*Concerts & Listening sessions* | Saadet Türkoz & Khabat Abas <live> | Marina Mello <Live> | LEGION SEVEN <live> | T.imé <live> | Nina Emge <dj-set> | i-vye <dj-set> | Tia Tilapia <dj-set> |
2026-07-11 21:00 - 2026-07-12 06:00 UTC | Shedhalle – Rote Fabrik, Seestrasse 395, Zürich, Zürich, 8038, Switzerland

Concerts and Party @Clubraum = | Aunty Rayzor <Live> | Lateena <live> | NSASI <live> | Rizan Said<live> | Dragshows: RAY BELLE + KIRA + Tia Tilapia | MÂNAA <dj-set> | ESSENGO<dJ-set> |
2026-07-11 21:00 - 2026-07-12 06:00 | Clubraum(Rote Fabrik), Seestrasse 395,, Zürich, 8038, Switzerland

Reading= I Will Always Be Looking For You < with co-authors Yasmine Rifaii and Dayna Ash >
2026-07-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Paranoia City, Ankerstrasse 12,, Zürich, Zürich, CH 8004, Switzerland
Registration is required via email : paranoiacity@paranoiacity.ch

Anmeldung per E-Mail is erforderlich: paranoiacity@paranoiacity.ch

I Will Always Be Looking For You – A Queer Anthology on Arab Art gathers the works of 31 artists from 13 Arabic-speaking countries, with literary contributions by 24 commissioned writers from across the region and its diaspora.

The writing spans a wide range of genres—poetry, essays, fiction, experimental text—each in direct dialogue with the visual artwork it accompanies.

Together, the works document and expand the definition of queerness in the Arab world—not as a fixed identity, but as a generative force, a method, a rupture, and a refusal. It represents the first intentional gathering of intergenerational artistic voices in one volume, forming an archive of art that is both intimate and collective.

This will be the first print edition of the anthology.

Commissioned by celebrated Lebanese feminist collective Haven for Artists

Moderatation by Nada Atieg

Curated by tina omayemi reden <FuBu Collective>

Cabaret @Cabaret Voltaire : Zarina Tadjibaeva / Naya de souza / Ethan Luis Dagatan / tracy september / Anouchka Gwen / Standford Chen / dispel
2026-07-09 18:30 - 23:00 | Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, Zürich, Zürich, 8001, Switzerland

Shortfilms: Padayon film from bahaghari/REMEMBER, BROKEN CRAYONS COLOUR TOO / EVERYDAY BLACKNESS
2026-07-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Kino Xenix, Kanzleistrasse 52, Zürich, Zürich, 8004
Three short films tracing memory, displacement, revolt and survival through intimate cinematic gestures. From family archives and migration histories to bodily resistance, the program brings together works that move between personal testimony and collective realities. Through photography, performance and documentary language, the films open spaces for reflection on visibility, belonging and resilience across different geographies and political contexts.EVERYDAY BLACKNESSAkwasi Glenn Asumadu,30 Min.2024SwitzerlandEnglish Mit EVERYDAY BLACKNESS präsentiert das in Basel gegründete OKRA Collective seine erste audiovisuelle Produktion, ein 30-minütiges Werk welches sich mit der Frage auseinandersetzt, wie sich der Alltag aus einer afro-diasporischen Perspektive anhört und anfühlt.REMEMBER, BROKEN CRAYONS COLOUR TOO Shannet Clemmings / Ursa Kastelic13 Min.2023Switzerland Subtitles : English / German Die Stimme der Protagonistin Shannet hallt durch die nächtliche Stadt; von Erinnerungen verfolgt, findet sie in der Musik Halt und empfängt schliesslich lächelnd ihre Freund:innen an einem stillstehenden Karussell.Padayon film from bahaghariSavannah Garcia / Irish Inoceto30 Min. 2025Subtitle: English / German A Journey of Hope ist ein Dokumentarfilm über philippinische Menschenrechtsaktivist:innen, die fälschlicherweise als Terroristen angeprangert wurden und in Europa Asyl suchten, wo sie sich trotz Verfolgung weiter für Gerechtigkeit und Menschenrechte einsetzen.

X collective X : Je ne vous l’apprends pas
2026-07-08 18:00 - 20:00 | BINZ39, Sihlquai 133,, Zürich, Zürich, 8005, Switzerland
Je ne vous l’apprends pas is an experimental audio project that blends indigenous science fiction, Afro-cosmic autofiction, and binaural sound to question and undo Earth-bound systems of categorization. Under the artistic direction of Jamika Ajalon and inspired by her Anti-Lectures, the project brings together the writers Saya Mamani, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, and Meloe Gennai. Their work examines how language creates borders between identities, geographies, bodies, and ways of knowing, and how those borders might be unsettled.

The podcast moves fluidly across French, English, Italian, and other familiar languages. Sounds, words, cries, songs, and silences are layered to create a listening experience rooted in constant movement and transformation, resisting fixed meaning and stable form.

Each episode is composed by sound artist Legion Seven as a sensory performance in which audio shifts from dense, terrestrial rhythms toward the extraterrestrial, allowing the work to slip free from inherited social, racial, and linguistic hierarchies.The project fosters exchange across Switzerland’s different linguistic regions while centering intersecting lived experiences of trans and non-binary people, racialized communities, and neurodivergent and disabled individuals, without separating these realities into isolated experiences. Sound becomes a shared space for experimentation and relation, where alternative ways of being, communicating, and belonging can be articulated beyond dominant hierarchies.For the Antenna Festival, xcollectivex proposes a shared listening session featuring selected excerpts from the podcast, followed by a moderated discussion with the artists and producers. This conversation will address the motivations behind the work, the collaborative process, and the political stakes of the project. Alongside this, a listening station will be installed for the duration of the festival, enabling audiences to engage with the completepodcast in their own time.Je ne vous l’apprends pas explores movement, displacement, and the transformation of identities across borders by treating language, sound, and the body as migratory spaces that are continuously shifting, refusing containment, and opening pathways beyond national, social, and planetary boundaries.The French expression “je ne vous l’apprends pas” translates as “I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.” The phrase carries an ironic, knowing tone, pointing to shared histories, implicit knowledge, and truths that circulate without needing to berestated.

