Protozone 11: it’s weird
With: Angela Goh, Autumn Knight, Kris Lemsalu, Pontus Pettersson, Michael Portnoy
We are reclaiming the weird.
Not the uncanny, or necessarily the strange, but the weird as that which is out of place, a refusal in plain sight, a blurring of boundaries and relations. By challenging dominant perspectives, which have historically framed what is the “correct” narrative, weirdness becomes a space of knowledge production.
We invite a selection of artists and thinkers to imagine together how weirdness can create alternative and inclusive futures.
Opening times:
LO-Intensity Phase
17.06. – 6.08.
open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h
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The Institute for embodied creative practices
‘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
Becoming Justin Bieber
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
in the framework of Protozone8
Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA
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
Zurich
Art Weekend
If all of life is centered around work – how about work being a bit more like life, or like, living?
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.
Zones of
Kinship,
Love & Playbour
Hi-Intensity
If all of life is centered around work – how about work being a bit more like life, or like, living?
From 3. 6.06, the Hi-Intensity phase of Protozone7 Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, curated by Lucie Tuma, will take place. The artists Claudia Hill, Kiraṇ Kumār, Enad Marouf, SABA and Nils Amadeus Lange will be on site and share their practices live in workshops, talks and performances. On Saturday afternoon the Liquid Dependencies Theory game can be played (please register at assistenz@shedhalle.ch). Over the weekend, special guests such as philosopher Bojana Kunst will visit us, Duo GLENN plays a concert on saturday and evenings fade out with listening sessions.
Program HI-INTENSITY 03.-06.6.
Zones
of Kinship,
Love
& Playbour
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?
Portal
Conversations
Online and IRL guided tour (mixed media, live) through the exhibition with Kiran Kumar (Bengaluru) & Lucie Tuma, followed by a listening session with soungou (Zurich) in the Transpassing Zone.
With “Portal Conversations” a series is initiated, within which 2-3 positions each share their impressions and approach to the ongoing exhibition. Haptic-auditory levels of perception are prioritized over an experience focused on discursive-visual elements.
Come feel the vibe and share ur affective magic.
Join us live in the space or participate in the tour via Zoom:
Zoom-Link
Meeting ID: 912 7743 6390
Password: 301081
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