Fred Hystère
Anna Frei alias Fred Hystère is a Artist, Sonic Researcher, Cultural Producer, Graphic Designer, Editor, DJ and Record Store Co-Operator who lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. She worked and works in several collaborative Art, Performance and Music Projects, as a freelance Graphic Designer and Conceptrice on publications and editions (Edition Fink, OOR Editions a.o.) and organizes discursive experimental audio formats and concerts. As DJ Fred Hystère she*s searching for multi-layered, emancipatory narratives within experimental DJ Mixes and collaborates on Performances and Audio-Pieces with the art collective knowbotiqs, the Zürich based Artists Romy Rüegger, Franziska Koch, Sally Schonfeldt a.o. She performed at SideRoom Amsterdam, District Berlin, Archive Books Berlin, Café Oto London, Standards Milano, Istituto Svizzera Rome, Venice Biennale, Salon des Amateurs Düsseldorf amongst many other places. Since 2014 she’s co-operates and co-curates OOR Records/OOR Saloon, which is a collective run record- and art book store, soundspace and sound related production context in Zürich. The OOR Saloon Series wishes to create discursive spaces for negotiations of emancipatory artistic practices related to sound.