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
Tarek Lakhrissi
BEAST!
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
Queer
Bay
Day
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!
Shedhalle
Family-Fest
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
Opening times:
from 8pm
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.
Proto-Club x CAMP FIRES x Tyler Matthew Oyer
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
Queer
Bay
Day
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
The
performances
I missed
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.
As If
A Tongue
Was Tracing
Time.
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”
Are you
coming?
Are you coming? Protozone 6 is an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.
programmed by Michelangelo Miccolis
produced by Cora Gianolla and nick von kleist
in collaboration with zürich moves! Forever imbricated
Hard-
breakes
Video Deutsch/English VideoFrançais/Espagnol VideoTürkçe/عربي
Anna Fries + Göksu Kunak
Produced as part of the About Us! Festival.
Shown in the Framework of Tag der offenen Fabrik
Shedhalle is currently under construction for the new Protozone, so we’re opening the back door for a video screening of “Hardbreakes”:
All humans know it: wishing for something that in the end does not bring happiness at all. Be it in love, with plans for the future or in the search for solutions to problems – longing can also bring pain.
Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s book “Cruel Optimisim”, people in Wollishofen were asked about their unfulfilled wishes and how they deal with heartbreak. The conversations can be discovered in the video, which is published here.
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?
Proto-
Club3:
Pre-
Serving
Long Night of the Museums, Performance by Byungseo Yoo & Video-Screening by Dominique Koch
Please buy your tickets online via https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/ or register for free to participate in the cooking via mail@shedhalle.ch
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.
Kindly supported by Kompotoi
Queer
Trust
Protozone8
QUEER TRUST is an attitude that draws from and relies on the in-between. It has shaped the work at Shedhalle as a space for process-based art since 2020 and is also the basis of Protozone8. The exhibition shows artistic works and ways of working that trust in relationships and processes beyond fixed attributions. The participating artists share intimate, vulnerable, open, and courageous artwork. In doing so, they question (gender) identities as well as artistic, scientific, and social traditions and classifications.
Opening times:
HI-Intensity
16.-18.09.22
LO-Intensity
19.09.-04.12.22
open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h
29.10. 20h BEAST! Performance by Tarek Lakhrissi
04.-06.11. The Institute for embodied creative practices by Isabel Lewis
in collaboration with Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora l Lethe, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international academies
Tarek Lakhrissi
BEAST!
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
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
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
Winter-
break
Thank you for a wonderful year together! Shedhalle will be closed from mid of January until end of March 2023, but the process continues. Always. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.