FESTIVAL HASARD5

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This platform is designed for collaborators and interested parties, serving as a dynamic space for information sharing, idea exchange, and the evolution from ideation to programming, production, and communication. 

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Festival Overview

The fifth edition of Festival Hasard is scheduled to take place from May 23 to 25, 2025, at Besso 42A, Lugano. This event will be hosted in collaboration with various artists, organizations, and partners within the historic four-story venue.

Festival Hasard was conceived in response to a distinct need, starting with its inaugural event at GATE in Fribourg in mid-2020 and evolving through to its most recent fourth edition at Fri-Son in March 2023. The festival has consistently fostered strong relationships with local partners, creating a vibrant synergy that is at the heart of each edition. Although primarily an in-person event, Festival Hasard also generates live archive footage available online, preserving the unique experiences of each iteration.

Each edition of the festival builds upon the last, converging towards a shared vision.

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HASARD5 aims to create a three-day public event featuring a wide range of activities, including:

Dance, theatre, and performances
Music performances and concerts
Masterclasses
Roundtable discussions
Film screenings
Art exhibitions
Various other artistic activities
Activities designed for young audiences and families
Thematic dinners

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Additionally, HASARD5 plans to offer a week-long residency (duration to be confirmed) to a select group of artists, collaborators, practitioners, or scientists. This residency will focus on the development of specific works, with most participants invited to join only for the public event.

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Programming and Digital Presence

HASARD5 will emphasize in-house activities and will feature a live online archive, accessible through multiple live cameras, providing real-time insights into the event. The festival’s digital presence will also include interactive information about the festival and its partners, forums, and potential lodging arrangements for participating artists.

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Collaborations and Special Projects

 

Through collaboration with NFTopia, HASARD5 will produce a series of time-specific NFTs during the residency period. These NFTs will be showcased both online and in a digital gallery at Cerchio 91. 

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Cerchio 91 partnership will also include roundtable discussions, DJ sets, and a night party.

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Beacon Studios, artist Jacob Logos, and engineer Mathew Vecchio from Adelaide, Southern Australia, will produce an hologram artwork and an immersive projection structure to work as an organic artwork in relation to artists, presentations and selected immersive works. This piece will be constructed within the premises. 

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HASARD5 also intends to collaborate with The Incident to create an experience within the Festival Hasard, specific to themes of this inhouse editorial space.

Feature might include:

• a short film and discussion about and with master of light installation artist and original Incident curator James Turrell;

• collaboration with Berlin based Kosmica institute's director Nahum about a recent trip to the Roswell crash location, USA;

• installation or "learning to fly" prestation on the work of the late anthropology artist Robert A. Fischer by his daughter Jessie Fischer and in partnership with Zurich Archivettkt.

• A round table entitled "origin myth" with original participant and curator Rob La Frenais and original artist participant Kathleen Rogers;

• Performance and sessions entitled "GHost Hostings" by british artist and curator Sarah Sparkes, possible collaboration with local higher training institution or university.

• masterclass by original artist and moderator, author Jeremy Narby.  

• Collaboration with Pari Center, Tuscany Italy, to a round table discussion around issues of A.I. through the late extraordinary mind and original Incident participant David Peat by Eleanor Peat, Alex Gomes Marin, and following a presentation of the film "The Absurdity of Certainty" by Jena Axelrod. ​

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The Incident will also bridge possible presentation on work in collaboration with Euleusis Foundation's chair Marion Neumann and her work with altered states of consciousness, with a series of invited guests, scientists and researchers from Zurich and Basel. 

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HASARD5 also proposes a follow-up presentation on Dr. Alessandro Chiolerio's Intelligence in Nature and Artificial Intelligence research, and Cyrille Javary on Chinese cosmovision and focus on Edgar Morin's "complexity theory".

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Tarot iconography and artistic development program in collaboration with Boheme 2000.

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HASARD5 proposes a collaboration with Fundación Vocación Humana, Argentina, el Hilo de Ariadna, publishing house, and other major foundations in Argentina, to present a masterclass by prof. Bernardo Nante on issues and topics around the recently published Black Books by Carl G. Jung. 

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A curated selection of concerts and music performances, in unison and synch with the programming minds and extraordinary venue Jazz in Bess. 

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Young audience and family-oriented workshops, organized in partnership with Espacio Ado. 

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Performance and presentation, Fibonacci and life frequencies, at Cesare de Vita's studio.

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Accessible online thematic dinners to be held at Cantina Riva Morcote.

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Additional workshops and programming ideas will be developed in collaboration with the entire Festival Hasard community.