Protozone11: it’s weird is a multi-format project, developing as an experiment in exhibition making, performance presentation and educational exchange. Since our first Protozone back in 2020, we have established an alternative model for exhibition making. Within it, we are continuously expanding and renegotiating the boundaries of artwork and reception, how to gather in public and our institutional roles. We remain receptive and porous in our relationship to our audiences and continue to learn from them. At the same time, we remain in the process of defining our mission, questioning the relevance of art production during a historical moment on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Shedhalle will once again open its doors to process-based scenarios, inviting previous and new collaborators to inhabit the space for the next nine weeks. Angela Goh will open Protozone11: it’s weird with a performance, Body Loss, and the European premiere of her new film, The Concert (2022), commissioned by the Sydney Opera House. She will remain in-residence at Shedhalle, bringing a suite of performances in-process on the two following weekends. Opening weekend continues with contributions from: Michael Portnoy who invites us to look at sex as dance and comedy, presenting the film Progressive Touch (2020); Kris Lemsalu who appears through a phantasmagorical intervention that will continue into the night, leaving traces to remain at Shedhalle; and Autumn Knight will return to Shedhalle for the third year in a row, developing on work begun in the SHED in 2021, bringing the virtual work-in-process to our walls. Finally, Pontus Pettersson, artist-in-residence 2022, returning to Shedhalle on July 1st, will reconfigure the entire set up of the space with his own weird project pancor poetics.

Over the course of its nine-week manifestation, curator Michelangelo Miccolis, producer & moderator nick von kleist and guest editor Lisa Andreani will develop and serially publish The Weird Reader. This slow publication opens new and weird spaces for access and engagement with the works and processes of Protozone11. It uses the processes presented as its foundation for us to both listen to and build on, collectively. The process of The Weird Reader will be on view as an installation at Shedhalle and online on “the SHED”, our virtual greenroom and online residency program.

Curated by Michelangelo Miccolis

Produced and moderated by nick von kleist

Editor and contributor The Weird Reader: Lisa Andreani

Graphic design: Studio Yukiko

Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Australian Government & Australia Council for the Arts (Angela Goh), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee & Embassy of Sweden (Pontus Pettersson), Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Elisabeth Weber-Stiftung

LO-Intensity Phase

17.06. – 6.08.

open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h

Check for weekly updates on “the SHED”

Installations (during opening hours):

vinyl-drawings by Autumn Knight, installations by Pontus Pettersson and Kris Lemsalu, films by Angela Goh (starting Sat 15,17 and 19h and Sun 15 and 17h) and Michael Portnoy (on a loop), ongoing publication of “The Weird Reader”

The Weird Reader

weird reading group & weird film program, time tbc

at Shedhalle and online via “the SHED”

PAST

HI-Intensity Phase

June 09-11, during Zurich Art Weekend

Fri, June 09, 17:00 – 23:00

18h Angela Goh, Body Loss (2017) PERFORMANCE (Swiss Premiere)

19h Angela Goh, The Concert (2022) FILM (European Premiere)

19h45 Michael Portnoy, Progressive Touch (2020) FILM

20h Kris Lemsalu, New untitled performance in collaboration with Maria Metsalu

22h Michael Portnoy, Progressive Touch (2020) FILM

Sat, June 10, 14:00 – 20:00

19h Angela Goh, The Concert (2022) FILM

Sun, June 11, 14:00 – 18:00

17h Angela Goh, Body Loss (2017) PERFORMANCE

Lo-Intensity-Phase

Sun, June 18

17h Angela Goh, Pattern Recognition, PERFORMANCE

Sun, June 25

17-19h open rehearsal of a new work by Angela Goh with sound by Corin Ileto, PERFORMANCE

Sat, July 01

14-20h Pontus Pettersson, Pancor Poetics, PERFORMANCE

with Aga Pędziwiatr, V Pierzyński and Tyra Wigg

14-15h miniature golf course open for use
15-17h performance
17-18h miniature golf course open for use
18-20h performance