Agenda
Protozone10: Lessons in Political Magics
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The Institute for embodied creative practices
03.-06.11.2022
Isabel Lewis in collaboration with Joseph Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora I LETHE, Juliette Uzor, Tyra Wigg and international art schools. Participation possible with minimum 3-day attendance. Registration until October 30 via mail@shedhalle.ch
Shedhalle does not open regularly during “The Institute.” Public moments are taking place both Friday&Saturday from 20h.
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.
The idea of a research center imagined as a fictional institute called “The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices” was originally conceived by Lewis in 2016 as her response to an invitation for a solo exhibition at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai that never happened. Lewis has since been modelling the Institute under various names and different formats, most recently a 3-room installation with an 8-week program of workshops, talks, screenings, and contemporary tea ceremonies at Gropius Bau as part of the exhibition entitled Welt Ohne Aussen, as free once-per-month 4-hour sessions with guest artists at her studio in Callie’s Berlin as well as Galerie Wedding’s Movement Research Center, and since 2021 at HGB Leipzig.
Considered a continuous work-in-process and extension of her studio practice the experimental Institute and research center reimagines the format of “institution” and speculates what a cultural/educational institution of the future can and could be.
The Institute focuses primarily on the analysis and adaptation of existing formats as well as the creation of new formats for public addressal and experience. It works toward innovation on the structural, organizational and sensory levels in order to make fertile ground for the emergence of new forms of cultural production, reflection, and critique. Key collaborators over the years have been tea artist Dambi Kim, smell researcher Sissel Tolaas, visual artists Dirk Bell and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, curator and DJ Lou Drago, sound artists LABOUR and artists/directors Thea Reifler and Philipp Bergmann.
The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices at Shedhalle is co-hosted by Isabel Lewis together with artists Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora l LETHE, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international academies. (more info on program and participation coming soon)
The Institute of Embodied Creative Practices is supported by Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur
BIOS
Isabel Lewis, born in Santo Domingo in 1981, 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. Her work has been shown in numerous museums as well as biennials and festivals worldwide: Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Tanz im August Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Zürich, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, Liverpool Biennial, Serpentine Galleries, Palais de Tokyo, Dia Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial, Karachi Biennial, Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai.
In 2021, she began her long-term collaboration with TBA21 Academy, creating the work “O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A. (Occasions Creating Ecologically Attuned Narratives in Collective Action)” at Ocean Space Venice. That same year, she co-curated the twelve-month program “Existing Otherwise” at Berlin’s Galerie Wedding. Isabel Lewis lives and works in Berlin. She already succeeded Alba D’Urbano in the winter semester 2021/22 in the media art program and is the first professor for performative arts at HGB Leipzig.
Josephine Baan (also goes by the names Joseph, Jo, or any variation thereof) is an artist and educator based between Zurich and Rotterdam. Their practice engages in art, education and collaboration as ways to forge creative resurgence. They’re interested in the complexities of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference.
They perform with their body and voice, and make installations, props, scripts and choreographies that explore the spaces and relationships between the flesh and the word, human and non-human bodies, and change and preservation. Materially and performatively thinking between things, beings and situations, they consciously switch perspective to influence roles and readings of power and control in relation to affection and gestures of care.
Their practice is closely linked to their work as an educator, which is influenced by radical pedagogy and non-hierarchical collaborative methods. They are a founding member of Rotterdam based educational collective sohere, and since 2019 they co-run Zurich based School of Commons; a grassroots initiative dedicated to the study and development of decentered knowledge, with a focus on practices of peer learning and commoning. Their current research engages in developing a performance-based pedagogy which incorporates embodied learning, incoherence, and queerness as tools for collective worlding.
They obtained their MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2015. They are a resident of the ENOA Immersive Opera residency 2021-2022 and a recipient of the Werkbeitrag Fachstelle Kultur prize of the province of Zürich 2021. Recent exhibitions and performances include; Burner at LIFE, Rotterdam (2022); Weathering at Titanik Galleria in Turku (2021); Werkschau at Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich (2021); Weathering at SIC in Helsinki (2021); The Opposite of a Cynic [Tongue] at Nieuw & Meer in Amsterdam (2020); inter:archive at OnCurating in Zürich (2020); Here Not Here at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2019); MOTH at Museum KKLB in Beromünster (2018 – 2019); A Brief History of Becoming Rock at Art Rotterdam in Rotterdam (2018); Nothing 2 C Here at Alkovi Galleria in Helsinki (2017).
Nina Emge was born 1995 in Zurich. Today she lives and works in Zurich and Berlin. In Emge’s artistic practice, the question “How do we listen to each other? To whom am I listening?” is raised in every work. These questions result in spatial installations, sculptures and audio works. The focus is on the moment of interface/overlap. This is evident, among other things, in her research and archive work, drawings, as well as in the often collaborative working and creation processes of the works. Nina Emge studied at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree with distinction in 2019. The works have been shown at the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Uferhallen Berlin, Istituto Svizzero in Roma, La Becque, Shedhalle Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich and other national and international exhibition spaces.
Izidora I LETHE is a transdisciplinary and conceptual artist. Their practice spans choreography, sculpture and video accompanied by correspondent drawing and writing processes. Their research-based work aims at expanding or eroding canonical histories and situating the body as epistemological orientation.
