21 – 24 May

Les yeux grand fermés – Biennial Festival of Sound and Radio Art

Les yeux grand fermés is a durational radio-art project presented within a sound art biennial that stages listening as a sculptural practice. Curated by Clara Alloing, Céline Carridroit and Marie Jeanson, the programme gathers archival and contemporary radio creations — broadcasts, podcasts and performative transmissions — into a sequence of listening sessions, performances and nocturnal experiments. Themes of disappearance, mediation and the politics of FM airwaves inform an attentive, darkened setting designed to foreground sonic narratives and the materiality of listening.

In French.

Rue des Terreaux-du-Temple 12,
, Switzerland
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