Very happy to share the final event in Kay Zhang’s Carte Blanche series Ancestral Roots at Moods Zürich, which I have been supporting as co-curator!
We are so excited to welcome LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs to Zürich for a sonic performative poetry reading.
24 May, 19:00
Moods Zürich
Tickets and info via Moods.
Hope to see some of you there!
@kkbubbles_@latasha.diggs
Songkran💧สงกรานต์ in the Diaspora✨
18.04.26 — Asian Empowerment Community x Verein Diversum
We came together to celebrate Thai New Year! 🌿
The gathering started with a reading + conversation by Mani @mani_owzar , Kay @kkbubbles_ and Neyen @neyen_pailamilla , sharing stories of feeling in-between worlds.
Followed by a sound ritual by Kay, grounding the space and honoring the spirit of the day 🔔
We closed with homemade แกงเขียวหวาน (Kaeng Khiao Wan) and ยำวุ้นเส้น (Yam Wun Sen), cooked by Shen @he_shen and Vanny @chao54ngel 🌶️🍲
Thank you to everyone who shared this moment with us — let’s do this again next year 💙
Moments beautifully captured by Kate @thisiskatelim
Songkran💧สงกรานต์ in the Diaspora✨
18.04.26 — Asian Empowerment Community x Verein Diversum
We came together to celebrate Thai New Year! 🌿
The gathering started with a reading + conversation by Mani @mani_owzar , Kay @kkbubbles_ and Neyen @neyen_pailamilla , sharing stories of feeling in-between worlds.
Followed by a sound ritual by Kay, grounding the space and honoring the spirit of the day 🔔
We closed with homemade แกงเขียวหวาน (Kaeng Khiao Wan) and ยำวุ้นเส้น (Yam Wun Sen), cooked by Shen @he_shen and Vanny @chao54ngel 🌶️🍲
Thank you to everyone who shared this moment with us — let’s do this again next year 💙
Moments beautifully captured by Kate @thisiskatelim
Songkran💧สงกรานต์ in the Diaspora✨
18.04.26 — Asian Empowerment Community x Verein Diversum
We came together to celebrate Thai New Year! 🌿
The gathering started with a reading + conversation by Mani @mani_owzar , Kay @kkbubbles_ and Neyen @neyen_pailamilla , sharing stories of feeling in-between worlds.
Followed by a sound ritual by Kay, grounding the space and honoring the spirit of the day 🔔
We closed with homemade แกงเขียวหวาน (Kaeng Khiao Wan) and ยำวุ้นเส้น (Yam Wun Sen), cooked by Shen @he_shen and Vanny @chao54ngel 🌶️🍲
Thank you to everyone who shared this moment with us — let’s do this again next year 💙
Moments beautifully captured by Kate @thisiskatelim
🎧«SCHAUFENSTER» is a transformable instrument – a resonating glass cube developed in 2021 by Dimitri de Perrot, Li Tavor and Studio DdP.
Here, it’s the site of a sound piece for three performers in which the kollektiv iиterиatioиal totem will attempt to conduct group therapy. To this end, «SCHAUFENSTER» is transformed into a skull ceiling under which haunting voices, noises and thoughts try to understand each other. Various sessions will explore the approach of radical honesty, the illusion of care and the musical substance of thought. Language becomes sound, sounds become thoughts – until everyone has forgotten who is actually trea- ting whom.
🩻Friday 27. February 2026
16:30 – 17:30
🥼Sunday 1 March 2026
13:00 & 15:00
Venue
Z3
Kanonengasse 18B
CH – 8004 Zürich
Initiated by Dimitri de Perrot / Studio DdP
with kollektiv international totem
CREDITS
SCHAUFENSTER #3
Artistic direction: kollektiv iиterиatioиal totem (Kay Zhang, Nuriia Khasenova, Léo Collin)
Stage: Lea Meierhofer, Leo Hoffmann
Management and touring: Studio DdP
SCHAUFENSTER Project Series
Concept & Artistic direction: Dimitri de Perrot
Concept and development of the SCHAUFENSTER object: Dimitri de Perrot, Li Tavor
Construction: Leo Hoffmann
Audio engineering: Nicolas Buzzi
Lighting design: Tina Bleuler, Patrik Rimann
Communication & Think Tank: Christoph Elias Meier
Technical direction: Raphaël Vuilleumier
Production management & touring coordination: Studio DdP
Production: Studio DdP
Co-production: Gessnerallee Zürich
Partner festival: About Us! Zürich Interkulturell
Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Stiftung Corymbo, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Migros-Kulturprozent
@dimitrideperrot@sonicmatterplatform@kkbubbles_@kollektivtotem@nkhasenova@gessnerallee@about_us_zurich@landisundgyrstiftung@cemeier@hoffmannsleo@li_wonder@nikkibbbuzzi@tina_tna_ #Musiktheater #NeuesMusiktheater #ZeitgenoessischesTheater #Klangkunst klanginstallation soundart
«The Listening Protocol» invites performers and audience into a fragile situation: language dissolves into sound, sound into thought, and attention becomes a shared space.
