Fred Moten & Brandon López

An exceptional evening with one of the most influential and radical voices in contemporary Black studies: Fred Moten, joined for the occasion by double bassist Brandon López.

 

Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Rue de Genève 57, 1004 Lausanne

8:30 pm Doors open
9:30–10:30 pm Performance Fred Moten (voice, texts) & Brandon López (double bass)

Free admission

 

Fred Moten is a poet, cultural theorist, author, and professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University. His work creates new conceptual forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life.

 

Brandon López is a leading double bassist on New York’s improvisation scene. Together with Fred Moten, he recently released the album Revision (TAO Forms, 2025).

 

This concert is part of a public study day organized by the project Parasonic: Transmission of Fugitive Aural Practices, which seeks to explore, deconstruct, and resist hegemonic mechanisms of racialization at play in listening practices in art, music, and everyday life. The project is led by the BA in Visual Arts at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, in partnership with La Becque and Arsenic.

 

ECAL (IKEA Auditorium)
Rue du Temple 5, 1020 Renens

2:00–3:00 pm Presentation of the book Sounds of Black Switzerland. Blackness, Music and Unthought Voices by Jessie Cox
3:00–4:00 pm Collective discussion on racialization and listening in contemporary Switzerland, presented and moderated by Pamela Ohene-Nyako

Free admission

 

Jessie Cox is a percussionist, composer, and professor at Harvard University, and author of the provocative and inspiring monograph Sounds of Black Switzerland (Duke University Press, 2025).

 

Pamela Ohene-Nyako is the founder of Afrolitt’, historian of Black European feminisms and internationalisms, author of numerous essays, and co-editor of the influential collective volume Un/doing Race Racialisation en Suisse (Seismo, 2022).