Friday, 13 October 2023, 06–09 pm

Performance by KITCHUAN, two texts by Ariane Koch and Matthew Hanson.
This is a public event.

A dish, like an unexpectedly intense hug, squeezing your lungs together too tightly, weirdly comfortable, even soothing albeit the short breathlessness it leaves behind. Noodles, that will overrule your tastebuds and conquer your emotions. Nothing is more effective against a lover’s despair, you have to eat up, you know why. Hot as in spicy, peppery, piquant, pungent. So strong flavoured that makes one feel burning, fiery, intense, vehement, ardent, fervent. Eaten in the streets where nobody can hold back their tears, the dish served is called “heartbreak noodles”, or Liangfen of Happy Tears and is served by KITCHUAN (He Shen, Juliette Martin and Blanka Major), a Zurich-based collective working on and inspecting moments of shared indulgence and pleasure.

Kennt ihr das Lied / Bei dem ganz lange nichts passiert / Und dann plötzlich alles auf einmal.
Ariane Koch moves in her professional life between fine arts, theatre, performance and literature. Wondering how these parallel practices inform each other we asked Ariane for a textual contribution. Her relationship to our questions found form in a poetic text on rhythm and anarchy named Song for Drums which can be read or listened to.

Matthew Hanson is interested in authorship, institutional formations, class identity and reception theory. In 2022, he organised the two-day-two-night symposium Arrangements on behalf of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU, exploring questions of institutional formation through the lens of artists working with sound, audio and composition. To tap onto his experiences and what he learned from these encounters, we invited Matthew for a textual contribution.