A person is left behind when a loved one dies. People are left behind when they are socially excluded, discriminated against or even wiped out. More-than-human forms of existence are left behind when their habitats are destroyed, when they become extinct. Each of these experiences leaves traces in the form of memories, objects or stories. Attending to these traces becomes a labor of mourning.

The participating artists show ways of dealing with personal, collective and planetary loss. They suggest how to nurture our relationships with the dead and how to get in touch with our ancestors. Possibly, their memories persist in our bodies, shaping our past and future.

ProtoZone17 suggests a kinship that goes beyond bloodlines and biological origins. How can we build relationships with more-than-human beings? What can we learn from them about care and transience? The works create spaces where transience becomes tangible.

These spaces are both intimate and monumental. They suspend, slow down or stretch time. Because death changes our relationship to time. How does one live in this other, new temporality?

A sudden death, for the one left behind, does such violence to the experienced ‘flow’ of time that it stops, and then slowly wells up into a large pool. Instead of the old line of forward time, now something like a globe holds you. You live inside a great circle with no rim.

Denise Riley Time lived, Without Its Flow (2012)

Supported by:

And with the kind support of the City of Zurich’s Friedhof Forum.

CLOSING PROGRAM

FRIDAY 10.01.

open 20-22h

20:00 Performance Edgelands by Simone Augherlony & Jen Rosenblit

SAMSTAG 11.01.

open 14-22h

16:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma

20:00 Performance Edgelands by Simone Augherlony & Jen Rosenblit

The Performance Hormoans by Teresa Vittucci sadly can not take place due to illness

SONNTAG 12.01.

open 14-20h

16:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma

18:00 Performance Edgelands by Simone Augherlony & Jen Rosenblit

PAST:

HI-INTENSITY-PROGRAM

FRIDAY 15.11.
open 17-22h

18:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma

20:00 And Now It Is Night performance by Enad Marouf

(Hormoans performance by Teresa Vittucci postponed to 11.01. due to illness!)

SATURDAY 16.11.
Workshop from 11h (please register), exhibition open 14-22h

11:00 With Ends in Mind Workshop by Undead Matter (hosted by Sophie J Williamson and Sarah Doerfel) please register for the Workshop here

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Reading Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley, hosted by Lucie Tuma

15:00 An Artist for each Family – making Kin by Art – Panel Talk with Sabian Baumann & further artists of Protozone17

16:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma

17:00 Edgelands activation by Simone Aughterlony & Jen Rosenblit

18:00 Required By Sorrow Performance by Salty Xi Jie Ng

19:30 Sun Eaters Performance by Jassem Hindi & Sina Seifee

SUNDAY 17.11.
open 14-18h

15:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma

LO-INTENSITY-PROGRAMM

18.11.-12.01.

open every Saturday 14-20h & every Sunday 14-18h

SATURDAY 07.12.

14:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma

18:00 Reading Burning Tulips – Poetry Reading by Niloofar Rasooli (ETH Zürich) & Sandra Cane, in the framework of queer space working group: Queer(y)ing Achitectures of Home and Diaspora

Hallucinogenesis is a made-up composite, referring to a creative process originating in the perception of things that are (seemingly) not present. This creative process is continuous and generative. It involves the emergence of substantial artistic creations from subtle, intangible realms. These creations, in turn, evoke subtle sensations in those who perceive them.

In ProtoZone16, the invited artists evoke the process of Hallucinogenesis, allowing to emerge what lies hidden beneath the surface. Their approaches span a wide spectrum: from acts of remembering, researching, and summoning to moments of pause and deep listening; from weaving and experimental writing to the exploration of psychoactive substances; from tracing and renewing ancestral knowledge, myths, rituals and historical narratives to simultaneously engaging with techno music, contemporary technological culture and gender politics.

The creative processes in ProtoZone16: Hallucinogenesis take various forms—video installations and sonic rituals, paintings, prints and sculptures, archives, real game play, exchanges and workshops—all unfolding across the ProtoZone’s phases of high and low intensity.

When you are ready, take a deep breath and dive into this ProtoZone—trusting that whatever is meant to emerge will do so alongside you.

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Ministry of Culture Taiwan (Dondon Hounwn & Temu Basaw), Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Nikhil Vettukatil), Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (LABOUR, Omsk Social Club, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau), SüdKulturFonds (Elizabeth Pirela Gonzalez), Gathering London (Tai Shani), Oertli Stiftung (X COLLECTIVE X), Albert Huber-Stiftung.

HI-INTENSITY-PROGRAM 13.09.-15.09.

Friday, 13.09.

open 17-22h (exhibition muted 19-21h)

19:00 “círculo de palabras” with Elizabeth Pirela Gonzalez & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau

20:30 LABOUR presents “death levels us all”

Saturday, 14.09.

open 10:30-22h (exhibition muted 10:30-16:30 & 18:30-20:00)

10:30-12:30 “Utopiates: The Lucid Fleshware Journey” with Omsk Social Club

12:30-14:30 “A Tofutopian Ritual” with He Shen

14:30-16:30 lila. Queer Festival Silent Reading Rave

17:00 Intro to ProtoZone16 with the curatorial team

18:30-20:00 Roundtable „Archiving Queer & Disabled Practices“ initiated by X COLLECTIVE X with Clotilde de Rocco, Sahara Azzeg, Kami Mathiasin, Meloe Gennai

LO-INTENSITY-PROGRAM 16.09.-03.11.

Saturday, 12.10.

Workshop 15:30-20:00 (The Institute for Scene Experiments: Surplus Reality)

Saturday, 02.11.

Book Launch from 18:00h (with Mîrkan Deniz)