curated by danniel tostes and antoine schalk
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Limmatstrasse 270, Zürich
Sicc Puppy
video documentation: chaos clay
There will be works by various artists who represent different positions on pressing issues around race, gender, and sexuality. This results in a reflection on radical care that finds expression in poetry, science fiction, affect, and club culture. Following texts by political philosopher and feminist activist Silvia Federici, the significance of the commons – forms of living together outside institutional conditions – will also be discussed artistically.
The first iteration of Interventions on Frequency takes the form of an evening composed of a performance by chaos clay and a DJ set by Sicc Puppy during the Zurich Art Week. The dip into sonic practices is undertaken by the former, naming myths and legends active within club culture and more specifically within techno as a Black music genre. clay’s sonorities invite us to connect with their archive made of custom songs, mixed samples, their own production and voice over, creating an intim ate atmosphere, which enables our body sensation to connect to a renewed temporal perception, changing the relation with the space around us through an Afro-futuristic sound performance. Their work GodXchange is followed by a cathartic Dj set by Sicc Puppy. Both moments constitute strategies for emergent sounds, soundscapes capable of disrupting normative visions of the world, bringing bodies together through the articulation of a certain nexus of beats, hence participating in the making of a temporality defined on its own. The sonic space articulated here is rooted in the past, bringing up ancestral elements and figures while constantly aiming at a distant future. In such, performance theorist José Esteban Muñoz in his text Cruising Utopia: The then and there of queer futurity drew queerness not as a site, but as a constant movement: «Leaving the here and now of straight time» (Muñoz, 2009, p. 185), to think and imagine collectively new forms of community-making and kinships.