LETHE received their MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 2015-2017) and their BFA at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK, 2010-2013). Their most recent exhibitions include COURONNE (Biel) (2022), SHEDHALLE (ZH, CH) (2021), Cabaret Voltaire on Monte Verità (TI, CH) (2021), the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC, USA) (2021-22), the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CA, USA) (2019-20) et al. LETHE received the merit-based full fellowship for their MFA at SFAI, as well as the IMA-Fellowship of the New York Foundation for the Arts (2018). LETHE is a BANFF Centre for the Arts resident fellow (Banff, Canada, 2018) and current BINZ39 studio resident (Zurich, 2022-24).
Transmitting their practice into educational frameworks, LETHE teaches embodied classes, art history and theory and critique seminars as visiting faculty at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle, 2020), the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 2017-2020) et al – and currently at ETH Zürich Architektur und Kunst.
www.izidora-l.com
Juliette Uzor
In her work, Juliette Uzor is interested in collaborative and interdisciplinary processes. She works with different media, with movement, with the positioning of bodies in space, their dynamic or ambivalent relationships to each other. With a focus on space and rhythm, Juliette tries to let different perspectives and temporalities work. For her, this represents an artistic means of reflecting on social, societal structures.
In 2019 Juliette completes her studies in contemporary dance at La Manufacture in Lausanne. Before that she studied art/education and art history in Bern and Zurich. Juliette shows her work in various spaces such as the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Kunsthalle St.Gallen, at the Tanzhaus Zürich as well as in various off-spaces. She has worked with Eleanor Bauer, Isabel Lewis and Elie Autin, among others. In summer 2021 she is part of the Performance Art Festival in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In 2023 Juliette Uzor received the MANOR Art Prize St.Gallen.
Tyra Wigg
With their base in contemporary dance, somatic practices, and massage therapy Tyra Wigg makes performances that reinforce and expand their audiences’ subjective corporeal perceptions. Tyra believes that only by being in an intimate and curious relationship with one’s physicality, concepts like ecology and queerfeminism can be fully embodied.
To expand the notion of massage during the pandemic, Tyra developed the 1-on-1 interactive performance phone massage, presented at BONE Performance Art Festival and Young Urban Performance festival. Their piece Physical Empathy (2021) in co-production with ROXY Birsfelden and Weld, further explored touch and care work in a stage context. Tyra presented their solo The Hand, the rock, your shoulder and my mouth at the protozone “Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour” curated by Lucie Tuma in Shedhalle spring 2022, and is currently continuing their choreographic research in relation with massage and care work.
As a dancer, performer and co-creator Tyra work with artists such as, Gisèle Vienne, Shu Lea Cheang, Heiner Goebbels, Ernestyna Orlowska, Marina Abramovic, Alexandra Pirici and Inga Gerner Nielsen, and the Zürich-based performance network DIVAS.
Remain Calm
(Reduced +)
“Remain Calm” by artist Nile Koetting invites audiences into an ever-evolving space of installation, performance, sound, light, scents, as well as texts written by author and researcher Miriam Stoney.
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16-22hno reservation needed
10-18hno reservation needed
10-17h no reservation needed followed by a Talk with Nile Koetting, Miriam Stoney, Marcella Lista (Head Curator, Video & New Media Collection, Musée national d’art moderne – centre Pompidou, Paris (online)), Lhaga Koondhor (cultural curator), Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler (members curatorial team Shedhalle), about the process of ‚Remain Calm‘ RSVP
Gangs of performative activism
Gangs of performative Activism focuses on performative strategies in activism historically and in the present and on the question through which embodied experiences a community can form.
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23.09.202016-17:30 public lecture “performative strategies in activism”
24.09.202014-17 Researching with the whole body –
Alternative research tools and poetic political writing practices
25.09.202014-17 Embodied performative strategies of activism:
Giving up the individual and moving as a communal body
26.09.202014-17 Exploring your body in the public space and cuddling in the street
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Erotic Sociability
In this workshop Isabel Lewis shares ideas around sociality and embodiment. No formal training of any kind is required to participate and all adults with a curiosity about dance and other embodied practices are encouraged to attend.
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With this workshop, Shedhalle takes part in the Fleshy Interface Festival, initiated by Theater Neumarkt. Check the full program here
Practice
Collective Meddling
How to intervene when witnessing sexual and racial discrimination in public space? The workshop aims to prepare its participants to meddle in and become an ally in delicate situations.
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With this workshop, Shedhalle takes part in the Fleshy Interface Festival, initiated by Theater Neumarkt. Check the full program here
Kunstarbeiter*innen Solidaritätsverein invites you to the inaugural Civic Forum for Art Workers. The Forum brings together artists to help build and occupy a liminal social space where we will embody new perspectives for renegotiating our interactions as art workers
Join us:
Saturday, 3 October 14:00 – 18:00 Longtang
Sunday, 4 October 14:00 – 18:00 Shedhalle
Please bring a mask. Space is limited. Please register to reserve your spot:
register@civicforumforartworkers.live
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With PROTOZONES 2020-2025, everything at Shedhalle will revolve around process-based art in the coming years. What this means in detail and which formats will be created as a result is to be discovered over the next few years. We cordially invite you to be part of this process and look forward to meeting you at the media conference on 19 October 2020 at 5 pm.