SHORTFILMS: PhotogrAFRICA / Everytime I caused a flame it left an ugly mark / No Apologies
2026-07-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Kino Xenix, Kanzleistrasse 52, Zürich, Zürich, 8004
Three short films tracing memory, displacement, revolt and survival through intimate cinematic gestures. From family archives and migration histories to bodily resistance, the program brings together works that move between personal testimony and collective realities. Through photography, performance and documentary language, the films open spaces for reflection on visibility, belonging and resilience across different geographies and political contexts.﻿PhotogrAFRICATila Chitunda 25 Min.2016Brazil / SwitzerlandBrazilian Portuguese / Subtitles : English Durch ein Wandbild aus Fotografien rekonstruiert Tila Chitunda die Reise ihrer Familie, die Ende der 1970er Jahre aufgrund eines Bürgerkriegs gezwungen war, Angola zu verlassen und Zuflucht in Olinda zu suchen.Everytime I caused a flame it left an ugly mark Paria Ahmadi 10 Min.2023IranEnglish Text (no spoken language)Der Film dokumentiert eine Performance, in der Paria Ahmadi Streichhölzer an ihrem eigenen Lächeln entzündet und dadurch eine fragmentierte Geschichte über Revolte, Auslöschung und Sichtbarkeit erzählt.No Apologies Ebuka Anokwa / Aladin Dampha / Lionel Rupp50 Min.2019French / English Switzerland No Apologies zeigt die Lebensrealitäten Schwarzer Menschen in prekären Verhältnissen in Lausanne, die von Alltag, Überleben und Polizeigewalt berichten und ihren Platz in einer ausgrenzenden Gesellschaft hinterfragen.ENG : ENGLISH :PhotogrAFRICATila Chitunda25 min.2016Brazil / SwitzerlandBrazilian Portuguese / Subtitles: EnglishThrough a wall of photographs, Tila Chitunda reconstructs her family’s journey after they were forced to leave Angola in the late 1970s because of the civil war and seek refuge in Olinda.Everytime I caused a flame it left an ugly markParia Ahmadi10 min.2023IranEnglish text / no spoken languageThe film documents a performance in which Paria Ahmadi lights matches against her own smile, creating a fragmented story about revolt, erasure, and visibility.No ApologiesEbuka Anokwa / Aladin Dampha / Lionel Rupp50 min.2019SwitzerlandFrench / EnglishNo Apologies portrays the realities of Black people living in precarious conditions in Lausanne. Through stories of everyday life, survival, and police violence, the film questions what it means to claim one’s place in an exclusionary society.

Intergenerational Communication : Talk with Paula Charles
2026-07-07 18:00 - 19:30 | BINZ39, Sihlquai 133,, Zürich, Zürich, 8005, Switzerland
In today’s digital, fast-moving and demanding world the younger generation needs also other voices, needs a mixture of wise experiences and life wisdom. My own early years living with elders helped me with who I am today. In my culture in the Caribbean in those days, older generations were needed, accepted and respected. Their advice was appreciated. It was simple, but also made you feel you were being heard and your views matter. One felt good being with them, their wisdomsank deep into the soul. I still remember to this very day in difficult adult moments some of that advice. They were in almost every part of my life.

In today’s world there is a lot of talk with very little content that could move you a little closer to yourself and the meaning of life as you grow in a world that demands your time with high expectations. You hear from young people saying life is too hectic, too draining, too strenuous, weariness, depression and burnout is frequent. In Europe, older generations don’t seem to have much say in the younger generation lives especially those who aren’t family. Individuality is high on the agenda here. Coming together as a communityto share thoughts and hear elders speak from experience isn’t a common theme here.

With busy online lives, little time is spent visiting family and friends, sharing experiences directly. This world we are living in has little tolerance for peoples stories and doubts and misgivings. As an Elder, Activist and Author its my aim and wish to meet and share, to encourage and support young people. I have always been interested in young people lives, what they do, what they think of the older generation, what ideas they would like to exchange. We can listen to each other withoutfear and prejudice. When I have had that opportunity it has worked well and the feedback has always been very positive and appreciative.

FESTIVAL OPENING : Opening Ritual / Concert / Performances
2026-07-06 20:00 - 22:00 | Zürich
The opening exhibition of Antenna brings together artistic works, process materials, sound, film and documentation emerging from the collective Antenna network. Expanding across installation, archive, performance and gathering space, the exhibition traces the connections between migration, memory, resistance and cultural production through perspectives shaped by BIPoC, diasporic and exiled communities. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the exhibition unfolds as a living process — a space for encounter, listening and collective reflection that continues to grow throughout the festival week.

Die Eröffnungsausstellung von Antenna versammelt künstlerische Arbeiten, Prozessmaterialien, Klang, Film und Dokumentationen, die aus dem kollektiven Antenna-Netzwerk hervorgegangen sind. Zwischen Installation, Archiv, Performance und Begegnungsraum entfaltet die Ausstellung Verbindungen zwischen Migration, Erinnerung, Widerstand und kultureller Produktion aus Perspektiven von BIPoC-, diasporischen und exilierten Communities. Anstatt eine feste Erzählung vorzugeben, versteht sich die Ausstellung als lebendiger Prozess – als Raum für Begegnung, Zuhören und kollektive Reflexion, der sich während der Festivalwoche kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt.

Werke Antenna Netzwerk:

Taoca Collective Video Installation

(Porträts von antirassistische Kulturschaffenden/Aktivist*innen)

Grammatik der identität: désintégration . Sprachregeln als Zugangscode / wer „richtig“ sprechen darf : Siavash Namehshiri and Jazil Santschi >>> Soundinstallation

Resonanzraum : Antenna als lebendiges Archiv

Network of Traces: A Flowing Documentation (Darstellung von Sammlung antirassistische Organisationen in der Schweiz)

Sürgün zor zanaat – Exil als tägliches Handwerk. Exilerfahrungen der 1980er Jahre in Zürich by Nistiman Erdede

A Mist, a Dust, a Fire Identity, and belonging, with the vessels and traces as a sculptural landscape by Vanessa Bosch

9:16 : is a video installation that explores the intimate and fragmented reality of a long-distance relationship sustained through the digital “window” of a smartphone created by Syrian artists Zeinab Sheikh Ali and Haidar Alhaibe .

