05.09. open 18-22h
19:00 – Teresa Vittucci’s Retach – a small choreography of parting explores the embodiment of holding through the gesture of the hug. It performatively activates the space, including audience and visitors.
20:00 – JP Raether and the curatorial team then invite everyone to join into a reading circle around a collaborative text by aLifveforms – a herd of constructed and constantly evolving entities.
06.09. open 18:00 – 08:00
Long Night of the Museums
The collaborative project River Oracle activates the cyanotype landscape with an overnight program of live and recorded sounds, oracle practices and an installation of their own series of works co-created by sun-and-water.
13.09. Workshop 14-16:00, open 16-20:00
SCHULE DER LIEBENDEN, another collaborative endeavour, also returns to Shedhalle. This time, the performers from Theater HORA invite visitors to directly participate in their humorous, sensitive, empowering and genre-bending teachings in the framework of a workshop.
Register for the workshop via mail@shedhalle.ch. Please let us know when you register if you need assistance to participate.
11.-14.09.
Throughout that weekend, the educational movie of the same title, SCHULE DER LIEBENDEN, that was made with melanie bonajo will be on view again.
20./21.09. open 14-21h/14-19h
Performances Sat 20h, Sun 18h
Autumn Knight explores the sweetness and desolation of nothingness through an engagement with the space and audience with her improvisational solo performance NOTHING#20: a bluff (protozone).
27./28.09. opening times tba (all night)
And in the end? We trust the process—and whatever still wants to emerge will unfold during this celebratory closing weekend. Together with the parting and ongoing Shedhalle team, and with everyone who gathers, we’ll invite and welcome the unexpected.
ProtoZone20: Unending
05. September 2025 - 28. September 2025 Shedhalle, Zürich
Does a process ever end?
ProtoZone20: Unending revisits the learnings, reverberances, and continuities of five years of ProtoZones at Shedhalle.
This last ProtoZone is the final program of the departing curatorial team. At the same time, it continues a long-standing commitment: to host artistic processes rooted in time, relation, and care.
With: Assemble, Autumn Knight, River Oracle (Paloma Ayala/Melo Chua/Anne-Laure Franchette/Riikka Tauriainen/Kay Zhang), SCHULE DER LIEBENDEN (melanie bonajo/daniel cremer/Yanna Rüger/Theater HORA), Teresa Vittucci, aLifveforms (fed and cared for by JP Raether)
Curated by Phila Bergmann, Michelangelo Miccolis, Thea Reifler, Lucie Tuma, Curatorial Assistant Vanessa Bosch
ProtoZone20: Unending, Graphic Design by Studio Yukiko