Please register here!
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Contamination/Resilience
Hi-Intensity
The Impossibility of Living Without Each Other
Contamination means danger—and change: which systems and structures are currently in the process of dissolution? How do they change, and under which circumstances do they reappear in the current crisis? We bring in resilience as counter-image and counter-strategy. The pressing question of our time is: what makes communities and ecosystems resilient?
Contamination/Resilience gathers practices, theories, sci-fi-novels and artworks that pursue queer and eco-feminist ideas and stimulate a new way of thinking about the future. It is about sickness and care, as well as mutual support – and about reciprocal change.
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Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, Saly Frommer Stiftung, Badertscher AG
Participating Artists:
Le Sang, Performance
In videos, performances, sets, installations and texts, Sabrina Röthlisberger addresses pain, sickness, medically induced liminal states, death, survival, recovery and the questionable “return to normal”. In the context of CONTAMINATION/RESILIENCE, her work opens up space and time to step into an underworld – looking at the world from the perspective of the sickbed, from assumed failure and weakness, it evokes the power of the powerless, other possible worlds and a dark erotic potential.
Sabrina Röthlisbergers installation in the Protozone will be activated by the artist in the first night with the live-performance “Le Sang”, that is based on her poetry book with the same title. Sabrina Röthlisberger developed “Le Sang” at the Centre d’art contemporain in Geneva, in collaboration with fellow artists Garance Bonard (music) and Tamara Alegre (choreography).
Supported by Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung
Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music
For the work Suspending Time: Meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music , Lou Drago speculates on various types of music which potentiate the experiencing of non-linear time. The audience is invited to interact with the music with the objective of attempting to experience a suspension of time.
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What started out as a vigilante strategy for bringing accountability to powerful people who had previously been immune to any consequences for their actions, is increasingly becoming an unreflective method for bullying within communities. Whether to call it call-out culture, cancel-culture or shaming-culture is hotly debated, but regardless of its name, by now its toxicity is undeniable.
Lou Drago has been investigating identity politic’s role in perpetuating what socio-political observers have called the “fracturing of the Left,” and cancel-culture’s role in deepening divides along identity-based lines. For this initial workshop, Drago will introduce their ideas around enacting intersectional affinity through a process called Radical Sociability, and through a series of exercises, speculate with participants on how to be receptive and humble in order to really enact solidarity.
Together participants will be invited to share experiences and ideas as to why the ‘Left’ have so readily taken up the oppressors’ tools, and how we might combat this to encourage solidarity and empathy instead of doing capital’s divisive work for it.
Limited number of participants, please register here.
With this workshop, Shedhalle takes part in the program Ü40 – Rote Fabrik, *24.10.1980
In her practice Ehrenstein focusses on the intersections of networked images, tech and migration. Material culture as well as science and technology studies are the basis of looking at representation and platform capitalism through a queer feminist, decolonial lens.
For the “Critical Cam Girl Reading Group” Anna Ehrenstein teamed up with “House of Tupamaras” .
Ehrenstein also worked within the Collective for “Tupamaras Technophallus” , the work cycle shown at “Protozone”.
The workshop has three parts. A start through collective reading of decolonial science, tech and post-humanist studies critique spiced up with femme empowerment poetics,
second; encouraging the participator to develop it’s absolutely new posthuman alter ego and
third (virtually tune) in “House of Tupamaras” to transform oral and written theory into embodied knowledge games and cam girl dances.
Please register for the workshop here, so that we know how many of you show up :)
With this workshop, Shedhalle takes part in the program Ü40 – Rote Fabrik, *24.10.1980
feeling connected means being permeable without melting, means listening to the unheard, listening to the subtle shifts and listening to the mental sounds, morbid spaces and dissonant dramas. <3
Lucid Hardware – The Sleep Temple
This hybrid Sleepover Asclepeions Temple uses both the methodology of the ancient greek healing night temples and the peer comfort of a teen sleepover.
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Register here as group of 2 or 4 with all names and email addresses.
The self-help community dispensary
The self-help community dispensary is a space to find healing, to practice self-care and care for the community – built by the many and made for the many. It is a pharmacy for togetherness, a place to heal, to sooth, to take care and mutually protect each other.
The remedies will be made collectively on the 14th of November 2020.
The workshop is already fully booked, but the remedies can be collected from the evening of the 14th.
new to it all, soungou is excited finding his place in the (nocturnal) playground of music and celebration. With the help of cute music he hopes to create spaces, new biotopes for the queer and for the people of colour, for the coloured queers! It all is about celebrating and caring for each other.
FM MF is a duo based in Zurich. Their interest spans from early electronics to the hyper produced breaks of today. A freely assembled narration of spoken word tracks, external field recordings, collapsing noises and limping beats.
Installation + Video Screening
Dark Water, 2020 performed by Lauryn Youden is an auto-theoretical text that examines the history of mourning, lamentation and death as central to the daily lives of European society during the rise of capitalist patriarchy and the plague; as well as the divination and ritualistic practices used by many to endure this period of time.