Acousmo: Nongoma Ndlovu // Peyman Salehyan // Seçile Metin // Soungou sisters // MigrArt DJs
2026-03-21 08:30 - 23:30 | Zürich
Nongoma Ndlovu
Nongoma Ndlovu aka ”Nongoma” is a keyboard player, vocalist, songwriter,Sound Designer,Sound Engineer,Djane and producer who was born in Hamburg Germany, to South African Zimbawean musicians Themba and Bajabulile Ndlovu, founders of the band Children of Nandi. Being raised in a musical family based abroad and travelling throughout Europe set the foundations for an early career in music that has spanned over a decade. After having moved back to South Africa in 2006, Nongoma completed here studies at the National School of the Arts and furthered her passion for music through a qualification in sound engineering at School of Audio Engineering (SAE). During her stay in Cape Town (2010 -2012) she featured on various artist projects with Nothende, Spoek Mathambo, The Rudimentals, playing various Festivals such as Rocking The Daises, Castle light Festival performing alongside Nas, Wiz Khalifa and Timbaland (2014) and Synergy Festival. A move back to Joburg in 2013 saw the creation of another family related project called KAJAMA , with her younger sister Nandi Ndlovu. Their debut EP Polarity Prism was reviewed on Okay Africa and Afro Punk online platforms and saw Kajama playing festivals such as Oppikoppi, the FakuGesi Block Party (British Council), the Design Indaba as well as A piece in Art Festival in Basel Switzerland in association with the Goodman Gallery. Nongoma relocated back to Switzerland ans has ben currently working various projects including a Debut Performance that will take lace at Afropfingsten Festival .She is currently preparing to release her second EP title ”Mount Selph Esteem” , after her debut In the Mirror which rotated on nationial stations.She has starting venturing more into the Djaying Space,Sound Design ,Theatre Production,Event Curation and Sound Engineering .

Peyman Salehyan
Peyman Salehyan is a Kurdish musician, composer, and cultural educator currently based in Berlin, Germany. With more than fifteen years of artistic and pedagogical experience, his work bridges Mesopotamian musical traditions, Kurdish heritage, and contemporary composition. He is particularly known for his performances on the Tar and Setar, as well as for interdisciplinary projects that connect music with cultural dialogue and community engagement.
Salehyan studied Music Performance at the University of Art in Tehran and is currently a guest student in Composition at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). As a performer, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at international festivals and cultural venues in Germany, Turkey, Russia, Iran, and beyond. His performances explore both traditional repertoire and contemporary interpretations of Kurdish music.
In addition to performing, he is an active composer whose works have been commissioned by ensembles, choirs, and media productions. His compositions and scores have been published internationally, including by Petrichor Records and the UCLA Contemporary Music Score Collection.
Salehyan has also worked extensively as a music educator and cultural facilitator, designing and leading intercultural music programs for children, youth, and community groups. Through his artistic practice, he aims to create spaces for cultural exchange, dialogue, and creative collaboration.

Seçil Metin
Seçil Metin is a vocalist, improviser, composer, and sound designer. In this performance, she presents Mono No Aware, a live improvisation project where her sound design sketches, trumpet, voice, and electronics shape the music as it happens, moving between quiet, subtle, intimate moments and sudden bursts of energy and raw feeling.
She is exploring what’s possible in the depth of “less,”… this time embracing the vulnerability of being alone on stage, while mindless and heartful improvisation guides the experience. She hopes the performance to create a shared space held with presence, curiosity, deep listening, and simply the warmth of being together.

Soungou sisters

MigrArt Djs :
Dj QR Code, M.K.MOON, Sirena and Sianur

Welcome!

Acousmo: SUGAI KEN // Flora Yin-Wong
2026-03-07 20:30 - 23:30 | Zürich
SUGAI KEN
A producer who gimmickily electrifies various domestic folklore around a unique style reminiscent of the Japanese night. He also specializes in reproducing insect and bird sounds using only electronic sounds.
His 2017 work “UkabazUmorezU” received international acclaim (Pitchfork, etc.).
His work on one of Japan’s best labels, EM Records, “Garden in the Night (An Electronic Re-creation),” has brought him recognition from core listeners around the world, and a track from the album was featured on Fabriclive (UK).
His music is played frequently on web radio around the world, including Disclosure’s Boiler Room DJ set in 2020, and he also provided a curious DJ mix for the Solid Steel (Ninjatune) series that wowed Rob BOOTH.
In the 2018 EU tour, he performed at Cafe OTO (UK), which was sold out, showing the high level of attention he received, and he performed 13 shows (in 6 countries), demonstrating his uniqueness without compromise. The following year, he toured the EU, starting in Berghain, and performed 9 shows in 7 countries, including a 2-man show with Tim HECKER.
He currently has several releases in the pipeline due to numerous domestic and international requests.
In addition to his personal activities, he is also involved in several local performing arts archive projects in Japan, and is also involved in sound design for Soka Health Center (a typical Japanese sauna) and POLA (a major Japanese cosmetics manufacturer) and so on.
His striking artist photograph is those in which he has aged himself following the “Yatsushi” aesthetic, which he considers an essential element of Japanese deep culture.
His work was exhibited at the Expo2025 Osaka.
He is currently working on a collaboration with Jan Jelinek, a meister of electronic music from Berlin…
Url:
https://linktr.ee/SUGAIKEN

