Part of ProtoZone17: Stories of those left behind, 15.11.2024-12.01.2025

SUN EATERS

Oil cannot be fully embraced if it is separated from the adoration of sun gods and thousands of years of reading omens in sand patterns. We want to articulate oil to baroque cruelty and critical fabulation, and immerse ourselves in pre-islamic cosmogonies, curse songs of the Norwegian West Coast, and Mesopotamian death dances.

Oil is a labyrinth filled with gore, subterranean gods and revolutionary acts. It is the intimate language of our access to the world, the ‘magnificent sorcerer’ of our lifetime: lyrical, mythopoetic and incarnated. Oil generates impossible landscapes and pestilential beasts.

This work is part of a larger project which includes lecture performances, writings, image-making, and a dance piece with Harald Beharie, Charlott Utzig and Paolo De Venecia Gile. SUN EATERS is also based around contemporary poets and thinkers: Laila Malik, Aase Berg, Reza Negarestani, Jason Mohaghegh, Hassan Blasim and Thorkild Jacobsen.

For more information: suneaters.net

Production

Kultur Direktoratet – Kunst und Kultur Norwegen

RAS – Regionale Arena für Samtidsdans – Sandnes

Beursschouwburg – Bruxelles

MDT – Stockholm

wpZimmer – Antwerpen

Frascati Theater – Amsterdam

Grenland Friteater – Porsgrunn

Hindi-Gouédard Produktion – Porsgrunn

Sina Seifee, born in Tehran 1982, is an artist based in Brussels. Using storytelling, video, and performance, he explores and teases with the heritage of zoology in West Asia. His work picks up on how epistemologies, jokes and knowledges about animals get shaped in the old and new intersections of techno-media and globalism. He has been presenting internationally in City Gallery, Prague (2022); WIELS, Brussels (2020); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2016); Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2018); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017); Temporary Gallery, Köln (2019); and Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln (2015).

https://www.sinaseifee.com/

Jassem Hindi, born in Saudi Arabia 1981, is a french\palestinian artist living in Norway. He uses sound, choreography, performance, theory & storytelling. Hindi’s work looks at the double bind of haunting and hospitality. His work is cast in nervousness and necessity, using broken dances, broken objects, broken texts. His latest pieces make use of death poems (by Etel Adnan, Aase Berg, CA Conrad…), opening them up to generate baroque, cruel, cosmological worlds. He also makes sound works for numerous choreographers around the world. Latest collaborators: Sina Seifee, Mia Habib, Harald Beharie, Ligia Lewis, Clara Furey. Hindi’s work is shown internationally, and his collaborations have won numerous awards and nominations (Bessie Award, the Dublin Fringe Jury prize, the PICA Portland Jury’s choice, Hedda pris, 8:tension a.o.)

https://jassemhindi.cargo.site/

The presentation at Shedhalle Zurich is made possible by the generous support of the OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway.