ARTA SPERTO

Arta Sperto is a curation, production, organization and publishing structure for artistic multi- and transdisciplinary projects, founded and directed by Olivier Kaeser. Without a fixed location, it imagines its projects in collaboration with cultural partners, or in public spaces, both urban and natural.

In 2020, Arta Sperto organized and produced the exhibition-festival Dance First Think Later – An Encounter between Dance and Visual Arts. A publication containing a rich iconography and 25 texts, in French and English, is in preparation. Entitled Dance First Think Later – The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts, it is designed as an editorial for the exhibition, with a historical, critical and theoretical perspective. It should be published by the end of 2022, and will be distributed by Les presses du réel.

In 2021, Arta Sperto initiated another project cycle: “One Context, One Work”, which consists in offering to an artist to design a work from a context that he / she chooses, and in which the work can be presented to the public. The first invited artist, Anne Rochat, responded by choosing to be immersed in a body of water. In September and early October 2021, Anne Rochat and Jean Rochat’s subaquatic performance SpO2 has been presented in the waters of Lake Geneva and in a river in Ticino.

In 2022, a second edition of Dance First Think Later is planned at Le Commun, the Pavillon ADC and the Cinémas du Grütli in Geneva, from September 15 to October 9, 2022.

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