‘Syncretism’ describes the fusion of different natural-cultural elements into a new form of expression. The English word ‘site’ refers to a place, a factory, a location, a site or also, the virtual localization on the net: the web site. Different practices and forms of knowledge, non-modern and modern cosmologies, poetic and exploratory procedures share this space. A syncretic understanding opens the world to complexity and density. Thus, what is layered, entangled, enmeshed and fused together creates not one single worldview, but worlds of coexistence – in plural.

Every era has to reinvent the project of “spirituality” for itself. In the modern era, one of the most active metaphors for the spiritual project is “art.”

Susan Sontag in “Aesthetics of Silence” (1967)

Syncretic Sites is characterized by a benevolently critical examination of both concept and practice of spirituality. The works open up references around the ephemeral, the immaterial and the spiritual, in its broadest sense. The relationship between primarily modernist spaces of contemporary art and non-modern forms of knowledge takes place as a constant negotiation with the “project of spirituality,” as Susan Sontag describes it in the quote above. In this, subtle or repressed forms of knowledge are often lost. Through formats of listening, pausing, and tracing, we come to syncretism and discover what might otherwise go unnoticed.

The invited artists specialize in following and augmenting the traces of events long past, forgotten or happening in the future. Similar to deep geological drilling, processes of sedimentation appear, which took place on site a long time ago, are taking place unnoticed at the present moment, or are yet to take place in a distant future. The speculative and the present are interwoven and played back through various media. Invocations, prayers, laments, hopes, blurs, miniatures, dissolves, echoes and new forms of archiving characterize this Protozone.

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Stiftung Temperatio, Migros-Kulturprozent, IPF Institute for the Performing Arts and Film from Zurich University of Arts

LO-INTENSITY-PROGRAM 18.09.-05.11.:

open each Sat 14-20h / Sun 14-18h

Guided Tours with Lucie Tuma

22.10./29.10./04.11./05.11. 14h

further program tba

HI-INTENSITY-PROGRAM 15.09.-17.09.:

FRIDAY, 15.09.2023

open 18-23:00

18:00 opening Protozone12: Syncretic Sites
19:30 Tiran Willemse: blackmilk (Performance)
20:30 Amparo Gonzáles Sola: If every rock is a hole (Performance)
21:30 HAUSVRAU listening session

SATURDAY, 16.09.2023

open 14-22:00

14:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma
15:00 Frank Hesse: Emergency in favour of twice (Workshop)
17:00 The Universe Ball, hosted in collaboration with lila. queer festival
subsequently (ca. 21:00) Nina Emge listening session

SUNDAY, 17.09.2023

open 13-18:00

13:00 A.Livingstone: The Sequesterers: subterranean (Lecture Gesture)

14:00 Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma
15:00 Shruti Belliappa & Kiraṇ Kumār: Department of Para Pedagogic Practices (Reading)
17:00 Tiran Willemse: blackmilk (Reading)

With Syncretic Sites, a syncretic deep drilling into previously invisible or hardly perceived layers, locations, and perspectivizations of the site will take place in the fall of 2023. For just like any other place, Shedhalle is inhabited by traces from other times and places.

‘Syncretism’ describes the fusion of different natural-cultural elements into a new form of expression. The English word ‘site’ refers to a place, a factory, a location or also, the virtual localization on the net: the web site.

The next protozone is about processes of listening and about past, forgotten, repressed or future events and existences.

During the pre-opening, we look at post-digital futures: With an invitation to the curatorial collective Forever Unblocked, we celebrate the anticipation of Protozone12 with an initial focus on listening and sound formats. The freshly founded collective has developed a program of artistic positions that will take place at Shedhalle and Clubraum Rote Fabrik.

>>>Protozone12: Syncretic Sites officially begins with a Hi-Intensity Phase two weeks later, 15.09. -17.09.2023

Meet us at 8pm at Shedhalle for the launching event of our series featuring bod [包家巷], Well Born and Spellcaster. (installation open 18-02h)

The Afterparty starts at 11pm at Clubbüro with three sparkling DJs of the avant-pop deconstructed club music sphere, namely Prairie F33, LEGIT GIRL DJ, and Puduparty.

August 1 thus becomes a day for queer solidarity. This is an urgent statement especially in light of current attacks on queer cultural events and political questioning of queer identities and life models. With the QBD we want to strengthen queer culture and contribute to the networking of queer people.

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

Queer Bay Day is initiated by Clubbüro IG Rote Fabrik, Gessnerallee and Shedhalle. It is realized in cooperation with LGBTQIA+ initiatives from Zurich and Switzerland. The event is non-commercial and independent of sponsors. Profits will be donated to Queer Amnesty and TSEF.

Graphic design: Lorena Cipriano

Waiting for you: Juicy DJ sets, BarbeQ with Oz & Friends, workshops with introductions and a cuddle corner by QueerNest, a massage oasis by Znüni, STI testing by Checkpoint Zurich, mini golf at Shedhalle, info booths by TGNS and Bisexual Switzerland and more info material about queer life in Zurich and Switzerland, cake by Aro-Ace-Spektrum Switzerland, a queer pole jam and iced tea bar by SLOCH collective, a book booth by FAGDOM and a reading corner initiated by the library of Regenbogenhaus as well as a product presentation by the queer sex shop untamed.love and a performance by L-AZCO & OIL Productions.

