Agenda

Enad
Marouf

You Take Me Across The Distance تأخذني عبر المدى

 

In the new installation You Take Me Across The Distance, Marouf is presenting two video works: Thikra (memory) and Wa’d (promise).

The installation reinvokes a dwelling of some kind. The videos are conversations between a ‘me’ and a ‘you’ that is multiple. The ‘you’ lived in the middle east over the last 70 years and has lived through the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, which forms a central theme of the video essay. In an uncanny manner, the AIDS epidemic of the 1980ies which we still find ourselves in, appears to anticipate today’s challenging times in more than one respect. In both moments, ‘the world’ as we know it, seems to come to an end. What emerges, thus, is a parallel moment in which the notion of futurity is radically put into question. Our sense of the present, past and future appears to clash, as these temporalities begin to oscillate and interfere with one another.

 

Marouf’s work occupies itself with memory, loss and intimacy. Asserting the physical inaccessibility of certain aspects of one’s life, memory and the act of remembrance are the only granted access to this challenge of loss and the inaccessible. By looking into queer narratives and histories, he aims to shift questions of straightforward identity politics towards processes of embodiment. Rethinking queer gestures and speech are understood not only as behavior but as action.

 

Enad Marouf is a Syrian/German performance artist based in Berlin. After graduating from the Syrian National Ballet School and studying international law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Damascus, Marouf continued his studies of choreography Ernst-Busch-Hochschule in Berlin. He received his MA in choreography and performance at the Institute for Theater Studies Gießen/Frankfurt he completed in 2014. In 2010 he founded with Franziska Aigner, Billy Bultheel, Samuel Forsythe and Daniel Jenatsch the collective New Forms of Life. His solo works and collaborations have been shown at venues including the Athens Biennale, KunstenfestivaldesArts Brussels, 104 Paris, HAU Berlin, Babel Beirut, Centre culturel Francais de Damas, Venice Biennale presented. Since 2016 he is part of Anne Imhof’s studio, where he works as a dramaturg, choreographer and performer. He was part of ANGST I&II at Kunsthalle Basel and Hamburger Bahnhof, of Faust (winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Biennial 2017), and of SEX I&II at the Tate Modern and at the Art Institute of Chicago.

You take me across the Distance (2021) is a co-production of Shedhalle Zurich with the generous support of NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.

Shedhalle – Enad Marouf: You Take Me Across The Distance تأخذني عبر المدى

Enad Marouf
You Take Me Across The Distance تأخذني عبر المدى
Filmstill: Enad Marouf

04.03.-15.05.22

Are you
coming?

In short

Are you coming? Protozone 6 is an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.

 

programmed by Michelangelo Miccolis

produced by Cora Gianolla and nick von kleist

in collaboration with zürich moves! Forever imbricated

Shedhalle – Protozone6: Are you coming?
22.05.22

Hard-
breakes

In short

Video Deutsch/English VideoFrançais/Espagnol VideoTürkçe/عربي

 

Anna Fries + Göksu Kunak

 

Produced as part of the About Us! Festival.

Shown in the Framework of Tag der offenen Fabrik

 

Shedhalle is currently under construction for the new Protozone, so we’re opening the back door for a video screening of “Hardbreakes”:

 

All humans know it: wishing for something that in the end does not bring happiness at all. Be it in love, with plans for the future or in the search for solutions to problems – longing can also bring pain.

 

Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s book “Cruel Optimisim”, people in Wollishofen were asked about their unfulfilled wishes and how they deal with heartbreak. The conversations can be discovered in the video, which is published here.

Video Türkçe/عربي

Video Français/Espagnol

Video Deutsch/English

03.06.-07.08.2022

Zones
of Kinship,
Love
& Playbour

In short

Lo-Intensity

10.06.-07.08.2022 > open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h, plus additional opening hours on request

 

Guided Tours with Lucie Tuma:

Sa 06.08. 16:00
So 07.08. 16:00

and on request

 

If all of life is centered around work – how about work being a bit more like life, or like, living?

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour
Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Nils Amadeus Lange, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21), Performance 03.06.22 with Florian Schlessmann. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Claudia Hill, Co-Weaving, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Kiraṇ Kumār, Six uneasy fragments (exactly) about the natural and spiritual, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Claudia Hill, Co-Weaving, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether), Transformella Cinis [4.4.6.10.3], Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Nils Amadeus Lange, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21), Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Liquid Dependencies Theory, Liquid Dependencies: What would a decentralized caring society look like? Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Liquid Dependencies Theory, Liquid Dependencies: What would a decentralized caring society look like? Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

SABA, Wish we were free, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

River Oracle, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

03.09.2022, 18-02h

Proto-
Club3:
Pre-
Serving

In short

Long Night of the Museums, Performance by Byungseo Yoo & Video-Screening by Dominique Koch

Please buy your tickets online via https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/ or register for free to participate in the cooking via mail@shedhalle.ch

 

The effects of climate change as well as of war are impacting not only the worldwide supply with fossil fuels but also very basic food supply, especially in the global south. Proto-Club3 responds to the current crisis by bringing together two artistic perspectives on the complex question of how to treat and preserve food as our basic resource of survival.

