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ACTIVITIES

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the institute for performance and film expanded

The Institute for Performance and Film Expanded is not based in a specific space.
It is situated: our experiences and explorations affect our thinking and inform our activities. The forms of research are diverse and of varying scales: symposia and working groups, performances and screenings, small exhibitions, curated talks, expanded walks, performative readings, writing workshops, on-site and online lectures.

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11.08.26 REACHING OUT TO ISA HESSE-RABINOVITCH

Panel — Round table and film screenings at the Locarno Film Festival organised by the Cinémathèque suisse

29.05.26 LABORATORY — FLUID ECOLOGIES: HYDROFEMINISM, BODY, PERFORMANCE

Underwater performance by Justyna Niżnik and lectures by Dorota Sajewska and Fabienne Liptay

29.04.26 CARING ACROSS SPECIES: EXPANDED CINEMA AT THE ZURICH VOLIERE WITH L’ÎLE AUX OISEAUX

Expanded Cinema Experience, an event by Filmexplorer with students of the University of Zurich

31.01.26 BEYOND GOVERNANCE: TERRAFORMINGS AND OTHER ARTS OF COHABITING AND CARE

Call for participation in online seminar

08.10.25 DOROTA SAJEWSKA TAKES OVER THE PROF. MARIA JANION NAMED CHAIR OF HONOUR

Press release, UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK

29.08.2025 KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH APPOINTS HENDRIK FOLKERTS AS CHIEF CURATOR OF PROGRAMME

Press release, KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH

13–14.06.25 THE BALCONY MOVIE: SPECIAL EXPANDED CINEMA EVENT

FILMEXPLORER in cooperation BILDRAUSCH FILMFEST Basel

01.03.25 ECO-OPERATIONS: BOOK LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION OPENING

With an exhibition and a sound performance by Alexandra Gelis

14–16.05.24 PERFORMING WASTE: WRITING WORKSHOP IN TWO PARTS

A research project by Dorota Sajewska and Małgorzata Sugiera

09–12.07.26
MOCKINGBIRDS

Exhibition curated by María Inés Plaza Lazo and Kim-Camille Kreuz, Arts of the Working Class

22.05.26-03.01.27 TAPETENWECHSEL:
MIGRATION UND MOBILIAR SEIT 1960

Exhibition curated by Burcu Dogramaci and Manuel Gogos

17.04–17.05.26 SWETLANA ALEXIJEWITSCH:
TSCHORNOBYL

Exhibition curated by Philine Bickhardt
in collaboration with Sylvia Sasse as scientific advisor, STRAUHOF ZURICH

31.01.26 HIV/AIDS VISUALITIES

Call for papers for the 46th issue of Widok. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture

29–30.09.25 SWISS PREMIERE OF RUSH(ES), KUNSTHAUS ZUERICH

Solo performance by Alexandra Bachzetsis

25-28.08.25 BOGIAISSO: CINEMA D’ARTE ALL’APERTO QUARTA EDIZIONE

Curated by Niccolò Moronato and Alice Crippa with the Chioggia fishing community

11–12.06.25 RUSH(ES): NEW SOLO PERFORMANCE BY ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS

With a concept and dramaturgy by Dorota Sajewska

13.12.24 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: (DE)COLONIAL ENERGIES

A film screening with an introduction by Fabienne Liptay and Dorota Sajewska

09–10.07.26 CRITICAL FABULATIONS OF DOCUMENTA

Symposium organized by Liliana Gómez and Luisa Standop, documenta Institut

17–31.05.26 FESTIVAL LIPS #3 — SOUFFLE BY LABgamerz

Performances, installations, screenings, concerts and a walking tour

15.04.26 TO BE PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE

Expanded Cinema Experience, visual research project by Maia Gusberti with students of the University of Zurich

15.11.25–22.02.26 THE HUNTING CYCLE (OR NATURE MORTE), KUNSTHAUS ZOFINGEN

Series of installations by Ruth Baettig in the group exhibition KOSMOS[KA·OS]

20.09.25 SIX MOVEMENTS IN A DISOBEDIENT GARDEN, KUNST MERAN

A performance and film by Alexandra Gelis

21.06.25 ART CRITIQUE AS MIDWIFERY OF A SHIFTING IN CONSCIOUSNESS

A symposium curated by María Inés Plaza Lazo, Arts of the Working Class

04–25.05.25 FESTIVAL LIPS #2 — HYDRA BY LABgamerz

A festival dedicated to emerging, interdisciplinary and hybrid artistic practices

24–26.10.24 TRANSFORMING ANTHROPO(S)CENE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

With talks by scholars and artists at the Ruhr University Bochum

explore the collaborative series of the institute for performance and film expanded

ENCHANTING ARCHITECTURE EXPANDING FILM

A series curated by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Fabienne Liptay

STUDIO_WORK

A collaboration between Alexandra Bachzetsis and Dorota Sajewska

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