Flora Yin-Wong
Flora Yin-Wong is a sound artist from London who uses rudimentary field recordings, granular synthesis, and traditional instruments, underpinned by influences from club culture. Through these disparate elements, her work channels her interest in philosophical and psychological themes such as faith, obsession, and ritual. Her first two albums ‘Holy Palm’ and ‘Cold Reading’ were released on Modern Love, and she has appeared on labels PAN, Tectonic, Paralaxe Editions, Nyege Nyege, and Shelter Press / GRM Paris. She has been commissioned by and presented live at international galleries like Palais de Tokyo, MACRO Roma, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Triennale Milano, Somerset House, The V&A Museum and Cafe OTO London, ISSUE Project Room New York, Volksbuhne Theatre Berlin, and Spielhaus and SHEDHAlle Zurich. Her debut book ‘Liturgy’ – an experimental novel interweaving fiction, non-fiction and everything in between – was released in 2020 by Primary Information NYC. She has since published writing with Ignota Books and Zweikommasieben’s V/A series, and was previously digital editor at DAZED Media. In 2023 she launched a label and publishing house, Doyenne, releasing works from the likes of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Claire Rousay, YL Hooi, Teresa Winter, writers Heather McCalden, Mira Mattar, and Lisa Lerkenfeldt and more.

Acousmo: Zainab J Lascandri // Nuriia Khasenova (Cancelled : Miles Singleton)
2026-02-21 20:30 - 23:30 | Zürich
Concerts :
Zainab J Lascandri is a Black, trans- and interdisciplinary artist who flows between the realms of pop culture and elite art. Her work navigates theater, music, film, and performance, dissolving boundaries to create new meanings. “Imagine A Black Child” is a powerful performance that merges sound archives, self-produced music and dance into a contemporary ritual.

Nuriia Khasenova was born in Kazakhstan, grew up in Russia, and based in Switzerland since 2012. Her work is driven by curiosity and a desire to explore what the unknown to her – new formats, new collaborations. She received classical training in Geneva and Zurich, while at the same time searching beyond traditional paths. Over the years, her practice has expanded into contemporary music, musical theatre, free improvisation, folk music, and movement. She brunches hew practice between classical and transdisciplinary projects, aiming to create sincere performances.

Welcome!

Acousmo : chaos clay(LIVE) + Anouchka Gwen(LIVE)
2026-01-10 20:30 - 23:59 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
chaos clay is a DJ, producer, and curator based in Geneva. They explore the cultural productions of queer and racialized people, blending theoretical, ancestral, and popular knowledge to weave new narratives. Through music, they work with space and time from an Afro-futurist perspective. Between memory and future, their sets are hybrid compositions, designed for multiple and fluid bodies.
They founded the Archipelagogo Club events, held in Theatre de l’Usine, promoting the richness, complexity and political legacy of club culture. Then worked in the music programming team at FDS (2022-23) and recently they founded and co-curated at Kauri (Usine) .
As a producer, they collaborated with dancers such as Calixto Neto (Il Faux),
Johanna Closuit (Apetite For The Depths), Catol Teixeira (Arrebentaçâo)…
credit photo Pauline Humbert
https://soundcloud.com/chaosclay

Anouchka Gwen (*1997) is a swiss born and raised singer-songwriter, bass player and cultural worker currently based in Zurich, Switzerland.
The vulnerability, complexities and emotions that life brings are their main inspirations. With their dreamy and bassy voice, they aim to voice their deepest and most honest thoughts and unapologetically take space. As an artist with congolese roots, they’re influenced and inspired by repetitive, soulful and rhythmic melodies and mixes it with their love for electronic psychedelic wide pop infused soundscapes.
After a needed break from the stage as a front person, Anouchka Gwen decides to go back to their beginning ways, solo on stage, offering their deepest thoughts in a vulnerable way with their voice and e-bass only. Join Anouchka Gwen on this new artistic journey.

Acousmo: Marina mello, Khabat Abbas
2025-10-18 20:30 - 23:30 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 20:30
Concerts: 21:30
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together.

Photo by Philip Frowein
Marina mello (ZH)
Marina Mello is a Brazilian harpist based in Zurich with a wide range of experience as a musician. She has developed a unique and very expressive style through the harp and its infinite possibilities. In this sense, she presents her artistic journey, mainly researching new sound textures through paradoxes between emptiness and noisy textures, and harmonic and random-spontaneous vertical sounds. Focusing on non-traditional ways of playing – with extended technique, prepared instrument and with effect pedals (hybrid, acoustic and electric harps), Marina believes that as a woman and a harpist there are many stereotypes and expectations that can and should be disrupted. In 2022, she graduated with honors with a Master’s degree at ZHdK (Zurich University of arts) under the guidance of Professor Sarah O’Brien (classical harp), Lucas Niggli (improvisation practices), Ariana Savall (renascence music) and Charlotte Hug (transdisciplinary practices).

Photo by Joe Christman

Khabat Abbas(LDN)
Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan-Iraq. Her work investigates time, space, and memory through music, and noise. She is particularly interested in how we experience sound within different geopolitical contexts. Abas pushes the boundaries of her instrument—improvising, composing, producing videos and sound installations, building cellos from unconventional materials, and incorporating the body as an instrument. Through this practice, she fuses politics with the personal, challenging dominant values and systems of control.

Acousmo: Charles kwong, Sharon Chan, Feyz
2025-09-20 21:00 - 23:30 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 21:00
Concerts: 21:30
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together.

