Proto
Zone19:
Ruptures
Reliances
with Bronwyn Katz, Vika Kirchenbauer, Göksu Kunak, Layton Lachman, Omsk Social Club, Su Yu Hsin, Activist Choreographies of Care (Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Sunny Pfalzer)
Once part of Lake Zurich, the site of Shedhalle was transformed into seemingly solid ground by artificial embankments. ProtoZone19 takes this human-made change as a starting point to question the mutability of material and social foundations – and thus also the systems on which ideas of stability, power and community are based.
Lake water returns to Shedhalle, where the participating artists delve into how material and immaterial conditions are controlled and interconnected, how fundamental systems collapse, and how collective needs can be maintained in times of climate crisis and authoritarian politics.
ProtoZone19 moves on unstable ground as a starting point for changing ways of dealing with what surrounds us.
curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler
assistant curator Vanessa Bosch
Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Department of Cultural Affairs Taipei City Government
Opening times:
Friday, May 23 open 17-22h
18:30 – Performance “In the Shadow of Forward Motion” by Layton Lachman
REGULAR OPENING HOURS
May 24 – August 3
open every Saturday 14-20h / every Sunday 14-18h
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Furtherset
Saturday, 10.05.2025, 20:00
In the framework of the Closing of ProtoZone18: Unfamiliar Evermore
Furtherset is the musical project of Venice-based composer and visual artist Tommaso Pandolfi (b. 1995). His compositions’ distinctive traits are melodic loops, synthetic clusters and rarefied ambiences. The project follows a path towards saturation and layering, yet always manages to create voids where listeners can find their place and fill them according to their own focus.
Active since 2011, he has released the EPs “Auras” (2022), “To Alter and Affect” (2018) and “Drawings of Desire and Hate” (2018), as well as the albums “To Live Tenderly Anew” (2020) and “The Infinite Hour” (2023) on the Swiss label -OUS. The new album, “Wounds of Melody,” will be released on Kohlhaas in May 2025.
His music has been presented at festivals and institutions such as Club To Club, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Triennale Milano, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Istituto Svizzero, MACRO.
He has curated sound or live soundtracks for films and videos by Benedetta Fioravanti, Pedro Maia, Artavazd Pelešjan.
ProtoZone18:
Unfamiliar Evermore
A poetic farewell, a drift into the increasingly unknown, Unfamiliar Evermore occupies a space between recognition and estrangement, fantasy and absurdity––being both in the present tense and out of time.
with Ivan Cheng, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Kris Lemsalu + Johanna Ulfsak, Eglė Budvytytė, Ingo Niermann + Frédérique Vivet
curated by Michelangelo Miccolis
produced by nick von kleist
Opening times:
Hi-Intensity Phase
14.03.25 open 18-22h + 15.03.25 open 14-20h
Lo-Intensity Phase
16.03.25 – 11.05.25
open every Saturday 14-20h & every Sunday 14-18h
10.05. 20h Music-Performance by Furtherset