la_cápsula : Workshop “The Body as Territory” by RamaR collective

EN : Workshop description 

The RamaR collective invites people to work with imagination and exercise about the quality of occupation in public spaces in Zurich. The Body as Territory deals with the materiality that bodies carry from other territories and how we create spaces within the Swiss territory based on this diversity. In this immersive workshop, we will experience images in a sensory way and dream of reality through sensitivity.

The idea behind the workshop is to create a space to listen to the diverse population. Not just verbal listening, but listening expressed through artistic experience. The result of this workshop, in the form of an artistic laboratory, is a collection of conversations, sounds, and interventions in the space. The idea is to invite people to create together in a free and experimental field, recognising, above all, that the raw material of this experience is the subjectivity of the diverse people who make up the space and the importance of their voices. Initially, we will work with the resource of voice to bring a quality of presence to the space. And in a second phase, we will use various plastic materials to create an architecture in the space together. This project precedes a larger urban intervention project in the space that the RamaR collective is developing in the city of Zurich.

Das Kollektiv RamaR lädt dazu ein, sich mit Fantasie und Übungen mit der Qualität der Nutzung öffentlicher Räume in Zürich auseinanderzusetzen. „The Body as Territory“ befasst sich mit der Materialität, die Körper aus anderen Territorien mitbringen, und damit, wie wir auf der Grundlage dieser Vielfalt Räume innerhalb des Schweizer Territoriums schaffen. In diesem immersiven Workshop werden wir Bilder sinnlich erleben und durch Sensibilität von der Realität träumen.

Die Idee hinter dem Workshop ist es, einen Raum zu schaffen, um der vielfältigen Bevölkerung zuzuhören. Nicht nur verbales Zuhören, sondern Zuhören, das durch künstlerische Erfahrung zum Ausdruck kommt. Das Ergebnis dieses Workshops in Form eines künstlerischen Labors ist eine Sammlung von Gesprächen, Klängen und Interventionen im Raum. Die Idee ist, Menschen dazu einzuladen, gemeinsam in einem freien und experimentellen Feld zu gestalten, wobei vor allem anerkannt wird, dass der Rohstoff dieser Erfahrung die Subjektivität der vielfältigen Menschen ist, die den Raum ausmachen, sowie die Bedeutung ihrer Stimmen. Zunächst werden wir mit der Stimme als Mittel arbeiten, um dem Raum eine Qualität der Präsenz zu verleihen. In einer zweiten Phase werden wir verschiedene plastische Materialien einsetzen, um gemeinsam eine Architektur im Raum zu schaffen. Dieses Projekt ist der Auftakt zu einem größeren städtischen Interventionsprojekt an diesem Ort, das das Kollektiv RamaR in der Stadt Zürich entwickelt.

We are planners, artists and interventionists. We foster connections between art & nature, creating new possibilities for encounter, transformation, and belonging across diverse spaces.

Clara Khan is a contemporary visual artist, researcher, and activist specializing in art therapy, with studies in Brazil and Switzerland. Her interdisciplinary work connects art, sustainability, and socio-cultural intervention. She is currently developing Hybrid Culture, a research project exploring expression and diversity. Last year (2025) held a solo exhibition at Dynamo, presenting video art that reflects on her experience as an immigrant and flaneur in Zurich called “Hybrid Woman”. Her current practice focuses on poetry, drawing, photography, and video. The essence of their creative expression is the experience of Art, Poetry & Nature. 

Dandara Modesto is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist: singer, performer and music producer based in Zurich/Switzerland. A researcher of the body and sound, she works with memory, rhythm, displacement, reverberations, spatiality, counter-coloniality and ancestry. Throughout her career, she has collaborated on various music, dance, theater, visual arts and performance projects in Brazil and Europe. Dandara has produced, composed and directed soundtracks for films and performances, such as “Movimento III_Celebration, post tsunami foams” (Mario Lopes), “Afrotranstopia (Mario Lopes, David Muñoz, Mahal Pita), “Die Schwarzen Brüder” (Mbene Mwambene, Theater Basel). She was awarded with the Performancepreis Schweiz prize for her work “Neon Bush Girl Society”. In her latest album, “Estrangeira”, Dandara reverberates about the female body in transit, migration and the power of otherness.

Marina Herías-Sáenz is a systems thinker, strategist, and project manager with experience in impact innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance. She studied in leading technical universities in Madrid, Milan, and Munich. She leads early-stage organizations from conceptualization into action and enables scalable change. Last year, she supported  20+ startups with storytelling, matchmaking, and impact reporting. In and beyond her work, she lives with conviction, her purpose of guiding and inspiring others to recover, experience, and grow their connection to their environment, to others, and to their nature.