SAT 07.08: Discussion and talk, “Shedhalle as an archive of political desire”

Shedhalle / Events / August 2010 / Saturday August 7

Old Shedhalle 1988. Foto: Harm Lux. Printed in the annual report Shedhalle 1993

Shedhalle as an archive of political desire
Discussion and talk: Saturday 7 August 2010, 4pm

A questionnaire issued as part of the correspondence of Shedhalle in 1991 discussing the institutions conceptual and curatorial re-orientation forms the center of a concluding conversation with guests, adressing the political capacity of the art institution today.

Participants: Simone Schardt (Artist and Board Shedhalle), Eva von Wartburg (Board Shedhalle), Yvonne Volkart (co-curator Shedhalle) und Dagmar Reichert (Kunst und Forschung, Zurich).

WED 04.08: Guided Tour with the curators

Shedhalle / Events / August 2010 / Wednesday August 4, 6 pm

Faculty of Invisibility: “Dark Light”. Installation view Transmission Gallery 2009

Guided Tour through the exhibition “Faculty of Invisibility: Assembly”
with the curators Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich
Wednesday 4 August 2010, 6pm

FRI 30.07. – SUN 01.08: Open Events “Department of Reading: Mass, Movement, Image”

Shedhalle / Events / July 2010 / Friday July 30 – Sunday August 1

Department of Reading: Impure Performatives. Flutgraben e.V. 2008

Department of Reading: Mass, Movement, Image
Open Events: 30 July and 1 August 2010, 2 – 6pm

(participation also online at www.reading.department.cc)

The Department of Reading follows traces of text and image emerging in this exhibition project. It questions the production of images of the discursive and it works along lines of concepts of mass and movement. With Helmut Draxler (theoretician and curator, DE, tbc), Achim Lengerer (artist, DE), p-r-o-x-y (CH), Jan Rolletschek (theoretician, DE), Johan Siebers (philosopher, UK) und Tanja Widmann (artist, AT).