Die Akademie Concerto21 ist ein Meisterkurs der etwas anderen Art:
Hier steht nicht das musikalische Können im Vordergrund (das setzen wir voraus), sondern alles andere, was Solisten:innen, Ensembles oder Festivalmacher innen brauchen, um erfolgreich zu sein. Unter dem Motto: „Man muss das Konzert verändern, um es zu erhalten" werden verschiedene Ansätze und Ideen reflektiert, damit Musiker:innen nicht nur für die Musik, sondern auch von der Musik leben können.
CONCERTO21
2024
Taking up an invitation by the two curators, Sandra Knecht journeyed to Pula and Labin to compose three dishes prepared by the chefs of Hotel Peteani for the 4th Industrial Art Biennial. Researching original rEcipes from Istria, especially Labin, Knecht then innovatively combined
some of the favourite produce grown and sold by local market women.
The outcome, among other things, was a dessert of deep-fried krafi, a raviolo stuffed with sheep‘s cheese, served with aniseed ice cream, plum compote and hazelnut-pumpkin-seed croquante...
Casa Wabi, Mexico. Community Project.
2023
Knecht’s installation centres on Alpine regions, and on myths and legends in particular. Transcendence plays a no less inherent role in her photographic series entitled Tschinn (2014–), in which she not only exhibits a photograph but also a mask and an outfit. For the opening, visitors were served high-proof “spirit” from a block of ice; from Gletschermilch (2022), a schnapps which Knecht distilled herself from eleven mountain herbs.
SWISS ART AWARDS
2022
The Social Happening took place twice, though in different forms, in the context of Abraham Cruzvillegas’ exhibition. It was interesting to note that only those goods destined for the waste bin were used for the Second Happening, which had been collected by the artist and assistants in “night shifts”. All other products were worked through and purchased by local producers.
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AUTORECONSTRUCTION
2018
Eating meat is always fraught with problems: impossible without killing the animal. In Boef Sous Vide, an animal is accompanied – from the pasture to the plate, nose to tail in purest form.
In this artistic intervention in particular, Sandra Knecht explores what we actually eat, what it signifies and how we could (better) treat it. The work comprises photographs, a video and a social happening performed at Zurich’s Kaufleuten Club.
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Video here
BOEUF SOUS VIDE
2018
“(...) Sandra Knecht‘s concept for the soirée, to which Koyo Kouoh and Samuel Leuenberger invited her, was to transform into dishes her interpretations of flavours – taken from the Swiss mountains to the Mediterranean in Venice. She set about preserving, pickling and cooking plants that she discovered, creating a cartography of the natural world around her.
In doing so, she “conserved“ her homeland in all its diversity in countless preserve jars.
This resulted in in both this series and a series of works for Home Is a Foreign Place.”
BIENNALE VENEDIG
2017
Taking up an invitation by the two curators, Sandra Knecht journeyed to Pula and Labin to compose three dishes prepared by the chefs of Hotel Peteani for the 4th Industrial Art Biennial. Researching original rEcipes from Istria, especially Labin, Knecht then innovatively combined
some of the favourite produce grown and sold by local market women.
The outcome, among other things, was a dessert of deep-fried krafi, a raviolo stuffed with sheep‘s cheese, served with aniseed ice cream, plum compote and hazelnut-pumpkin-seed croquante...
LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE
2023
