About Us

ZAIRA ORAM

Zaira Oram is a curatorial collective engaged in experimental displays across visual arts, performance, sound, and data. Zaira Oram was founded by Francesca Ceccherini and joined by Chloé Dall’Olio, Camille Regli, Francesca Brusa, and Elisa Bernardoni, and she expands to include other practitioners along her path. Her work weaves the themes of memory and identity, marginalization and resistance, rituality and healing with artistic processes.

Zaira believes in the practice of listening as a vessel for transformation. 

Zaira Oram is the mother of Oto Sound Museum since 2020. Among her other projects: Eart_ض (Switzerland/ Morocco, 2024), Observatory on Deculturalisation (Oxyd Winterthur, 2023), DOOM DOOM DOOM, notes from the planetary garden (Klang Moor Schopfe, Gais, 2023), A Symphony of Archives, Abdellah Hassak (Sonic Matter, Zurich, 2022), Derrière la mer, Anna Raimondo (Casino Luxembourg, Forum pour l’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2022), and more.

Since 2022, Zaira Oram has also evolved into a non-profit association formed in Switzerland.

ZAIRA ORAM for OTO SOUND MUSEUM

Artistic director: Francesca Ceccherini
Curator program 2025: Francesca Brusa
Data curator and digital management: Elisa Bernardoni
Social media facilitator: Chloé Dall’Olio
Public relation: Camille Regli
Fundraising: Camille Jamet
Visual, video and photography: Axel Crettenand
Curatorial support: Beatrice Fontana
Web development: Woodoo studio

OTO NETWORK

OTO SOUND MUSEUM feeds on the collaboration and complicity of its partners to spread the experimentation of sound. The actors and spaces involved become themselves vehicles of resonance, that allow sound to migrate further.

COLLABORATIONS

Walcheturm Kunstraum, Zurich
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zurigo, Zurich
EDHEA, Sierre
Biennale Son, Valais
Klang Moor Schopfe, Gais
Sonic Matter, Zurich
Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg
LE 18, Marrakech
QANAT, Marrakech
la rada, Locarno
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen
La Voirie, Biel/Bienne
RAM radioartemobile, Roma

SUPPORTERS

Pro Helvetia, Swiss Council
Kanton Zürich
Stadt Zürich Kultur
Migros Kulturprozent
Erna und Curt Burgauer Foundation
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Elisabeth Weber Stiftung 
Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler
Stiftung Temperatio
Pro Litteris