#zürich graffiti

[drsilasaslan]

Urban Wall of Art and Decay An urban wall covered in vibrant graffiti and stickers, showcasing a blend of creativity and decay. The textures of the wall and colors of the art create a striking visual impact.

[tombizombi]

Hood hängerei

[fano6ymg1]

[barbarapicci]

#Streetart by #FabianBaneFlorin @fabian_bane_florin in #Zürich, Switzerland, for #ZurichAirport @zurichairport @ainiac_official More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2023/02/07/streetart-fabian-bane-florin-zurich-switzerland/ #streetartZurich #streetartSwitzerland #Switzerlandstreetart #underwater #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXXXe0oijR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paliwalls]

من فلسطين إلى الفلبين، حطموا آلة الحرب الأميركية

زيورخ، سويسرا

"From Palestine to the Philippines, Smash the US war Machine"

Seen in Zürich, Switzerland

[hengheng7]

Ein Graffiti beim Ausgang von einer Unterführung in Zürich

[rewollte]

Platz für beidi

[mariophotographies]

Zürich by Mario. H. ”Graffitis”

[vro0ms-evil-twin]

how's switzerland in regards to trans people and/or poc? asking for a friend

Switzerland is a traditional right wing country, with a rising far right ideology especially in the youth like everywhere else. Our majority party is a right wing party. They are super duper fucking anti immigration racists. It's extremely hard to emigrate here, extremely hard to find a job when you're not Swiss, and extremely hard to become Swiss. The easiest way is by far to marry a Swiss.

Something you have to understand about European racism though is that it's less about your skin color (although yes very much about your skin color) and more about being an immigrant in the first place, where you come from, and especially how much money you have. A black American with an american passport will get by better at least on the institutional level than a black person from any African country. Islamophobia is widespread and rampant, and your supermarket cashier isn't allowed to wear her headscarf at work but we are oh so happy about Saudi princes living in our hotels, hiding their money in our banks, and buying our watches. Poor white eastern Europeans are treated worse here than rich POCs.

Now how life is for POCs and queer people also depends immensely on where you live, granted that there's a level of racism and queerphobia everywhere anyway. Urban areas are way way chiller than rural areas, obviously. (Once my train had an issue and I had to change trains in a small town's station about 30 minutes away from the capital. I went down the stairs to change platforms and the entire length of the underground tunnel I had to walk through was painted with a gigantic DEATH TO LGBT graffiti). The Swiss Germans are by far more right wing than the French speaking Swiss and Italian speaking Swiss although the Ticinesi are also very anti immigration, because it's the poorer area of Switzerland and they get a lot of Italians immigrants. But of course you'll still get by easier in Swiss german second most expensive city in the world Zürich than in Sion, despite Sion being the French speaking largest city of the mountainous canton of Valais.

There are discrimination laws in place but they are barely enforced. You can change your gender but there's no nonbinary option. POCs get killed by the police here as well (justice for Mike, Lamin, Nzoy, Hervé, we don't forget). A large proportion of the population is still opposed to same sex adoption although it is legal. I just read this morning that a law we voted on in 2021 and that makes it illegal to hide your face in public and was purposefully created against muslim women wearing the burqa will start being enforced next year. Surrogacy is illegal so if no one in your relationship has a uterus you can't have biological children. Every time they ask the population about their acceptance of queer people the numbers go down, especially in young people. We vote on making it even harder to emigrate it about once every two years and the results are always very very close. The president of the majority right wing party called urban leftists "parasites" during his national day speech. The other day, one of our seven ministers publically declared that he was more in favour of Trump than Harris. Only half of the population got entirely vaccinated against covid. 40% never even got the first dose.

What I mean is, things might be marginally better here or there, but there's nowhere that's great right now. We all have to fight to make where we are better.

[jordanandegypt]

Zürich, Switzerland

Tuesday, Sept 10, 2024

Greetings All.  We are in Zurich trying to change our body clocks by 6 hours.  Easier said than done.  We flew yesterday from Detroit to Amsterdam and the idea is to sleep the night away as we transverse the Atlantic - but both Mark and I got maybe 2 - 2.5 hours of sleep during our 7 hour flight.  We left Detroit at 6:30 PM and arrived 7 hours later in Amsterdam at 8:30 AM their time. - but at 1:30 AM our time.  We had a short layover (1 hr and 25 minutes) but in Amsterdam this is JUST enough time to get to your next flight - so we got to the gate and boarded.  The flight from Amsterdam to Zürich is only an hour and while I may have slept on that flight it was not more than 20 minutes.

We got a pretty pricey cab from the airport to our hotel - but we could not face figuring out public transportation as tired as we were.  Sadly - our hotel room was not ready.  We opted for a leisurely lunch in which Mark had cold spicy melon soup and I have garam marsala butter chicken - both delicious - but really all we wanted was a bed to stretch out on.  (Don’t worry I will not tell you everything we eat!!) After lunch we got the news that our room still wasn’t ready and I did something I have NEVER done - feel asleep in a chair in the lobby of the hotel.  But by 3:30 we were in our hotel and we opted for naps - until 5:00.  Hopefully bedtime will come easily...

Enough about us…. Let’s get to our adventure...