More program to be announced! 🌈

If you want to contribute to the program with your own ideas, please contact us via queer.bay.day@gmail.com

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

More information about the program:

DJ sets by

Sabrina Oberlin https://soundcloud.com/user-945972663

prazeres https://soundcloud.com/prazeresss

Foncé https://soundcloud.com/jean_fonceee

QueerNest cuddle corner with Julian & Sash from www.queerspace.ch

A quiet corner in the clubroom where people can retreat to cuddle with others. You can come and go as you please. All genders and orientations are welcome. At 5pm and 7pm there is an introduction with exercises and games for all newcomers and a big cuddle pile is set up each time. You decide at any time what you want to participate in and whether you want to go in or out. Pre-registration is not necessary, but beneficial to estimate how many people will be attending. queer.bay.day@gmail.com

STI Testing from Checkpoint www.cpzh.ch

You can get tested for STIs and HIV for a discounted price of 20 CHF at QBD. We will set up an anonymous place for this and provide the infrastructure.

Massage for all bodies with Simon & Aga

Thaï and Cranio-Sacral technique, four hands massage. It is best to register in advance: queer.bay.day@gmail.com

Barbecue & Salad Buffet by Oz Oderbolz

Feel free to bring your (vegi)sausage or grilled cheese.

When do we ask for a time-out? In life, we may ask for a time-out when circumstances get overwhelming, when people fall ill or burn out, when banks collapse or a relationship goes silent.

Time-outs exist as pockets of time that pretend they’re following some other logic than the progression of time. As if time came to a halt. Does it ever?

Curated by Lucie Tuma, Michelangelo Miccolis, Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler

CLOSING WEEKEND

Sunday/Monday 28./29.05. 14-18h

Screening TouchMETell by melanie bonajo

Monday 29.05. 18-22h Proto-Club4 Closing Gathering:

18-19h Soft Scores with Aga Pedziwiatr (DIVAS)

Aga Pedziwiatr (DIVAS) invites everyone to share and exchange together through touch, writing and voice. With the blend of their own artistic practice and as a comeback to the collective body of DIVAS Aga proposes soft scores and exchanges that facilitate a process of touching beyond the physical. Bring your favourite comfy clothes, your body and spirit and a pen!

19-20:30 Sauve qui peut: Together Convivial Dinner with Planetary Concern mit Byungseo Yoo

This Eco-Transpedagogy program and participatory art project embraces the salvaging, fermentation, cooking, and sharing of food waste. Participants actively engage in light labor, engage in discussions based on pre-recorded podcasts, partake in food waste quizzes, and exchange perspectives on seeking shared solutions amidst the challenges of climate change, political polarisation, and energy crises.

20:30-21:30 Präsentation von He Shen

Stories and Spaces are deeply entangled. Narrations, fictions and speculations offer us a temporal scale to look at the built environment, through which bodies’ oppressive categorisation and transgressive potential are made visible. Alternative life schedules and subcultural kinship making (what Jack Halberstam calls a “queer temporality”) demand an expanded understanding of care practice concerning architecture, whose aesthetic vocabulary is yet to be found.

+all evening long: musical sharings by Chaos Angel
from dream pop over Dean Blunt hommages to East Asian nostalgias

PAST SCREENINGS

Saturday/Sunday 22./23.04. & 29./30.04.
Army of Love by Ingo Niermann & Alexa Karolinski
42 min, 2016, commissioned by 9. Berlin Biennial

Saturday/Sunday 06./07.05. & 13./14.05.

Amor Rojo by Dora García

91 min, 2023, HD, color, 16:9, Spanish spoken, English subs, BE/NO’

Saturday/Sunday 20./21.05.

INCHOATE BUZZ by Leah Walker

conceived and commissioned by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, 2022

When do we ask for a time-out? In life, we may ask for a time-out when circumstances get overwhelming, when people fall ill or burn out, when banks collapse or a relationship goes silent. Time-outs exist as pockets of time that pretend they’re following some other logic than the progression of time. As if time came to a halt. Does it ever?

Saturday 15.04.
18:00: Army of Love by Ingo Niermann & Alexa Karolinski (Screening)
19:00: Performance of the Games Falling in Love with the World with Michelangelo Miccolis, Engy Mohsen, Ingo Niermann & Maria Sabato
20:00 Food & Drinks

Sunday 16.04.
14:00 Rehearsing Horizontalities by Eliana Otta, moderated by Engy Mohsen (partizipatory game)
15:30 somatic practices mit Antonija Livingstone

QUEER is, among other things, a term for the ambiguous and the unenclosed. In this sense, the term goes beyond sexual orientation or the question of gender. It is the basis of an attitude that insists on an “in-between,” a diversity of perspectives, and constant change.

For Protozone8, QUEER is joined with the term TRUST. Relationships with artists and trust in artistic processes are the foundation that gives support to constant change and non-fixation. This is what makes working in the art space Shedhalle possible in the first place. TRUST is also placed in the visitors, who are invited into this space of fluid transitions. QUEER TRUST is a call to trust the space between.

