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!

Are you coming? As both a question and an invitation, Protozone 6: Are you coming? is a direct address to its audience.

As Shedhalle continues to open its doors to the local Zurich and international community into the third year of the pandemic, we think it is important to break through jargon and to go to the root of what performance suggests – an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.

Are you coming? continues the processes developed in the summer of 2021 during Protozone 3: You’re So Busy, as well as premieres presentations of new work by longtime collaborators and friends. Each artist will present works as they are in process, opening them to the public with open rehearsals, workshops, film screenings and performances.

Are you coming? will further the dialogue inherent to the format of the Protozone, a process based exhibition scenario, that presents accessible works and sustainable practices through different intensities, named high and low intensity phases.

Each invited artist will take over Shedhalle on rotation during the weekends. Works in the program include the Swiss premiere of Dora Garcías new film If I could wish for something (2021), Ligia Lewis’ installation of deader than dead (2020), originally commissioned as a live performance in 2020 and reconfigured during lockdown as a video for online audiences, Nikima Jagudajev’s new production Basically, a durational dance performance developed over the course of the pandemic with international and Zurich-based collaborators, and many more.

With works and processes by:

Dora GarcíaMarch 4-5-6-12-13-19-20; April 16-17-30; May 1

Angela GohMarch 19 to May 15

Krõõt JuurakMarch 19-20-26-27

Ligia LewisApril 2-3

SERAFINE1369April 9-10

Nikima JagudajevApril 22-23 high intensity

Autumn KnightMay 6-7-8-14-15

Pontus Petterssonartist-in-residence

Open Futures is a place to meet and experiment together – a place of experience, a celebration and many dinners. Starting November 10, an exhibition, talks, performances, workshops, walks, as well as a Sunday market, will take place in our partner houses Shedhalle, Gessnerallee and Tanzhaus Zürich. The focus is on dialogue, being with each other, experimenting and thinking about sustainability. Sustainability concerns our relationships with each other and with the overarching ecosystem, and is therefore best experienced in communities.

At the center of the cooperation with Shedhalle, Gessnerallee and Tanzhaus Zürich is a research phase for five artists and artist groups from the fields of dance and visual arts. For two to three weeks, the artists investigate practices of sustainability in dialogue with the audience. They explore what artistic research can contribute to social sustainability and how sustainable and social practices can in turn enrich artistic practice.

The process-based exhibition “Kollektive Resonanz” at Shedhalle is dedicated to questions of sustainability and its collective, social as well as cultural dimensions. The approaches range from Romy Rüegger’s historical examination of the history of textile production to the current living situation of migrants in Zurich (Club La Fafa). The works shown are dedicated to open, sometimes fragile, uncertain futures. Many are designed to engage with audiences through performances, public research formats, workshops and diaspora talks. More works and traces will emerge as the exhibition progresses.

Contributors: Tarik Hayward, Monica Ursina Jäger, Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee, Club La Fafa, Romy Rüegger, Susan Schuppli, traces and results of the Artists-in-Research, the ETH Newrope students* and the visitors and workshop participants. Anke Hoffmann (scientific accompaniment and evaluation). Camille Jamet (production & communication manager Open Futures), Moritz Sauer (collaborator program & dramaturgical support Open Futures), Isabelle Vuong (program manager & management Open Futures)

Artists-in-Research include Jessica Huber & Karin Arnold, Michelle Ettlin, Manon Fantini, Nelly Rodriguez and Nina Willimann (Gessnerallee), Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee/The Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration (Gessnerallee), The Field – Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel (Tanzhaus), Romy Rüegger (Shedhalle), Tarik Hayward (Shedhalle).

