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Book your artist! is an online platform initiated by Shedhalle Zürich, L’Abri Genève and la rada – spazio per l’arte contemporanea Locarno, connecting young artists with local audiences in the three main language regions of Switzerland. Book your artist! is an invitation to intimate live encounters with emergent visual or multidisciplinary artists active in Switzerland, in times of covid-19 and beyond.

A live encounter typically takes the form of a 1-2 hours intervention for a small audience of 1 to 5 people or more depending on artistic intentions and the covid-19 situation. These interventions cover an aspect of the artist’s work which acquires specific relevancy in relation to the covid-19 situation. To which extent does the pandemic shed new light on works already produced? What are ways of coping with the uncertainty inherent to an artistic activity which might also be of relevancy for audiences in times of coronavirus-related uncertainty?

The audience is invited to book directly on the platform with a personal message to the artist including a short description of who they are. Audiences without internet access can book per telephone. The audience gets to decide where the encounter should take place among different indoor and outdoor options such as the audience’s homes, an outdoor location, the art spaces or the artists’ studios.

With the support of Pro Helvetia.

Conceived by Isabelle Vuong for Shedhalle.

You are a young visual or performance artist – or an art or performance venue – based in Switzerland, and you have interest in the project, please get in contact with us to know more about the plan of realization and possibilities of collaboration.

Remain Calm

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A friend of mine once told me that there is no greater fortune than being in an institution like this one when the storm comes. Togetherness that weaves itself so tightly that you will never see yourself as a single unit again. – Miriam Stoney

“Remain Calm” by artist Nile Koetting invites audiences into an ever-evolving space of installation, performance, sound, light, scents, as well as texts written by author and researcher Miriam Stoney.

Inspired by the experience of evacuation drills for the occurrence of disasters in Japan, where Koetting was born and raised, “Remain Calm” muses on the conditions of “safe” zones in-between high-security technologies, risk-hedging measures, digitized care and shared spaces.

How do we exist and connect in a world where the prevention of disaster and risk are prevalent? “Remain Calm” provides a space for rituals and reflections, to explore singularity and communality in hyper-secured and unsecured time and space.

“Remain Calm” first breached at Kunstverein in Göttingen in March 2019 and then re-appeared in different forms at Palais de Tokyo, Klosterruine Berlin and Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Shanghai.

With: Nile Koetting (Concept, Artwork), Miriam Stoney (Script, Text), Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez (Choreographic development), Lara Dâmaso (Performance), David Suivez (Performance), Nozomu Matsumoto (Sound), Yoshihiro Inada (Video), Belle Santos (Costume), Benjamin Maus (Technical development)

Projector Robot sponsored by Cerevo, Animation background by AA-VFX

Unterstützt durch Stadt Zürich Kultur, ZHdK und Elisabeth Weber Stiftung

Programmed by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler for Shedhalle

11.09.2020

16-22h no reservation needed

12.09.2020

10-18h no reservation needed

13.09.2020

10-17hno reservation neededfollowed by a Talk with Nile Koetting, Miriam Stoney, Marcella Lista (Head Curator, Video & New Media Collection, Musée national d’art moderne – centre Pompidou, Paris (online)), Lhaga Koondhor (cultural curator), Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler (members curatorial team Shedhalle), about the process of ‚Remain Calm‘ RSVP

With this presentation, Shedhalle takes part in Zurich Art Weekend. Check the full program here

Erotic Sociability

In this workshop Isabel Lewis shares ideas around sociality and embodiment. No formal training of any kind is required to participate and all adults with a curiosity about dance and other embodied practices are encouraged to attend.

Lewis will introduce feminist sociologist Roslyn Bologh’s notion of “erotic sociability” as a form of interhuman sociality and guide a conversation about this as an alternative to the dominant 20th century relational modes of competition, conflict, and coercion. This workshop will then focus on the tuning and heightening of the senses in order to facilitate a state of hyper-presence that will be the aid towards generative and affective forms of being and dancing together.

The figure of the unambitious stripper serves as a metaphor guiding us to connect with our inner worlds in order to become more radically receptive to our outer worlds. For Lewis “unambitiousness” is key to the notion of the unambitious stripper. The outward-oriented gaze of the stripper that usually reaches out to address and arrest the client with the ambition of monetary gain is turned in on itself in this scenario. In this movement workshop instead of stripping off our clothes, we will use our imaginations to turns our attention inward, toward the surface of our own skin and imagine peeling away layers of social constructs and identity to access a personal inner space.

The unambitious stripper dances first for themselves and then for others ultimately reconnecting with the human and nonhuman presences they share space with. The dance that emerges is processual, a double motion of inner and outer, a becoming and an undoing, a movement on a continuum of becoming an object of interest and desire and being drawn out as an interested and desiring subject.

Please register for

the workshop here!

With: Isabel Lewis
Programmed by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler for Shedhalle

With this workshop, Shedhalle takes part in the Fleshy Interface Festival, initiated by Theater Neumarkt. Check the full program here