The Institute for Scene Experiments is a fictional institution devoted to the investigation, production and dissemination of scenes. ISE assembles groups of performers and technicians to analyse, deconstruct and reconstitute elements of cinematic scenes for camera, exploring alternative modes of staging narratives, framing, sound, and light. ISE aims to reflect on the film crew as a social form, engaging in the generativity and potentialities of scenes independent of plot, development and conclusivity, through formal techniques as well as collective authorship, ‘open rehearsal’ and collective editing.

Concert

by WAT TAKLAEW

– at 20:00 (40mins)

WAT TAKLAEW aka Valentina D. Jitsattayakul (1989, Zurich) is an artist and musician. She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology before completing her Master in Fine Arts at HEAD Geneva. Her cross-media works, some of which are created from found objects, explore the tensions between systemic capitalist structures and marginalization, and their relationship to post-migrant identities and spiritual belief systems. Musically, she creates textures with an emphasis on experimental music, combining elements of feedback, tape, field recordings, and various Thai folk instruments.

Drawing inspiration from Thai heritage, the artist’s name holds significance as ‚wat‘ translates to ‘temple‘, symbolizing a spiritual connection to the craft. Additionally, ’thakleaw’ derives from a Thai boy name, associated with the concept of militancy.

The debut release ‘Pillars of the Apex,’ on the Zurich-based label Webarchive, takes listeners on a journey of introspection and ethereal exploration. Each track unfolds like a chapter in a story, inviting listeners to explore the depths of their own imagination and delve into the realms of mystical beings.

Fairplay
by Sarai Rose Duke

– from 18:00

all night long, until the dough is gone

Sarai Rose Duke, a German artist, specializes in object-based and edible artworks. Her piece “Fairplay” (2024) demonstrates the principles of reciprocity and solidarity. Through an interactive performance centered on the creation of filled pasta, Duke engages visitors and consumers in a dynamic cycle of participation and exchange. This work not only explores the materiality of food but also underscores the communal and reciprocal nature of shared culinary experiences, cultivating a sense of connection and mutual support among participants.

Solar Capital (2024)

by Hugo de Almeida Pinho

– 18-01:00 (16mins, looping)

Solar Capital is based on the complexities of solar capitalism, its different implications on critical realities and certain politics of visibility and invisibility that shape our historical, iconographic and symbolic relationship with the sun star. Condemning a form of heliocentrism that develops procedures of marginality, appropriation and invisibility involved in ecological politics under the sign of the capitolocene, this film creates a parallel between contemporary forms of connection between humans, energy, technology and the sun.

18:00 – 23:00

Fairplay – cooking & eating pasta in solidarity

with Sarai Rose Duke

20:00

Concert with experimental music

by WAT TAKLAEW

18:00 – 01:00

Solar Capital (2024), video screening (16min)
by Hugo de Almeida Pinho

In the hall, ProtoZone14 hosts the site-specific installation DEAD TIME (Maggie’s Solo) by Cally Spooner. A choreography for a dancer and a cinematographer shot in one single take.

A main focus of Spooner’s project is asking how “performance”—the 24/7 demand to competitively “perform” (well) at all times, whether on social media, at work, or through efficient sleep—has come to govern our social bonds. And, not least, asking how such metric governance might be resisted by adopting other models of time.

In the screening room, Tai Shani’s new film, My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be is shown.

The film is a poetic meditation on various historical resistance movements and groups, the spiritual dimensions of anti-supremacism, intersectional queer feminism, communism and revolutionary thinking. It recognises the emancipatory power of love and pleasure as a catalyst for radical change.

The works by Cally Spooner and Tai Shani can be visited for the entire duration of the ProtoZone from 6th of April. The rest of the space and time is dedicated to what we feel is now most urgent: live gathering. We invite you to gather around dance, around poetry, music, excursions, workshops and meals.

