OPEN STUDIO – Ein kollaboratives Theaterlabor für Inszenierung mit Klang

«Until They Hear Black Voices»
Fazil On Yu

An invitation to listen – four groups of artists explore how sound can be staged in Dimitri de Perrot's OPEN STUDIO and share their search for new forms of theatre in public performances.

LinkedIn
Facebook
Telegram
WhatsApp
E-Mail

  • Thu 26/03 20:00

    Südbühne

  • Fri 27/03 18:00

    Südbühne

  • Sat 28/03 20:00

    Südbühne

For OPEN STUDIO, Fazil On Yu is developing a sound-based narrative performance that gives voice to the stories of Black people in Switzerland and Europe. Copyright: Khasim Ndiwalana

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?

At the heart of Fazil On Yu's work is hearing: experiences of exclusion, invisibility and the search for orientation in a space that often offers him no echo. With ‘Until They Hear Black Voices’, On Yu has developed a sound narrative performance that makes the voices and stories of Black people in Switzerland and Europe audible – a narrative of complex struggles, loss and identity.

The starting point is audio recordings, interviews, poems and his own pieces of music, which he collected and produced in Zurich. In OPEN STUDIO, they are woven together into a resonance chamber: fragments that not only document, but also seek a new form of storytelling – between installation and performance, between sound and body.

Information on accessibility and language

  • Stepless access

For over ten years, sound artist Dimitri de Perrot has been exploring the intersection of sound, space and staging with his creations. OPEN STUDIO is a project that represents the logical progression of this practice – and an artistic act of sharing. Here, de Perrot invites other artists to explore the possibilities of sound-based narrative forms in their own language and aesthetic.

The topics range from transnational distance (RRRRRR Collective) to patriarchal attributions (Papst/Glanzmann) to the experiences of Black people in Europe (Fazil On Yu) and the invisibility of marginalised identities (Zainab J Lascandri). All projects are based on biographical fragments, interviews or personal archives and transform them into poetically condensed sound spaces.

Copyright: Khasim Ndiwalana

Back to top