feyz (ZH / )
feyz (emre sar.) comes from Istanbul, Turkey and is since 2009 based in Zürich, Switzerland. Since an early age he has been engaged in improvised musical practices as a bass player and middle eastern instruments. Having a keen interest in electronics and computer science, he stepped into the world of synthesizers and modular electronics which lead him to develop his style combining microtonal music and electroacoustic improvisation, and explores rhythmic, harmonic or atonal patterns by use of analog synths and acoustic instruments that intervene and mix into one another in noisier and quieter ways.He started performing actively since founding the duo fezayafirar together with f:rar (melih sar) in 2012. He is currently active in the improved and electronic music scenes mainly in Switzerland, and is working in collaboration with labels such as Attenuation Circuit (Augsburg), Endtitles (Zürich).
Sharon Chan
Sharon Chan is a Hong Kong-born performer working across music and theatre, with a particular focus on the theremin. She has studied the instrument under Carolina Eyck since 2022 and brings a strong physical presence shaped by her training in physical theatre. Collaborating closely with composer Charles Kwong, Chan explores new possibilities of sound and performance, developing a distinctive stage language that weaves together movement, embodiment and experimental music.
Charles Kwong (ZH / CHN)
Photo by Chee (IG @chaurism)
Charles kwong is a composer from Hong Kong whose practice approaches music as collective experiential situations – within, but also beyond, listening and sounds.His creative output spans orchestral music, collaborations with performers across diverse musical cultures, site-specific and transdisciplinary projects that depart from the conventional concert paradigm, and the exploration of performativity in electronic sound synthesis. Rituals, fictionality, chaotic systems, nonhuman temporality, social ordering in performances, and intertextuality and hauntology arising from classical forms are some recurring core preoccupations that underpin his creative process and agenda across different media.
Kwong’s music has been featured at festivals such as Lucerne Forward, Ultraschall Berlin, Takefu, Ticino Musica, La Roque d’Anthéron, Marvão and ManiFeste. Recent commissioners include the Lucerne Festival, Takefu International Music Festival, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Ensemble Recherche, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Tai Kwun Contemporary, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Acousmo: Aya Metwalli, Tapiwa Svosve, Rohan Zhou-Lee
2025-09-13 21:00 - 23:59 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 21:00
Concerts: 21:30
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together.

Aya Metwalli (BE)
Aya Metwalli (b. 1988) is a vocalist who spits the anguish out. A cat with a broken tail born of Cairo’s heat and smog. She grew up in noise that gnaws at your bones. Car horns punch like brass knuckles. Shouting vendors wake the dead. Busted loudspeakers burst out discordant calls to prayer like orchestras that never tune. The piano offered her a different kind of melody, but the guitar taught her how to bleed and write for the loners and the lost. Then she traded strings for static, turning melancholic musings into gut-wrenching lament. The Guardian called her “something of a musical enigma”. Pitchfork praised her “spellbinding brand of anti-pop”. What you hear is a woman who stitched herself back together with her teeth. She takes the stage, and it’s a spine-reveal spectacle that might disturb you a little, but damn if it doesn’t leave you mesmerised.

Tapiwa Svosve (ZH)
(born 1995) is a saxophonist and electroacoustic musician living and working in Zurich and London. He has released work through Graham Dunning’s Open Sound Group net label and Raw Tonk Records, and was part of “The Tomorrow People“ exhibition at the Elevator Gallery in 2013. He is especially interested in the relations between sound and space and the electronic and/or physical manipulation and abstraction of acoustic sounds, creating different overlapping layers of small electroacoustic systems.

Poems by Rohan Zhou-Lee, gender identity Firebird, is an international award-winning Black Asian dancer, trumpeter, writer, and public speaker, with publications, performances, and presentations delivered in The United States, Canada, Switzerland, and Japan. In 2023, they became the first mixed race Black Asian Open City fellow for journalism at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Publications can be read on Hyperallergic, Reckon News, Newsweek, and more. They published, performed, and received commissions for poetry at Luya Chicago, Soar Over Hate, Anathema Magazine (Canada), The 2024 Asian Asian American Research Institute at CUNY, and the 2022 Unite Festival (Zürich, Switzerland,) and recently premiered their ballet poem Sandra | Song at the 2025 Aktionstage enough Festival. They are the founder of the Blasian March, a Black-Asian-Blasian solidarity organization, which began during the Black and Asian political upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through protests, free book fairs, and performing arts, Blasian March has earned several awards, including a certificate from New York City’s Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Zhou-Lee has spoken on human rights at Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, Oberlin College, the 2022 Enough Festival in Zürich, Switzerland, The University of Tokyo, as a keynote speaker at Yale University, and more.

Acousmo: HxH, Maxime Hourani
2025-08-30 20:30 - 23:30 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 20:30
Concerts: 21:30
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together.

HxH (NY)
HxH is an improvisatory electro-acoustic duo of Lester St. Louis and Chris Williams. The duo utilizes a mix of trumpet, cello and electronics to build worlds traversing through acoustic sound, grainy textures, expansive pools of sounds, breaks, cuts and beats. We’ve developed these varied sound worlds through live performance, studio recording, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The approach is conceived as an expansiveness that holds a personal intimacy. HxH wants to bring the listeners in, tune them to the experience and take a long trip. HxH functions as a vehicle to bring together the mass of references and influences Chris and Lester share and create ways to crystalize those ideas in real, expanded time to an experience over minutes or hours. Along with creating their own body of original music, the duo also work as sound and installation designers; collaborating with other artists and institutions.

Maxime Hourani, The Ancient Instruments of the Future

The Ancient Instruments of the Future is Maxime Hourani’s new electroacoustic project—an éloge to postmodernism, fusing classical and extended string playing techniques with modular synthesis to shape evolving melodies that ground one in a quiet ease with doubt and scepticism. Hourani is a multidisciplinary artist currently in residence with Pro Helvetia at Kaserne Basel. His sonic impressions often mirror the landscapes in transformation that he encounters in his speculative surveys of contested sites.
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Acousmo: tracy september, Lindiwe Matshikiza
2025-08-16 20:30 - 23:30 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 20:30
Concerts: 21:30
DJs: 00:00 – 04:00
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together.
Program:
tracy september Live
Lindiwe Matshikiza Live

Photo by Noah Cohen
Lindiwe Matshikiza
Lindiwe Matshikiza is a multidisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, currently based in Marseille.She has a background in theatre-making and her creative practice includes performance, research, writing and directing for stage and screen, as well as for more exploratory visual and sound art projects. Her projects are largely process-driven, intuitive, collaborative, and often take on more than one form over time. Sonically, she has a deep interest in the relationship between voice, intimacy, music, distance and archive, the research of which has led to several ongoing projects including Artist Mother in Africa [conversation series and upcoming publication], Other People’s Collections [travelling mixtapes and liner notes based on conversations with record collectors] and A *C of Voices [in partnership with Tracy September (TRA); deep listening sessions and guided meditations on voice and memory].
Lindiwe is also a community-taught filmmaker: Her directorial debut, One Take Grace, was a creative documentary made in collaboration with Mothiba Grace Bapela over ten years, for which they won the IDFA Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution (2021), BlackStar Best Feature Documentary (2022), and the Grand Prize, International Feature at RIDM (2022).

