Backslash Festival 2026

Description

Backslash Festival is rooted in contemporary practices across live and experimental electronic music, performing arts and club culture. It approaches sound not as an isolated medium, but as something entangled with bodies, images, codes, and spatial conditions. Performance unfolds as a situation, constructed, unstable, and shared. Backslash Festival exists in a liminal space between a club night, a contemporary theatre and a niche concert program, without fully settling into any of them. It pays attention not only to how creations are made, but also to how they are experienced — physically, collectively, and in relation to its surroundings. For two nights, the festival builds a temporary environment for encounter and transformation. A space where practices intersect, expectations shift, and where people move, lose focus and find it again. Nothing fully locks into place, and that’s kind of the point. Since 2016, the transdisciplinary Backslash Festival has been presenting works that move between and beyond performing arts, club culture and visual arts. The festival is organised by the non-profit association Tokyo Data Collective, in co-production with the Theatre Gessnerallee. LINEUP 36birds
Aa Sudd (live)
Bast Hippocrate & William Cardoso (performance)
Buttechno (live)
crp (live)
francine satu (live)
kriss mess (live)
MÂNAA b2b Caramelo Gabanna
Martín M. Wollmann & Rafał Pierzyński (performance)
Melissa Guex & Katerina Andreu (performance)
margaretha jüngling, Alina Arshi & Luc Häfliger (performance)
Ohm Sweet (live)
ophélie
Piezo & upsammy present Eerie Enterprise (live)
Souzo (live)
Stefanie Egedy (installation)
STREIKTHROUGH (live)
Ula Liagaitė (performance) More information and tickets at https://backslashfestival. com

Highlights

• Celebrating 10th anniversary
• Features live acts, DJ sets, and performances
• Curated by Tokyo Data Collective and Theatre Gessnerallee

General Information

Backslash Festival 2026 takes place at Gessner Allee in Zürich, showcasing a diverse range of electronic music and performance art. The festival creates an immersive environment for exploration and interaction, emphasizing the connections between sound, bodies, and space.

Location

Gessnerallee 8, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

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