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with: Bojana Kunst + Isabelle Vuong / DUST x Shedhalle
In this talk organized by DUST, Bojana Kunst and Isabelle Vuong help us understand how we can steal back the futures that were promised us. You can attend the talk live Zurich at Shedhalle (where Isabelle Vuong is present) or in Amsterdam (where DUST is present). If you cannot make it to Zurich or Amsterdam, you can join online via zoom (meeting ID: 89421981173).
The talk is in English and (lightly) moderated by DUST. The talk will be recorded.
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dj-set/listening session
Around 3 a.m. Born in a bubble out of a bubble – the dj sets of Zurich’s most known unknown Baby Val form a mixture of different worlds ranging from elektro and techno to jungly breaks with a tip of cheesy rnb edits every now and then. Her way of mixing is an approach to break in and out of conventional and monotonous dancefloor rythms and to fall in another dimension of sphere that she’s going to play with – at any time possible to explode.
The Impossibility of Living Without Each Other
Contamination means danger—and change: which systems and structures are currently in the process of dissolution? How do they change, and under which circumstances do they reappear in the current crisis? We bring in resilience as counter-image and counter-strategy. The pressing question of our time is: what makes communities and ecosystems resilient?
Contamination/Resilience gathers practices, theories, sci-fi-novels and artworks that pursue queer and eco-feminist ideas and stimulate a new way of thinking about the future. It is about sickness and care, as well as mutual support – and about reciprocal change.
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open saturday/sunday from midday
until one hour past sundown
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Participating artists:
Safe Touch
Self-isolation is an additional intimate discrimination against the elderly, the sick, and singles. But there is intimacy that doesn’t need touch, and there are ways to touch safely. Just as people developed an understanding of “safe sex” in response to the AIDS crisis, we now have to learn and promote “safe touch.”
Safe Touch is a tutorial video, directed by Ingo Niermann for the Army of Love, on how to be safely intimate with strangers during the Corona crisis
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We all move together
After this time of hibernation, Shedhalle craves the bodily experience of music, of being and moving together. Therefore, Equipped with a strong function-one speaker-system, Proto-Club: We all move together showcases video works by artists who are working at the intersections of social movements with club culture, music and dance.
With/Running Order (LOOP):
Nguzunguzu: Just a Touch (4.22 min, shown between all the videos)
Wu Tsang: Into a Space of Love (25.34 min)
Cecilia Bengolea: Lightning Dance (6.36 min)
Bárbara Wagner/Benjamin de Burca: FAZ QUE VAI – SET TO GO (11.54 min)
Frédéric Gies: Queens of the Fauns (49.32 min, shown every day as the last video, 50min before Shedhalle closes, as well as Friday additionally around 6pm, Saturday additionally around 5pm and Sunday additionally around 3pm)
Shedhalle x Schauspielhaus: As part of this programme, works by members of the group Moved by the Motion, who work at Schauspielhaus Zürich, are shown at Shedhalle. <3
You don’t have enough yet? Tune in every Wednesday to join the Disco Workouts of Gessnerallee!
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making histories together in more-than-human worlds
curated by Lucie Tuma
This Protozone is an invitation to linger and nest, to dwell and exist. The space is being inhabited by different artistic positions. Different but not separate – in difference and yet not to be separated from each other. Over years and in continuity, the practices and processes of the invited artists have been in close contact with more-than-human forms of existence. Spectres, rocks, water, algorithms, slime mold, swarms, plants, Artificial Intelligence, quantum leaps and AlterIdentities. These contacts generate a state of transpassing. With it come shifts, variations, mutations.
As soon as we enter, the hereby mutated temporalities will seize us. We are at the end of «our time».
every Saturday 14-20 and Sunday 14-18
05.06. and 06.06.
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Elemental Study Room
Denise Ferreira da Silva invites into her practice of „poethical readings“. Among other things, she will by means of tarot, reiki, and other tools read the exhibition Continuity/Transpassing. The activation happens online, a visit of the exhibition during that time is possible.
Saturday 10.04. 18:30-20:00
For automatic registration and participation in the Zoom-Webinar by Denise Ferreira da Silva, please download/open Zoom, click “join a meeting” and type in the following access data:
Meeting ID: 996 1759 2159
Password: 278494
Online and IRL guided tour (mixed media, live) through the exhibition with Kiran Kumar (Bengaluru) & Lucie Tuma, followed by a listening session with soungou (Zurich) in the Transpassing Zone.
With “Portal Conversations” a series is initiated, within which 2-3 positions each share their impressions and approach to the ongoing exhibition. Haptic-auditory levels of perception are prioritized over an experience focused on discursive-visual elements.
Come feel the vibe and share ur affective magic.
Join us live in the space or participate in the tour via Zoom:
Zoom-Link
Meeting ID: 912 7743 6390
Password: 301081
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Denise Ferreira da Silva will be speaking with Arjuna Neuman about their collaborative practice in making films (online). On the same day, Julie Semoroz and Emma Souharce will give a concert as an echo and a auditive-haptic vessel of resonance to the exhibition.
With “Portal Conversations” a series is initiated, within which 2-3 positions each share their impressions and approach to the ongoing exhibition. Haptic-auditory levels of perception are prioritized over an experience focused on discursive-visual elements.
