Positionings

The event takes place every first Thursday of the month during the semester from September through December and from February through June and is open to PhD students at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU), the National Institute of Design (NID), and other interested guests and PhD students from other universities.

Upcoming Event

Anga Art Collective - Living through Collective Forms: Challenges and Opportunities

Thursday, 5th of December 2024
12:00 - 13:15 (CEST / Central Europe)
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm (IST / India)

The Anga Art Collective will speak about the possibility of creating a community, reliving collective forms, building the pedagogy of empathy, making places to participate in eco-rural visions, and cultural time practices in the context of extraction, hyper-individualism, and ecological and cultural transformations. Building on their learnings from their current projects “The Know School” and “Granary”, Dharmendra Prasad and Dhrubajit Sarma, artists and co-founders of the Anga Art Collective, will give insights on how they think and work through regional and cultural specificities, exploring the possibilities of artistic responses that meditate on these specificities.

The Anga Art Collective responds to the cultural and geographic urgencies of Assam, a state in northeastern India, using interdisciplinary, community-based practices to disrupt hierarchies and engage the public. The collective is based in the Rani Reserve Forest and was initiated by a group of friends in 2010, who sought to create a space that engaged in critical thinking about visuality and materiality based on the geographical and social landscape of the region. The collective maintains a fluid structure where individual and collaborative practices go hand in hand. They believe in sharing knowledge across disciplines and collaborating with village communities, academics, and activists on different events and situations. 

Past Events