The theme for this trip is “OLD STUFF.”  We will start with "real old" and work our way to "OMG WAY WAY OLD."  We, in the US, get so excited when we see a structure from the late 1600s  or early 1700s - but that is a joke in this part of the world - kinda a “baby building.”  

So let’s start with Zürich Switzerland - our current “home."

From what we have seen, Zürich is a beautiful city surrounded by the foothills of the Alps mountains located at the northern end of Lake Zürich and built on Limmat River (pronounced “Limit” that flows from Lake Zürich.  This city has a history going back centuries. 

The town was founded by the Romans a bit over 2,000 years ago. Recent excavations show evidence of settlement even before that -  over 6,400 years ago. 

We explored the old city from about 5:30 to 9:00 - or 17:30 to 21:00 - as any citizen of the world would say - with a a few exceptions - like us.

Surprises:  There are no “walk/don’t walk” signs - pedestrians just have the right of way - PERIOD!

There is graffiti everywhere - I was shocked!

EVERYONE smokes!  Or it seems that way.  DISGUSTING!

I went to buy our 24 hour pass for public transportation and was told to just keep in with us.  If asked we would have to show it - but there is no check in - check out system.  Trust, my friends.

Things we expected:  Public transportation options would be numerous and easy to use and very clean.

People would be helpful and kind

Things would be EXPENSIVE.

We took the tram to old town and at one point saw this:

While we were listening to  this:  

Kind of eye and ear candy.

I think I forgot to say what the Swiss flag looked like - so here you go…

We ate dinner at an outdoor cafe - late - (when in Rome, so they say) and it was outstanding.  Mark had cold roast beef with horseradish sauce and I had “Rösti” with smoked salmon, onions, capers and a dill sauce.  OMG!!!

Rösti is shredded potatoes fried in butter and made into a mound.  You can get lots of different kinds of “Rösti’ and I highly recommend it.  Split with someone  - it is huge.  (It will be breakfast for us tomorrow.)

Tomorrow - we will explore more than the transportation system.  I’m going to bed. It is 22:00 here and I'm hoping to wake up for the first - and maybe only - presidential debate - which would be 3:00 AM here. If I do - I'll watch it live. If I don't - I will be more rested when I watch it later Either way - we are in Zürich rooting for Kamala!!

CIAO!  (Yes - they say that here too)

[disasterhimbo]

[ID: a gif of a black bloc of anarchists in Zürich, Switzerland calmly barricading the road with a burning trash container and graffitiing a building with the words "fuck the law" during a riot celebrating ACAB day on 13-12, 2014. End ID.]

December 13 2014 - Anarchists celebrate 13.12 in Zürich, Switzerland [video]

[amberblog0528]

Street Art (Nominate 1)

When I was searching about street art in zurich, I could search the latest works of art in Zurich on the website street Art cities. Two of them that caught my attention were graffiti on the ground. Like the graffiti on the manhole cover, it adds some interest to the ground, so that when people walk in Zurich, don't forget to look down at the art beneath their feet.

This graffiti on the ground shows a colorful picture with bright colors and creative designs. It not only brings visual pleasure to passers-by, but also conveys the inclusiveness of urban art. The specific meaning of the patterns in the graffiti may vary from person to person, but it can be seen that the artist expresses his observation and creativity of city life through bright colors and abstract compositions, and perhaps it is also an interpretation of Zurich's unique culture.

Graffiti on the ground is a special form of street art that is often not visible, but can add temperature to a city in small ways. They are usually brief and impromptu, and can be washed away by wind and rain or smoothed by footsteps. However, it is this instantaneous and uncertain nature that makes graffiti on the ground unique in the city. Each piece of ground graffiti is created by the artist in a specific time and place, reflecting the instant sense of urban life while also being a clever use of urban space.

Unlike official attractions that are widely advertised, this type of street art is not recommended in guidebooks or even on city maps. It is this low-key existence that makes graffiti on the ground a special tourist experience. They are not surrounded by crowds, do not require tickets or guided Tours, and are the product of spontaneity and chance.

Walking around Zurich, every time I looked down, I seemed to find a little unexpected surprise - like these graffiti on the ground, as if the city was having a secret communication with me. Imagine how many people like me have stepped on these patterns inadvertently, perhaps without noticing them at all, but once they noticed them, they were like small flowers blooming quietly in the street, instantly lighting up my journey. Perhaps the joy of traveling lies in these serendipity discoveries, seemingly unintentional graffiti that remind me that every city has a lot of unrecorded stories just waiting to be uncovered. I think that in my future journey, I will continue to search for these forgotten urban secrets and feel every step under my feet with a new perspective, because who knows what inspiration the next graffiti on the ground will bring me?

References

Street Art Cities. (2015). Street Art in Zürich - Street Art Cities. Streetartcities.com. https://streetartcities.com/cities/zurich

[tombizombi]

[fano6ymg1]

✨LUX✨

[barbarapicci]

#Streetart by #FabianBaneFlorin @fabian_bane_florin in #Zürich, Switzerland, for #ZurichAirport @zurichairport @ainiac_official More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2023/02/07/streetart-fabian-bane-florin-zurich-switzerland/ #streetartZurich #streetartSwitzerland #Switzerlandstreetart #underwater #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXXLWdoY4H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paliwalls]

فلسطين حرة من النهر إلى البحر ستتحرر فلسطين زيوريخ، سويسرا

Free Palestine mural seen in Zürich, Switzerland