{"title": "PAPER MIRRORS", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "art/psychedelic-art"], "description": "\"PAPER MIRRORS\" is a richly illustrated talk on the history of psychedelic art and the emergence of blotter art. The internationally active artist Kevin Barron explores how psychedelic visual worlds developed and how printed blotting paper evolved from a functional medium into an artistic form in its own right. Drawing on selected examples, he examines the cultural, social and aesthetic contexts of this distinctive art form. The talk also offers a deeper introduction to the exhibition, opening a window onto a visual universe where counterculture, contemporary history and art intersect.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/paper-mirrors-116462/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/paper-mirrors", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2014aa20f5da54a996801b393a2b97f4df0296d8050057a9a191a067b1ceab27-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Blotter Art – Kevin Barron (UK)", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/psychedelic-art"], "description": "The exhibition «Blotter Art – Kevin Barron (UK)» shows visionary Blotter Art by the British artist Kevin Barron. His works move at the intersection of psychedelic experience, inner perception and visionary art, combining organic forms, cosmic landscapes and spiritual symbolism into complex compositions. Barron is an internationally active artist in the field of Visionary Art who exhibits internationally. His images invite viewers to see perception as a constantly changing process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/blotter-art-kevin-barron-uk-97626/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa0e440f66852d0ae2750ed246d13d239f55c94f3385809b8015b35ed3f78e64-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Schattenseiten – Psychedelika und Erlösungsphantasien", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics"], "description": "A panel discussion on the dark sides of the psychedelic renaissance – how the promise of healing, insight and redemption can turn into new dependencies and power structures. It examines three areas of tension: guru figures and self-inflation, appropriation by right-wing milieus, and the connection with transhumanism and tech elites. The panel brings together political scientist Christopher Coenen, anthropologist Nicolas Langlitz and counsellor Sarah Pohl. The conversation asks what psychedelic experiences actually say about the world and who defines their meaning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/schattenseiten-psychedelika-und-erlosungsphantasien-116468/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/schattenseiten-psychedelika-erloesungsphantasien", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae6592e2087a6559c2007e20bafa9d07909aa9785ed7cda0ee360a7ec5c2ec5c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Psychedelische Kultur", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "history"], "description": "A talk introducing the origins and concerns of drug culture. Susanne Seiler, who lived through the sixties and seventies as a hippie, studied sociology and linguistics, and took part in early studies on psychedelic use, guides the evening. She traces how jazz and blues first brought people into contact with the culture in the thirties, how sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll dismantled postwar conformity, and what grew from it. In conversation with the audience she also wants to explore what this means for Generation Z.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/psychedelische-kultur-116463/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/psychedelische-kultur", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c07fa47d04680209c9fd07490fde39d08f30c08041fc53698d90c60e82dfc3f6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. Das Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei, 3. 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Stock", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics"], "description": "Listening stations invite visitors to pause and hear people speak openly, nuanced and without judgement about their personal experiences with psychoactive substances. Behind the project stands substanzielles.ch, co-initiator and co-organiser of the festival in which the stations are embedded. At four screens with two headphones each, portraits show people from addiction physicians to dealers, members of parliament to bus drivers, revealing that consumption spans all professions and social strata. Three stations are in German, one in French, and the stories can be heard throughout the whole festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/horstationen-von-substanziellesch-123018/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5bec70237c4cad7d45df704882c3ca622ddac04ee0ff377f858fd8ed8774ac1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aus sich heraustreten – Über Rausch und Ekstase", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philosophy"], "description": "«Aus sich heraustreten – Über Rausch und Ekstase» is a philosophical and cultural-studies panel discussion. On the panel are historian Helena Barop, psychiatrist and philosopher Daniel Strassberg and philosopher Susanne Schmetkamp, with Michael Herzig moderating. The discussion asks what ecstasy is, how it relates to intoxication, and why sober ecstasy is often considered less blameworthy than drug-induced ecstasy. The panel takes place as part of the festival «Substanzen jetzt».", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aus-sich-heraustreten-uber-rausch-und-ekstase-116469/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/rausch-und-ekstase", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0152c8da6a2a331ae6ca0a919d5cde5ef14c9a017db97a2cc58b36d0578a3c3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "H.R. Giger: Der Weg des Magiers (Passagen)", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition as part of the «Substanzen Jetzt.» festival shows the four-part group of works «Passagen – Tempel» by H. R. Giger from 1974–75, including the central picture «Tempel, der Weg des Magiers». The monumental pictures appear like transitional spaces between birth and death, technology and body, fear and transformation. Giger's biomechanical temples recall inner landscapes and archetypal images of the hero's journey, the passage through darkness and the confrontation with the unconscious. Created in a time of intense engagement with consciousness expansion, psychology and psychedelic experience, the works touch imagery of dissolution, rebirth, merging and boundary crossing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/hr-giger-der-weg-des-magiers-passagen-116456/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0dafd9ab502d61f4a91b47e6dcc0fafc44e7cec86b84855b166dd8b30cb3b51e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Why are we strangers to one another? A change of perspective", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gemeinschaftszentrum Wollishofen, Standort Neubühl", "address": "Erligatterweg 53, 8038 Zürich", "price": "Free of charge", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/integration", "art/participatory-art"], "description": "A panel discussion in English titled \"Why are we strangers to one another? A change of perspective\". It is organised by Satellites of Art as part of the \"Kronkorken für inter-kulturelle Kommunikation\" project. On the panel, Mark Damon Harvey, Kishor Paul of Amnesty International and Gina Balsiger of GZ Wollishofen discuss how art, dialogue and simple participatory activities can challenge established ways of thinking and promote an open, diverse and inclusive society. The panel brings together the perspectives of immigrants and professionals in the field, showing practical ways everyday encounters can move beyond tolerance towards genuine participation and inclusion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/why-are-we-strangers-to-one-another-a-change-of-perspective-97632/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1e873eb2d0d3335c23004d334c386280e544a14e5f045f253bd63e99b28e3d86-2000.webp"}]}