REIF began as a celebration. Our primary goals in curating events was to craft multicultural happenings in which different expressions of thought, identity, play, and experience could intersect within intimate safe spaces. We submitted to chance and embraced uncertainty, trusting that our care and attention to each element would ensure that everyone would have their voice equally heard.

The results moved beyond our dreams– birthing collaborations, conflicts, friendships and zones, as waxed by Hakim Bey in his essay “The temporary autonomous Zone”. For a moment constraints of society seemed to be uplifted.

These happenings led to now create our homonymous sound label, thus giving life to our first release series.

For our first compilation - 01 , we invited artists that were involved with REIF in its early stages and next generation collaborators to contribute a piece of sonic art.
These works take form as sonic offerings to REIF, the memories we created , and the future we work to actualize together.

We understand sound as the chosen instrument for political catharsis that our artists explore .
Sound in itself encompasses a broad reflection of the times– whatever is happening or changing in the world, we “hear” it. As sound curators, it is our task to crystalize these cathartic sounds and give them new forms, preventing them from being lost or forgotten; buried or silenced.

With the abrupt disruption of society as we knew it, countercultural communities were forced to deal with our spaces for play vanishing, forcing us to imagine new spaces we could migrate - simultaneously reinforcing the need for thought expansion and a reimagined a safe space.

For our residency at Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve's 5th floor, we invited a group of artists taking part in the two first releases of our label, 01 & 02 - to give form to varying cultural instigation strategies in order to investigate how we as a community can reignite the fires of night culture and create new ways of gathering as the world reopens.
Reverberating from their bodies, new works, and untold stories; the artists collectively illustrate how sound can be a means of resistance.

Prioritizing experiences that don’t align with patriarchal values, we use art as a vehicle to craft new realities.
Movement and sound are ancient technologies we engage with throughout the residency, specifically the ways they manifest and morph in contemporary club culture.
We amplify sound, the chosen instrument, for political catharsis and social change.

Sonic Catharsis (sound as political manner) - REIF for Centre d’Art Contemporain de Geneve's 5th Floor - formalizes the work we have done outside of institutional spaces in order to reach new audiences, crafting a space for engagement with sound in a hyper contemporary manner.

REIF is a multifaceted cultural movement that actualizes through record releases and community activations - these actions deepen the conversation between artists and audience, and this new intersection with the CAC is a collision that allows culture at large to connect deeper in order to collectively progress into an expanded future.