Backslash Festival 2026
Overview
Intro
Backslash Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with a curated programme of electronic live acts, performances, DJ sets and visual interventions.
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
| Contact address |
Tokyo Data Collective
Hofstrasse 142 8044 Zürich info@backslashfestival.com |
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| Event Homepage | https://backslashfestival.com |
| Video | https://tokyodatacollective.com/press/backslashfes... |
| Arrival |
Zürich, Sihlpost: Tram 3 / Tram 14 / Bus 31
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| Price |
– Early Bird Festival Pass: CHF 30/50/70
– Day Pass Friday: CHF 15/25/35
– Day Pass Saturday: CHF 20/30/40
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Event dates
- 02 October 2026
- 03 October 2026
Get your tickets online. A limited number of tickets are also available at the box office.
Discover the surroundings
Stall 6
Gessnerallee 8
8001
Zürich
Switzerland