Main partners: Shedhalle, Gessnerallee, Tanzhaus & The Field, ETH Newrope

Project partners: Liebe Chaos Verein e. V, L200, Transition-Zurich, Urban Equipe, p2panda

Support: City of Zurich Dance, Canton of Zurich Fine Arts, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung, Cassinelli-Vogel Foundation, Temperatio Foundation, Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation, Fondation Paul-Edouard Piguet, Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation, Canton de Vaud, City of Zurich – Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz, Migros Kulturprozent Zürich, SüdKulturFonds

SABBATUM FEVER X OESTROGEN
In collaboration with @oestropolis
& with the hottest line up ever :
@messalina.mescalina @jamiraestrada @nyx_nyx @sylwia.zarembska @countessmalaise @boramurmure @yessi_perse 🎃🎃🎃

10pm-6am 👻👻👻

Poster by the talented @tissue_hunter

💀💀💀

SABBATUM FEVER III at the @rotefabrik is the third part of the project started by Sabrina Röthlisberger between the @kunsthalleosnabrueck and @shedhalle

In order to organize the best Sabbath of modern times, Sabrina invites @oestropolis (Paris-F) to programme musicians for this (Halloween) party.

In her works, Sabrina Röthlisberger discusses the historical and contemporary links between medicine, healing, education and power. For this, she mainly uses references to the history of art, cinema as well as allusions to her own social identity.

ŒSTROGEN is the project of the Parisian party curator Simone Thiébaut who organizes Parkingstone parties since 2015. Her new project ŒSTROGEN is promoting exclusively the trans, fem and non binary emerging scene.

SABBATUM FEVER is happy to announce that this will be the third time that ŒSTROGEN has programmed a party and the first time that Simone joined us in Switzerland…let’s show her how we welcome!

Beware beware; Because we are the witches that you will never be able to burn again !!!

NYX (djset):

NYX is a night… mare! Nyx is an apocalipcis now! Formally known as Nina Nana, the *teacher, DJx, performer, and event planner* have co-founded and co-directed the legendary GENEVEGAS parties in Geneva. Nyx got fired from Geneva’s public education because of their queer performances; they’ve been fighting the power since then. Witchx Bitchx, their sets are as fluid as the DJx themself. They play all kinds of good music, but they have a soft spot for trance and hardcore.

MESSALINA MESCALINA (performance):

Messalina Mescalina escapes from the real housewives thanks to her strange dead passing. She eats phalluses with consent and spits her pain on cis beauties since she was vaccinated. Sometimes Kate Mossanto, sometimes Catering Deneuve, there is no TW when she’s coming.

YESSI PERSE (djset):

¥€$Si PERSE (b. 2015, Internet)

Multidimensional artists and Quantum DJs based in Barcelona, Spain. IP:62.174.182.94.

Cofounders of @neurodungeon.

YESSi PERSE is a hyperstitional interface that allows their wearers to enter into alternative narratives. A Fiction Suit. This parapersona is a continuous-under-construction Avatar, an otherkin/cyborg creature manifesting in an RPG (Role Play Game) character -a radical mutant xenofaery- lost in the NeuroDungeon of an €conomystical Cybermedieval system, where elements of Science Fiction collapse with Urban Fantasy.

The current work of YESSi revolves around the mutation of institutional artistic performance with memetic variations that come from popular performative formalisations such as party contexts (using the DJ Set as format), Cosplay/LARP (Live action role-playing game), Online Communities and Virtual Worlds.

“Find Your Inner $€£₣I€,

Say ¥€$Si to YOUR$€£₣”

BORA (live):

A WIND WHISPERS. SOFT PAIN.
BORA’s (aka Pauline Canavesio) emotional cathedral is multi-dimensional, magic, it is not afraid of all that it can be, of all the forms that it can embody nor of all the voices that it can take. Her work is sprawling, drawing inspiration from a multitude of references and mediums: music, performance, painting, digital, video, sculpture and installation. As long as it is questioning body, identity and intimacy.

In the flesh there are no more bones, persists only the imprint: that of the skin, its marks, its inscribed scars and its invisible pain.

Countess Malaise (live):

Countess Malaise is a rapper, songwriter and visual artist.

