| News from the liaison office of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia in South Asia & Vietnam No images? Click here  Come Together One thing meets another, and there is art, energy, creation. In this month's issue, the Synergies open call partners institutions at the intersection of art and digital technologies. Kamayani Sharma and Geraldine Tedder join forces to create a podcast, while Hit Man Gurung presents a small ritual of coming together. In his residency in Nepal, Uriel Orlow explores human-plant entanglements, while Manasi Subramaniam's research trip explores literature's role in cultural dialogue. In Rehearsing Duality featured in our gallery this month, artists Elisa Storelli and Rohini Devasher explore alternative frames of collaboration between art and science. Explore with us all the different ways that artists have come together to share something altogether fresh and unique. And a small note to our applicants about the upcoming change in authentication on myprohelvetia starting next month. Please follow @prohelvetia_newdelhi on Instagram for the latest updates. Pro Helvetia New Delhi ANNOUNCEMENTS Open Call: Synergies  Through the Synergies open call, Pro Helvetia provides support for projects at the intersection of art and digital technologies with a focus on knowledge exchange and fostering long-term partnerships The financial support provided ranges from CHF 30’000 to CHF 100’000 to organisations in Switzerland and across the world that partner up for projects like fellowships, hackathons, workshops, digital exchanges, peer sharing, panels or similar initiatives. Projects should focus on knowledge exchange and should include artists. Watch this video to learn more about the measure. Looking for a partner organisation? Browse the Art, Science & Technology Directory. Deadline: 1 October 2025 UPCOMING Vestibular Criticism: A Podcast with Kamayani Sharma and Geraldine Tedder  Recipient of the Art Writers' Award Kamayani Sharma @art.alaap in conversation with Kunsthalle Winterthur Director Geraldine Tedder @kunsthallewinterthur This presentation explores podcasting as an emerging form of critical engagement with contemporary art, particularly within the context of decolonial art criticism. Drawing on Kamayani Sharma’s own podcasting practice, which centres on interviews and conversations as methods of knowledge production, she investigates the dynamic relationship between writing and aurality. During her residency at Villa Sträuli, her research was inspired—both conceptually and bodily—by the vestibular system, the part of the inner ear responsible for hearing, orientation, and balance. This metaphor grounds an inquiry into how we navigate art, life, and history through an interplay of the visual, aural, and textual. The project examines the transcript as a form where sound becomes text, the poetic as a form where text returns to sound, and the voice as a carrier across these transformations. This podcast presentation invites us to consider art criticism not only through the eye and the page, but as something that rolls off the tongue, swirls into the ears, and resonates through language. The recording of the conversation between Kamayani Sharma and Geraldine Tedder will be edited and made public at www.villastraeuli.ch after the production. Kamayani Sharma is the recipient of the Art Writers' Award 2024, an initiative in collaboration with TAKEonART. Small Rituals of Coming Together with Hit Man Gurung in Switzerland  Hit Man Gurung. Photo courtesy the artist. The curator's residency is a collaboration between One Gee in Fog, Mina Achermann, and Erell La Pape, and Embassy of Foreign Artists, including Richard Le Quellec. Starting in January, the artists and curators, Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari, delved into how nuanced ways of relating resist pressures of homogenisation. Throughout the latter half of their residency, Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari, together with collaborators, will present small public rituals of coming together. Wednesday 11 June, 6-9 PM Uriel Orlow on residency in Nepal  Uriel Orlow. Photo by Sabin Gywali. Uriel Orlow is a Swiss-born artist with a diasporic background who lives and works between Lisbon, London and Zurich. He is in Nepal to research high altitude human-plant entanglements, including Marsi farming in Western Nepal as well as the effects of climate change. Manasi Subramaniam on a research trip to Switzerland  Manasi Subramaniam. Photo by Tony Fiorini. Manasi Subramaniam is editor-in-chief and vice president at Penguin Random House India, where she leads the company’s literary publishing program across iconic imprints including Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Allen Lane and Penguin Classics. Her interests lie in soft power, freedom of expression and cultural diplomacy. Her research trip focuses on exploring Switzerland's literary and cultural diplomacy landscape. By engaging with authors, publishers, festivals and institutions, she aims to foster sustainable literary collaborations, particularly around translation, diversity in global publishing and literature's role in cultural dialogue. GALLERY Rehearsing Duality  Elisa Storelli and Rohini Devasher. Photo by Xenia Harder, Arts@CERN. As part of their co-creation project, artists Elisa Storelli and Rohini Devasher set up an experiment to posit / prove alternative frames of collaboration between art and science. The title takes its name from two intertwined ideas, the ‘rehearsal’ and ‘duality’ or that which is shaped by the quality of ‘two’. Building on projects centred on chronology and observation, they explore the format of a staging to frame working methodologies created by the intersections, collisions and amplification of individual thinking. For the first part of their project, Elisa and Rohini visited and presented their work at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The second stage involved working and presenting at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) in Bengaluru, with a final showcase at the Science Gallery Bengaluru. Below is a glimpse of the various stages.  The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a particle-physics detector that looks for dark matter, antimatter and missing matter.  ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that focuses on studying the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma. Specifically, ALICE aims to understand the properties of this extreme state of matter, thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang.  CERN uses a precise time distribution system to ensure accurate timing for experiments, particularly the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).  Rohini Devasher and Elisa Storelli at the Uncertainty CERN Art and Science Summit, 2025. Photo by Noemí Caraban.  Rehearsing Duality - Stage 2 - Elisa Storelli and Rohini Devasher at ICTS, April 2025. Photo by Disha Kuzhively  Elisa Storelli and Rohini Devasher deliver their lecture-performance 'Rehearsing Duality' at Science Gallery Bengaluru, 2025. Photo courtesy Science Gallery Bengaluru. Notice: Introduction of multifactor authentication for myprohelvetia From July onwards, a multifactor authentication (MFA) system will be activated on Pro Helvetia's application portal to enhance the protection of our applicants’ data. Further information will follow on the website.  Pro Helvetia New Delhi    newdelhi@prohelvetia.org |
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