Read the Room series is back!

Read The Room (RTR) is a series that engages with art practitioners, musicians and sound artists who work with a listening practice. The title of this series is a play on the words ‘raum’ and ‘realm’. In German the word ‘raum’ translates to both room and realm. In English, the word ‘room’ can describe a physical enclosed space or more abstractly, the amount, capacity or opportunity of space available. To enter any room, one must gather their surroundings (internal and external), and have an awareness of others (visible and invisible) around them. RTR is a way to translate what you hear, observe and feel in that room or realm, into a shared listening experience.

For our upcoming programme, we will invite artists to engage with our space over a three day period (two days working and one day to present/exchange) and the city of Zurich by pairing them with a fitting Zurich based artist, whose practice speaks to your practice. The format can take many forms and is open to the artists to decide what feels resonant to their practice and the sonic moment they would like to create. 

To kick off the series in 2026, we will have Gugulethu Duma (aka Dumama), a musician / composer / sonic poet / creative producer from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Her practice plays with the deconstruction and critique of archaic modes of representation in Southern African/African sonic and performance culture, while also composing music for herself and others. As a storyteller and lyricist she weaves together childhood songs, stories and personal memories with electronic hues and gestures, experimenting with the divide between traditional oral culture and futuristic, globally oriented poetics in her embodiment of an African technological consciousness.

You can check her out here: https://www.dumamamusic.com/

We look forward to listening and being with you soon!