ArTransit / Performance - Train

The main piece of the ArTransit project are performances in the train between Milan and Zürich: in an ideal and real movement, Lombardy, Italian and German Switzerland become connected. In the Special Train TILO, Swiss and Italian artists create performances. The activities are enlarged by Carlo Emilio Gadda lectures and Enrico Filippini’s texts and by Emilio Fantin’s Ateneo Dynamico project, where a group discusses philosophical and cultural issues. Aside from the actions inside the train, some amateur theatre groups perform their short performances following the Gotthard route, while the train is passing very slowly. This part of the project was organized by the theater pedagogy of the Zurich University of Arts. Upon arrival in Zürich Hardbrücke, the alphorns play from the skycrapers and another group of performers from the three regions act in the spaces of the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK) the artransit event Labour 2.

Curators: Barbara Fässler, Heinrich Lüber, Liliana Heimberg, Domenico Lucchini
Curatorial assistants: Giovanna Manzotti, Corina Zünd
With Theater Pedagogy and Art Education (MAE) ZHdK, University of the Arts Zürich
Artists: Emilio Fantin, Julia Geröcs & Corina Zünd, Koch/Kriese, Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi: Pierre Yves Diacon, David La Banca
Lectures: Claudio Marconi, Mario Sala, Marco Solari, Xhilda Lapardhaja, Alessandra Vanzi
With: Corni delle alpi, La compagnia di Capolago, Krav Maga Ticino, Theaterfreunde Göschenen, SchülerInnen von Wassen, Blauring Altdorf, Kindertanzgruppe der Trachtengruppe “Tallüt vo Schwyz”,Trachtentanzgruppe Ägerital / Walchwil, Blauring Goldau, SchülerInnen des Gymnasiums Immensee, Schauspielerei zuwebe - Arbeit und Wohnen für Menschen mit Behinderung, I-B-A (Integrations-Brücken-Angebot) Zug, Aemtler Bühne / MuriTheater, vocativ zürich
The project ArTransit is part of the program of cultural exchange Viavai from Pro Helvetia