Hailing from Blackpool in Northern England, Joanne Robertson has made herself a name as a painter and as a musician over the past two decades. Her recent output as a visual artist features abstract paintings, combining gentle colors and vague shapes. Her music in turn, is a more figurative affair, and comes into existence in good part through collaboration—for example with Dean Blunt or Sidsel Meineche Hansen. But only at first sight do these practices differ, as Harun Gradascevic and[…]

In October 2024, the Lausanne festival LUFF showcased an exciting lineup of performances from artists including Lord Spikeheart, Suzan Peeters, bela [see zweikommasieben #28], Yvonne LeBien, ZULI [see zweikommasieben #14], Mosquito Farm, Ieva Balode and Biliana Voutchkova, Billy Bao, Andrea Pensado, Luka Aron, and Js Donny, among others. Remo Bitzi set himself an ambitious challenge: selecting seven standout performances from this year’s edition.

In August, Kamixlo (who was featured in zweikommasieben #22) released his new album DEATHWORK via the Berlin-based label PAN. Ahead of a show at Grabenhalle in St. Gallen in December, Oliver Hochuli caught up with the South London producer and DJ in a video call.

In October, Mesh, a new festival for digital art and technology, gathers over 100 artists, researchers, engineers, designers, and theorists to explore the theme “Tooling the Future.” The best part: we’re giving away 2×2 festival passes!

Nazanin Noori’s artistic practice spans a range of media and disciplines that influence each other. Her intensive engagement with spoken theater and poetry melds with a persistent confrontation with the genres of ambient, noise, and doom techno. This leads to works in the form of installations, sound art, sculptures, and stage and audio plays. The following conversation with Joshua Wicke tackles the role of narrative in Noori’s practice, transcendence and the grotesque, art as a form of healing, and her[…]

In the picturesque Val d’Ossola, where ancient stone corridors carved by glacial waters whisper tales of time, the Nextones Festival 2024 blended the powerful sounds of Lucy Railton, Robert Hood, Aïsha Devi, Lanark Artefax, and others with the breathtaking natural landscape. Remo Bitzi was on site for zweikommasieben. Here he looks back to the four-day festival that proved that art and nature can truly become one.