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Artist

Habib Afsar | Studio residency 2021

Interdisciplinary

April - October 2021 — Interdisciplinary

Habib Afsar is a Pakistani-Swiss artist and social animator‚ with an international background in health and development. His interests are therefore broad and cover areas like cultural exchange‚  public spaces and community art‚ peace building‚ community development and arts-based research. His work is resource oriented‚ i.e. it is geared towards facilitating people to identify and utilise their internal and external resources. Currently he runs the Center for Arts-based Methodologies which focus on the use of the artistic processes towards holistic wellbeing. His artistic vision and mission is “to create safe spaces where beauty is celebrated”- and beauty is not always beautiful!

Read more about Habib’s project here.

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