This live program starts on the first day of the ProtoZone with Politics of doughs, an itinerant recipe library and a participative meal gathering initiated by Larissa Tiki Mbassi. The process of dough making is the center of each encounter. For the gathering at Shedhalle, Cynthia Mai Ammann and Zoé Nguyen present their visual and sensory approach to « bánh baos » on the 6th of April 13-16h (register here, waiting list).

In the afternoon of the 6th, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ performance Federico will be shown for one day only . This is a choreography of desire in the smallest scale, that mobiles affect and sensuality, as a means for a queer archive of touch. It will be repeated three times over the course of the evening.

In May we continue the live-program.

On the 4th of May, Ivo Dimchevs’ METCH invites to different modes of gathering around an artwork and builds gentle forms of trust by generating an intimate community with the audience.

“METCH is a concert exhibition, an auction, an exercise, an excessive production of paintings, an obsessive dialog with the audience and of course the songs… I know many people come to my shows because they like my songs. For good or for bad those people will need to experience or crash with my very complex and unpredictable relationship to theatre, dance, politics, and contemporary art. “ Ivo Dimchev

On the 11th of May, we will re-visit the dialogic formats we developed in January at Shedhalle. This day invites the visitors to speak and listen to each other from their perspective and with their hearts. We will be supported by artist-in-residence Naghmeh Manavi and her writings. Her current works study neuroscience, power structures and political matters at the level of personal daily life. Social and collective acts are considered a performance practice with the collective narrative as the score.

On May 18th, we continue with aLifveforms (fed and card for by JP Raether). JP Raether’s transdisciplinary performative work attends to a group of constructed and constantly evolving identities. These aLifveforms are composed of language, technological skins, digital devices, and Raether’s fleshly body, which they embrace and from whose identity they simultaneously continue to detach themselves more and more. The SelfSisters, or AlterIdentities, are site-specific, colorful beings interwoven with everyday objects, whose works address the constitution of reality through language.

Currently, three active lines are “alive”, dedicated to topics such as reproductive and biotechnologies (Transformella), globalized tourism (Schwarmwesen) or occult substances of contemporary technology (Protektorama). The reproductive lifeline Transformella malor visits each of the 468 “Ikealities” around the world – the local store of the global furniture chain. In the course of her algorhythmic ritual, which is set to last for decades, she has already appeared in Berlin, Bergen, Warsaw, Hamburg and Düsseldorf, among other places. At Shedhalle in May 2024, she will take visitors on a journey to Ikeality in Dietlikon.

In the course of the last weekend of ProtoZone14, Shedhalle hosts an iteration of The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices for the second time. Isabel Lewis has been modelling “The Institute” since 2016 under various names and different formats. The experimental Institute and research center reimagines the format of “institution” and speculates what a cultural/educational institution of the future can and could be. It works toward innovation on the structural, organizational and sensory levels in order to make fertile ground for the emergence of new forms of cultural production, reflection, and critique.

The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices at Shedhalle is co-hosted by Isabel Lewis together with artists and scientists from Zurich as well as international academies. (more info on program and participation coming soon)

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), 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

Sunday, 15.09.

open 14-18h

LO-INTENSITY 16.09.-03.11.
open every Saturday 14-20h & Sunday 14-18h

live program tbc

August 1st will once again be a day of queer solidarity. This is in light of the ongoing attacks on the rights of queer people and the political questioning of queer identities and lifestyles. LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights!

Be there and take part in various workshops, inform yourself and network with other members of the local and inter/national LGBTQIA+ community or celebrate with us all day to spicy dance music on the lakeshore. Feasting, cuddling and swimming are of course included 💦

14-22h – Workshops, DJ sets, exchange, food, exhibition, bar and much more

22h-1h – After-hour with performances, sounds and drinks

We’re really looking forward to seeing you! Let’s celebrate Queer Bay Day together. 🌈❤️

Registration and more information about the workshops of QueerNest and Kinky Queer Stammtisch is possible via: https://eventfrog.ch/queerbayday

In case of rain, the QBD will take place in Clubraum Rote Fabrik.

