Protozone11: it’s weird is a multi-format project, developing as an experiment in exhibition making, performance presentation and educational exchange. Since our first Protozone back in 2020, we have established an alternative model for exhibition making. Within it, we are continuously expanding and renegotiating the boundaries of artwork and reception, how to gather in public and our institutional roles. We remain receptive and porous in our relationship to our audiences and continue to learn from them. At the same time, we remain in the process of defining our mission, questioning the relevance of art production during a historical moment on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Shedhalle will once again open its doors to process-based scenarios, inviting previous and new collaborators to inhabit the space for the next nine weeks. Angela Goh will open Protozone11: it’s weird with a performance, Body Loss, and the European premiere of her new film, The Concert (2022), commissioned by the Sydney Opera House. She will remain in-residence at Shedhalle, bringing a suite of performances in-process on the two following weekends. Opening weekend continues with contributions from: Michael Portnoy who invites us to look at sex as dance and comedy, presenting the film Progressive Touch (2020); Kris Lemsalu who appears through a phantasmagorical intervention that will continue into the night, leaving traces to remain at Shedhalle; and Autumn Knight will return to Shedhalle for the third year in a row, developing on work begun in the SHED in 2021, bringing the virtual work-in-process to our walls. Finally, Pontus Pettersson, artist-in-residence 2022, returning to Shedhalle on July 1st, will reconfigure the entire set up of the space with his own weird project pancor poetics.

Over the course of its nine-week manifestation, curator Michelangelo Miccolis, producer & moderator nick von kleist and guest editor Lisa Andreani will develop and serially publish The Weird Reader. This slow publication opens new and weird spaces for access and engagement with the works and processes of Protozone11. It uses the processes presented as its foundation for us to both listen to and build on, collectively. The process of The Weird Reader will be on view as an installation at Shedhalle and online on “the SHED”, our virtual greenroom and online residency program.

Curated by Michelangelo Miccolis

Produced and moderated by nick von kleist

Editor and contributor The Weird Reader: Lisa Andreani

Graphic design: Studio Yukiko

Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Australian Government & Australia Council for the Arts (Angela Goh), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee & Embassy of Sweden (Pontus Pettersson), Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Elisabeth Weber-Stiftung

LO-Intensity Phase

17.06. – 6.08.

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

Check for weekly updates on “the SHED”

Installations (during opening hours):

vinyl-drawings by Autumn Knight, installations by Pontus Pettersson and Kris Lemsalu, films by Angela Goh (starting Sat 15,17 and 19h and Sun 15 and 17h) and Michael Portnoy (on a loop), ongoing publication of “The Weird Reader”

The Weird Reader

weird reading group & weird film program, time tbc

at Shedhalle and online via “the SHED”

PAST

HI-Intensity Phase

June 09-11, during Zurich Art Weekend

Fri, June 09, 17:00 – 23:00

18h Angela Goh, Body Loss (2017) PERFORMANCE (Swiss Premiere)

19h Angela Goh, The Concert (2022) FILM (European Premiere)

19h45 Michael Portnoy, Progressive Touch (2020) FILM

20h Kris Lemsalu, New untitled performance in collaboration with Maria Metsalu

22h Michael Portnoy, Progressive Touch (2020) FILM

Sat, June 10, 14:00 – 20:00

19h Angela Goh, The Concert (2022) FILM

Sun, June 11, 14:00 – 18:00

17h Angela Goh, Body Loss (2017) PERFORMANCE

Lo-Intensity-Phase

Sun, June 18

17h Angela Goh, Pattern Recognition, PERFORMANCE

Sun, June 25

17-19h open rehearsal of a new work by Angela Goh with sound by Corin Ileto, PERFORMANCE

Sat, July 01

14-20h Pontus Pettersson, Pancor Poetics, PERFORMANCE

with Aga Pędziwiatr, V Pierzyński and Tyra Wigg

14-15h miniature golf course open for use
15-17h performance
17-18h miniature golf course open for use
18-20h performance

16.12.2022/ 18–00h Performance at 19h00

17.12.2022/ 14–22h Performance at 19h00

The artistic practices assembled here deal with the often painful yet still romanticized blurring of life and work. Over the last two years, questions around the infrastructures of life and work have been resurfacing more frequently. While modes of production such as the ‘homeoffice’ are being widely introduced, notions like ‘playbour’ promise a merging of labour, play and leisure into one single activity. Not only is this promise only meant for a few, it also often leads to extensive personal exhaustion.