 

Kindly supported by Kompotoi

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving
Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Lactobacillus. Creative Commons.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Lactobacillus. Creative Commons.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Cryptococcus. Creative Commons

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

16.09.-04.12.22

Queer
Trust
Protozone8

In short

QUEER TRUST is an attitude that draws from and relies on the in-between. It has shaped the work at Shedhalle as a space for process-based art since 2020 and is also the basis of Protozone8. The exhibition shows artistic works and ways of working that trust in relationships and processes beyond fixed attributions. The participating artists share intimate, vulnerable, open, and courageous artwork. In doing so, they question (gender) identities as well as artistic, scientific, and social traditions and classifications.

Opening times:

HI-Intensity

16.-18.09.22

 

LO-Intensity

19.09.-04.12.22

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

29.10. 20h BEAST! Performance by Tarek Lakhrissi

04.-06.11. The Institute for embodied creative practices by Isabel Lewis

in collaboration with Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora l Lethe, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international academies

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Protozone8. Graphic Design: Studio Yukiko

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Dana Michel. Photo: Clara Lacasse

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Leave No Trace (Milan), 2021. Photo: Fred Dott.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Isabel Lewis, The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices. Performance view, Welt ohne Aussen, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Mathias Voelzke.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Natasha Tontey, Garden amidst the flame (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Sunny Pfalzer, Slim Soledad, Lau Lukkarila, I know what to do, 2022. Photo: Joseph Kadow.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Tarek Lakhrissi, Makeda Monnet, Victor da Silva, Beast!, 2022. Photo: Markus Goessi, Tinguely Museum.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Terre Thaemlitz, Interstices (still), 2001. Courtesy of the artist.

29.10.2022

Tarek Lakhrissi
BEAST!

In short

This performance

“…explores bestiality as a philosophical and political concept by drawing on the stigma that historically frames queers and PoC as monstrous. Through read- ings of my recent romantic/radical poems accompanied by the lyrical vocals
of Makeda Monet and the electronic music of Victor da Silva. BEAST! explores utopian queer passions, rituals for lost ones, dark corners to protect oneself in, erotic dreams, and… you’ll see. All the poems are from my last poetry book LE SANG! (BLOOD!) published by Lafayette Anticipations.”

-Tarek Lakhrissi

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

2022-11-03

The Institute for embodied creative practices

In short

‘The Institute for embodied creative practices’ was hosted at Shedhalle by Isabelle Lewis from 3-6 of November during Protozone8 – Queer Trust.
We are grateful for the collaboration with Joseph Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora I LETHE, Juliette Uzor, Tyra Wigg, HGB Leipzig, HSLU Luzern, ZHdK Zurich and many more international art schools.
The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices is an ambulatory corpus of particular concerns and the sensorial methodologies for addressing them founded by artist and choreographer Isabel Lewis.

Lewis (*1981, Santo Domingo) is a US artist with Dominican roots. She studied literature, dance and philosophy and is now active in theater, dance and music. Her work expanded the field of contemporary art to include the format of Occasions. With persistent experimentation and research methods that emerge from bodily experiences, Lewis creates alternative forms of sociality between human and non-human actors. The artist’s body of work to date includes the formats Occurrences, Arrangements, Activations, Expanded Viewings, Sensory Parcours, as well as workshops, listening sessions, and lecture performances. The focus of her fundamentally collaborative practice is on affective bodily experiences that engage all the senses.

 

The Institute of Embodied Creative Practices was supported by Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur & Callies Berlin
Curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – The Institute for embodied creative practices

The Institute for embodied creative practices, 2022
picture by Vanessa Bosch

2022-11-12

Becoming Justin Bieber

In short

Sunny Pfalzer was hosting their ‘Becoming Justin Bieber’ Workshop, a somatic dance karaoke gathering, during Zurich Art Weekend at Shedhalle!
Thank you for everybody who joined. Together we discovered how the choreographic gestures of pop cultural music videos felt in our bodies. Resisting through slow-motion awkwardness, we all became our own versions of Justin Bieber & Co. ♪

 

Assistance Sculptures: Nico Rueda
Pictures by Vaida Mikliusiene
Curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – Becoming Justin Bieber

'Becoming Justin Bieber' Workshop by Sunny Pfalzer
Zurich Art Weekend 2022

2022-12-16

Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA

In short

with Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia

 

Shedhalle brings together three artists for their first major institutional collaboration in Switzerland. Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Nicholas Grafia, friends who come from very different backgrounds, will spend a two-week-residency-period at Shedhalle. Together they will develop a spatial installation with their drawings, paintings, sculptural and video works.

 

And they will work on a new performance that will be presented on 16th and 17th of December, exploring the possibilities of experimental and political theatre. With references to absurdist performance and humorous play, they focus on social reality. They draw on narratives that are derived from socially stigmatized individuals and their bodily histories, but also their resilience and resistance.

 

Curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Curatorial Assistance: Vanessa Bosch

Graphic Design: Studio Yukiko

Opening times:

HI-Intensity Phase:

16.12.2022-18.12.2022

 

LO-Intensity Phase:

19.12.2023 – 15.01.2023

Sa 14–20h & Su 14–18h

Shedhalle – Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA

Protozone9 WEAK.END.OPERA, 2022
with Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia

Jan/Feb/March 2023

Winter-
break

In short

Thank you for a wonderful year together! Shedhalle will be closed from mid of January until end of March 2023, but the process continues. Always. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

 

 

rent out Shedhalle during our winter break

Shedhalle – WINTER BREAK