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Fetchish
A Theatrical Rave, A Sonic Ritual, A World of Its Own
There are club nights, and then there’s Fetchish—a shape-shifting fusion of sound, spectacle, and surrealism that refuses to sit still. The collective, co-directed by Anastasia Kozlova, is carving out a space where the underground collides with the theatrical, forming an intoxicating world of postmodern decadence and sonic transcendence.
At the heart of it all is music—a pulsating, writhing entity that dictates the rhythm of the night. Fetchish doesn’t just stage performances; it constructs sonic mythologies. In June 2024, they unveiled Ada, a music-theatrical spectacle that blurred the lines between Nabokov’s literary dreamscapes and the sweat-slicked euphoria of a club floor.
With a soundtrack crafted by BJ Holy, Ada became a fever dream of queer temporalities and postmodern existentialism. The event was a genre-defying experience, where sound sculptors like Moa Pillar, Dasha Ushko, and EcolagBohrsac 2021 orchestrated deep, escapist basslines that rumbled beneath otherworldly performances. International artists like Swan Meat added to the sonic alchemy, crafting a narrative that was as much heard as it was felt.
Kozlova, a longtime collaborator of Fetchish’s director Zlata Mechetina, wasn’t merely a performer—she was a guiding force behind the artistic direction. With a background in visual arts, she wove theatrical intensity into the musical framework, curating an aesthetic that dripped with surrealism and raw emotion. She and Mechetina aimed to embody the fantastical, hyper-stylized world of Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor, translating its layered timelines and erotic tensions into a living, breathing, and sonic experience.
Costume design by Central Saint Martins graduate Pernilla Weinholz amplified the spectacle, offering a sartorial counterpoint to the immersive music. The night became an interplay of sonic, visual, and performative textures, all building toward a crescendo where art and club culture dissolved into each other.
Fetchish isn’t just about a night out; it’s about rewiring the club experience into something more decadent, stranger, and intellectually charged. The collective prospers on interdisciplinary curiosity, blending avant-garde aesthetics with a commitment to electronic music’s radical potential. Their events are sonic laboratories, where noise and narrative dance in chaotic harmony, and the audience is absorbed into the performance.
“Ada” was more than a production—it was a manifesto. It echoed Fetchish’s ethos: that nightlife can be an intellectual playground, a theater for hybrid storytelling, a communion of bodies and beats that refuses to be just one thing.
At its core, Fetchish is a ritual, an initiation, a breaking down of the fourth wall where music isn’t just played—it possesses. And if you’re lucky enough to find yourself in its world, you’ll leave with the echoes still thrumming through your veins.
Written by Piera Lolandes
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