Through interdisciplinary collaboration among people who work together both on a project basis and in the long term, a variety of projects are expected to emerge. As a collective, we continuously learn and grow through our exchange with one another.
The goal of the NEXUS Collective is to serve as a platform for young, creative individuals to connect and learn from one another. We promote the exchange and collaboration of people from different disciplines to develop joint projects.
This website is organically evolving into a living archive and a space for exchanging ideas and creative impulses. With a transdisciplinary and holistic approach, it aims to provide diverse insights into central cultural, social, and ecological issues of our time and to stimulate unexpected connections between themes, ideas, and practices.
(1) Nexus comes from Latin and means: connection, link, intertwining, to bind together, network.
Basel/Zurich 2024
Week
At the end of October 2024, the first residency and research week of the NEXUS Collective took place. For the olive harvest, we traveled together with eleven other people to the area near Maruggio (Italy). In the inspiring southern Italian surroundings, under the gentle light of the late autumn sun and amidst ancient olive trees, we dedicated ourselves intensively to the question of who we want to be as a collective and how we want to work together. For one week, we gathered our insights, formulated a shared concept, and developed initial ideas for future projects.
The time of the olive harvest created a special, familial atmosphere in which our ideas could grow organically. Through immediate, hands-on collaboration, we found an abundance of new inspirations. It became increasingly clear to us that the most valuable ideas do not arise at a desk, but in real encounters and through working together. Not only the olive harvest, but also the shared cooking and the lively exchange of recipes enriched our week and created a space for creative dialogue and cultural exchange.
Even before our collective week, it was clear that we wanted to explore the theme of food and its artistic, resistant potential. During our time in Brogo Surìi, it became apparent that the entire process – from food production to preparation and enjoyment – holds the potential to give rise to alternative and communal practices.
- Stéph Binet, Mira Mercan, Nina Šikić, Fabienne Schoch