In collaboration with Nelson Irsapoullé, Tracy September and Vivian Wang
A Frei and Franziska Koch present a multi-channel sound installation and listening exercises around relational and situated listening, decolonial and queerfeminist sound practices. Together with the artists Nelson Irsapoullé, Tracy September and Vivian Wang, the exercises will be applied and recorded in advance. This forms the basis for the installation.
A Frei (*1982) works as a sound artist, relational listener and sonic community organizer and, together with Franziska Koch, is co-founder of OOR Saloon, a collectively run record and art book store and meeting place for committed ears. A Frei deals with socio-political, environmental, embodied and queer practices of listening in their respective situated contexts. A Frei creates experimental audio formats, body performances and collective listening settings. In her mostly collaborative works, A Frei searches for emancipatory possibilities in the sound space and in forms of non-verbal communication and improvisation.
Franziska Koch (*1966) is interested in multi-layered, interwoven practices, theories, methods, ways of life and technologies. She creates sonic performances and sonic translations, experimental performances and exhibition formats. She is committed to situated, social, political and queerfeminist practices. As No I Don't and as Emma Kunz - the latter together with Pascale Schreibmüller - she performs and publishes sound-specific works. Franziska Koch teaches artistic practice in the BA Fine Arts at the ZHdK.
The composer, sound artist and musician Vivian Wang explores interstitial spaces and works at the sonic interfaces of art, culture and space. She also composes for film and theater projects as well as new media. Her sound material includes synthesizers, voice, electronics, field recordings and prepared objects. Vivian Wang regularly performs live, including at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Together with the art collective U5, she presented the multimedia installation "House of Sentiments" at the Bern Art Museum in 2018.
Nelson Irsapoullé, also known as Fu*, Nelson Landwerh and Nelson El Exotico, creates multifaceted, multidisciplinary art, electronic music, performances and multi-layered activist interventions. Irsapoullé's musical and performative work is anchored in Geneva's experimental underground scene. Nelson Irsapoullé's nebulous psychotronic compositions have provided the soundtracks for performance pieces, theater and film productions. Last May, Nelson Irsapoullé's solo "Le jour oú j'ai décidé d'être un Génix" premiered at the Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva. Tracy September aka TRA is a South African musician, performer, DJ and music researcher. She lives and works in Zurich. In her work she interweaves influences from jazz, traditional Xhosa singing and electronic experiments and describes her sound as "hybrid narrative-spirit music". She artistically explores the themes of memory and resistance and has a great passion for improvisation. In addition to her solo projects, Tracy September composes music for film and theater projects and is a member of the transcultural band Black Pitch.