Concert / Performance, Event in Biel/Bienne, Talk, Workshop

La Fête à Bruit · Art & Politics of Improvisation

La Fête à Bruit is a festival dedicated to improvisation, combining artistic, theoretical, discursive and transdisciplinary perspectives. Using sound and listening as vectors, it creates a platform for the exchange of ideas and the development of new forms of artistic production between artists and with the public.

Artists and lecturers: Fabienne Abramovitch & Cyril Bondi, Davorka Begović, Xavier Charles, Vanja Dabić ∞ Kumah, Philipp Eden, Florian Eitel, Nicolas Y Galeazzi, Jason Kahn, Eva-Maria Karbacher, Hans Koch, Ivar Roban Križić, kuda.org, Michael Kunkel, Antoine Läng, Frantz Loriot, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Lea Krebs, Andrej Mirčev, Natalie Peters, Antoine Rubin, Gregory Stauffer, Dafni Stefanou, Marina Tantanozi, Nora Vetter, HannaH Vyborg Walter, Ute Wassermann, Sara Zlanabitnig

Detailed programme
Biographies of the participants

Dates
August 29, 30, 31, September 1st,
every day from 12:00 on, Terrain Gurzelen, Biel/Bienne

Recommended Ticket Price
Evening or afternoon CHF 20.- / full day CHF 30.- / 4 days CHF 100.-. You can choose to pay more or less depending on your budget

Radio Partner
Lumpen station – Undisciplinary Radio Practices. Blablabliblabiu, daily live broadcast from 14:30 to 16:00 on lumpenstation.art

Support
City of Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Temporatio, Landis & Gyr, Fondation Oertli, Sudkulturfond, BVG, Ruth & Arthur Scherbarth Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, FSRC, Fondation Henneberger-Mercier

Press review
All reviews

Interview for RTS Espace 2
Frantz Loriot by Anne Gillot [French]


Poster by Nayara Siler

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