A conversation with American singer and actress Chrystabell about her musical collaboration with David Lynch and his bold, captivating, and completely unrestrained work. Hosted by Otto M. Urban.

Chrysta Bell Zucht, a.k.a. Chrystabell, is a singer, songwriter, and actress. She has been performing on stage since the age of seven, and she has released nine acclaimed albums and toured in more than forty countries. Her striking appearance and deeply expressive style, which oscillates between synth-pop, dream pop, and ethereal wave, caught the attention of David Lynch, who began collaborating with her in 1999. He supported her, calling her his muse, and contributed to three of her albums – This Train (2011), Somewhere in the Nowhere (2016), and Cellophane Memories (2024) – as co-author of the music and producer. In 2017 he cast her as FBI agent Tammy Preston in the sequel to the cult series Twin Peaks, which Time magazine named the best television show of the decade. In 2024, Lynch and Chrystabel released the album Cellophane Memories, with Lynch also directing the music videos for the songs “The Answers to the Questions" and “Sublime Eternal Love", in which Chrystabell played the central role. Wire magazine published a cover photo of Chrystabell and Lynch to mark the release of the new album. The famous director said of her: “Chrystabell looks like a dream and Chrystabell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true."

Otto M. Urban is a curator and art historian. His main professional interest lies in Czech and international art of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. He has lectured on the history of Czech modern art at various academic institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad. From 2012 to 2016 he headed the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. From 2017 he was the curator and later the director of the Collection of Nineteenth-Century Art and Classical Modernism at the National Gallery Prague. He has written a number of books and monographs and curated many group and solo exhibitions. He has been the chief curator of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art since 2020.