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Shedhalle
ProtoZone19
Bronwyn Katz, Vika Kirchenbauer, Göksu Kunak, Layton Lachman, Omsk Social Club, Yu Hsin Su, Activist Choreographies of Care Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Sunny Pfalzer
May 23 – August 03, 2025
Vika Kirchenbauer, COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE (2024), video, 30min, © Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild Kunst
© Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild Kunst
© Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild Kunst
Fri, June 13, 14:00 – 22:00
Sat, June 14, 14:00 – 20:00
Sun, June 15, 12:00 – 18:00
Once part of Lake Zurich, the site of Shedhalle was transformed into seemingly solid ground by artificial embankments. ‘ProtoZone19’ takes this human-made change as a starting point to question the mutability of material and social foundations – and thus also the systems on which ideas of stability, power and community are based.
Lake water returns to Shedhalle, where the participating artists delve into how material and immaterial conditions are controlled and interconnected, how fundamental systems collapse, and how collective needs can be maintained in times of climate crisis and authoritarian politics.
‘ProtoZone19’ moves on unstable ground as a starting point for changing ways of dealing with what surrounds us.
curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, assistant curator Vanessa Bosch
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Seestrasse 395
8038 Zurich
8038 Zurich
Events
The performative installation 'tangerine' deals with the so-called Susurluk car crash of 1996, which had a lasting impact on society and politics in Turkey as it revealed the existence of a triangular network of organized crime, politics, and state.
While passing through various stations in the room, Kunak revisits the imagery that this event has generated, ranging from newspaper reports to a soap opera or film. These intermingle with abstract notions of the idea of innocence in relation to loss, grief, heartbreak and psychosis.
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While passing through various stations in the room, Kunak revisits the imagery that this event has generated, ranging from newspaper reports to a soap opera or film. These intermingle with abstract notions of the idea of innocence in relation to loss, grief, heartbreak and psychosis.
We kindly ask you to reserve a spot to help us estimate attendance. Reservations are not required for entry.
Fri, June 13, 20:30 – 21:30 | EN
Vika Kirchenbauer reads from her essay 'Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London', followed by a conversation about art, coloniality and class with Phila Bergmann and Thea Reifler (artistic direction Shedhalle).
This event will take place at schwarzescafé / Luma Westbau.
Due to limited capacity, reservation is recommended.
This event will take place at schwarzescafé / Luma Westbau.
Due to limited capacity, reservation is recommended.
Sun, June 15, 12:00 – 13:00 | EN
Building upon her ongoing research into "Water: A Geoarchive," Su Yu Hsin is excited to present a research-in-the-making that delves into the interface between Shedhalle and Lake Zurich. The site-specific exploration engages with the environmental history of Shedhalle, using polyphonic reimagining of water as a medium. Through cross-referencing with the historical cartography of the Shedhalle and sonic interventions, the surveying work is an act of recording the spatial and material dimensions of the industrial incursions into the water bodies. Central to this inquiry is the exploration of how water itself communicates the artificial filling of the site.
Splashing, seeping, and eroding, water imprints the traces of its passage, carrying the memory of where it once flowed and what it once touched. Su Yu Hsin's research-based work is characterized by site-specific investigations into diverse water bodies, from the Akaike River in Taipei, the Liwu River in Hualian and the Salt River in Phoenix.
These projects develop contextual narratives from the perspective of the river, exploring its encompassing ecological and relational networks.Her artistic investigations examine the suppression of waterways within urban landscapes and colonial cartographic practices, as in ‘water sleep II Akaike River under Xizhang Road’ (2019).
Through questioning the formatting scalar relations between the field, laboratory and database, ‘frame of reference I & II’ (2020) reflects on the interplay between technology and observational networks along the river, where human and non-human elements converge. Recent works also delve into the complexities of water scarcity and the material footprint of computer technologies, as evidenced by 'Particular waters' (2023).
We kindly ask you to reserve a spot to help us estimate attendance. Reservations are not required for entry.
Splashing, seeping, and eroding, water imprints the traces of its passage, carrying the memory of where it once flowed and what it once touched. Su Yu Hsin's research-based work is characterized by site-specific investigations into diverse water bodies, from the Akaike River in Taipei, the Liwu River in Hualian and the Salt River in Phoenix.
These projects develop contextual narratives from the perspective of the river, exploring its encompassing ecological and relational networks.Her artistic investigations examine the suppression of waterways within urban landscapes and colonial cartographic practices, as in ‘water sleep II Akaike River under Xizhang Road’ (2019).
Through questioning the formatting scalar relations between the field, laboratory and database, ‘frame of reference I & II’ (2020) reflects on the interplay between technology and observational networks along the river, where human and non-human elements converge. Recent works also delve into the complexities of water scarcity and the material footprint of computer technologies, as evidenced by 'Particular waters' (2023).
We kindly ask you to reserve a spot to help us estimate attendance. Reservations are not required for entry.
Sun, June 15, 14:15 – 15:15 | EN