17:00 Tour at Shedhalle with Julie Semoroz and Emma Souharce
18:00 Online-Talk with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman (Link below)
19:30 Concert at Shedhalle by Julie Semoroz und Emma Souharce
Come feel the vibe and share ur affective magic.
Join us live in the space or participate in the tour via Zoom:
https://zhdk.zoom.us/j/94558996704?pwd=YW9EeklablJVemt0cE91TXVtbXNRUT09
Meeting ID: 945 5899 6704
Kennwort: 349357
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making histories together in more-than-human worlds – Hi-Intensity
curated by Lucie Tuma
Saturday, 05.06. 12/14-23h and Sunday, 06.06. 11-20h
Performances, Installations, Workshops, Panels, Lectures and Walks by aLifve Forms (fed and cared for by JP Raether), Denise Ferreira da Silva & Valentina Desideri, Enad Marouf & Samuel Perreira, The Otolith Group, Lea Porsager, Patrick Rohner, Riikka Tauriainen mit River Oracle (Paloma Ayala, Anne-Laure Franchette & Riikka Tauriainen), Zheng Mahler & Tiffany Sia with Zine Coop (Beatrix Pang, Ranee & Forrest) and VOLUMES Zurich.
Detailed Program here and in the agenda
(fed and cared for by J.P. Raether)
REPRO COMMUNAL GATHERING (ReproRealityHackLab #8) Transformella malor [4.4.6.14] (emerging from J P Raether’s figurations as SelfSister’s aLifveForms.earth)
Transformella malor, an artificial being, constructed by language, technologies of skins and digital devices, holds a gathering to present and discuss their psychorealist findings on what they call „Reprovolution“ – the moments and sites driving the transformation of humanity’s reproduction by means of industrial and globalized reproductive technologies.
At the gathering Transformella will share their embodied experience in harvesting fragments of knowledge and language, sites and lifetimelines in „Repro-normality“, the invisible materialization of globalized biotechnological speculation in everysite.
The gathering is part of a series of encounters that Transformellae have called ReproReality HackLabs and that were hosted in Berlin, Lüneburg and Utrecht in the recent years. They function as a communal nexus to weave a multiplicity of narrations and research, tools and devices for reproductive justice and and queer-feminist kinship.
The session will include readings of Transformella´s repro-communal manifesto, their narrations of „Ikeality“ – a stack of reproductive normalities found at the mass reproduction storage „Ikeae everysite“ and more abstract models of entropy and negentropy of other Artificial Identities.
The gathering is also an intervention into narratives that are dominated by political formalism, professional knowledge barriers and corporate speculation. Transformella on the contrary invites to gather in queerness, expanding on mythopoetic figures and multi-species existence: Becoming chimera, realtional against biological essence and capitalist normalizations.
In English, duration for about 2-3h hours
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Deborah Birch
The Orange Game is an oracle storytelling practice for collective future worldings. Remixed from a teenage divination game that functions to read an individual, this practice works as a tool for reiterated and sustained collective worldings. The Orange Game works by a continuous weaving, dreaming, and reading a landscape together. As a Weaver, I place the Dreamers somewhere and then give them each an Element to describe. Collectively the Dreamers build a landscape. Each Element has a symbolism. The Reading at the end interprets the collective worlding. The Orange Game is conceived as a modulable and sustained collective practice that develops over time in accordance with the needs of the group.
It has been developed by Deborah Birch in conversation with Sarah Parolin. Find out more about The Orange Gamehere
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Performance with: Samuel Pereira and Enad Marouf
A performance scene from the artist’s up coming next work. Dealing with intimacy, loss and memory.
A movement articulation to the themes he worked on in his video installation “You Take Me Across The Distance” for “Continuity / Transpassing: making histories in more-than-human worlds”
Supported by 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.
Paloma Ayala, Anne-Laure Franchette, and Riikka Tauriainen talk about their shared practice based on riverine ecologies.
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Online participation possible via this Zoom Link
“As water, we all owe ourselves to other bodies of water. As water, we all eventually pass our waters on. Even while in constant motion, water is also a planetary archive of meaning and matter. To drink a glass of water is to ingest the ghosts of bodies that haunt that water.»
Astrida Neimanis
The River Oracle is meant to be a situating tool for self reflection, asking questions to the river, wondering what it can tell us. The cards are trying to find their way into material reality through you. We are not particularly interested in thinking about the oracle as a tool to predict your future. What we actually want is for you to connect with your present, with a sense of deep knowledge, in order to embrace (self-) awareness. The cards are printed by water and infused with stories created by an encounter of artists in the riverine ecology of the Rhein.
The River Oracle was developed by Paloma Ayala, Anne-Laure Franchette, and Riikka Tauriainen. Cyanotypes printed by Paloma Ayala, Vanesa Ayala, Anne-Laure Franchette, Jocelyn Lopez, Carolina Opazo, Laura Rodriguez, Riikka Tauriainen, Kay Zhang, and PlanteSorcieres – Caterina Giansiracusa / Andrea Herrera Poblete.
