Are you coming? As both a question and an invitation, Protozone 6: Are you coming? is a direct address to its audience.

As Shedhalle continues to open its doors to the local Zurich and international community into the third year of the pandemic, we think it is important to break through jargon and to go to the root of what performance suggests – an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.

Are you coming? continues the processes developed in the summer of 2021 during Protozone 3: You’re So Busy, as well as premieres presentations of new work by longtime collaborators and friends. Each artist will present works as they are in process, opening them to the public with open rehearsals, workshops, film screenings and performances.

Are you coming? will further the dialogue inherent to the format of the Protozone, a process based exhibition scenario, that presents accessible works and sustainable practices through different intensities, named high and low intensity phases.

Each invited artist will take over Shedhalle on rotation during the weekends. Works in the program include the Swiss premiere of Dora Garcías new film If I could wish for something (2021), Ligia Lewis’ installation of deader than dead (2020), originally commissioned as a live performance in 2020 and reconfigured during lockdown as a video for online audiences, Nikima Jagudajev’s new production Basically, a durational dance performance developed over the course of the pandemic with international and Zurich-based collaborators, and many more.

With works and processes by:

Dora GarcíaMarch 4-5-6-12-13-19-20; April 16-17-30; May 1

Angela GohMarch 19 to May 15

Krõõt JuurakMarch 19-20-26-27

Ligia LewisApril 2-3

SERAFINE1369April 9-10

Nikima JagudajevApril 22-23 high intensity

Autumn KnightMay 6-7-8-14-15

Pontus Petterssonartist-in-residence