PlusX with Nina Emge & Vanessa Heer hosted by Verena Buttmann

Nina Emge & Vanessà Heer are part of WARM, a feminist collective from Zurich that creates situations in which women* can musically exchange and experiment.

It is important to them to provide spaces that are safe, considerate, warm and yet critical. The collective-members share an interest in the collaborative and transformative effect of sound and music – whether that is in art, theatre or writing. Together they organise DJ workshops, sound jam sessions and various discursive formats around the theme of critical, active listening for women*. Furthermore, as a DJ collective they perform at listening sessions, radio shows and parties.

Nina Emge lives between Berlin and Zürich. She works primarily with sculpture and sound. Her work explores the question of who is being listened to, in which context are people listening, and how to locate sound politically.

Vanessà Heer explores in her work the political possibilities of active listening and how it can be used as a feminist, decolonial and attentive tool. In both her performative and installative works, she orients towards questions of solidarity, collaboration, the dissolving authorship, and the challenges of self-precarization.