Photo by Urša Kastelic
tracy september
tracy september is a South African performing artist, sound practitioner, researcher and curator currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her first language is music. With influences of jazz and electronic experimentation, she has a particular passion for improvisation as an invitation to surrender attachment and trust the capacity of one’s intuition. Drawing from her Xhosa heritage, her performances serve as a medium for storytelling, archiving and ancestral custodianship. Crafting enigmatic and emotive sonic language, tracy’s sound and musical works are deeply rooted in ritual, community and communion, working around themes of memory, spirit and protest. Outside of her solo projects, tracy makes music for film, theatre and dance. She is a member of the band Black Pitch and a DJ playing under the pseudonym youngseptember.

Acousmo: Saadet Türköz, Hardi Kurda; Mitanni
2025-07-05 20:30 - 2025-07-06 16:00 | Zürich
Doors: 20:30
Concerts: 21:30
DJs: 00:00 – 04:00
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together. The program concludes with DJ sets.
🔥 For this edition of Acousmo, we welcome powerful voices and immersive sound artists alongside three DJs taking us on sonic journeys:
SAADET TÜRKÖZ (LIVE)HARDI KURDA (LIVE)
Chinned de Garde (DJ)Mitanni (DJ)El Gayo Negro (DJ)

𝐒𝐀𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐓 𝐓Ü𝐑𝐊Ö𝐙 @turkoz.saadet (LIVE) https://saadet.ch/A vocal improviser rooted in Kazakh and Turkish folk traditions and Zurich’s experimental scene for over 40 years. Saadet’s music is a rich tapestry where ancestral memory, blues, free jazz, and avant-garde meet — her voice a living archive of history, pain, and resilience.

𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐈 𝐊𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐀 @hardi.kurda (LIVE) https://hardikurda.com/Composer and sound artist from Kurdistan, Hardi crafts immersive soundscapes using radio frequencies, silence, and noise. His work investigates themes of displacement, illegality, and hidden histories — transforming sound into a tool for social and political resonance.

+++ DJs after the concerts +++ 🎛️💃
𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞 @vanessa_sinBass-driven sets blending genres to create sonic catharsis and dancefloor liberation.

𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢 @serdarmutluartVisual artist and DJ weaving cultural memory into vibrant and storytelling rhythms.

𝐄𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐲𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐨 @elgayonegrodjFrom Mexico City, mixing Latin American folklore, salsa, cumbia, and tropical beats into colorful, explosive DJ sets.

Acousmo: Pisitakun, Spaaawn, Xafya Lovecraft; Baby val, TVBX, and Pony Pride
2025-06-21 20:30 - 2025-06-22 04:00 | Zürich
ACOUSMO
Saturday, 6 July 2025Doors: 20:30Location: MigrArt, Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together. The program concludes with DJ sets.

Live Performances
PISITAKUN (LIVE, DE/THI) https://soundcloud.com/pisitakunPisitakun is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Bangkok, Thailand. Active since 2014, his work spans visual and sound-based media, often rooted in political speculation and historical trauma. His 2016 album Black Country reflects on life under Thailand’s military rule post-2014 coup, composing a sonic world of dark dialogue and distorted memory. His approach represents a break from conventional narratives — questioning authority and revealing deep personal and collective frustrations.

XAFYA (LIVE, ZH) https://soundcloud.com/summer_camp/xafyaXafya (she/her) is a Zurich-based multidisciplinary artist working in music, film, and installation. Her sonic aesthetic blends ambient, deconstructed club, and epic collage — often with a video game-like, narrative structure. Her live sets weave tales of transformation, radical participation, and layered spiritual inquiry, oscillating between the terrestrial and the otherworldly.

SPAAAWN (LIVE, PHL) https://soundcloud.com/spaaawnBased in Iloilo City, Philippines, Spaaawn explores sound through electronics, field recordings, sampling, and digital audio processing. His work interacts with physical environments and reflects the dissonance of our internet age. Spaaawn crafts immersive soundscapes that move between subtle introspection and sensory overload.

DJ Sets
TVBXS (ZH)Born in southern Switzerland to Dominican-Chilean parents, TVBXS is a versatile DJ known for navigating between intense rave energy, experimental club elements, and organic Latin influences. Their sets invite listeners into an emotionally charged world — blending melancholy, rage, irony, and joy.

BABY VAL (ZH)Baby Val merges techno, electro, jungle, breaks, and nostalgic RnB edits into a deeply textured dancefloor experience. Her mixes are playful yet bold, constantly breaking and re-shaping rhythmic expectations to open new dimensions for the listener.

PONY PRIDE (FR)Hailing from Marseille, Pony Pride is a DJ and producer exploring the boundaries of experimental club music. His sets are known for emotional intensity, trance-inflected drama, and chaotic elegance. Expect abysmal basslines, broken rhythms, and euphoric spirals – a celebration of sonic fantasy and dancefloor freedom.

Info
🕗 Doors open: 20:30📍 Venue: MigrArt, Allmendstrasse 93 8041 , Zurich💸 Entry: Donation-based

Come early, stay late. Bring your weird hearts and open ears.Hosted by MigrArt / Acousmo Series

Acousmo: Spaaawn, WAT TAKLAEW; F1-PW, Baby vouithu, and nikeyy
2025-06-07 08:30 - 2025-06-08 16:00 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 20:30
Concerts: 21:30
DJs: 00:00 – 04:00
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together. The program concludes with DJ sets.
Program :
Spaaawn Live
WAT TAKLAEW Live
F1-PW
Baby vouithu
nikeyy

WAT TAKLAEW: Valentina Demicheli Jitsattayakul is an artist and musician based in Zurich. She is interested in exploring the experience of cultural translation, origin, memory, Western perceptions of other cultures, and sociocultural identity through her work. Under the name WAT TAKLAEW, she produces and performs sounds. Drawing inspiration from Thai heritage, ‹wat› translates to «temple,» while ‹thaklaew› comes from a Thai boy’s name associated with the concept of militancy. She describes her music as «maranasati electronixx: a mixture of tape mantras, harsh feedback, percussive eruptions and karmic cycle loops.