Find out more about the River Oracle here
Portal Conversations
Zheng Mahler (Royce Ng & Daisy Bisenieks), Tiffany Sia, Zine Coop and VOLUMES Archive (Anne-Laure Franchette, Patrizia Mazzei & Gloria Wismer) talk about their collective practices. Making a work in collaboration with an algorithm using surveillance data (Hellscrape) and collective efforts of archiving and distributing Zines meet to drink Milk Tea with us at Shedhalle.
Zoom-Link for online participation: click here
«Our times of political unrest are at once etched into our digital timelines, our bodies and our dreams. Accordingly, these phantasmagorias challenge traditional images of landscape photography and painting, these images asking, what does the landscape of affect look like?»
Hellscrape: Zheng Mahler & Tiffany Sia
11.06 – 25.07.2021
Would you rather feel too busy or not busy enough?*
(Fühlen Sie sich lieber zu beschäftigt oder nicht beschäftigt genug?)
Unsere dritte Protozone, You’re So Busy, präsentiert eine Reihe von Projekten live in der Shedhalle. Die eingeladenen Arbeiten werden sich während der sieben Wochen entwickeln und den Raum mit Spuren von Prozessen füllen, die sowohl vor als auch während der Protozone laufen.
Jedes Projekt konzentriert sich auf Fürsorge und radikale Liebe, wobei horizontale Organisationsstrukturen im Vordergrund stehen, die durchlässig bleiben und dem Publikum verschiedene Möglichkeiten des Zugangs und der Teilnahme bieten. Es werden dabei neue Wege erforscht, künstlerische Prozesse auszustellen, inklusive Gemeinschaften aufzubauen und Zeit im Ausstellungsraum zu erleben.
Wir glauben, dass diese Praktiken entscheidend sind, um uns zu helfen, nicht einfach mit denselben Methoden und Idealen weiterzumachen, auf die wir uns vor 2020 verlassen haben. You’re So Busy ist sowohl ein Aufruf als auch eine Weigerung, übersehen zu werden, und fordert, dass den Menschen, Praktiken und Prozessen Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wird, die Ideen von Normalität, Produktivität und Kapital ausser Acht lassen.
*Tino Sehgal, Ann Lee (2011)
programmiert von Michelangelo Miccolis
produziert von Cora Gianolla & nick von kleist
Teilnehmende
Künstler*innen:
WOCHE 1: 11 – 13.06
Tino Sehgal,
Pierre Huyghe
WOCHE 2: 19 – 20.06
Army of Love
WOCHE 3: 26 – 27.06
Army of Love
WOCHE 4: 3 – 4.07
Débora Delmar
WOCHE 5: 10 – 11.07
the SHED virtual takeover
Krõõt Juurak,
Autumn Knight
WOCHE 6: 17 – 18.07
OFFSHORE
WOCHE 7: 19 – 25.07
Nikima Jagudajev
Durchgehend:
Army of Love
Débora Delmar
Autumn Knight
Krõõt Juurak
OFFSHORE
Alexa Karolinski &
Ingo Niermann (ab 19.06)
Cover Image: Débora Delmar, Frozen Currencies (2019). Courtesy of the artist.
11.06 – 25.07.2021
Would you rather feel too busy or not busy enough?*
Our third Protozone, You’re So Busy, will present a series of projects live at Shedhalle. The works included will develop throughout its seven weeks, accumulating and filling the space with traces of processes developed both previous to and during the Protozone. Each project focuses on care and radical love, prioritizing horizontal organizational structures that remain porous, allowing audiences various points of entry and engagement. Exploring new ways of exhibiting artistic processes, building inclusive communities, and experiencing time in the exhibition space.
We believe these practices are crucial to help us not simply return or reassume activity with the same methods and ideals we relied on before 2020. You’re So Busy is both a calling out and a refusal to be overlooked, asking for attention to be paid to people, practices and processes that ideas of normal, productivity and capital discount.
*Tino Sehgal, Ann Lee (2011)
programmed by Michelangelo Miccolis
produced by Cora Gianolla & nick von kleist
Participating
Artists:
WEEK 1: 11 – 13.06
Tino Sehgal,
Pierre Huyghe
WEEK 2: 19 – 20.06
Army of Love
WEEK 3: 26 – 27.06
Army of Love
WEEK 4: 3 – 4.07
Débora Delmar
WEEK 5: 10 – 11.07
the SHED virtual takeover
Krõõt Juurak,
Autumn Knight
WEEK 6: 17 – 18.07
OFFSHORE
WEEK 7: 19 – 25.07
Nikima Jagudajev
Ongoing works:
Army of Love
Débora Delmar
Autumn Knight
Krõõt Juurak
OFFSHORE
Alexa Karolinski &
Ingo Niermann (19.06)
Cover Image: Débora Delmar, Frozen Currencies (2019). Courtesy of the artist.
