Agenda

Proto-
zones
2020-
2025

Shedhalle as a space for process-based art

Processes are a tool to open up unknown spaces of thinking and action. It is at the core of our work. We continue a history that allowed authority to be transferred from artists and institutions to the audience. Art takes part in the creation of actual communities.

The world is shifting, and art institutions are charged with negotiating social questions. Hence platforms, which dynamically promote social, technological and ecological change are increasingly important.

Essential issues converge in the cultural sector: debates around the inability to act politically, the empowerment of previously marginalised groups, and ecological sustainability. Museums, festivals, and theatres are laboratories for change and testing grounds for utopias. In this, we see the purpose of Shedhalle, and we respond to the need for new strategies of exhibition-making.

The idea behind process-based art begins with experimentations in the middle of the 20th century, i.e. the era when genres were dissolved in favour of a new conception of art. The genesis of the work was just as important as the final product—if not more so. Painters staged themselves in the process, sculptures became polyvalent entities, theatre approached performance art and the other way around.

The new definition of the artwork has left its mark on theatre and on music, and the integration of different media is by now a standard procedure of contemporary art. However, the permeability of works and disciplines cannot be told as a simple story of progress, much less as a neatly defined narrative, because it is due to much larger social, political, and cultural changes.

 

The Protozone as a format for process-based art

To consciously incorporate this thought in an art institution, we developed a new format: the Protozone. It gives space to collaboration and to exhibitions, whose openness is still visible. The Protozone can accommodate any form of art, and it gives room for workshops and scholarship, which in turn engage in a process with other elements in the zone.

The Protozones at Shedhalle are designed to be inclusive, and they enable the collaboration of artists and people with different backgrounds. They allow for slow and persistent action, they create a space where processes can unfold.

Shedhalle and its Protozones are places for unconventional practices and for experiments. They give a platform to artists who work in different disciplines, and whose complex biographies and identities we want to accommodate. We perceive the Protozone as a starting point for a community of artists and activists who do not conform to the demands of the art market.

Each year, there are four Protozones. They have their own topics and follow their own rules. They are subdivided into two phases. The first phase lasts from a few days up to a week, and it is supposed to initiate artistic processes and to activate installations and works. The house stays open during this time, the artists are present, existing artworks and situations are being presented and developed, new ones are being produced. The practice itself becomes visible.

In terms of intensity and immersion, the first week resembles an exhibition that has been opened too early. The second week recalls a conventional presentation, which is accompanied by a programme of events. In addition, each Protozone leaves something. Artefacts and texts will be preserved in the freely accessible archive of the Shedhalle.

The term Protozone has a twofold origin. The Greek prefix proto- signifies a preliminary or an early stage. Phonetically, the word recalls the protozoon—Greek for “the first animal”—a single cell organism that carries the potential of future evolution.

Another association is the zone, which is, beyond urbanism and land use, a recurring concept in science fiction. Zones, in this context, are frequently areas with rules of their own, where utopia seems possible.

 

Collaboration

The Protozone is not purely speculative. It is a means of anchoring the idea of process in the institution itself. Besides cooperations with international artists, we collaborate with artists from all parts of Switzerland, local initiatives and institutions—including the fields of technology, science, and activism—to connect our activities to the immediate surroundings.

With this, we continue Shedhalle’s history. The institution has its origin in historical struggles for autonomous spaces in Zurich. Our aims include the coexistence in a post-migrant, open society, as well as ecological sustainability, in order to continue the negotiation of social and artistic processes.

Shedhalle – 2020-2025
04.03.-15.05.22

Are you
coming?

In short

Are you coming? Protozone 6 is an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.

 

programmed by Michelangelo Miccolis

produced by Cora Gianolla and nick von kleist

in collaboration with zürich moves! Forever imbricated

Shedhalle – Protozone6: Are you coming?
22.05.22

Hard-
breakes

In short

Video Deutsch/English VideoFrançais/Espagnol VideoTürkçe/عربي

 

Anna Fries + Göksu Kunak

 

Produced as part of the About Us! Festival.

