Translocal Performance Art Giswil
Translocal Performance Art Giswil
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Translocal Performance Art Giswil

TURBINE HALL

The hall measures approximately 86 x 11.30 m and is about 16 m high.
Floor Plan (PDF)

FESTIVALTEAM 2026

Patronage
Community of Giswil (requested)

Conception, Organisation
Benjamin Sunarjo, Antonia Röllin

Production Partner
Translocal Performance Art Giswil Association

Assistance on Site
Edith Zumstein

Catering
Myriam Ziehli, Léa Glauser

Technical Services
Orpheo Carcano

Documentation
Markus Goessi (photography), Lilli Döscher (video), Ursula Scherrer and Flinh (text)

Graphic Design | Print Media & Website
Edit – Nicole Boillat,

Drawings | Print Media
Lena Eriksson

NETWORK

PANCH — Performance Art Network CH brings together festivals, events, venues, art spaces and art academies with its link list. In this way, PANCH aims to make initiatives that are enjoyable, important, or form-giving for performance art accessible and present their diversity.

HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL

The festival was created in 1998 by Ruedi Schill and Monika Günther specifically for the site of the Turbine Hall at Giswil. The two performance artists working as a couple since 1995 organized 12 Festival editions in all:  1998–2000 and 2005–2013.

In 2014 this founding couple passed the artistic direction on to Andrea Saemann, performance artist and networker from Basel. Benjamin Sunarjo joined the curatorial team in 2022, Antonia Röllin in 2026.

The festival is among the activities of the expo Turbine association, an interest group for artists and other art lovers who have been using the turbine hall for cultural purposes since it went out of service in 1994. The association initiates and realizes exhibition projects, and facilitates cultural creation and presentation at the turbine hall in Giswil and elsewhere. Since 2024, the Translocal Performance Art Giswil association is responsible for organising the festival.