SCHAUFENSTER #3
@ Sonic Matter Festival Zurich
27.2–1.3.2026
An itinerant glass architecture.
A temporary community.
An experiment in listening.
Initiated by Dimitri de Perrot / Studio DdP
with kollektiv international totem
CREDITS
SCHAUFENSTER #3
Artistic direction: kollektiv iиterиatioиal totem (Kay Zhang, Nuriia Khasenova, Léo Collin)
Stage: Lea Meierhofer, Leo Hoffmann
Management and touring: Studio DdP
SCHAUFENSTER Project Series
Concept & Artistic direction: Dimitri de Perrot
Concept and development of the SCHAUFENSTER object: Dimitri de Perrot, Li Tavor
Construction: Leo Hoffmann
Audio engineering: Nicolas Buzzi
Lighting design: Tina Bleuler, Patrik Rimann
Communication & Think Tank: Christoph Elias Meier
Technical direction: Raphaël Vuilleumier
Production management & touring coordination: Studio DdP
Production: Studio DdP
Co-production: Gessnerallee Zürich
Partner festival: About Us! Zürich Interkulturell
Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Stiftung Corymbo, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Migros-Kulturprozent
@sonicmatterplatform@kollektivtotem@nkhasenova@gessnerallee@about_us_zurich@landisundgyrstiftung@cemeier@hoffmannsleo@li_wonder@nicolas_buzzi@tina_tna_ #Musiktheater #NeuesMusiktheater #ZeitgenoessischesTheater #Klangkunst #klanginstallation #soundart
💫really excited to launch my carte blanche @moodszurich tomorrow! I co-curated these three concerts with tracy september @_tra_9 and Stanford Chen @stanbam1 . Join us for the first one tomorrow night with @duma_ma and band members as the first act! 💫 see you there!
Das neue Jahr 2026 beginnen wir lebendig und vielseitig!
🗓️Am Fr 9. & Sa 10.1., 20:00 sind Léo Collin & Kapitolina Tsvetkova mit ihrem humorvollen, musiktheatralen Gedankenexperiment «Plankton» zu Gast im Gare du Nord.
«Plankton» ist die Geschichte von vier Menschen, die sich dazu entschieden haben, sich aus der Gesellschaft zurückzuziehen, um fortan in Einsamkeit zu leben. In einzelnen, intimen Porträts entfaltet sich ihr unabhängiges Leben und ihre Verbindungen zur Umgebung. Die vier Geschichten entwickeln sich Seite an Seite, verweben sich klanglich und szenisch oder bleiben vollkommen isoliert in der Einsamkeit. Die abgeschiedenen Welten werden zu unheimlichen Räumen, in denen Erinnerungen und Fantasien ineinander verschmelzen.
Info: «Plankton» ist in Englisch/Französisch mit deutschen Untertiteln. Besondere Hinweise: Da das Stück für ein mobiles Publikum konzipiert ist, werden Stühle nur auf Anfrage für mobilitätseingeschränkte Zuschauer zur Verfügung gestellt.
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We are kicking off the new year 2026 with a lively and diverse programme!
🗓️On Friday 9 and Saturday 10 January at 8 p.m., Léo Collin and Kapitolina Tsvetkova will be performing their humorous musical theatre thought experiment «Plankton» at the Gare du Nord.
«Plankton» is the story of four people who have decided to withdraw from society and live in solitude from now on. In individual, intimate portraits, their independent lives and their connections to their surroundings unfold. The four stories develop side by side, interweaving sonically and scenically, or remaining completely isolated in solitude. The secluded worlds become eerie spaces in which memories and fantasies merge.
Info: «Plankton» is in English/French with German subtitles. Special notes: As the play is designed for a mobile audience, chairs will only be provided on request for spectators with limited mobility.
