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.
Not a Manifesto
The NEXUS Collective...
...is organized by and for communities that enable its existence.
...is committed to an intersectional engagement with worldly and transcendent circumstances.
...knows that art is political and can be uncomfortable.
...works with the willingness to reveal its own insecurities.
...understands art as a bodily practice.
...exists in the process between the "Past" and the "Yet to Come."
...shares its processes, tools, habits, patterns, and memories, circulating them with the awareness that these do not always need to be understood.
...knows that network-based work is, in fact, a parasitic, promiscuous, and sometimes uncomfortable practice.
...can dynamically change depending on available resources.
This is not a manifesto. It is a living document, constantly expanded by the voices and experiences of all involved.