A group of Swiss authors and scientists — writer and playwright Ariana Koch, professor and new media expert Roberto Simanowski, writer Jonas Lüscher, and economist and futurologist Karin Frick — are setting off for the Russian tour together with Philosophicum Culture and Education Center in Basel. Authors will present their new books and participate in discussions, stage readings, and meetings with the readers. The tour includes Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Reutov, Tomsk, and Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk.
The programme culminates at the KRYAKK, Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, on November 1–4. The main theme of the KRYAKK is The Fourth Industrial Revolution. The launch of the Russian publication of Kraft, a novel by Jonas Lüscher, 2017 Swiss Book Prize winner is the highlight.
Challenges of digital economy and new media will be in the focus of all the tour events.
Besides, the programme features Swiss artists Kasya Klimpel and Esther Hunziker's shows at FUTURO Gallery in Nizhny Novgorod. It is to display their works dedicated to nature and human integration into its processes.
Presentation and discussion of the play.
Stage Reading & Performance. Afterwards discussion with the author.
Director: Sergej Morozov, Moderation: Elena Kovalskaja, Translator: Svjatoslav Gorodeckij.
Meyerhold Center, Nowoslobodskaja Street, 23.
About the creation of her play «Homo Digitalis» by means of the computer.
Moderation: Julia Pasko, Publisher of the Higher School of Economics (HSE).
German-Russian House Moscow, Malaja Pirogowskaja 5.
In Cooperation with Goethe-Institute Moscow.
Gallery Futuro, Rozhdestvenskaya St. 6.
«Homo Digitalis» and it's Russian Translation.
Linguistic University, Minin Street, 31a.
Stage Reading & Performance. Director: Lev Charlamov.
Museumof Literaure, Minin str., 26.
Workshop with Ariane Koch and Svjatoslav Gorodeckij: Contemporary German-language literature in Russian Translation.
Gallery Futuro, Rozhdestvenskaya St., 6.
Kasia Klimpel: «Playing with Photography».
Translator and Moderator: Svatoslav Gorodeckij.
Center for exhibition, Pobedy St. 2.
Roberto Simanowski: «Social networks and future of language. The dream about meaningless communication».
Co-working Center "Start", Ulitsa Pobedy, 7.
Karin Frick: Digital revolution of consuming.
National center of contemporary art. Pereulok Nakhanovicha 3А.
National center of contemporary art, Pereulok Nakhanovicha 3А.
Jonas Lüscher and Mattias Senkel.
Akadempark, Nikolaewa Street 11 (Floor 13).
Jonas Lüscher: Kraft. Moderation: Svjatoslav Gorodeckij (translator of the book) Translation: Anna Torgashina.
Siberian Federal University and Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University.
November, 4, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Karin Frick: «Digital revolution of consumption».
November, 4, 2:30 – 3.30 p.m.
Roberto Simanowski: «Speechless media — about the disappearance of computers from education and public life».
Karin Frick is a head of Think Tank and a Member of the Executive Board at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI). As an economist, she has been researching and analysing trends and countertrends in business, society and consumption for many years. Since graduating from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Karin Frick has held various positions in which she worked on future-related topics, innovation and change in people and markets. She was editor-in-chief of the well-known quarterly publication GDI IMPULS and managing director of the Swiss Society for Futures Studies (SwissFuture). She analysed developments in the consumer-goods and service sectors on behalf of noted companies.
Jonas Lüscher is a Swiss-German writer. He was born in Switzerland, and now lives in Munich. His bestselling novella, Frühling der Barbaren (2013, published with Haus Publishing in 2014 as Barbarian Spring) was longlisted for the German Book Prize and nominated for the Swiss Book Prize. It has been translated into 15 languages and adapted for the stage. In 2017, Lüscher published his first novel, »Kraft«, for which he won the Swiss Book Prize and the Toucan Prize.
Ariane Koch studied Fine Arts in Basel and Bern, as well as Philosophy and Theater Studies. She writes and conceives plays, performances and prose in various collaborations. Since 2009 Ariane Koch is co-editor of "Lasso", a journal for art and literature. In the season 2015/16 she was also the house author at the Lucerne Theater. Currently she is working on her novel «Aufrückung».
Kasia Klimpel works with photo, video and Internet materials. She studied photography at the Hague Academy of Art, in 2012 she graduated from a course at the Institute of Art at the Graduate School of Design and Art in Basel. She participated in many exhibitions, released the art album "Still" (2014). The Klimpel project "The Grand Tour" was presented at the Museum in Le Chable (Switzerland) and became part of the "Quickscan NL # 2" exhibition in the Dutch photo museum (Rotterdam).
Esther Hunziker is an artist, media designer and lecturer on digital media at the Art Institute in Basel. Before studying art, she learned the trade of dressmaking and studied fashion design. Afterwards, she established her own fashion brand, worked as a screen designer, experimented with analog video-editing technology and created her first interactive narrative forms in the digital network. The area of her work includes video, internet, interactive animations and picture series. Most of her work is based on deconstruction and montage, mixing fragments of the real and the illusory world.