sex work and art
Pro-sex feminism back then – sex positivity today
The event is in German and English.
Admission: Collection with suggested price
CONFLUENCES gather practices, archival fragments and people linked to the Shedhalle. During conversations, meals, performances, listening sessions, discussions and workshops, works of the exhibition and the archives get activated. Confluences (re)visit concerns and questions that repeatedly appeared in different time periods at Shedhalle.
Confluence describes an “estuary”: both end and new beginning. This cyclical quality shapes the encounters, tracing resonances in divergent strategies across time and generating collective knowledges.
6-10 pm
extended forms of knowledge
Parts of the event will be in English, with translations available on site.
CONFLUENCES gather practices, archival fragments and people linked to the Shedhalle. During conversations, meals, performances, listening sessions, discussions and workshops, works of the exhibition and the archives get activated. Confluences (re)visit concerns and questions that repeatedly appeared in different time periods at Shedhalle.
Confluence describes an “estuary”: both end and new beginning. This cyclical quality shapes the encounters, tracing resonances in divergent strategies across time and generating collective knowledges.
4-9 pm
courtesy of the artists
Denise Ferreira da Silva, courtesy of the artist
courtesy of the artists
Publication Loving Shedhalle, Resonance
The event will be held in German and English.
Admission: Collection with suggested price.
Event in collaboration with the publishing house Scheidegger & Spiess.
6-9 pm
Book Cover Design by Studio Yukiko
The Shedhalle Party celebrates the entire Loving Shedhalle project: the exhibition Abundance, the book Resonance, and the website loving.shedhalle.ch featuring the digitization of the Shedhalle archive. We come together to engage in conversation across generations. The program includes a guided tour of the exhibition with Renate Cornu, the curator of the first exhibition at Shedhalle in 1985 called «Halle Sud» with artists from Geneva. Later, we will hear two contributions from the field of sound art: Blablabor is a collective that was present at the Shedhalle in the late 1990s, and the transdisciplinary artist and musician MELO has been a guest at the Shedhalle several times over the past five years as part of the ProtoZonen program.
With the sound performance “Hallo DAB+!”, Blablabor is setting up a workshop to generate and record FM noise for the new “Guerilla Radio” project. Small FM transmitters and portable radios are used as instruments. MELO invites you to a soundscape performance with “Interface One.” The starting point is the sound of the flute, which is transformed using the AIYA improvisation machine she developed. This creates a complex interplay and a fluid sound space between human and machine, between breath and algorithm. Dinner will follow.
Come and join us!
The event will take place in German and English.
Offer: CHF 20 for evening admission and one-year membership in the Shedhalle Association.
Regular membership otherwise costs CHF 40 (reduced: CHF 30) and includes:
-Free admission to exhibitions and events at Shedhalle
-Free or reduced admission to over 15 Swiss art institutions
-Voting rights in the Shedhalle Association
Otherwise, admission is included in the exhibition entry fee, with CHF 20 recommended as a suggested price for that evening.
Organized in collaboration with the Shedhalle Association.
18:00 – 22:00 Uhr
Blablabor, courtesy of the artists
Blablabor, courtesy of the artists
Interface One by MELO (courtesy of the artist)
25.10.2025 1pm-9pm
Archives promise access to the past, yet they reveal just as much about the present and future. The Confluence Maintaining and (re)inventing Archives during the opening weekend of the exhibition Loving Shedhalle – Abundance, brings together different archival approaches. We are interested in the extent to which archives can contribute to the resilience of an institution (or any other entity, group, form of organization or existence.). We ask who and what is involved in preserving archives. In feminist discourse, the English term “maintenance” is often associated with invisible, little-recognized forms of reproductive work. What does it mean to take on responsibility in a back room that promises little prestige—and what does it take for maintenance to work? Against the backdrop of an increasingly unresolved infrastructural question of data storage and the growing connection between autocratic nation states and the monopoly positions of global tech companies, the question of archives and their accessibility is once again becoming relevant in the present moment.
A roundtable discussion brings together voices from different contexts of archival work. In the activation of artistic works from the exhibition, positions that deal with the emergence of embodied forms of knowledge are given a voice.
13:30 Tour of the exhibition
14:30 Activation with Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva on the exhibition contribution “Reading with Echo”
16:00 Discussion on archiving as resilient practice and care with Elke aus dem Moore, Mo Diener, Lucie Kolb and Stefan Länzlinger, moderated by Michael Hiltbrunner. In collaboration with the Swiss Social Archives Zurich
17:30 Activation with Paloma Ayala on the exhibition contribution “Karaoke Readings”
(with texts by Gloria Anzaldúa)
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Activation with Shruti Belliappa und Kiraṇ Kumār on the exhibition contribution “Marginalia”
CONFLUENCES gather practices, archival fragments and people linked to the Shedhalle. During conversations, meals, performances, listening sessions, discussions and workshops, works of the exhibition and the archives get activated. Confluences (re)visit concerns and questions that repeatedly appeared in different time periods at Shedhalle.
Confluence describes an “estuary”: both end and new beginning. This cyclical quality shapes the encounters, tracing resonances in divergent strategies across time and generating collective knowledges.
1:00 – 9:00 pm
video still KARAOKE READINGS, Paloma Ayala
with Nils Amadeus Lange and Citron Citron
free admission
Resilience through archives?
with Tour, workshop, discussion round and meal
The event will be held in German and English.
Admission: Collection with suggested price
CONFLUENCES gather practices, archival fragments and people linked to the Shedhalle. During conversations, meals, performances, listening sessions, discussions and workshops, works of the exhibition and the archives get activated. Confluences (re)visit concerns and questions that repeatedly appeared in different time periods at Shedhalle.
Confluence describes an “estuary”: both end and new beginning. This cyclical quality shapes the encounters, tracing resonances in divergent strategies across time and generating collective knowledges.
2-8 pm