The walls of Shedhalle are reminiscent of its past as a production site for mechanical silk weaving from the late 19th century, when manual labour within textile fabrication moved from workers individual homes to industrial complexes. Protozone7 takes these moments and shifts in time as a horizon to reconsider old questions such as: How to buffer lives and living from total abstraction and financialization?

The artists invited developed their work within the pandemic. As many of us, they went through moments of crisis, depression, illness, loss, deprivation. They found ways to foster kinships and ecologies that supported these works without giving in to the logics of extraction. This zone hosts their specific and often slow practices, their ongoing engagements and meticulous care towards materials.

with aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether), Claudia Hill, Kiraṇ Kumār, Nils Amadeus Lange, Liquid Dependencies Theory, Enad Marouf, River Oracle, SABA

curated by Lucie Tuma

curatorial assistance Sophie Germanier, Ani Ekin Özdemir

supported by the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

Friday, 10.06

open 17-21:00 + 20.00 Performance „Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21)” by Nils Amadeus Lange with Mario Espinoza, Nils Amadeus Lange and Flo Schlessmann

Saturday, 11.06

14 – 20.00 Co-Weaving Session II / 16.00 Uhr guided tour with Lucie Tuma

Sunday 12.06

14 – 18.00 Co-Weaving Session II / 16.00 Uhr guided tour with Lucie Tuma

Friday 03.06. open 18.00 – 22.00

18.00 opening

20.00 Performance Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21) by Nils Amadeus Lange und guests

21.00 listening session – Tina&Nina

Saturday 04.06. open 14.00 – 23.00

11.00 – 17.00 Game what does a decentralized caring society look like? by Liquid Dependencies Theory and guests

Register at assistenz@shedhalle

14.00 – 20.00 Session I Co-Weaving by Claudia Hill and guests

15.00 kurze guided tour with Lucie Tuma

16.00 – 16.30 Workshop with Kiraṇ Kumār

17.00 Artist Talk with Enad Marouf

18.00 kurze guided tour with Lucie Tuma

19.30 Performance “The hand, the rock, your shoulder, and my mouth” by Tyra Wigg

20.00 Concert Glenn

21.00 listening session – DJ Rakita

Sunday 05.06. open 14.00 – 21.00

14.00 – 19.00 Session II Co-Weaving by Claudia Hill und guests

15.00 short guided tour with Lucie Tuma

16.00 – 16.30 Workshop with Kiraṇ Kumār

17.00 Artist Talk: SABA and Marcel Hörler from DOGO Residenz für Neue Kunst

18.00 guided tour mit Lucie Tuma

Monday 06.06. opening hours: 14.00 – 18.00

16.00 guided tour with Lucie Tuma

Protozone7 at Shedhalle Zürich is dedicated to the realm of non-work, creating zones for invisible processes that take place when we rest, laugh, love and non-work. Such zones have become an endangered species. Their ecologies thrive on abundance and generosity. They don’t want anything from you in return. These zones are there as themselves, full yet never complete, meshworks of possibilities that allow for stillness, pause, rest. Time is a scarcity yet mysteriously enough, there is more than enough of it here.

The artistic practices assembled here deal with the often painful yet still romanticized blurring of life and work. Over the last two years, questions around the infrastructures of life and work have been resurfacing more frequently. While modes of production such as the ‘homeoffice’ are being widely introduced, notions like ‘playbour’ promise a merging of labour, play and leisure into one single activity. Not only is this promise only meant for a few, it also often leads to extensive personal exhaustion.

The walls of Shedhalle are reminiscent of its past as a production site for mechanical silk weaving from the late 19th century, when manual labour within textile fabrication moved from workers individual homes to industrial complexes. Protozone7 takes these moments and shifts in time as a horizon to reconsider old questions such as: How to buffer lives and living from total abstraction and financialization?

The artists invited developed their work within the pandemic. As many of us, they went through moments of crisis, depression, illness, loss, deprivation. They found ways to foster kinships and ecologies that supported these works without giving in to the logics of extraction. This zone hosts their specific and often slow practices, their ongoing engagements and meticulous care towards materials.

with aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether), Claudia Hill, Kiraṇ Kumār, Nils Amadeus Lange, Liquid Dependencies Theory, Enad Marouf, River Oracle, SABA

curated by Lucie Tuma
curatorial assistance Sophie Germanier, Ani Ekin Özdemir

supported by the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and supported by IFA – Ausstellungsförderung