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.
The participatory format Satisfy my Hunger invited participants to an intimate exploration of the sensual potential of food. The boundaries of familiar eating rituals were transcended, and participants were invited to playfully explore their senses, either freely or with prompts.
How does my perception change when I eat blindfolded? Can a scent ignite desire? How does my body awareness change when textures feel unexpected? Can intimacy and trust be built through mutual feeding?
We sincerely thank @filmkunstfestival for the wonderful collaboration and the important message you make! Special thanks to Olga and Anaju!
As well as Josepha and Manu for your help <3
Stéphanie Binet, Mira Mercan, Lara Odermatt, Fabienne Schoch, Nina Šikić