Having a sense of home is having a sense of connectedness to others. This is the motto under which the art project “At Home in Wollishofen“ will open its doors on the 11th of June and will continue until the 1st of July, in the artfoyer Cavigelli. The project is realized in collaboration with the GZ Wollishofen and with the support from the Rote Fabrik, as part of the series of events celebrating Rote Fabrik's 30th anniversary. 

One of the factors that trigered the idea of the project was the public construction works that take place in many areas of Wollishofen, which changed the face of the neighborhood, brought in new inhabitants in the area (the workers), made the streets narrower and the interaction more frequent. We can think of the whole project as being under the sign of labor, in process, as a network of relationships and interactions in flux. 

The “headquarters” of the project are situated in the artfoyer Cavigelli as well as in the window of the GZ Wollishofen (Albisstrasse 25). From here, the project will expand through actions and performances that will embrace other areas of the neighborhood. The artistic interventions are all site-specific responses to the area of Wollishofen and question the way we interact with each other within a community, about public versus private space, about recognizing the others not just in their stereotypical quality of being “workers“ or “artists“ or “immigrants“. The goal of the project is to create “spaces of encounter”, where the inhabitants of Wollishofen, the passers by, the artists and the street workers can meet, interact and maybe feel “at home”.