20 november 2025
ECAL/auditorium IKEA, free entrance
Rue du Temple 5, 1020 Renens
14h00-15h00
Presentation of the book Sounds of Black Switzerland. Blackness, Music and Unthought Voices by Jessie Cox
15h00-16h00
Collective study of the relationship between racialization and listening based on the contemporary Swiss situation, presented and moderated by Pamela Ohene-Nyako.
Arsenic/Café, free entrance
Rue de Genève 57, 1004 Lausanne
20h30 Doors
21h30-22h30 Performance
Fred Moten (voice, texts) & Brandon López (bass)
Study day as part of the project’s Parasonic : transmission of fugitive aural practices series of public lectures and performances. This project seeks to study, deconstruct, and escape the hegemonic mechanisms of racialization at play in listening practices in art, music, and everyday life. This project is led by the BA Visual Arts program at ECAL, in partnership with the La Becque artist residency and the Arsenic theater.
Jessie Cox is a percussionist, composer, and professor at Harvard University, author of the provocative and inspiring monograph: Sounds of Black Switzerland (Duke University Press, 2025).
Pamela Ohene-Nyako is the founder of Afrolitt’, a historian of Black-European feminism and internationalism, author of numerous articles, and co-editor of the important collective work Un/doing race. Racialization in Switzerland.
Fred Moten is a poet, cultural theorist, author, professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University, creating new conceptual forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics and social life.
Brandon López is an indispensable double bassist from the New York improvisation scene. With Fred Moten, they have just released the album Revision, on TAO Forms in 2025.
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