angharad Elliott
2021 Participant
Education is the cornerstone to driving social change through art.
ART
Barbara Seiler
2021 Participant
Our gallery’s objective is to provide a platform and initiate a discourse, talks and new forms of exhibition to question our sociological, political and ecological models. More than ever art can initiate change.
ART
Mark Damon Harvey
2021 Participant
Art and community have to work together. Resolving identity conflicts make it possible.
ART
Tainá Moreno
2021 Participant
Ever curious about all artistic practices that are committed on dismantling oppressive structures in our post-colonial society.
ART
Gabrijela Krmpotic Kos
2021 Participant
We all have to play an active part in our community, relate with the past and the future. I don’t always know why but it's important not to forget that art doesn’t always need to serve a purpose – it is an essential part of being human.
ART
Steven Giovinco
2021 Participant
My passion for photographing arctic environmental transformations at night stems from the primordial yet terrifying beauty, and see melting ice has a global impact, representing literal and metaphorical change.
ART
Sophie Kazan
2021 Participant
Art can provoke social change by sharing silenced perspectives and redressing narratives of the past.
ART
Rana
2021 Participant
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
{American proverb}
ART
Effie Burns
2021 Participant
My work is an ongoing process of investigation, cast in glass from original specimens foraged during the pandemic. It is a small act of rebellion making tactile work that fits in the palm of your hand.
ART
Vanessa Lamounier de Assis
2021 Participant
“Why should we behave in this way? What good will it does to us? But above all, how shall we manage to act like this? How will it be possible?” Sigmund Freud
the only R that survive the equations are R=Innovation and R=Creativity, as R=I & R=C > Technology & Arts > Better Societies (Where Exchange is the best Catalyst for I and C)
ART
Marion van der Marel
2021 Participant
"Art can make people see. It is a bridge between ideas and action."
EXCHANGE
Catherine Haccius
2021 Participant
"I support also our daughter who has created an ecological cloches firm!"
EXCHANGE
Sonia Barbey
2021 Participant
“The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy after another—prayers, potions, oaths—until all of the chickens are dead."Too bad," says the priest, "I had so many other good ideas.”― Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Pover
ART
Kyra Wessels
2021 Participant
"We need exchange, debate, solidarity, art, science to help create solutions to turn the recovery from the pandemic into an actual opportunity to change the other global crisis (Climate change) and build a better future together."
EXCHANGE
Alice Surer
2021 Participant
"All social change comes from the passion of individuals." Margaret Mead
ART
Fernanda Brenner
2021 Participant
"We can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested." Fred Moten
ART
Céline Eidenbenz
2021 Participant
"SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC." Francis Alÿs
ART
Nikolaos Apostolides
2021 Participant
"The role of artists in society must be amplified to help save our planet for future generations."
EXCHANGE
Phoebe Cummings
2021 Participant
"Now is a time to reset, to be aware of the scale of even our smallest actions; individually and collectively."
EXCHANGE
Jane Beebe
2021 Participant
I send a quote I like very much from Salmon Nation new letter, December 2020: "Together, we can build the society we want, and change our relationship to Nature. In the words of Wa’xaid, “It is magic because it can make room for everyone who wants to come on board, to come in and paddle together."
ART
Alexa Jeanne Kusber
2021 Participant
As a curator, I must continue to adapt and learn how to support artists by giving them a voice to contribute and strengthen current ecological discourse.
ART
Sharon Castellanos
2021 Participant
"Demystify to make short the distance between the human and the idea of nature."
ART
Sonja Glavas
2021 Participant
"Awareness of the planetary agencies that affect our very existence is a humbling experience and the central lesson that climate change is teaching us." Jeremy Rifkin, The Green New Deal.
ART
Hans Peterson
2021 Participant
"Contemporary community-building needs new solutions with demands for great care for the environment. Our vision is to add artistic competence to these projects, in collaboration with several other competencies. Complex problems require a wide range of skills."
ART
Mats Olofgörs
2021 Participant
"Contemporary community-building needs new solutions with demands for great care for the environment. Our vision is to add artistic competence to these projects, in collaboration with several other competencies. Complex problems require a wide range of skills."
ART
Valeria Facchin
2021 Participant
"Nourishing the People comes as a direct effect of Nurturing the Planet."
ART
Tony Karman
2021 Participant
"We must face the many challenges confronting us together and commit to listening, engaging and acting on these issues with whatever resources we have at our disposal."
ART
Bracken Darrell
2021 Participant
"There are two underlying roles every organization and person should consider adopting: saving and then protecting the planet; and unlocking the power of every individual on earth (including eliminating all the social injustices and barriers to equality for all people). Resource hungry addresses the first. The second is at least as important."
EXCHANGE
Nico Dockx
2021 Participant
"I am thinking of a small postcard of Marcel Broodthaers in my personal archives, a card that he mailed out to Irène Hamoir in 1953 from the Swiss Alps, mentioning the following quote: "D'après nature, M.Broodthaers". I am very curious about this notion of 'd'après', this double meaning of 'after' as well as 'in relation to'".
HUSSEIN HASSANI
2021 Participant
"Every individual matters, The nature calls upon our joint effort to preserve it. The life of future generations depends on the actions we take now. Live in a sustainable way."
Sue Goldschmidt
2021 Participant
"You are not required to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but neither are you free not to take it up."
The Talmud
Kersti Urvois
2021 Participant
"Secondary effects of all the artist actions."
Luc Meier
2021 Participant
"The ever more intertwined notions of nature, the environment, and of technology are at the core of contemporary preoccupations and of growing urgency. These themes feed into all disciplines of the arts – and artists are among those best equipped to map out alternative relationships to both technology and nature."
Sylvain Levy
2021 Participant
"It is interesting for me to follow and exchange on this subject and try to better understand how practically art can support this important issue."
Angela McFall
2021 Participant
‘Like the vanishing city, the body remains as the only concrete proof of existence. Yet, scattered and fragmented under the weight of technology, body and city can’t be recovered by means other than those that displace them: they must be recorded or registered anew.' Olalquiaga
John Slyce
2021 Participant
Unser Kopf ist rund, damit das Denken die Richtung wechselen kann. ––Francis Picabia
The earth is round–let's change ourselves and it.
Sibylle Feucht
2021 Participant
Only a permanent and global exchange of knowledge, ideas, concepts and dreams will enable us to cope with current and future problems and conflicts.
Johannes M. Hedinger
2021 Participant
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew". (borrowed from Marshall McLuhan)
Caitlin Southwick
2021 Participant
Culture has a unique role to play in the societal paradigm shift needed for a sustainable future. By connecting people to justice and climate issues on a personal level and creating empathy and understanding, we have the power to drive real change.