‘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

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.

On the 4th of September, Proto-Club teams up with CAMP FIRES to show the music-performance VENUS by Tyler Matthew Oyer at 20:00.

Before and after, the video-program of Proto-Club2: (be)longing will be screened for a last time, with movies by Nadia Granados & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Tarek Lakhrissi, Vika Kirchenbauer, Doireann O’Malley.

04. September 2021, Videos 18-20 & 21-02h, Music-Performance VENUS 20 Uhr

Tickets via Lange Nacht der Museen, or for Guest-List write us or ask us at the entrance

ATTENTION: BECAUSE OF BAD WEATHER, WE HAVE TO MOVE THE QUEER BAY DAY TO THE INSIDE OF SHEDHALLE. PLEASE COME WITH A VALID COVID CERTIFICATE (INFO BELOW). WE ARE WATCHING THE BAY FROM THE INSIDE :_) AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU! TESTING OPTION IN THE AFTERNOON ON THE SPOT AT ROTE FABRIK UNTIL 20:00.

Gessnerallee, Shedhalle and Clubbüro IG Rote Fabrik invite you to QUEER BAY DAY on the 1st of August. A political LGBTQIA+ summer festival, on the square behind Rote Fabrik, in Shedhalle and in the Clubraum. Admission during the day is free and the event is non-commercial.

We want to use the ongoing campaigns for queer causes in Switzerland and the August 1st speech of trans person Mo, which will take place on the Albis in Langnau am Albis, as an opportunity to strengthen the LGBTQIA+ scene and culture in Zurich and Switzerland and make it visible as part of society.

PROGRAMME
14-22h: Queer Bay Day* (bad weather: Shedhalle), with DJ sets, queer initiatives and live stream of the 1st August speech by trans person Mo in Langnau am Albis (twitch link here)

22-23h: Performance von LEGZ: “Sheding the old selves”, Shedhalle*
23-07h: After Party at Clubraum Rote Fabrik**

COVID-19-info:

*Free entrance. As the weather turns super bad, we take shelter in Shedhalle and have to ask for a COVID certificate. (Info below.) There is a testing option on the spot at Rote Fabrik in the afternoon until 20h.

**The After-Party is accessible only with a COVID certificate (Info below). Entrance fee for After Party: 10.- (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

How to get a COVID Certificate:
– Full vaccination (14days after 2nd shot; valid 12 months)
– Negative PCR test (valid 3 days)
– Negative rapid antigen test (valid 48 hours)
– For those recovered from Covid: 11 or more days after positive PCR test (valid 180 days)

You can get a COVID Certificate for free from the place where you got tested or vaccinated.

Closest testing station: Morgental Apotheke

Vaccination & Testing for Sans-Papiers and those without access to healthcare:

Vaccination:
Free appointments are available from the city of Zurich at Kanonengasse 18 (Tel. 044 415 56 01)

Testing:
Rapid Antigen Test (without symptoms): Free at any pharmacy or testing center (no documents required). PCR Test (with symptoms): Free at Kanonengasse 18 (Tel. 044 415 56 01)

Grafik Design Flyer: Good for a Gxrl

Shedhalle’s curator Michelangelo Miccolis presents his new writing about performance, specifically, a text reflecting on labor, relationships and care titled The performances I missed.

Michelangelo Miccolis (1981, Mexico) is an artist whose performance-based practice extends into various formats, from participatory workshops to writing, production and curation.

Since 2017, he is the founder and curator of IMMATERIAL at Material Art Fair in Mexico City. From 2017 until 2019 he was guest-curator for Cabaret Voltaire, and in 2020 he joined Shedhalle’s new curatorial board, both in Zurich.

Since 2005, he has worked internationally on projects by renowned artists and institutions including: Dora García, Tino Sehgal, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Carlos Amorales, Romeo Castellucci & Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, La Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Trussardi, Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Museo Reina Sofia, Gropius Bau, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva and Iuav University.

Image: Michelangelo Miccolis. Performance view WHO CARES: Notes on how to address an audience, Index Art Book Fair/Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; January 26, 2020
Ph. Chantal Garduño Israde.

A performance scene from the artist’s up coming next work. Dealing with intimacy, loss and memory.

A movement articulation to the themes he worked on in his video installation “You Take Me Across The Distance” for “Continuity / Transpassing: making histories in more-than-human worlds”