With movies by: Nadia Granados & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Tarek Lakhrissi, Vika Kirchenbauer, Doireann O’Malley
Screenings:
29. Juli – 31. Juli 18-22h, 1. August 14-22h
Running Order (Loop):
Out of the Blue, Tarek Lakhrissi, 2019, 13min
Mojana, Nadia Granados & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, 2021 (premiere), 18min
Prototypes I, Doireann O’Malley, 2017, 36min
YOU ARE BORING!, Vika Kirchenbauer, 2015, 15min
Workshops: Summercamp Rote Fabrik x Proto-Club:
30. Juli 13-18h Undoing Gender Workshop: Participants will be introduced to Judith Butler’s groundbreaking book Undoing Gender (2004). – Register here
31. Juli 13-18h Voguing Workshop: Four workshops of different vogue styles and categories of ballroom with guests invited by the House of B Poderosa and members of the house. – Tickets here
Proto-Club2 (be)longing immerses us in the intimate and poetic sound – and visual worlds of four artists whose practices are deeply interwoven with queer concerns. Their works radically expand the horizon of possible representations and ideas of bodies, relationships and worlds. The people and mythical beings that appear in them resist suppression and insist on the possibilities of the present, change and queer futures.
Proto-Club is a series by Shedhalle, circulating around queer culture, eco feminism and social movements. It seeks to create an ongoing process around these topics, connecting them to speculative and science-fictional ideas.
ATTENTION: BECAUSE OF BAD WEATHER, WE HAVE TO MOVE THE QUEER BAY DAY TO THE INSIDE OF SHEDHALLE. PLEASE COME WITH A VALID COVID CERTIFICATE (INFO BELOW). WE ARE WATCHING THE BAY FROM THE INSIDE :_) AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU! TESTING OPTION IN THE AFTERNOON ON THE SPOT AT ROTE FABRIK UNTIL 20:00.
Gessnerallee, Shedhalle and Clubbüro IG Rote Fabrik invite you to QUEER BAY DAY on the 1st of August. A political LGBTQIA+ summer festival, on the square behind Rote Fabrik, in Shedhalle and in the Clubraum. Admission during the day is free and the event is non-commercial.
We want to use the ongoing campaigns for queer causes in Switzerland and the August 1st speech of trans person Mo, which will take place on the Albis in Langnau am Albis, as an opportunity to strengthen the LGBTQIA+ scene and culture in Zurich and Switzerland and make it visible as part of society.
PROGRAMME
14-22h: Queer Bay Day* (bad weather: Shedhalle), with DJ sets, queer initiatives and live stream of the 1st August speech by trans person Mo in Langnau am Albis (twitch link here)
22-23h: Performance von LEGZ: “Sheding the old selves”, Shedhalle*
23-07h: After Party at Clubraum Rote Fabrik**
COVID-19-info:
*Free entrance. As the weather turns super bad, we take shelter in Shedhalle and have to ask for a COVID certificate. (Info below.) There is a testing option on the spot at Rote Fabrik in the afternoon until 20h.
**The After-Party is accessible only with a COVID certificate (Info below). Entrance fee for After Party: 10.- (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)
How to get a COVID Certificate:
– Full vaccination (14days after 2nd shot; valid 12 months)
– Negative PCR test (valid 3 days)
– Negative rapid antigen test (valid 48 hours)
– For those recovered from Covid: 11 or more days after positive PCR test (valid 180 days)
You can get a COVID Certificate for free from the place where you got tested or vaccinated.
Closest testing station: Morgental Apotheke
Vaccination & Testing for Sans-Papiers and those without access to healthcare:
Vaccination:
Free appointments are available from the city of Zurich at Kanonengasse 18 (Tel. 044 415 56 01)
Testing:
Rapid Antigen Test (without symptoms): Free at any pharmacy or testing center (no documents required). PCR Test (with symptoms): Free at Kanonengasse 18 (Tel. 044 415 56 01)
Grafik Design Flyer: Good for a Gxrl
On the 4th of September, Proto-Club teams up with CAMP FIRES to show the music-performance VENUS by Tyler Matthew Oyer at 20:00.
Before and after, the video-program of Proto-Club2: (be)longing will be screened for a last time, with movies by Nadia Granados & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Tarek Lakhrissi, Vika Kirchenbauer, Doireann O’Malley.
04. September 2021, Videos 18-20 & 21-02h, Music-Performance VENUS 20 Uhr
Tickets via Lange Nacht der Museen, or for Guest-List write us or ask us at the entrance
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Protozone 4
17.09. 10-02h / 18.09. 10-22h / 19.09. 10-20h
20.09.-31.10. jeden Sa 14-20h & So 14-18h
Das Ausstellungsformat “Protozone” der Shedhalle zeigt prozess-basierte Kunst in Phasen von hoher und niedriger Intensität (Hi-/Lo-Intensity-Phases). Die aktuelle Protozone4 Extra Worlding erforscht künstlerische Praktiken des “Worlding”, was “Welten machen” oder “Welten bauen” bedeutet.
Die teilnehmenden Künstler*innen sind stark von Science-Fiction-Ideen beeinflusst. Sie nutzen digitale Technologien oder verändern Körper und Räume, um Zugang zu einer Vielzahl von Welten zu schaffen und deren Möglichkeiten zu erkunden. Extra Worlding lädt die Besucher*innen ein, in diese Welten einzutauchen und sie zu erleben.
Extra Worlding erkundet zudem die materiellen Grundlagen zeitgenössischer digitaler Technologien, die oft am “Worlding” beteiligt sind. Schliesslich bestehen digitale Technologien nicht wirklich aus “Clouds”, sondern sind vielmehr abhängig von Server-Farmen sowie Ressourcen wie seltenen Erden, Elektrizität und menschlicher Arbeit.
