Worldwide vision 1 (Switzerland)

Testimony from Partizia Abderhalden, Director from EPAC (Academy of Contemporary Art, Saxon, Switzerland)

We enjoy currently, especially in the field of art a great opportunity to communicate throughout the world, to foster synergies between different cultures and facilitate more international meeting-points for students, artists and professors.

In many ways our world is developing, for instance in the field of art, landscapes, culture, way of thinking, borders, demography…and so on.

Whether we like it or not, we live in a perpetual motion. We live in the  daily iparadox that thanks to the progress incuced by ICTs, the world seems smaller, despite a bigger and uncontrolled lack of understanding toward others.

How can we find our artistic identity and meadow feel what art shall be tomorrow?
This Worldwide Interdisciplinary Art Competition about the theme “Imaginary landscapes” doesn't intend to answer these questions, but can initiat a interesting way to form an artistic community around the world between students and artistes during the time of this adventure.

The first experience takes place in the context of a Worldwide Art Competition. Giving the opportunity to create all around the world, but in the frame of Art-University’s.

Universal Archetypes as defined by famous psychiatrists Swiss Carl Jung and the anthropologist Joseph Campbell* will sustain the creations. It’s a kind of collective memory, connected in worldwide folklore and literature for thousands of years. The cultural differences also carry a potential way of unifying collective memories from which we draw our imagination, symbolic representations and our creativity.

* “The heroes with a thousand faces”