Shown in the Framework of Tag der offenen Fabrik

 

Shedhalle is currently under construction for the new Protozone, so we’re opening the back door for a video screening of “Hardbreakes”:

 

All humans know it: wishing for something that in the end does not bring happiness at all. Be it in love, with plans for the future or in the search for solutions to problems – longing can also bring pain.

 

Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s book “Cruel Optimisim”, people in Wollishofen were asked about their unfulfilled wishes and how they deal with heartbreak. The conversations can be discovered in the video, which is published here.

Video Türkçe/عربي

Video Français/Espagnol

Video Deutsch/English

03.06.-07.08.2022

Zones
of Kinship,
Love
& Playbour

In short

Lo-Intensity

10.06.-07.08.2022 > open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h, plus additional opening hours on request

 

Guided Tours with Lucie Tuma:

Sa 06.08. 16:00
So 07.08. 16:00

and on request

 

If all of life is centered around work – how about work being a bit more like life, or like, living?

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour
Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Nils Amadeus Lange, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21), Performance 03.06.22 with Florian Schlessmann. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Claudia Hill, Co-Weaving, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Kiraṇ Kumār, Six uneasy fragments (exactly) about the natural and spiritual, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Claudia Hill, Co-Weaving, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether), Transformella Cinis [4.4.6.10.3], Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Nils Amadeus Lange, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21), Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Liquid Dependencies Theory, Liquid Dependencies: What would a decentralized caring society look like? Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Liquid Dependencies Theory, Liquid Dependencies: What would a decentralized caring society look like? Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

SABA, Wish we were free, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

River Oracle, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

03.09.2022, 18-02h

Proto-
Club3:
Pre-
Serving

In short

Long Night of the Museums, Performance by Byungseo Yoo & Video-Screening by Dominique Koch

Please buy your tickets online via https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/ or register for free to participate in the cooking via mail@shedhalle.ch

 

The effects of climate change as well as of war are impacting not only the worldwide supply with fossil fuels but also very basic food supply, especially in the global south. Proto-Club3 responds to the current crisis by bringing together two artistic perspectives on the complex question of how to treat and preserve food as our basic resource of survival.

 

Kindly supported by Kompotoi

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving
Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Lactobacillus. Creative Commons.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Lactobacillus. Creative Commons.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Cryptococcus. Creative Commons

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

16.09.-04.12.22

Queer
Trust
Protozone8

In short

QUEER TRUST is an attitude that draws from and relies on the in-between. It has shaped the work at Shedhalle as a space for process-based art since 2020 and is also the basis of Protozone8. The exhibition shows artistic works and ways of working that trust in relationships and processes beyond fixed attributions. The participating artists share intimate, vulnerable, open, and courageous artwork. In doing so, they question (gender) identities as well as artistic, scientific, and social traditions and classifications.

Opening times:

HI-Intensity

16.-18.09.22

 

LO-Intensity

19.09.-04.12.22

open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h

29.10. 20h BEAST! Performance by Tarek Lakhrissi

04.-06.11. The Institute for embodied creative practices by Isabel Lewis

in collaboration with Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora l Lethe, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international academies

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Protozone8. Graphic Design: Studio Yukiko

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Dana Michel. Photo: Clara Lacasse

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Leave No Trace (Milan), 2021. Photo: Fred Dott.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Isabel Lewis, The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices. Performance view, Welt ohne Aussen, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Mathias Voelzke.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Natasha Tontey, Garden amidst the flame (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Sunny Pfalzer, Slim Soledad, Lau Lukkarila, I know what to do, 2022. Photo: Joseph Kadow.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Tarek Lakhrissi, Makeda Monnet, Victor da Silva, Beast!, 2022. Photo: Markus Goessi, Tinguely Museum.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Terre Thaemlitz, Interstices (still), 2001. Courtesy of the artist.

