lazy club

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution. At the lazy club Bint Mbareh will translate her work into an hour long DJ-set.

Jessica Jurassica is a musician, artist, author, and blogger. In 2020, her erotic fan fiction Die verbotenste Frucht im Bundeshaus (The Forbidden Fruit in the Federal Parliament) about a fictional Federal Councilor appeared in almost all Swiss media and was warned by the Federal Chancellery. Her debut novel Das Ideal des Kaputten (The Ideal of the Broken) was published in 2021 and received several awards. She has released two albums with the Eurodance duo CAPSLOCK SUPERSTAR and writes about pop culture and socio-political topics on her blog Jessica Jurassica’s Lifestyle Blog. This fall, Jessica Jurassica’s second novel Gaslicht (Gaslight) was published, in which an experience of violence has turned the protagonist into a kind of seismograph: what happened echoes within her and demands to be recorded. And the louder the present, the louder her past, she realizes when she becomes involved in Switzerland’s first major #MeToo scandal. To get to the bottom of the nature of trauma, Jessica Jurassica peels away layers of time and dissects patriarchal narratives.

Claude Bühler works primarily with photography and sound. Her work explores notions of collectivity and intimacy by creating soft spaces and provoking performative moments that enable small acts of liberation. In her image- and sound-based practice, an affinity for technology, a willingness to set boundaries within conversations, and an interest in the shift between the visible and the dreamlike are important points of reference.
Claude is the founder of salon vert, an artist collective and laboratory for sound research as well as a space for interdisciplinary dialogue, and is co-responsible for the Rathaus für Kultur in Lichtensteig—an event venue and center for cultural creation.
At lazy club, Claude presents reference points that shape her artistic and musical work.

Laure Betris is a Swiss-Iraqi musician, composer, and performer. As a teenager in the late 1990s, she discovered the stage in the female grunge band Skirt. She performed under the name Kassette for a long time and recorded four albums. Laure Betris released her first album under her own name on Humus Records in November 2023. It is a very personal project in which she sings in Chaldean (a form of Aramaic, the language of her father from Iraq) and French.

At the lazy club, Laure plays a set about grief, mourning, and death—in the broadest sense. With softness (in generous doses), textures, lightness, and depth.