When – and how – are you “touched” by a sound, a movement, a texture, a sight, a taste or a smell in a space of “visual” arts?

Which bodily sensations are emerging when you encounter a sculpture, installation, performance, an image, video or sound? Where are the limits of these sensations for you in an institution for contemporary art?

How can the ProtoZone* enhance the embodied, affective properties of artistic practices?

To answer these questions, Feels Like… ProtoZone13 hosts artists who are re-valuing affective qualities and sensory perceptions in their work and refuse to be “read” in a specific way. Their practices dare us to challenge a binary split between feeling and understanding. Rather, they invite us to acknowledge the simultaneity of sensing-thinking as a non-binary entanglement when it comes to processes of “making sense” or “feeling like”. In such ways, they open up to the complexities and contradictions of aesthetic experience.

ProtoZone13 invites you into a space of collective learning: to negotiate proximity, emotions, sensuality and solidarity within shared ecologies of the exhibition space and beyond.

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Jubiläumsstiftung der Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Mondriaan Fund (Schule der Liebenden), Taiwan National Culture and Art Foundation (Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)), Pro Helvetia, Swiss Cultural Foundation & Oertli Foundation (James Bantone), Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt (Deborah-Joyce Holman), Georg und Josi Guggenheim Foundation, Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation

Friday 17.11. 18-23h / Saturday 18.11. 15-20h / Sunday 19.11. 14-18h

HI-Intensity Phase – OPENING Weekend

17.11. 18h introducing and eating ProtoZone13
18.11. 13-15:30h Collective Worlding Workshop with Steph Holl-Trieu

18.11. 17-18h Artist Talk with Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
and more tba

Thursday 23.11.

19h Le Foyer in Process – talk about the process“Schule der Liebenden”

Monday 27.11.

19-23h book release ‘Contemporary Queer Chinese Art’ with Diyi Mergenthaler, Ziwei Huang & Yumo Cheng and Dr. Daniel Berndt

Friday 01.12. at Riff Raff cinema

20:40h “UKI/IKU” double feature Shu Lea Cheang in collaboration with Porny Days

Saturday 02.12.

14-16h “Just say it!” workshop with Chill Pawel Dudus & Eeeezzii melanie bonajo

Friday 08.12.

„Die Schule der Liebenden“ premiere – more dates 10./14./15./16.12.23 and 5./6./7.1.24, tickets here

Saturday 13.-14.01.

HI-Intensity Phase – CLOSING Weekend
with Chris Paxton and more tba