A rhizome grows under the ground, under your feet.
You are not witnessing the interconnection until it sprouts without - wherever the soil is the most favourable.
Rhizomatic sonic practice mutates forms, continuously readapting itself.
It shakes stagnating grounds with the power of movement, hijacks gravity into a horizontal choreography of equal bodies and polyrythmic interdependency.
RHIZOM is a place to experience art, sounds and community without presumptions. RHIZOM is here to be discovered, it speaks to your body on multiple levels and wants you to live in this very moment. RHIZOM can be demanding but also rewarding.
RHIZOM is the sum of underground connections within local cultural activists. RHIZOM blossoms once a year to showcase the talent hidden beneath the mainstream landscapes. RHIZOM is a setting to create and experiment against prefabricated patterns.
RHIZOM is revolting against labels and stereotypes. RHIZOM is rooted in the idea of diversity and acceptance to lifeforms and lifestyles in general. RHIZOM is a welcoming place for everyone who is ready to live and let live.
RHIZOM is decentralized interaction with countless people willing to make culture happen. RHIZOM results out of the shared vision of nonconformism in a society fuelled by consumption and profit. RHIZOM is tired of speaking and ready to experiment.
RHIZOM is claiming back the right for open and borderless spaces in a city spoiled by abundance. RHIZOM wants you to do the same and become active within your possibilities. RHIZOM does not agree with the status quo and fights for a brighter future.
RHIZOM is self-sustained and fully dependent on the labour and volition of its maintainers.
RHIZOM questions established systems and puts new approaches in direct action. RHIZOM enables you to be in a place without having the urge to consume.
RHIZOM is visible for everyone who shows interest in discovering us. RHIZOM believes in open resilient systems free to be learned from and able to be experienced by everyone. RHIZOM wants to interact, learn and communicate with the eclectic minds surrounding ourselves.
RHIZOM is a blueprint for people willing to make connections, work together and accept different interpretations of life. RHIZOM engages you to take part, be active and reclaim your right for non-institutionalized culture. RHIZOM hacks the circumstance through the
collective power of people who decided to create instead of consuming.
RHIZOM is a transdisciplinary festival that has developed out of VAZEM collective dedicated to cultivating alternative electronic music and arts. It commits itself to uniqueness, character, innovation, passion and DIY-spirit.
During the festival, alternative electronic music and uncompromising club-culture will be experienced. The social responsibility of culture and its consumers will be discussed and envisioned through readings, film, dance, music, video and installation art.
Untypical, organizational initiatives will be tested. Gathering moments will allow connection for further creation. The rhizom will sprout.
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Saturday, 4 June 22: 8 pm – 8 am
Sunday, 5 June 22: 9 pm – 9 am
Rote Fabrik, Seestrasse 395
, 8038 Zurich, Switzerland
Check www.sbb.ch for public transport.
Trainstation: Wollishofen 
busstation: Rote Fabrik 
tramstation: Post Wollishofen
Car: there's no parking available on site!
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. For more information contact us at info@rhizomfestival.com.
Instead of having a classic security concept, the collective aims to ensure a safer space by forming an awareness team for the festival. There will be no tolerance for violence, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, classism, ableism, and any other form of discrimination.
The question of how club culture can be made sustainable plays a central role at the RHIZOM festival 2022. As the foundation for the planning, implementation, and further development of the festival, the collective has developed a sustainability concept based on previous experience. This concept refers to the 'three-pillar model' of sustainability, which considers the areas of 'society & social issues', 'environment', and 'profitability' as equal. The RHIZOM Festival 2022 will provide a platform to showcase the intangible value of club culture and the social innovations and organizational initiatives that emerge from it. Read more about the concept here.
We recommend an entry price of CHF 20.00 / day. Each participant is free to decide what amount they are willing or able to pay. No physical tickets will be sold. Get a stamp at the box office.
The collective is convinced that no one should renounce culture and entertainment due to financial limitations. The prix libre concept encourages people to reflect on which components are relevant to them when it comes to putting a price on something. For example, the appreciation of the work done for the festival, the support of the project, the expenses involved, or the idea of making culture and entertainment accessible for all. It also enables fair and equal pricing, adjusted to one’s individual resources, and empowers all participants.
The prix libre allows the organizers to create a festival without being profitable, without imposing pricing views on participants, and to distance themselves from the value society imposes on human labor.
The festival’s capacity is limited. But you can secure your entry by donating. You can donate as much as you want. As there will be no confirmation from the side of the festival, we kindly ask you to confirm your donation with the days you want to attend and your full name(s) via info@rhizomfestival.ch.
Bank account: Verein VAZEM / 8037 ZĂĽrich / IBAN: CH72 0839 0034 7281 1000 0
Line-up to be announced.
“Back to Normal” is not an option. Rhizom Festival is hosting a conference as part of this year’s festival at Rote Fabrik, asking how current social transformations and disruptions are reflected in and around club culture.
Check out our open calls.
RHIZOM is always looking for opportunities to expand its roots...
RHIZOM festival strives to be an open-minded, collective project with a diy-spirit.
If you wish to involve yourself be it through a collaboration or a volunteer-shift and become an active part of the festival, get in touch with us via rhizom@rhizomfestival.ch.
“Back to Normal” is not an option. Rhizom Festival is hosting a conference as part of this year’s festival at Rote Fabrik, asking how current social transformations and disruptions are reflected in and around club culture. We are calling for contributions that engage critically with this in an academic, artistic or cultural manner. We are interested in submissions that cover one or more of the following fields, especially with an (implicit or explicit) connection to the topic of club culture:
We are looking forward to a short abstract of your idea (ca. 300-600 words), submitted to kongress@rhizomfestival.ch
Format: lecture or a workshop; for other formats please get in touch with us
Deadline: 17 April, 2022
Compensation: CHF 250 + travel expenses
We also accept written contributions for the Rhizom Fanzine. It will offer a space for projects and collectives to present themselves on one A4 page (max.). Two such groups will additionally be invited to the Open Listening, to present their project in front of an audience. The listening will be accompanied by two experts, who can also act as moderators if required.
We are looking forward to your contributions on fanzine@rhizomfestival.ch
Deadline: 29 April, 2022
As a third option, we invite you to treat the topics of the club culture in forms of an art installation which can be shown anywhere at the festival side. We aim to inspire outdoors as well as indoors. This includes walls, ceiling, hidden corners and even the toilets. We accept all kinds of installations, from paintings, sculptures to video- or sound installations.
We are looking forward to your idea. Please send a short concept of your installation including a cost estimate for materials and production to installationen@rhizomfestival.ch
Compensation: CHF 250 + material and travel expenses
Deadline: 15 April, 2022