F1-PV is a Zurich-based musician and DJ who has been making a significant impact on the local and national underground scene recently. Drawing inspiration from his cultural roots in the Philippines, his sound blends IDM, breakcore, industrial, and tribal music with audio extracts traceable to the indigenous archipelago people or the grassroots genre Budots, resulting in a dark and captivating sonic experience.
Baby vouithu is based in zurich and fuses diverse genres such as electro, breakbeat, techno, jungle, dnb, rap and bass music into an explicit, dirty and ravey sonic experience. he uses a musical language that brings different influences together by transcending traditional boundaries.
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nikeyy: From Perreo to Trap, from Guaracha to Bass Nikeyy loves to mix a wide range of genres. He does so in order to create a atmosphere in which you just want to move your body, dream and create lasting connections on the dancefloor.

MigrArt at Wildwuchs Festival: All-Day Program with Performances, Concerts & Rituals
2025-05-31 13:30 - 23:00 | Zürich
MigrArt am wildwuchs festival 2025
Virtual Emographic 13:30 Kaserne Basel
My Body’s Immortal Language 15:00 Kaserne Basel
whispers of (un)belonging 17:30 Kaserne Basel
GULLET 20:30 Kaserne Basel
Glossolalia 21:00 Kaserne Basel

Acousmo: Tini Aliman, Stanford Chen, Kay; ZION and FUBU
2025-05-24 20:30 - 2025-05-25 04:00 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Doors: 20:30
Concerts: 21:30
DJs: 00:00 – 04:00
Address: Allmendstrasse 93, 8041 Zürich , Halle D, First Floor
Acousmo is a concert and sound art series focused on intentional listening. It offers a space for concentrated engagement with live sound and aims to counter the fast and superficial consumption of music. In this cycle, Acousmo introduces a new format: each evening begins with two solo performances by musicians or sound artists that are curated by the community. These are followed by an improvised set where both artists perform together. The program concludes with DJ sets.
Live Program :

Tini Aliman [SG/DE], was born in Singapore and currently practicing in Germany. She is a sound artist and composer, field recordist and audio engineer who works at the intersection of theatre and film sound design, live sound art performances and sound installation. Her research interests include but are not limited to, ethnomusicology, spatial acoustics, bio-music and cartographical sonic epistemology. She has been involved in projects, performances and exhibitions presented at National Gallery Singapore, NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Venice Biennale, Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, Sammlung Philara Düsseldorf, UNSSC in Turin, ZHDK in Zurich and SFMOMA. Some of her residencies and scholarships awarded include NTU Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore, Borderlands Residency at Ludwig Forum in Aachen, National Arts Council Singapore’s collaboration with Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and the upcoming Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
tinialimansound.space
www.instagram.com/tintralala/

Stanford Chen (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and poet with an extensive background as a cancer biologist. Born outside Washington DC to Taiwanese immigrants and now based in Zürich, Switzerland, his artistic practices till the soils of the Asian diaspora, migrant communities, and queer identities, digging and unearthing their narratives. He is currently interested in creating participatory installations at the intersection of visual and performative arts. Through storytelling, somatic movements, and communal rituals, he is researching different approaches aimed at restoring, renewing, and reconnecting with ancestral memories to uncover intrinsic tools for healing, resilience, empowerment, solidarity, and belonging. Central to his practice is also an invitation to community building, mutual care and creating points of convergence where diverse experiences can transform into shared futures.
Kay Zhang (she/they) is a sonic artist who explores around the topics of in-betweenness through sound, performance, curation and research. Their curatorial work lends itself to ‘learning by doing’ methods and experimentation, which are intertwined with transdisciplinary art. They work within various projects and coordinate different platforms with an interest in intercultural identities, queer feminist theories and sound ecologies. Kay is dedicated to exploring and engaging, by using sound performance knowledges, curating experiences through works of sound art (field recordings), collective listening and care practices. Kay is a founding member of Kollektiv international Totem (KIT), River Oracle, and ARKA. Kay fosters collaborations within disciplines to create bridges (in)-between them.
www.zhangkay.com
ZION is a Switzerland-based DJ known for his high-energy, hybrid sets that seamlessly blend Caribbean influences, Bass Music, and queer electronic sounds. Having ignited stages at festivals like Frauenfeld and AmBach, as well as clubs in Paris, Amsterdam, and Portugal, ZION delivers an eclectic and electrifying experience where deep basslines and vibrant rhythms collide.

FUBU Soundsystem is music for us by us. A group of friends that comes together to play, dance and celebrate with you.

Acousmo 2025
2025-05-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Zürich
25 May:
Tini Aliman Live
Kay Zhang Live
Stanford Chen Live
FUBU Soundsystem
Zion
7 June:
Spaaawn Live
WAT TAKLAEW Live
F1-PW
Baby Vouithu
nikeyy
21 June:
Pisitakun Live
Xafya Lovecraft Live
Baby Val
Pony Pride
5 July:
Saadet Türköz Live
Hardi Kurda Live
Mitanni
2 August
tracy september Live
Lindiwe Matshikiza Live

Sonic Solace #3 : Auditory Alchemy / Soundwalk
2024-09-27 13:00 - 17:00 | Busstation Rentenanstalt, Rentenanstalt, Zürich, Zürich, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland
Auditory Alchemy is created to guide participants through a series of sonic experiences and meditative prompts that will lead them to reflect on different layers of self and environment sounding and listening in an urban context. Participants will engage in exercises that encourage awareness of their inner and outer selves, exploring personal, cultural and collective auditory experiences.
Facilitated and conceptualized by tracy september and Siavash Namehshiri, the city of zurich is used as a canvas to paint an auditory environment through short recordings that will be used for a collective listening.
Please note that this soundwalk requires an audio recorder and headphones. If you have one, please bring it with you. If you would like to participate but do not have the equipment, please email us at info@migrart. We will provide a limited number of the necessary equipment.

