NEXUS Collective

Transdiciplinary Art & Conscious Practices
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The NEXUS Collective (1) was founded in 2024 out of a shared desire to create and a drive to rethink social structures. We explore how collaborative creative processes can help challenge existing norms and envision and communicate new, alternative realities. We experience the dominant conception of reality as overwhelming and exploitative.

The aim of the NEXUS Collective is to provide an open platform for young creatives from diverse disciplines to connect and learn from one another. Through transdisciplinary collaboration, both on individual projects and long-term initiatives, a wide variety of projects can emerge. As a collective, we continuously learn and evolve through our exchange with each other.

This website is developing organically into a living archive and a space for sharing ideas and creative impulses. With a transdisciplinary and holistic approach, it seeks to provide diverse insights into key cultural, social, and ecological issues of our time, and to spark unexpected connections between topics, ideas, and practices.

Basel/Zurich 2024

(1) Nexus comes from Latin and means: connection, link, intertwining, to bind together, network.
Here, useful links, experiences, and documented processes are shared 
Literature
  • Beyond Molotovs, A Visual Handbook Anti-Autoritarian Strategies [PDF]
  • Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer [PDF]
  • Learning the Grammar of Animacy [PDF]
  • Menschen-Pflanzen-Netzwerke [PDF]
  • Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna L.Tsing [PDF]
  • MOLD [Website]
  • Planetary Embodiment, Cooking with Words for Systemic Shange and Solidarity [Shop]
  • Resonances I: FOOD [PDF]
  • Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis [PDF summary]
  • Staying with the Trouble - Donna Haraway [PDF]
  • Teaching Community - Bell Hooks [PDF]

Organisations & Collectives
Tools
Researchers & Artists

Food related  
  • The Greenhouse Art-Lab, ETH Zürich [Website]