Protozone8: QUEER TRUST is developed and organized in exchange with the participating artists. Together with the visitors, QUEER TRUST creates space for the presentation of works as well as opportunities for gatherings, new experiences, and learning.

Participants

Dana Michel (artist-in-residence) & Tracy Maurice Lay Them All Down (2020)

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė Leave No Trace (Athens) I-VIII (2022), RYXPER1126AE (2019), Votive Flowers (I–II), Freestanding Votive Flowers (I–VI) (all 2022)

Isabel Lewis The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices (ongoing) – in collaboration with Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora I LETHE, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international art schools

Natasha Tontey Garden Amidst The Flame (2022) – commissioned and produced by Auto Italia, London in partnership with La Becque, Tour-de-Peilz, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague and Shedhalle, Zurich

Sunny Pfalzer I know what to do – with Lau Lukkarila and Slim Soledad, music by Marshall Vincent – produced in collaboration with Perrrformat

Tarek Lakhrissi Beast! (2022) – with Makeda Monnet and Victor da Silva – co-commissioned performance with Tinguely Museum (Basel), Move Festival, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Shedhalle (Zürich), Bureau des Heures Invisibles (Aubervilliers) & A horn is a thorn is a horn (2021)

Terre Thaemlitz Interstices (2001) & talk with Laurence Rassel

curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler, curatorial assistants Ani Ekin Özdemir & Vanessa Bosch

With kind support of Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zurich Fachstelle Kultur (for The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices), Tanzhaus Zurich (für Dana Michel), Embassy of Canada (for Dana Michel), Kulturpauschale Kanton Basel Stadt (for Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė), Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation.

Hi-Intensity

16.09. open 18-24h

Dana Michel (intermittently, time tbd)

further program tba

17.09. open 14-22h

Dana Michel (intermittently, time tbd)

further program tba

18.09. open 14-20h

Natasha Tontey (time tbd)

further program tba

Lo-Intensity

19.09. to 04.12., open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h

29.10. 20h Beast! Performance byTarek Lakhrissi with Makeda Monnet and Victor da Silva

05./06.11. The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices Isabel Lewis in collaboration with Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora I LETHE, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international (art) schools

11.-13.11. Zurich Art November with Sunny Pfalzer

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.

During the Long Night of the Museums, artist Byungseo Yoo will establish a kitchen at Shedhalle. Visitors can witness and participate in introductions to fermentation, communal cooking as well as tasting and eating of course – and everyone can give something back in the framework of Byungseo Yoo’s CARE program.

Due to its unsettling actuality, we will also once again screen Dominique Kochs movie “Sowing the Seeds for the Future” (2020) that takes the history and activities of ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) as a starting point. ICARDA’s research goal is to prevent hunger crises as a result of droughts and other disasters. But it is itself also vulnerable to destruction. In this video project, the narrative modes mix and merge, culminating in a kind of “science-fictional poetry”.

Performance-Schedule:

18:00 Fermentation workshop 01-Tsukemono(Asazuke) fermentation / 19:00 open cooking / 20:00 open eating / 21:00 Fermentation workshop 02- Kimchi fermentation / 22:00 Fermentation workshop 03- Hot sauce (Sriracha) fermentation / 23:00 Fermentation workshop 04- Indoor compost fermentation (Bokashi fermentation)+ Humanure fermentation / from 24:00 drinks & dialogue

On the beach you will be welcomed with: Juicy DJ sets, all-day-snacking and snack making, workshops for yoga, vogueing and couple dancing, clothes swapping, STI testing, art, information about queer life in Zurich and Switzerland, a small but sweet nude swimming area and much more.

Yours,

Gilles, Isi, Miriam, Philipp, Thea, Rabea, Vivi

Clubbüro Rote Fabrik, Gessnerallee, Shedhalle

The event is non-commercial and independent of sponsors. Profits will be donated to Queer Amnesty and TSEF. Please note: In case of continuous rain, the QBD will have to be cancelled. A possible cancellation would be communicated by Sunday noon.

Graphic Design: Rebekka Jamila

entrenous dance workshop to learn discofox steps

Vogueing and Free Movement Workshop with Nona XYZ

cozy movie corner with films from OIL Productions (TW: explicit)

Summer dress swap (bring your own clothes)

Queer Bay Yoga with Irina

STI Testing by Checkpoint

Queer & Sex-Positive Illustrations by Andrea Vollgas Studio

Information booth with information material from TGNS, TSEF, Queer Amnesty, Zürich Schaut Hin, Aro Ace Spectrum Switzerland

Finissage and screenings of the exhibition INVERNADERO by Toxi Space

RHIZOM soundsystem and DJs in the bay

Lineup:
10-12 Rakita
12-14 TVBXS
14-16 Ayshat Campbell
16-18 HAUSVRAU

If you want to participate with your own idea for the program, please contact queer.bay.day@gmail.com

In order to plan better, we are happy if you announce yourself via email (mail@shedhalle.ch), but also spontaneous guests are welcome. We are looking forward!