29.10.2022

Tarek Lakhrissi
BEAST!

In short

This performance

“…explores bestiality as a philosophical and political concept by drawing on the stigma that historically frames queers and PoC as monstrous. Through read- ings of my recent romantic/radical poems accompanied by the lyrical vocals
of Makeda Monet and the electronic music of Victor da Silva. BEAST! explores utopian queer passions, rituals for lost ones, dark corners to protect oneself in, erotic dreams, and… you’ll see. All the poems are from my last poetry book LE SANG! (BLOOD!) published by Lafayette Anticipations.”

-Tarek Lakhrissi

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

2022-11-03

The Institute for embodied creative practices

In short

‘The Institute for embodied creative practices’ was hosted at Shedhalle by Isabelle Lewis from 3-6 of November during Protozone8 – Queer Trust.
We are grateful for the collaboration with Joseph Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora I LETHE, Juliette Uzor, Tyra Wigg, HGB Leipzig, HSLU Luzern, ZHdK Zurich and many more international art schools.
The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices is an ambulatory corpus of particular concerns and the sensorial methodologies for addressing them founded by artist and choreographer Isabel Lewis.

Lewis (*1981, Santo Domingo) is a US artist with Dominican roots. She studied literature, dance and philosophy and is now active in theater, dance and music. Her work expanded the field of contemporary art to include the format of Occasions. With persistent experimentation and research methods that emerge from bodily experiences, Lewis creates alternative forms of sociality between human and non-human actors. The artist’s body of work to date includes the formats Occurrences, Arrangements, Activations, Expanded Viewings, Sensory Parcours, as well as workshops, listening sessions, and lecture performances. The focus of her fundamentally collaborative practice is on affective bodily experiences that engage all the senses.

 

The Institute of Embodied Creative Practices was supported by Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur & Callies Berlin
Curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – The Institute for embodied creative practices

The Institute for embodied creative practices, 2022
picture by Vanessa Bosch

2022-11-12

Becoming Justin Bieber

In short

Sunny Pfalzer was hosting their ‘Becoming Justin Bieber’ Workshop, a somatic dance karaoke gathering, during Zurich Art Weekend at Shedhalle!
Thank you for everybody who joined. Together we discovered how the choreographic gestures of pop cultural music videos felt in our bodies. Resisting through slow-motion awkwardness, we all became our own versions of Justin Bieber & Co. ♪

 

Assistance Sculptures: Nico Rueda
Pictures by Vaida Mikliusiene
Curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – Becoming Justin Bieber

'Becoming Justin Bieber' Workshop by Sunny Pfalzer
Zurich Art Weekend 2022

2022-12-16

Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA

In short

with Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia

 

Shedhalle brings together three artists for their first major institutional collaboration in Switzerland. Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Nicholas Grafia, friends who come from very different backgrounds, will spend a two-week-residency-period at Shedhalle. Together they will develop a spatial installation with their drawings, paintings, sculptural and video works.

 

And they will work on a new performance that will be presented on 16th and 17th of December, exploring the possibilities of experimental and political theatre. With references to absurdist performance and humorous play, they focus on social reality. They draw on narratives that are derived from socially stigmatized individuals and their bodily histories, but also their resilience and resistance.

 

Curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Curatorial Assistance: Vanessa Bosch

Graphic Design: Studio Yukiko

Opening times:

HI-Intensity Phase:

16.12.2022-18.12.2022

 

LO-Intensity Phase:

19.12.2023 – 15.01.2023

Sa 14–20h & Su 14–18h

Shedhalle – Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA

Protozone9 WEAK.END.OPERA, 2022
with Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia

Jan/Feb/March 2023

Winter-
break

In short

Thank you for a wonderful year together! Shedhalle will be closed from mid of January until end of March 2023, but the process continues. Always. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

 

 

rent out Shedhalle during our winter break

Shedhalle – WINTER BREAK