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.
Open till seven
How can collective cooking become a space of resistance? What forms of care, sharing, and responsibility can emerge when people cook together? Which roles, dynamics, and hierarchies come to light in this process? And how might these moments create space for reflection, connection, or subtle disruptions?
These questions lie at the heart of the performance. The piece uses food as an artistic medium—not just symbolically, but as an active, collective gesture. Participants are not merely spectators, but co-creators. Art becomes a shared, transformative experience.
June 12th, 2025, HGK, Basel, CH
The performance Open till seven builds on the project Stone Soup, which placed collective cooking at the center as both artistic practice and political act. Drawing on that experience, the follow-up performance asks: What remains once the shared cooking, sharing, and negotiating are over? Is the table merely a symbol, or an actual site of negotiation?
Open till seven operates at the threshold between gesture and action, symbol and reality. It raises questions about participation, visibility, and the conditions under which people speak—or remain silent—in both art and politics. The title serves as a commentary on the bureaucratization and regulation of art by institutions such as museums and art schools, pointing to the often-exclusive structures of cultural, political, and academic institutions, while ironically advocating for their opening.
Stéphanie Binet