The inner courtyard, Clubraum, Backstein, Shedhalle and lakeside path are wheelchair accessible. Unfortunately, access to the lake is not barrier-free. However, we are happy to help with access. If you need support or have any questions, please contact us in advance via queer.bay.day@gmail.com or speak to us on site.

Queer Bay Day is initiated by Clubbüro IG Rote Fabrik and Shedhalle and SLOCH. It is organized in collaboration with LGBTQIA+ initiatives from Zurich and Switzerland. After-hour in collaboration with Toxi. The event is non-commercial and independent of sponsors.

All proceeds from Queer Bay Day will be donated to queer organizations that work internationally and especially in crisis areas for LGBTQIA+ people and their rights.

DJ-Sets

Workshops & Wellness

tbd: Saturne (sensual initiation) and Aga (Astro-Chart-Readings), & Soli-Haircuts by André

*to sign up and for voluntary donations visit: https://eventfrog.ch/queerbayday

Info & Donations

14-20/22h Info stands and fundraising activities by INAYA, LGBTQIA+ Support Group, Aro-Ace Spektrum Schweiz, Trans Safety Emergency Fund and Milchjugend – with solidarity snacks, crafts and cakes and milkshakes, anti-capitalist CSD info stand and cake

Speeches, Showings, Performances & After-Hour

Communal Dreaming with Chris Paxton

Eine solastalgische Koch- und Hörperformance

Solastalgia is a neologism, formed by the combination of the Latin word sōlācium (comfort, ease, solace) and the Greek root -algia (pain, suffering, grief), to describe a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental changes. The term was coined in 2005 by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who described it as “the homesickness you have when you are still at home.” How do we experience comfort or pain together on a disappearing planet? Can we dream the future through the darkness of our present? What sonic ecologies can we bring to life by listening and dreaming collectively? Let’s stew on this together for a while…

A vegetable curry, perhaps a prime example of comfort food, will be prepared collectively with the ingredients and tools we have at hand as we share our feelings, desires and dreams for a disappearing Earth. Participants are invited to contribute to a soundscape while preparing the meal together. Sonic contributions can take the form of a poem, a dream, a text, or otherwise, so long that it resonates with the question: Now, what are our dreams for Earth?

Come as you are. All are invited to cook, share and listen. Silence is welcomed.

Chris Paxton

Berlin-based culinary artist Chris Paxton, host of the seasonal artist dinner-listening event Dreams at Kwia, also co-founded Lucky You Studios, curating unique dining experiences for clients such as Highsnobiety and Resident Advisor. As chef-in-residence at Nuova Atlantide in 2023, he explored movement, language, and landscape. His work, featured in Planetary Embodiments, includes “Recipes in Ruins,” a collaboration with Maia Magoga, blending magical recipes with dreams for the future. Chris’s immersive culinary art, rooted in cyclical time and local specificity, fosters collective visions through shared meals that transcend the table. His work challenges environmental (dis)connections and confronts the haunting of food cultures by capitalist and colonial histories. In a collaborative dreamscape, Chris weaves sound and food, proposing a culmination of desires expressed through commensality, collaboration, and listening.

Belia Winnewisser

Producer and DJ Belia Winnewisser lives and works in Zurich.
For the completion of her studies in music and media art Belia tried to combine sound art and pop music in her work. With her first album Radikale Akzeptanz,
released by Präsens Editionen, she succeeded in doing just that. In addition, the release gave her an international perception. On July 2nd 2021 Belia’s second album SODA appeared likewise on Präsens Editionen. With this album, the artist marked another milestone in her solo career and she solidified her approach to
sound production. The media response to the release showed that Winnewisser had not only found her own way with it, but also an exciting one. A year later the
EP Mother Earth Took Poison In Her Soil was released on the Frankfurt label Die Orakel which presented Belia’s refreshing approach to club music.
Besides her work as a producer, Belia is resident DJ at Kapitel Bollwerk in Bern and enjoys various bookings. Belia’s DJ sets are bursting with energy and emotion and are characterised by her sense of rhythm and tension.