2026

Four decades of contemporary music. And not the least bit nostalgic. Our 40th Anniversary Concert is neither a retrospective nor a tribute. It traces a line of artistic commitments: curiosity, risk, collective listening, and the willingness to let the ensemble’s own history become unsettled by the present. Origin and future, memory and opening, the familiar […]

Failure can be an attitude. Failure can be a strategy. Failure, perhaps, can be an art form. J. Jack Halberstam’s idea of failure as a queer, productive, and transformative strategy inspires this project. Imperfection, instability, and non-linearity appear here not as deficits, but as artistic procedures that undermine expectations of mastery, progress, and coherence. In […]

What was really sounding in the Zurich Dada soirées?The familiar story tells: a group of radical artists gathers in neutral Switzerland in the middle of the First World War, provokes the bourgeoisie, and shakes the art world. It’s a good story. It’s just not entirely true. The music of the Zurich soirées was, unlike the […]

What was really sounding in the Zurich Dada soirées?The familiar story tells: a group of radical artists gathers in neutral Switzerland in the middle of the First World War, provokes the bourgeoisie, and shakes the art world. It’s a good story. It’s just not entirely true. The music of the Zurich soirées was, unlike the […]

What was really sounding in the Zurich Dada soirées?The familiar story tells: a group of radical artists gathers in neutral Switzerland in the middle of the First World War, provokes the bourgeoisie, and shakes the art world. It’s a good story. It’s just not entirely true. The music of the Zurich soirées was, unlike the […]