In OPEN STUDIO, artists from various disciplines are collaborating with the sound artist, director and stage designer Dimitri de Perrot to explore productions that use sound as a central creative medium. They are developing ideas, perspectives, and artistic approaches: How can sound be used to think, design, narrate?

Performer, musician, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary artist Zainab J Lascandri brings the polyphonic archive IMAGINE A BLACK CHILD as source material for the first OPEN STUDIO. It consists of her own text work, recorded sounds and produced sounds, and condenses diasporic experiences in the Swiss context: from childhood in the 1980s and 90s to growing up in the 2000s to motherhood and aging in the present. It consists of her own text work, recorded sounds, and produced sounds, and condenses diasporic experiences in the Swiss context: from childhood in the 1980s and 90s to coming of age in the 2000s to motherhood and aging in the present. Accompanied by Fatima Moumouni, Tracy September, and Brandy Butler, Lascandri edits fragments, scenes, and moods and transforms them into a sonic-scenic form. At the center: invisibility—as a social experience, as an aesthetic strategy, as a frequency of the unsaid. What is the texture of concealment? What future does the echo carry? Between sound studies, speculative fiction, and subversive humor, Lascandri explores how pleasure and joy unfold hope as spaces of resonance.

Artist talk

On 17.12., there will be a talk with the artists after the performance at 8 p.m.

Information on accessibility and language

• Stepless access

• Audience situation: There is no seating; however, chairs and beanbags (reservation required) are available to meet accessibility requirements.

• Language: Spoken English and German

• Sensory stimuli: Partially high volume and deep bass, relatively dark room

• Content information: Thematisation of racism