Les Reines Prochaines

26.07.2025, 19.45 – 21.00 – Multimedia concert

Les Reines Prochaines: Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Fränziska Madoerin, Chris Regn

Assembly Hall, 6 Kolegialna Street

Les Reines Prochaines, that has skilfully made its mark in the music scene, is the epitome of creativity and is rich in imagination. The band’s varied performances are widely famous. They view themselves as multimedia musicians who transport their colorful prose via channels other than music. The Queens take turns in the spotlight, they swap instruments, dance, sing, celebrate – every performance is a party! Even though the laughter sometimes gets caught in your throat, Les Reines Prochaines have a keen perception of the overall picture. They don’t mince their words, yet these words are poetry and their use of language is always affectionate.

The artists will play songs from their Reines Prochaines repertoire with our instruments, the clarinet, the saxophone, the bass and the computer. There will also be word projections and especially our voices. Furthermore, we will construct an unprecedented translation machine on site, using lean performative tactics, from language to gesture, from gesture to object, from form directly to meaning, from movement to sound, from pose to word, from sentence to doubling, from acrobatic act to productive misunderstanding and thus to poetry.

Chris Regn

Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany. Chris Regn works as a conceptual artist with research, shows and videos, with the potential of tradition and forms of representation. She draws on her work at a large archive «bildwechsel – an umbrella organisation for women / media / culture» in Hamburg, as curator and with various performance and artist groups such as Evi, Nic & C, Tischgespräche and the «Art+Feminism» – Wikipedia editing group «who writes his_tory». She created stage programs in a collective process such as «Lets sing Arbeiterin» and «Alte Tiere hochgestapelt» and got the Basler Kulturpreis for this work with «Les Reines prochaines and friends».

Muda Mathis

Llives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Muda Mathis studied at the F+F School for Experimental Design, in Zurich; at the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance, in Herisau; and as part of the class for audiovisual design founded by René Pulfer at the Basel School of Design, in 1985 She has been teaching performance and media, at the Institute of art, Academy of Art and Design, HGK Basel. Muda Mathis has been working as an artist in the fields of performance, video, installation, and music since 1982. She is one of the founding members of the performance band Les Reines Prochaines. 

Sus Zwick

Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. After training as a speech therapist and curative teacher at the University of Fribourg, Sus Zwick also studied video in Basel. She is a co-founder of the production and studio community VIA VideoAudioFotoKunst, in Basel, and a member of Les Reines Prochaines. Since 1980 she produces: videos, documentaries, performances, installations and music.

Fränzi Madörin

Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Training as a dressmaker. Since 1983 costume work for dance and theater groups. Since 1988 member of the music performance group Les Reines Prochaines and VIA AudioVideoKunst, Basel. Concerts, compositions for theater, dance and film, audio-guides for museums, audio-editions, presentations. From 1988 to 1999 management of Les Reines Prochaines and production manager for exhibitions and on stage. Since 2003, teaching, workshops in video, performance and tailoring.