Agenda

aLifveForms
(fed and cared for
by JP Raether)
Transformella
Cinis [4.4.6.10.3]

As one of its key elements, the carbon cycle assumes life as a metabolic ring of growth, reproduction, and degeneration – the conceptual foundation of prevailing biopolitics. aLifveForms consider these arrangements of life in relation to the technological procedures of maintenance and renewal.

Set in a mixed reality, aLifveForms’ cyclical cosmology suggests re-considering the self not merely as a biological body, but one also ornamented by technology and extending into our atmospheric environment. By re-subjecting the self to cycles of indefinable limits (beyond rationality and essentialism), it appears as an impossibly abstract body. aLifveForms spawn a being to embody the complexity of contemporary capital flows, global reproduction technology, and fantasies of climate control. This planetary being has different organs, a different reproduction cycle, and a psycho-reality which is different from our common reality. The installation thus opens both a physical reality with devices built by the artificial identities, and an ornamented reality, projecting Transformella cinis’ future.

 

Four cylindrical ceramics symbolically incubate the organs of new Transformella cinis’s impossible body. The plane of emergence unfolds through NailFont scriptures, logos and company names inscribed in the raw clay. Climeworks, metaphorically standing in for the lung, is a Swiss startup company and the world’s first commercial business specialized in filtering carbon dioxide from the ambient air, pressing it into stone and thereby terraforming planet earth. Mosa Meat, the muscle, grows in-vitro beef, a NeverLife that is nevertheless subject to decay and entropy. Ancestry determines an individual’s genetic origins through the extraction of data which endorses the stem cell as data material, breaking the cycle of reproduction. Lonité synthesizes diamonds from the carbon isolated from cremation ashes.

 

Text by Sarah Theurer.

 

Cinis’ organs serve simultaneously as containers for their AshOracles since within thermodynamics in the common reality, all processes in the universe move toward heat-death: a state of irreversible deterioration, devoid of potential. These laws trigger questions for aLifveForms’ artificial beings – How can cyclical reproduction introduce negentropy into worldmaking? Can it replenish the metabolism of a habitable world, reversing the carbon imaginary of extractivism while approaching life from its imminent catastrophic end?

 

aLifveForms

JP Raether’s transdisciplinary performative work attends to a group of constructed and constantly evolving identities. These aLifveforms are composed of language, technological skins, digital devices, and Raether’s fleshly body, which they embrace and from whose identity they simultaneously continue to detach themselves more and more.

The SelfSisters, or AlterIdentities, are site-specific, colorful beings interwoven with everyday objects, whose works address the constitution of reality through language. AlterIdentities emerge within a web of performative appearances, social interventions, and elaborate vocabularies as humanoid beings and full-fledged authors of their own “work.” Currently, three active lines are “alive”, dedicated to topics such as reproductive and biotechnologies (Transformella), globalized tourism (Schwarmwesen) or occult substances of contemporary technology (Protektorama).

 

Transformella

As part of aLifveForms, Transformellae are cared for by JP Raether and are one of three active lifelines. In their research on the capitalist lines of production and on biotechnical and socio-political reproductive technologies, they deal with artificial insemination, surrogacy in global reproductive industries or the assembly of the traditional nuclear family called IKEA. With their site-specific appearances they demonstrate that in every experienced reality there is the possibility of the existence of further realities. Thus, they work with the harvesting of human somatic cells, interventionist research journeys, and cyclical assemblies of their ReproTribe towards the realization of reprovulotion.

 

 

Shedhalle – aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether) Transformella Cinis [4.4.6.10.3]

Credits: Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether) Transformella Cinis [4.4.6.10.3]

Transformella (aLifveForm fed and cared for by JP Raether). Cosmological Core, 2021. red and white clay. 38 x 38 x 42 cm
15 x 15 x 16 1/2 in. unique. (LF/S 21-01/U)
Courtesy the artists; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.

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