ECAL Conference & Performance – Parasonic
20.11.2025
IKEA Auditorium, ECAL

A two-part day within the Parasonic research project: transmission of fleeting aural practices, led by the Bachelor in Visual Arts at ECAL, exploring the hegemonic mechanisms of radicalisation at work in listening practices in art, music, and everyday life. An event organized in collaboration with La Becque – artist residency and Arsenic – contemporary performing arts centre.

Daytime

2:00 PM – Sounds of Black Switzerland. Blackness, Music and Unthought Voices (Duke University Press, 2025), a provocative and inspiring monograph. Presentation by Jessie Cox, percussionist, composer, and professor at Harvard University.

3:00 PM – Collective study of the relationship between racialisation and listening in contemporary Switzerland. Moderated by Pamela Ohene-Nyako, founder of Afrolitt, historian of Black-European feminisms and internationalisms, and co-editor of the collective work Un/doing Race. Radicalisation in Switzerland.

IKEA Auditorium, ECAL

Nighttime

9:30 PM – Voice and double bass performance by Fred Moten, poet, cultural theorist, author, and professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University, and Brandon López, a key double bassist in the New York improvisation scene.

Café de l’Arsenic