Dan Acher, artivist
Dan Acher
Dan Acher is an Ashoka Fellow and the founder of Happy City Lab; central to his work is art as generator of social change across local and global communities.
Dan’s large-scale installations and new ‘city rituals’ allow strangers to come together beyond what may divide them. He uses cities as playgrounds in which citizens of all backgrounds can connect and engage with the key issues of our time.
Latest news
Borealis on tour : US premiere at Boston’s MIT
Borealis continues its spellbinding tour around the globe. The installation has most recently been to Australia, the UAE and several cities in France, Belgium and the UK. Now due to premiere in the US at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s upcoming Science Festival 6-9th October 2022.
SECRETS – new city ritual
Sharing what makes us human and finding a ritual peace through fire – January premiere for the new SECRETS installation in Rennes at Les Tombées de la Nuit. Relive the experience with the video and photo gallery here.
#WEAREWATCHING In front of the Scottish Parliament ahead of COP26
Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth hosts ‘eyes of the world’ climate flag in the lead-up to COP26
We Are Watching comes to Scotland, and Scotland’s Capital City, for the first time ahead of COP26 which will take place in Glasgow next month. Flying on October 12 & 13 2021 alongside the Scottish Parliament building, the unveiling of the global flag also kicks off a programme of public events at Dynamic Earth that celebrate our amazing planet in the run up to COP26.
Tour Dates
Upcoming – 2023
#ThisIsImportant & #PointOfView (Life Upside Down)
Salon du livre de Genève, Switzerland, March 22 – 26
BOREALIS
Centennial Vineyards (Sydney), NSW, Australia, May 25 – June 30
Previous
2022
SECRETS
Tombées de la nuit, Rennes, France, Jan 2022
DES-ESPOIRS
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2022
Europe Is Burning
Bains des Pâquis, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 2022
BOREALIS
Nightfall Light Festival, Middlesbrough, UK, Dec 2022
Biennale des Imaginaires numériques, Aix-en-Provence, France, Nov 2022
Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin, Ireland, Oct 2022
MIT, Cambridge Science Festival, MA, USA, Oct 2022
Lieux Publics, Marseille, France, Sept 2022
Daylesford, Australia, July – Sept 2022
Coup de chauffe, Cognac, France, Sept 2022
Paris l’été, France, July 2022
Nuits de Fourvière, Villeurbanne / Lyon, France, July 2022
Millénaire de Caen, France, May 2022
Suwon, Korea, March – April 2022
Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia, Feb – March 2022
The Awakening, Hull, UK, March 2022
Lux Helsinki, Finland, January 2022
Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 2021 – January 2022
2021
WE ARE WATCHING
FIFDH, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2021
Greenwich & Docklands Int. Festival, London, UK, August 2021
Hounslow, UK, Sep 2021
Doncaster, UK, Oct 2021
Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, UK, Oct 2021
COP26, Glasgow, UK, Nov 2021
BOREALIS
Winter Lights, Let’s do London, UK, December 2021
Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2021
Bradford is LIT, Bradford, UK, November 2021
Mars, Mons, Belgium, October 2021
Zomer van Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2021
Greenwich & Docklands Int. Festival, London, UK, August 2021
Tombées de la nuit, Rennes, France, July 2021
Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia, Feb – March 2021
2020
BOREALIS
Silbersalz Science & Media Festival, Halle, Germany, Octobre 2020
Bega! Festival, Timisoara, Romania, Octobre 2020
Paris l’Été, Paris, France, July 2020
2019
WE ARE WATCHING
COP25, Madrid, Spain, Nov-Dec 2019
You Are Welcome In
Global 2019
Street Light Orchestra
OSR, Geneva, Nov 2019
OSR, Lausanne, Nov 2019
BOREALIS
GLOW Festival, Surfers Paradise, Australia, August 2019
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR), Geneva, Switzerland, July 2019
Perth Winter Fest, Australia, June 2019
Sydney, Australia, May 2019
Tower Of London, UK, April 2019
2018
BOREALIS
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia, February 2018
2017
#CECIESTIMPORTANT
Nuit des musées, Musée de l’Élysée, No 2017
Street Light Orchestra
Morat Light Festival, Morat, Switzerland, Jan 2017
Teenage Suicide
Children action, Geneva, Switzerland, Sep 2017
BOREALIS
Tokyo, Japan, November 2017
2016
Genome – All kinds of humans
TEDX, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 2016
Urban Rodeo
Nyon, June 2016
L’Escale
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2016
Digital Neuron
HUG, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 2016
Swiss Reflections
Euro 2016, Paris, France, July 2016
In Bed With A Book
Lausanne City Council’s Library and Archives department, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2016
BOREALIS
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, November 2016
2015
Street Light Orchestra
Fête de la musique, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2015
Nyon, Switzerland, Nov 2015
Life Upside Down
Festival Printemps Carougeois, mai 2015, Carouge
AGM, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2015
Urban Rodeo
Vision Art Festival, Crans-Montana, Aug 2015
The Lost Piano
Play Me I’m Yours, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2015
Turn Me On
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2015
2014
Turn Me On
Vernier Street Art, Geneva, Switzerland, No 2014
Touch ‘n’ Dance
Fête de la Danse, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2014
Life Upside Down
Ours magazine, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 2014
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