Guided Tour through the exhibition «Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality»
with the curators Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart
Wednesday March 30, 2011, 6 pm
Johanna Domke “Sleepers” (Videostill)
Igor and Ivan Buharov “Mothmilk”, 2009
Guided Tour through the exhibition «Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality»
with Anke Hoffmann, curator
Sunday March 20, 2011, 3 pm
Other Guided Tours:
Wednesday March 30, 6 pm - with Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart, curators
Thursday May 5, 6 pm - with Angela Wittwer, assistant curator
“Sleep as practice of resistance?”
Open Discussion with guests (in English), 31. March, 2011, 4 - 7 pm
With this current exhibition “Dump Time” project, we want to think about the unproductive, senseless, and mad dimensions of sleep and their effects on our daily life. The sleeping ego cannot be controlled. Thus, we say, sleep contains recalcitrant, and critical moments. A passive way of resistance though, rather distinguished by deprivation, failure, or disobedience than revolution. This thesis of the exhibition will be discussed with several guests and our audience.
With: Alexei Penzin (philosopher, Moscow), the artists Stefan Panhans (Hamburg), Johanna Domke (Copenhagen), Natalia Pershina (St. Petersburg), Ivan and Igor Buharov (Budapest), Alex Antener (Zurich/Berlin), Petra Elena Köhle/Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin (Zurich) and the curators of the exhibition Yvonne Volkart and Anke Hoffmann.
And: The artists Ivan and Igor Buharov will all participants guide through a Dream-Yoga.
Gluklya: UUU N4 (Zürich), 2011
“Dumped Dreams” 30. March, 2011, 9 pm
Dance Performance by Gluklya with dancers and asylum seekers from Zurich, and discussion
The work of Gluklya, pseudonym for Natalia Pershina from St. Petersburg, deals with the social drawbacks of our neo-liberal system of values, favouring self-marketing and causing pressure to perform. Founder of the duo “Factory of Found Clothes” and member of the Russian collective “Chto Delat?”, Gluklya develops, together with her partner Tsaplya, performance utopias of another kind, a different system. The project “Utopian Unemployment Union” (UUU) is socially layed out and is role play at the same time, mirroring different models of life and fates.
After her workshops in St. Petersburg, gent (Belgium) and Paris Gluklya comes to Zurich. She will be giving a workshop “Dumped Dreams”, the Utopian Unemployment Union N4, having asylum seekers performing their dreams as dancers, under the direction of a choreographer and together with professional dancers. In this work, the artist focuses on two topics often marginalised – our fellow human beings who are denied their rights, and our dreams. The work deals with the experience of labels like “experts”, or the “socially weak”, it deals with solitude and with community, and asks which utopias the dreams of “others” reveal.
Dumped Dreams, Utopian Unemployment Union N4 (Workshop, March 21 – 30, 2011).
Alexei Penzin, Shedhalle
«Sleep, Politics and Subjectivity»
Lecture by Alexei Penzin 30. March, 2011, 7 pm
Alexei Penzin, PhD, is researcher at Institute of Philosophy Moscow and a member of the artist group “Chto Delat / What is to be done?”. Penzin is contributing author to journals on philosophy and the humanities, published in Russia and internationally. His major fields of interest are critically re-evaluated philosophical anthropology, contemporary interpretations of Marxist thought, operaist theories of post-Fordism, Foucault, postcolonial studies, interconnections of art and political praxis. His current project is a book on cultural representations of sleep in context of biopolitical regulations of life under late capitalism with working title “Rex Exsomnis. Towards a political economy of sleep”.
Yolande Harris “Pink Noise/Fishing for Sound” (Videostill)
Performance “Pink Noise/Fishing for Sound” by Yolande Harris
Friday, 4 March 2011, 8 pm
Stefan Panhans: If A Store Clerk Gave Me Too Much Change, 2009
Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality
Opening: Friday 4 March 2011, 7pm
Curated by Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart
With this group exhibition project, we want to think about these unproductive, senseless, and mad dimensions of sleep and their effects on our daily life. The sleeping ego cannot be controlled. Thus, we say, sleep contains recalcitrant, and critical moments. It was these critical, political and even revolutionary dimensions of sleep and dream, which were important for the surrealists, and their poetics of sleeping and dreaming. Walter Benjamin precisely recognised and described this deeply critical aspect of the surrealistic artistic practises and their political ideologies.