Passing Through. Swiss Artists in New York

Artists: Äneas Humm, Bruno Jakob, Christian Wassmann, Grégoire Maret, Laura Livers, Lina Müller & Luca Schenardi, Linda Geisser, Mark Bächle, Petra Volpe, Sabine Krayenbühl, Susanne Bartsch, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Veronika Spierenburg, Yvonne Meier

Passing Through evokes the different paces and rhythms of New York in 14 literary portraits and photographic snapshots. For some, New York has been their home for decades, while others have only immersed themselves in the city for days or months. On one day in autumn 2018, they shared their (everyday) experiences with us. Sometimes at high speed, they went through the East or West Village, along Broadway, from Harlem to Midtown, from Chelsea to the Upper West Side to Brooklyn and Queens. Out into a world in which you sometimes feel like you are in the center, even on the fringes. The rattling of the subway and the howling of sirens were followed by moments of silence and retreat. Taxi rides, rush and density met idleness and deceleration in parks and at home. Step by step and day by day, aspects of the city opened up to us, filtered through the eyes of the cultural workers gathered here. They are key players and represent ways in which New York can be seen, experienced and lived.

The author Yael Inokai has written short literary portraits of the artists.