From: Last Tango
To: anschori@gmail.com, Date: 2024-10-18 08:01:31
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Along the Limmat in Zurich, where the waters flow, High-heels clacked on cobblestones, a droll sight to show. Shoes of all kinds, from Crocs to 10XL, A permissive place, where all can dwell. The river meanders, a steady pace, Its beauty sometimes a grotesque embrace. Distressed souls find solace in its gentle flow, A place where the bizarre and the ordinary intertwine and grow. So walk along the Limmat, and take it all in, The sights, the sounds, the stories within. For in Zurich's river, there's a tale to be told, Of the unique and the strange, in a city so bold.

Always more than one uses Sara Ahmed's book Strange Encounters. Embodied Others in Post Coloniality as a starting point. The artists developed the publication in multiples stages, reflecting upon the figure of the stranger.

Always more than one

A publication by Giuliana Beya Dridi, Cathrin Jarema, Lukas Kaufmann and Gianna Virginia Prein

Strange Encounters challenges the assumption that the stranger is someone we do not know. Ahmed argues that the stranger is socially constructed and even very familiar to us. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial theories, it explores the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community. The publication Always more than one follows a participatory format. Built upon on each other, new contributions came about through interpretation and observation.

Thanks to ZHdK Dossier Internationales, ARTist, Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gewern, Gesellschaft zu Schuhmachern