Siavash Namehshiri / @siavash.namehshiri is a Kurdish Composer, musician, collaborative Sonic proposer from Iran, based in Zurich. over the years, he has been exploring improvisation and contemporary electronic music. Over the years, he has engaged in collaborative projects and experimented with different art contexts in studio and live performances and studied Electroacoustic Composition at Art University in Zürich. Through his sonic creations, Siavash channels his memorial experiences using music and sound to express and process specific moments of displacement in his works. Siavash maintains a keen interest in the intersectional dimensions of sound and collaborative practices.

tracy september is a South African musician, performer, DJ and music researcher based in Zürich, Switzerland. With influences of jazz, traditional Xhosa singing and electronic experimentation, tracy works around themes of memory, spirit and protest, with a particular passion for improvisation. For tracy improvisation is a way to surrender attachment to ideas and trust the capacity of one’s intuition. It is an invitation to let go. tracy uses her voice, electronics, texts, archive materials and field recordings, to tell stories that are deeply rooted in ritual, community and communion. Ritual as a transformative tool; community as the foundation for the co-creation of existence; and communion as a means for intimate fellowship.

Talk Talk Talk #6 - Audience Podcast - sharing m/othering practices
2024-09-22 18:00 | Zürich
Talk Talk Talk is a series of Audience podcasts that are a live moment with Audience in the MigrArt space as well as at a later time will be published on different online platforms as well as aired on local Zurich radio Radio LoRa on 97.5 MHz.

sharing m/othering practices

m/othering ourselves is a sharing about m/othering practices and their radical potential when seen as a possible action, more than a gendered identity. The act of m/othering – as a queer, radical and collective practice and a communal responsibility for caregiving – is imperative to building transformational change. tina omayemi reden has invited Serena Owusua Dankwa and Ivy Monteiro to share their m/othering ways, their caregiving practices and ideas on community spaces.

With
Ivy Monteiro
Serena Owusua Dankwa
tina omayemi reden

Ivy Monteiro ( Ivy is an educator and developer of practices and performative roles in Dance, Music and Theatre Performance, for small and big stages. They are a natural shapeshifter, re- imagining and re-conceptualizing femininity, gender, social and race through (dis)identification from a post-colonial perspective. Ancestrality and Spirituality are reshaped and envisioned in queer futuristic pieces, where the artist reclaims and questions their space in our apocalyptical future.

Serena O. Dankwa recently returned to academia as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Basel. She holds an MA in African Studies from SOAS in London and earned her PhD from the U. of Bern. While working on these, Serena was affiliated to the U. of Ghana and held fellowships at Columbia University (NYC) and Yale University. She is the author of the award-winning ethnography Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (2021) and a coeditor of Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und anti-rassistischer Widerstand (2019) and of Bildung . Macht.Diversität: Critical Diversity Literacy im Hochschulraum (2021).

tina omayemi reden is a Zurich-based artist, cultural worker, organizer and lecturer. She primarily works in collaboration and is involved in collectives that focus on themes of collective care, intergenerational exchange, social justice, and community building. Central to her practice are moments of deep listening and the act of making visible the intricate networks of relationships, power dynamics, resistance, longings, and desires. As part of the collective FUBU she has been organizing a variety of gatherings and solidarity events – from parties and dinners, to intergenerational exchanges and seasonal rituals, performance nights, nature walks and collective harvesting.

Acousmo #5 _ Listining Session by Saba Alizadeh and Siavash Namehshiri
2024-08-31 21:00 - 23:30 | Zürich
Live Concerts
Saba Alizade
https://www.sabalizadeh.com/

Siavash Namehshiri
https://www.namehshiri.com/

Acousmo #4 _ Listining Seission by NÂR and Farida Amadou
2024-08-17 21:00 - 23:30 | Zürich
Live Concerts :
NÂR
Farida Amadou

Acousmo #3 _ Listining Session by Akram Hajj and F1_PV
2024-08-03 21:00 - 23:30 | Zürich
Live Concerts :
Akram Hajj
Akram Hajj is a self taught percussionist, mainly known for his unorthodox style and polyrhythm grooves. Since his breakthrough with his band Kinematk, he launched multiple improvisational acts with numerous musicians across europe and the middle east. Hajj’s recent works centre around electro acoustic drumming with an oriental sonic approach. Inspired deeply by Sufism culture, hajj merges the old vibrant trancy style of music with an avant garde industrial sensation . Through his drums, daf, electronics, and field recordings, the lebanese
multi instrumentalist addresses rhythms and sounds to form a complete palette of sounds .

F1-PV
F1-PV is a Zurich-based musician that has been leaving his mark on the local and national underground scene in recent times.

TALK TALK TALK #5 : Swiss Happens " Black Womxn from Elsewhere in Conversation"
2024-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Zürich
Swiss Happens: Black Womxn from Elsewhere in Conversation
Three Black womxen from elsewhere who moved to Zürich at different times in conversation about their experiences and realities navigating Zürich, Switzerland and Europe in the bodies they inhabit. One arrived over 40 years ago, another over 20 and the other 10. What has changed? What has remained the same? How has this place changed me? How have I changed this place? What is home? Where is home? Who am I, here, now?

Paula Charles, born in London in 1956, grew up in the Caribbean on the island of St Lucia and in London, sang in a soul band, worked as a go-go girl in Switzerland and is committed to the cause of black people in Zurich.
Brandy Butler is a contemporary arts performer, with a strong focus on storytelling. Brandy’s passion is change, and the instability that it brings. They believe firmly that change is necessary for growth, and are committed to supporting such opportunities whether through creative, pedagogical or community based projects(or some intersection therof!)
tracy september is a multi-hyphenate artist and performer who works around themes of memory, Spirit and protest, with a particular passion for improvisation. For tracy improvisation is a way to surrender attachment. She uses her voice, electronics, texts, archive materials and field recordings, to tell stories that are deeply rooted in ritual, community and communion.
