ProtoZone16: Hallucinogenesis

13. September 2024 - 03. November 2024 Shedhalle, Zürich

ProtoZone16: Hallucinogenesis extends an invitation to focus on the profound, unarticulated knowledge and feelings that reside within you—those depths of experience that often defy verbal expression. This process-based exhibition offers a space to heighten your awareness of its own driving forces: the subtle processes of intuition, dreams, desires, atmospheres, vibes, currents, undertones, memories, presences and hallucinations.

The invited artists evoke the process of "Hallucinogenesis", allowing to emerge what lies hidden beneath the surface. Their approaches span a wide spectrum: from acts of remembering, researching, and summoning to moments of pause and deep listening; from weaving and experimental writing to the exploration of psychoactive substances; from tracing and renewing ancestral knowledge, myths, rituals and historical narratives to simultaneously engaging with techno music, contemporary technological culture and gender politics. 

ProtoZone16: Hallucinogenesis

ProtoZone16: Hallucinogenesis

participants

artists: He Shen, Dondon Hounwn & Temu Basaw, Studio LABOUR, Omsk Social Club, Elizabeth Pirela Gonzalez & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Tai Shani, Nikhil Vettukattil, X COLLECTIVE X.

curated by Phila Bergmann and Thea Reifler.

curatorial assistant Vanessa Bosch.

graphic design by Studio Yukiko.