Vienna born Daniela Swarowsky is since 1990 working both in the visual arts as well as in the experimental music field. After seven fruitful years as producer, organizer and curator in New York City, she moved in 2000 to Rotterdam/Holland to persue solely her own artistic- and curatorial practice: (selection) art projects like "Dreamgarden_Internal Landscapes" during Rotterdam Cultural Capital 2001, "Vacation_Destination>Home", “Zwaanshals in Motion” a 3-year's community art project follow. She is since 2003 artistic director of Foundation Zenith in Motion / ZiM.Her first documentary film Messages from Paradise#1 Egypt_Austria, a collaboration with Egypt expert Samuli Schielke, is a consequent continuation of her previous projects. From Dream Garden, through the range of migration-related projects, to her current Messages from Paradise trilogy, Swarowksy’s artistic and curatorial work testifies a long-term engagement with questions of migration, identity, and the idea of home.
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