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Polywork?

Excerpts from scores and sketches by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Georg Friedrich Haas, Adriana Hölszky, and Luciano Berio. Photograph: Betty Fleck © ZHdK Jörn Pet...

Honorary Companion?

Thomas D. Meier, what is an Honorary Companion? ZHdK wishes to publicly honour personalities associated with the University and who have rendered outstanding s...

Analog?

Marcus Pericin and Florian Bachmann, ZHdK Colour-Light Centre, staging the visible light spectrum with single LEDs and analog colour transitions. Photograph: R...

Musekes?

Impressions of Luanda's Musekes. Film stills: Bitten Stetter © ZHdK Francis Müller, what are musekes? In Kimbundu, a Bantu language, musekes are “a sandy pla...

Black Mountain College?

Jochen Kiefer, what is the Black Mountain College? Several things, actually: experimentation as experience, democracy-based communal living, an interdiscipli...

Rimini Protokoll?

Yvonne Schmidt, what is the Rimini Protokoll? Rimini Protokoll: this is the name of a German-Swiss performance collective that has been producing a rich variet...

König Hirsch?

Sabine Flaschberger, what is “König Hirsch”? Freudanalyticus and his loyal student Dr. Oedipus Komplex are the protagonists of the tragi-comical fairytale “Kön...