At this moment, we make time for “timing-out”. In the middle of our five year endeavor PROTOZONES 2020-2025 we take some time to gather and reflect on our curatorial practice. As part of this, we invite collaborators who are already in the process of preparing contributions for future Protozones. All together, we wish to create a common space of gathering, inviting you for workshops, games, screenings and food.

We are looking forward to spending this time together with you. Lucie Tuma, Michelangelo Miccolis, Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler.

Pictures: “How to create comfortable resting positions with _____”, Engy Mohsen and Gabriel Hensche, 2022, game session at Iron Velvet, New York. Photo: Cristian Chironi

‘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

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

This performance

“…explores bestiality as a philosophical and political concept by drawing on the stigma that historically frames queers and PoC as monstrous. Through read- ings of my recent romantic/radical poems accompanied by the lyrical vocals
of Makeda Monet and the electronic music of Victor da Silva. BEAST! explores utopian queer passions, rituals for lost ones, dark corners to protect oneself in, erotic dreams, and… you’ll see. All the poems are from my last poetry book LE SANG! (BLOOD!) published by Lafayette Anticipations.”

-Tarek Lakhrissi

LGBTQIA+Summer Party

On August 1, 2022, the bay behind Rote Fabrik will once again become “Queer Bay.” Queer Bay Day is a summer party for the LGBTQIA+ scene and culture in Zurich and Switzerland. We invite you to brunch, swim, dance and talk 💦 Bring your umbrellas, swim rings and of course your loved ones!

open for all 🌞

food & drinks inclusive (vegan)
music by DJ Rakita
guided tour through Protozone7: Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour with Lucie Tuma
summer solstice fire

possibility to get an instant membership for CHF 21

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.

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.

Architecture for Refugees

Sun 12.12.21 15:00 – 19:00

After their Methodologycafé on 27 November, Architecture for Refugees are back with an invitation to a “Together Party” from 3 pm.

In addition to food and drink, visitors can gain insights into the method «Inclusion makes Architecture» for analysing inclusion in organisations or carry out such an analysis themselves in the pavilion of Architecture for Refugees.

Open Research

Tarik Hayward

(5.12.21 16:00-17:30)

CANCELLED due to illness

During his two weeks of research at Shedhalle, Tarik Hayward invites the audience to a research moment revolving around his work “Pure Life” (2019). “Pure Life” was developed in the context of an exchange with American poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines organized as part of Swiss Foundation Pro Helvetia’s Cahier d’artiste publication series (click here for the publication).

“Pure Life” is named after a water from a well-known Swiss multinational company and consists in water extracted from pig’s blood. Hayward reproduces this exact moment of water extraction for an interested audience at the Shedhalle on December 5.

In English

With: Tarik Hayward