📸Philip Frowein
@leo.collin@kapitopina@kevintoksozfairbairn@grimaitregilles@kkbubbles_
#garedunordbasel #spielzeit2526
LES COMPLICES* GOES TO CAIRO!
We’re bringing Komplizine to the 4th edition of the Cairo Art Book Fair (@cairoartbookfair ), taking place on December 11–13, 2025. ✨
Komplizine issues #3, #4, and #5 were published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 by the current curatorial team, a revival of the original series by Martina Baldinger and Gökçe Ergör (2016). Komplizine #3, I Wish for More Complices* gathers wishes and desires originally collected by Jonathan Lorand during our Sommerfest ‘23. Komplizine #4 brings together love letters written in a room hosted by Larissa Tiki Mbassi during Sommerfest ‘24 and texts from our In Love ;* exhibition, which took place in the same year. The most recent issue, Komplizine #5, assembles recipes, poems, texts, and flavours shaped by two years of our staple event series, Food Tuesdays.
Contributors:
Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos, Congle Fu, Helene Leuzinger, HE Shen 何珅, Jonathan Lorand, Jovita Dos Santos Pinto, Larissa Tiki Mbassi, Niloofar Rasooli, NI Daodao 倪岛岛, Paloma Ayala, Phoebe-lin Elnan, tina omayemi reden, tracy september, Vanessa Bosch วาเนสซ่า, and Yris Apsit.
See you there! 🫧
Congratulations to Chinese artist Kay Zhang (@kkbubbles_ ), who received this year’s year-long artist grant in the Classical / New Music category!
On Nov. 21, the annual Zurich Cultural Awards ceremony took place, celebrating outstanding achievements across visual arts, jazz/rock/classical/new music, literature, dance, theatre, and the city’s Special Cultural Achievement Award.
Born in 1990 in Melbourne and now based in Zurich, Kay Zhang (张凯驹) is a sonic artist whose practice explores in-betweenness through sound, performance, curation, and research. Their curatorial work embraces learning-by-doing methods and experimentation, interwoven with transdisciplinary art.
Kay trained in Australia and further developed their practice in France, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. They work across various projects and platforms, with interests spanning intercultural identities, queer-feminist theories, and sound ecologies. Their dedication lies in creating sonic experiences—through field recordings, collective listening, and care-based practices—that invite deeper engagement with the world around us.
Zurich Mayor Corine Mauch delivered a speech and presented the awards in person.
Cheers to all the awardees — and to Zurich’s vibrant cultural scene! 🥂✨
Text & pictures by @yunlongsong
#zurichcultrualprize #sinokultur #kayzhang #pabloassandri #chineseartist #zurichartlife
✨ what a whirlwind and thankfulness!
feeling very grateful and honoured to have the support from loved ones around and being awarded the werkjahr from Stadt Zurich. 🌸💜🫂🎈
photo credit: @pooya and Phillip Frowein @philipfrowein
📸: @riikkatauriainen@laurarodrigeuz@heshen
We won *the* prize!
Les Complices* has received the Förderpreis Kanton Zürich—a beautiful nudge from the universe (and the Kanton) that the ripples are reaching further than we thought.
The Government Council of Kanton Zurich awards these prizes annually to individuals or groups whose artistic or cultural work shows great potential.
This recognition goes to our newly appointed curatorial team: Kay Zhang, Paloma Ayala, Thi My Lien Nguyen, Engy Mohsen, tracy september.
We’re humbled, giggly, and slightly suspicious that someone out there believes in our mischief this much.
This space didn’t appear out of nowhere—it was conjured and cared for by many before us. We bow deeply to our ancestral beings: Andrea Thal, who shaped the foundations; Gökçe Ergör & Martina Baldinger (2015–2017), who kept the spark going; Gökçe Ergör & Reem Kadhum aka the Janitor (since 2018), who reimagined its edges and depths; and Trinity Njume-Ebong (2023–2024), whose touch endures.
To us, this prize is not just a pat on the back—it’s a shared celebration of collective dreaming, the value of slow brewing ideas, and a refusal to rush. It’s a reminder that transformation takes time, and that joy, trust, and troublemaking can (and should) coexist.
We’ll keep experimenting, listening, conjuring, making room for messiness and possibility. We’ll keep centering the voices that systems often ignore. We’ll keep hosting, with all the complexity and care it takes.
Thank you to all our accomplices—past, present and yet to come.
Let’s keep making beautiful trouble,
The curatorial team of LC*
