20h VENUS
Part operetta, part techno club, and part esoteric ritual, VENUS is a music-driven stage show that revolves around meditations on Venus as a femme, anti-patriarchal, non-dominant icon. It features music from Tyler Matthew Oyer’s records RELEASE DELUXE, NO TEMPLE, and RETEMPLE, in addition to brand new unreleased songs produced during summer 2021. The work premiered in collaboration with Rupert Residency at Lukiskes Prison 2.0 in Vilnius, Lithuania in July.
TYLER MATTHEW OYER
Over the last decade Tyler Matthew Oyer has become an internationally recognized visual and performing artist known for their theatrical, campy, goth-pop performances. Their songs call for social change; the destruction of patriarchal rule in favor of femme, queer, anti-violent, unconventional or maladjusted alterities. Their musical aesthetics combine performance art-spoken-work incantation with their training in opera and classical voice. Their performances are born from the radical legacies of Klaus Nomi, Kembra Pfahler, Kenneth Anger, Peaches, Ron Athey, and Diamanda Galas. Previous performances include The Getty Museum, Silencio Paris, Ekebergparken Oslo, MoMA PS1, and documenta 13.
18-02h Proto-Club2: (be)longing
Out of the Blue, Tarek Lakhrissi, 2019, 13min – Mojana, Nadia Granados & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, 2021 (premiere), 18min – Prototypes I, Doireann O’Malley, 2017, 36min- YOU ARE BORING!, Vika Kirchenbauer, 2015, 15min
Proto-Club2 (be)longing immerses us in the intimate and poetic sound – and visual worlds of four artists whose practices are deeply interwoven with queer concerns. Their works radically expand the horizon of possible representations and ideas of bodies, relationships and worlds. The people and mythical beings that appear in them resist suppression and insist on the possibilities of the present, change and queer futures.
Proto-Club is a series by Shedhalle, circulating around queer culture, eco feminism and social movements. It seeks to create an ongoing process around these topics, connecting them to speculative and science-fictional ideas.
CAMP FIRES – The Body as a Queer Stage
CAMP FIRES is on view from 2.9. until 23.10.2021 at Last Tango and Tanzhaus Zürich and from 17.09.-31.10.2021 at Shedhalle x Protozone4. Tyler Matthew Oyer’s performance is part of CAMP FIRES’s extensive and collaborative public program. More information here
CAMP FIRES is a polymorphous project that reflects on the body as a performative interface to resist the normative gaze over dissident identities—that which is queer in the broadest sense. It centers around the idea of camp as a mode of resistance against dominant cultural codes through subversion, exaggeration, and artifice.
The project entails an exhibition comprising 18 video works by artists using a variety of strategies to challenge essentialist ideas about identity as well as a live program including performances, screenings, talks, and events in collaboration with various collectives and institutions.
CAMP FIRES took place for the first time in 2019 at UV in Buenos Aires. For the second iteration in Zurich, the exhibition is distributed across three venues—Last Tango that hosts 12 works; Tanzhaus Zürich where 3 videos are displayed in the bar area of the theater; and Shedhalle that blends 3 works of CAMP FIRES into their own exhibition Protozone4.
Through this de-centralization and de-hierarchization, CAMP FIRES aims to make visible the existence across the city of a network of spaces and collectives sharing a queer mindset while reflecting on the ubiquitous yet elusive character of queerness in the public space.
