Le Commun, Genève
1205 Geneva, Geneva
Switzerland
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 1–6pm,
Saturday–Sunday 11am–6pm
Arta Sperto (= “artistic experience” in Esperanto) is a nomadic structure that curates, produces, organises, and publishes artistic projects, mainly multi-and cross-disciplinary. With no fixed location, Arta Sperto carries out its projects in available venues and in collaboration with cultural institutions. Arta Sperto seeks to support and present as effectively as possible the cross-disciplinary practice that many artists are developing as a matter of course, whereas contemporary culture is still often organised by field, whether in terms of cultural policies, institutions, funding, or the media. Arta Sperto seeks to make the boundaries between artistic fields more porous, to pique the curiosity of different audiences, and to offer hybrid artistic experiences in different types of contexts.
Arta Sperto organises two alternating biennial events: Dance First Think Later, which explores the converging fields of dance, performance, visual arts, and moving images, and KorSonoR, dedicated to the sound and visual arts. With these two events, Arta Sperto is laying the foundations for a transdisciplinary art centre, which would enable the visual, sound, and performing arts to coexist in a single centre, driven by a cross-disciplinary mindset that is very different from a departmental approach. Such a centre does not currently exist in Switzerland.