Backrooms: Freq

March 15 – May 11, 2025
Opening: March 14, 2025, 8 pm

Zurich DJ and music producer Nicola Kazimir brought the manga Freq to life in 2024. The manga is set in a dystopian future world that is based on sound frequencies and particularly inspired by club culture and electronic music history. In 2022, armed with this concept and an extensive world-building, Kazimir approached renowned anime author Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Ergo Proxy, Samurai Champloo), who quickly became enthusiastic about joining the project. In close collaboration with Sato and together with the Milan-based illustrator Good News For Bad Guys, the first volume – volume zero – of a promising new manga series has now been published.

With original drawings, concept art, notebooks, references, animations and sound, the exhibition at Backrooms demonstrates the creation of a new manga, one developed in a manner analagous to music production.

The newly released publication will be available to buy.

Venue:
Kunsthalle Zürich, basement

Afterparty:
Mikro, Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zurich

A Backrooms project, curated by Otto Bonnen