With an established presence in Iceland’s underground rap scene, Countess Malaise’s high-energy performances have already gotten her the pleasure of performing at music festivals like Sónar Reykjavík, and is a welcome addition to lineups at alternative venues across Europe. Her first EP titled Hystería was released in fall of 2019 and received critical acclaim.

Malaise’s art touches upon subjects like rape culture, sexuality, love and depression. Fearless and enigmatic, Countess Malaise’s refusal to conform and her powerful live performances make this rising talent one to watch. She will be releasing her second EP Maldita 29th of October 2021.

SPORTY SPICE (djset):

SHE IS SPORTY SPICE THE ONLY ESTROGEN BEING IN INFAMOUS WIXAPOL CREW DESTROYER OF HARMONY LOVER OF TRANCE MUSIC ALWAYS 2 HARDCORE 4 U MRS WORLWIDE INTERNATIONAL FROM POLISH POMPECZKA TO JUNGLE HARDCORE.

JAMIRA ESTRADA (djset):

Jamira Estrada is a musician and dj with mexican and italian heritage based in Zurich. Curating her own events at the off-space Cuadro22 in Chur from a very early age on, her selection for the dance floor still embodies vividly the search for an invigorating collective stasis. Currently enrolled in her electroacoustic composition studies, she is examining and questioning processes based on the inventive possibilities of sonic effects. Deeply inspired by mythical fantasy worlds and organic organisms, as they cope with existential themes such as love and the struggle for survival, she resolves her work around inclusive spaces.This brought her to work on a wide spectrum of projects, such as giving DJ-workshops, creating a diverse skill-oriented plattform for femme, intersex and non-binary individuals through different collectives and collaboratively creating performances.

Line up:

22:00 – 00:00 Jamira Estrada – djset

00:00 – 00:30 BORA– live

00:30 – 01:00 Countess Malaise – live

01:00 – 03:00 NYX (feu Nina Nana) – djset + Messalina Mescalina – performance

03:00 – 04:00 ¥€$SI PERSE– djset

04:00 – 06:00 Sporty Spice (WIXAPOLONIA) – djset

Protozone4 Extra Worlding is curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler in collaboration with Camp Fires* (Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Bhenji Ra & Justin Shoulder, Jacolby Satterwhite), Zurich Art Weekend, lila. queer festival, Haus der Kunst München (Tarek Lakhrissi), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Sabrina Röthlisberger), Blindspot Gallery Hong Kong (Sin Wai Kin), AiR (Engy Mohsen), School of Commons (Carina Erdmann), GZ Wollishofen (VR-Café)

Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Elisabeth Weber-Stiftung

fmac Genève & Pro Helvetia (Sabrina Röthlisberger)

*CAMP FIRES – The Body as a Queer Stage

CAMP FIRES is an art project curated by Simon W Marin and Violeta Mansilla that is currently taking place across various venues in Zurich. Artworks are on view until 23.10.2021 at Last Tango and Tanzhaus Zürich, and from 17.09.-31.10.2021 at Shedhalle in this Protozone. More information and program here

Lo-Intensity Closing Program

29 Oct 16-20h Exhibition open

From 23 October: Public Fiction Group extended: Rosida Koyuncu, Meloe Gennai und Roble/ RO X Three additional positions join Public Fiction Group’s speculative installation Resto Diaspo in the exhibition space beginning Saturday, October 23, 2021. As a separate exhibition space within the exhibition space, the Resto features the work of Rosida Koyuncu, Meloe Gennai und Roble / RO X.

30 October

14-22h: Exhibition open, 22-06h: Closing Party Sabbatum Fever, ŒSTROGEN Club-Night by Sabrina Röthlisberger x Parkingstone x Clubbüro Rote Fabrik x Shedhalle

31 October

14-18h: LAST CHANCE Exhibition open, 18-20h: Fade out human mimikry night – Farewell to “Extra-Worlding” with artists of Protozone4 & Shedhalle Team