Open Futures is a place to meet and experiment together – a place of experience, a celebration and many dinners. Starting November 10, an exhibition, talks, performances, workshops, walks, as well as a Sunday market, will take place in our partner houses Shedhalle, Gessnerallee and Tanzhaus Zürich. The focus is on dialogue, being with each other, experimenting and thinking about sustainability. Sustainability concerns our relationships with each other and with the overarching ecosystem, and is therefore best experienced in communities.
At the center of the cooperation with Shedhalle, Gessnerallee and Tanzhaus Zürich is a research phase for five artists and artist groups from the fields of dance and visual arts. For two to three weeks, the artists investigate practices of sustainability in dialogue with the audience. They explore what artistic research can contribute to social sustainability and how sustainable and social practices can in turn enrich artistic practice.
The process-based exhibition “Kollektive Resonanz” at Shedhalle is dedicated to questions of sustainability and its collective, social as well as cultural dimensions. The approaches range from Romy Rüegger’s historical examination of the history of textile production to the current living situation of migrants in Zurich (Club La Fafa). The works shown are dedicated to open, sometimes fragile, uncertain futures. Many are designed to engage with audiences through performances, public research formats, workshops and diaspora talks. More works and traces will emerge as the exhibition progresses.
Contributors: Tarik Hayward, Monica Ursina Jäger, Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee, Club La Fafa, Romy Rüegger, Susan Schuppli, traces and results of the Artists-in-Research, the ETH Newrope students* and the visitors and workshop participants. Anke Hoffmann (scientific accompaniment and evaluation). Camille Jamet (production & communication manager Open Futures), Moritz Sauer (collaborator program & dramaturgical support Open Futures), Isabelle Vuong (program manager & management Open Futures)
Artists-in-Research include Jessica Huber & Karin Arnold, Michelle Ettlin, Manon Fantini, Nelly Rodriguez and Nina Willimann (Gessnerallee), Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee/The Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration (Gessnerallee), The Field – Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel (Tanzhaus), Romy Rüegger (Shedhalle), Tarik Hayward (Shedhalle).
Main partners: Shedhalle, Gessnerallee, Tanzhaus & The Field, ETH Newrope
Project partners: Liebe Chaos Verein e. V, L200, Transition-Zurich, Urban Equipe, p2panda
Support: City of Zurich Dance, Canton of Zurich Fine Arts, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung, Cassinelli-Vogel Foundation, Temperatio Foundation, Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation, Fondation Paul-Edouard Piguet, Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation, Canton de Vaud, City of Zurich – Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz, Migros Kulturprozent Zürich, SüdKulturFonds
