Project Week: Collective Earth Archive

The Remote Collaborative LAB is a seven-day dialogical residency connecting Palestinian artists in Jericho with Swiss students working simultaneously on farmland in Switzerland. Through daily exchanges and parallel, site-specific practices, participants collaborate digitally to create artistic works that explore questions of land, agriculture, water, access, and colonialism. What cultural, political, and ecological dimensions — and challenges — do these two distinct contexts bring?
In a time when access is restricted and physical encounters are rendered impossible by the ongoing war and genocide against Palestinians, the LAB asks: what new forms of connection and creation can emerge through a hybrid format?
This initiative lays the groundwork for meaningful long-distance collaboration, testing methods of remote exchange while making the act of “working together apart” both a subject of reflection and an artistic experiment in itself.
A subsequent LAB, planned for the (hopefully) near future, aims to bring students physically to Jericho for direct exchange and collective practice when conditions allow.
Each group roots its practice locally — working with the land, sharing meals, and experimenting with natural materials. These situated experiences are then shared digitally, transforming local processes into interconnected artistic expressions.