art now
exploring the interplay of art, design and science toward life-centric cultures
As environmental crises unfold faster than existing systems can adequately respond, creative practice becomes increasingly vital in opening spaces for new forms of sense-making and alternative ways of living on a planet we share with other forms of life.
Space of translation
art now is a transdisciplinary research lab rooted in artistic practice, addressing today’s planetary challenges through creative inquiry. We cultivate critical reflection and active engagement with shaping post-anthropocentric cultures. Based in Zurich, with Berlin and New York as central anchors, art now works through global networks of artists, researchers, cultural practitioners and multipliers.
We draw on the multisensory and dialogic qualities of art as a form of experiential and cognitive exploration. Through its distinct ways of knowing, we engage forms of understanding that reach beyond purely instrumental or disciplinary frameworks.
Art is approached as a systemic translator and integrator, able to bridge disciplines, create shared meaning, and make relational dynamics perceivable across human and other-than-human scales.
From perception to transformation
Considering art not only as a way of representing the world from a distance, but also as a space for direct meaning-making, we work through sensing, testing, and imagining while experiencing complexity without reducing it. Such settings can reorient how circumstances are perceived and understood, creating forms of knowledge that are situated, experiential, and connected to lived relations.
In doing so, art supports reflection, as well as can generate orientation, motivation, and the capacity to act. Taking this further, our work brings attention to what often remains unnoticed, allowing artistic practice to widen perception, open new perspectives, and deepen a more systemic understanding of the living world we inhabit.
