Associates curators is hosting :
Otter Holding Hands by Ambra Viviani, Giulietta
OHH, season 3, Loving in Between 2025 
Artists: ALY-X & Gotgha
Title: Elegy for the Age of Spasm
co-production: Giulietta and Lumpen Station
supports: Pro Helvetia, FSRC - SWISSPERFORM 

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre 
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
 The ceremony of innocence is drowned”

 William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919

This piece is a sonification of the final moments of Joan of Arc’s here-and-now existence, as portrayed in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).
It follows the procession leading her to the stake, and her appeal to God for safe passage — free from suffering.
The call expressed in this piece is not directed toward God — and yet, it calls out nonetheless.
Calling into the void. Calling the unknown.
Death — one of the most mysterious transitions, whether into non-existence or into one of the afterlives proposed by various religions.
A passage, nevertheless.
This unknown is often aesthetically framed by culture.
Graveyards, for instance, not only offer a resting place for the dead; they also provide a frame for the unknown that death embodies — soothing, perhaps, in the sense that death lies beyond experience.
Aesthetically, this piece borrows from black metal — a genre that often revolves around death, giving it shape, sound, and landscape.

This musical work is a sonic framing of that unknown.

BIO
ALY-X, the solo moniker of artist Aleyna Günay.
She works with sound, sculpture, installation, performance, and writing, and critically examines power and control, exploring how these forces shape and influence systems and individuals.
Since starting her project ALY-X in Paris in 2018, where she collaborated with artists from the scene, she has performed at venues such as LUFF, cave12, Palace, and Karmen Camina in Switzerland and Europe. Her recent exhibition was shown at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel as part of Plattform 25.
ALY-X is a reflection of perpetual violence. Her new project, Malrine, emerged to shed light on that violence. She combined both projects on this record, alongside Gotgha.

Gotgha (aka Luc Häfliger, they/them) is a Zurich-based composer, performer, and sound artist.Their practice revolves around the question of how we can recode space through sonic experience.
Through the lens of noise, they explore sonic and performative states in which the boundaries between control and ecstasy become fluid. Their works seamlessly weave together composition and improvisation.
They are a founding member of doxa shroti, a collective that organizes monthly guerrilla concerts in underpasses—acts of listening and community-building within Zurich’s experimental music scene. As a collaborator, Gotgha regularly performs and composes alongside Joseph Baan, maintaining an ongoing dialogue with Baan’s performance and visual arts practice. They also work closely with Margaretha Jüngling, creating sonic environments for her multisensory performances. Gotgha’s work has been presented in both national and international contexts, including les Urbaines, Drifts Festival Helsinki, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Baselland, Tanzhaus Zürich, ZKM Karlsruhe, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, and various performances in Yogyakarta and Taipei.