Cordial Invitation

Dear friends, dear colleagues and all interested,

Following the community kick-off in December 2025, "Rumble in the Archive" is entering its next phase. Since then, the residents and partners have been working with the curatorial team to develop the archive and to create a programme with further events and activities.

"The Spring Rumble" on 14 March launches this next phase with a celebration, awakening claims, vibes and visions from the living diasporic archives and revives postcolonial Zurich. A collective space where care, solidarity and resistance are cultivated and shared in order to claim the public space and to create a home for the multitudes.

From 4 pm Photobooth and insights into the "Rumble Archive"

In the photobooth "The Other Switzerlands", Indian artist and researcher Debasish Borah invites guests to have their photo taken in front of a speculative image of Zurich.
More about Debasish 

In dialogical tours, two residents at a time guide visitors through the archive room and discuss their interventions with each other and the participants.
More about the residents

6 pm Welcome note, Brazilian buffet by Maria Oceano Stamm and soundz curated by Alkebulan Association

7:30 pm "The Spring Rumble Show"

> Art and culture mediator Marilyn Umurungi will give the opening speech.

> In the performance "Imagine a Black Child" by Black, trans- and interdisciplinary artist Zainab J Lascandri, sound archives, her own music and dance merge into a contemporary ritual.
More about Zainab

> Architect Salim Umar reads excerpts from his text-in-progress "This House Has Moved Me", which describes the perspective of a tiled stove in an Afropean guild house ("Zunfthaus").
More about Salim

> The indigenous-Filipino collective BIBAK Switzerland addresses the audience with the performance "Our Bodies Remember: From Display to Dignity", which confronts the history of their ancestors exhibited in human zoos and transforms it into an act of living presence.
More about BIBAK Switzerland

> Dandara Modesto, guitar and voice, reverberates the Afro-indigenous Brazilian rhythms and melodies from her body and, thus, activates memory, space, time, gaps, and imagination through.
More about Dandara

> Between the acts, talks with the guests moderated by Rohit Jain.

> 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm DJ Breezy Hendrix

> If, in the wake of the Spring Rumble, you want to delve deeper into the stories of resistance and critique in colonial and postcolonial Zurich, join our workshop "Inside the Archive" on Sunday, March 15, 2 to 5 pm.

> You find more information about the residents and the "Rumble in the Archive" project on the main site.

> It's open house: you can arrive later or leave earlier. Bring friends and family!

> Your registration makes planning easier for us: registration page.

> The event is free and most contributions will be in English. We will arrange whispered translation if needed.

We are very much looking forward to celebrating "The Spring Rumble" with you, forging new relationships, telling new stories, learning from each other – in short, making ourselves at home in postcolonial Zurich.

... so, let's keep rumbling!

Rohit Jain (project co-curator)
Alkebulan association (residents)
Eva De Souza (resident)
Salim Umar (resident)
studiyo filipino (residents)
Alexis Malefakis (co-curator Ethnographic Museum UZH)
Alice Hertzog (director Ethnographic Museum UZH)

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