The Witness — Partners

SUPPORT & PARTNERS

The Witness is a collaborative practice and a co-creative assemblage that steers clear of cultural consumption, the art market and the entertainment industry. The Witness team is careful not to feed the ogre, not to participate in cultural neo-extractivism, and to evolve consciously. Meet here the accomplices and allies we enjoy worlding with.

THE WITNESS SUPPORTERS

FHNW / Music and Scene in Transformation (MuST), Basel (Edition 2023)
ZHdK-Department MA Transdisciplinary Studies, Zurich (Edition 2023)
Burgergemeinde Bern (Editions 2023)
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (Editions 2021, 2022, 2023)
Stadt Zürich Kultur (Editions 2020, 2021, 2022)
Fachstelle Kultur, Kanton Zürich (Editions 2020, 2021, 2022)

THE WITNESS OPENLAB AND EVENT CO-PRODUCERS AND PARTNERS

2024 - Harkat Studios, Mumbai (IN)
2023 - Museum Tinguely & Basel Academy of Music FHNW - Music and Scene in Transformation, Basel (CH)
2023 - Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Department MA Transdisciplinary Studies, Zurich (CH)
2023 - Carnegie Hall, New York (USA)
2022 - Museum Rietberg, Zurich (CH)
2022 - India Music Experience, Bangalore (IN)
2022 - Centre Culturel Les Changeurs, Agbodrafo (TO)
2022 - Canda region and the Cities of Inhambane and Xai Xai (MOZ)
2021 - Gessnerallee & Sonic Matter Festival, Zurich (CH)
2021 - Llanchama Cocha Soundscape Collection, Llanchama Cocha (ECU)
2020 - THEATRUM: Re-Formation, Moscow (RU)
2019 - Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology & National School of Drama, Bangalore (IN)
2018 - Arthaus.Berlin International Training and Research Center, Berlin (DE)

FIELD PROJECT PARTNERS AND CATALYSTS

A large number of cultural centers, foundations, embassies and non-governmental organizations directly support the projects and teams which contribute to The Witness. Click on the title of each project to access the list of local partners:

Investigating the impact of mining in Bolivia, Bolivia
Understanding the traditional songs of China’s Lisu people, China
Amplifying female voices for environmental consciousness in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Building a community of witnesses, East Coast USA
Exploring a disappearing Swiss language, Eastern Switzerland
Listening to the Ecuador's rainforest, Ecuador
Understanding the impact of displacement on South Sudanese refugees, Kenya
Singing the dreams, fears, and voices of the Bornean forest, Malaysia
Honoring traditional Polynesian knowledge, experience and spirit, Marquesas Islands
Witnessing climate stories of girls from the Sahara’s north gate, Morocco
Documenting the Chopi people's connection to nature, Mozambique
Weaving together the voices of Brazil's forest, North Brazil
Spotlighting folk dancing in Rajasthan, North India
Empowering peripheral Brazilian Afro-Indigenous communities, Northeast Brazil
Documenting the folk wisdom of Manipur, Northeast India
Worlding through socially engaged art practice in Basel, Northern Switzerland
Excavating the historic sounds of Johannesburg, South Africa
Moving more lightly on Bangalore's land, South India
Encouraging dialogue between generations and continents, Togo
Protecting the endangered music of Uganda’s Batwa tribe, Uganda

SPECIAL THANKS