Können uns ‚Worlding’-Erfahrungen ermutigen, die Welten zu schaffen, in denen wir leben wollen? Und können sie unseren Widerstand gegen Welten stärken, an denen wir nicht teilhaben wollen?
mehr Info und Hi-Intensity-Live-Programm hier
Ausstellung mit:
Protozone 4
17.09. 10-02h / 18.09. 10-22h / 19.09. 10-20h
20.09.-31.10. every Sa 14-20h & So 14-18h
Shedhalle’s exhibition format „Protozone“ focuses on process-based art through Hi- and Lo-Intensity phases. The new Protozone4 Extra Worlding explores artistic practices of worlding, a term used to describe the building or making of worlds.
The participating artists are strongly influenced by science fiction ideas. They use digital technologies or alter bodies and spaces to access a variety of worlds and explore their possibilities. Extra Worlding invites visitors to dive into and explore these worlds with their own bodies.
This Protozone also explores the materiality of contemporary digital technologies that are often involved in the process of worlding. After all, digital technologies do not really consist of “Clouds” but rather rely on server farms as well as resources like rare earths, electricity and human labour.
Can worlding-experiences open up new perspectives on what kind of worlds we want to live in? And can they strengthen our resistance against worlds we don’t want to be part of?
more info and Hi-Intensity-Live-Program here
Exhibition with:
Protozone 4
Closing Program
29 October
29 Oct 16-20h Exhibition open
From 23 October: Public Fiction Group extended: Rosida Koyuncu, Meloe Gennai und Roble/ RO X Three additional positions join Public Fiction Group’s speculative installation Resto Diaspo in the exhibition space beginning Saturday, October 23, 2021. As a separate exhibition space within the exhibition space, the Resto features the work of Rosida Koyuncu, Meloe Gennai und Roble / RO X.
30 October
14-22h: Exhibition open, 22-06h: Closing Party Sabbatum Fever, ŒSTROGEN Club-Night by Sabrina Röthlisberger x Parkingstone x Clubbüro Rote Fabrik x Shedhalle
31 October
14-18h: LAST CHANCE Exhibition open, 18-20h: Fade out human mimikry night – Farewell to “Extra-Worlding” with artists of Protozone4 & Shedhalle Team
Shedhalle’s exhibition format „Protozone“ focuses on process-based art through Hi- and Lo-Intensity phases. The new Protozone4 Extra Worlding explores artistic practices of worlding, a term used to describe the building or making of worlds.
The participating artists are strongly influenced by science fiction ideas. They use digital technologies or alter bodies and spaces to access a variety of worlds and explore their possibilities. Extra Worlding invites visitors to dive into and explore these worlds with their own bodies.
This Protozone also explores the materiality of contemporary digital technologies that are often involved in the process of worlding. After all, digital technologies do not really consist of “Clouds” but rather rely on server farms as well as resources like rare earths, electricity and human labour.
Can worlding-experiences open up new perspectives on what kind of worlds we want to live in? And can they strengthen our resistance against worlds we don’t want to be part of?
more info here
Exhibition with:
Protozone6
Are you coming? Protozone 6 is an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.
FOR DETAILED PROGRAM: PLEASE CHECK AGENDA
programmed by Michelangelo Miccolis
produced by Cora Gianolla and nick von kleist
in collaboration with zürich moves! Forever imbricated
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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.
10.06.-07.08.2022 > open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h, plus additional opening hours
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?
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Byungseo Yoo & Video-Screening by Dominique Koch
Long Night of the Museums, Performance by
Please buy your tickets online via https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/
or register for free to participate in the cooking via mail@shedhalle.ch
Performance-Schedule:
18:00 Fermentation workshop 01-Tsukemono(Asazuke) fermentation / 19:00 open cooking / 20:00 open eating / 21:00 Fermentation workshop 02- Kimchi fermentation / 22:00 Fermentation workshop 03- Hot sauce (Sriracha) fermentation / 23:00 Fermentation workshop 04- Indoor compost fermentation (Bokashi fermentation)+ Humanure fermentation / from 24:00 drinks & dialogue
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
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Protozone8
16.-18.09.22
LAST DAYS 03. & 04.12.22
Saturday 14-20h and Sunday 14-18h
Coming up: Last public introduction by Phila & Thea: Sun, 04.12. 16h
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.
With kind support of Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zurich Fachstelle Kultur (for The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices), Tanzhaus Zurich (für Dana Michel), Embassy of Canada (for Dana Michel), Kulturpauschale Kanton Basel Stadt (for Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė), Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation.
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Protozone9
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.
OPENING HOURS
HI-Intensity: 16.12. open 18-22h & 17.12. open 14-22h Performance by Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak and Nicholas Grafia both days 19h
LO-Intensity: 18.12.-15.01. offen each Sat 14-20h and Sun 14-18h
(31.12./01.01. closed)
Additional Opening Hours: 26.-30.12., each day 14-18h
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Thank you for all the visits, support and collaborations in 2023! We appreciate it a lot!
Shedhalle is closed until early March 2023, but the process continues. Always. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon. Your Protozones 2020-2025
and/or
Rent Shedhalle for non-public events in January/February 2023
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