Feels Like... ProtoZone13

When – and how – are you “touched” by a sound, a movement, a texture, a sight, a taste or a smell in a space of “visual” arts? Which bodily sensations are emerging when you encounter a sculpture, installation, performance, an image, video or sound? Where are the limits of these sensations for you in an institution for contemporary art? How can the ProtoZone* enhance the embodied, affective properties of artistic practices? To answer these questions, Feels Like… ProtoZone13 hosts artists who are re-valuing affective qualities and sensory perceptions in their work and refuse to be “read” in a specific way. Their practices dare us to challenge a binary split between feeling and understanding. Rather, they invite us to acknowledge the simultaneity of sensing-thinking as a non-binary entanglement when it comes to processes of “making sense” or “feeling like”. In such ways, they open up to the complexities and contradictions of aesthetic experience. ProtoZone13 invites you into a space of collective learning: to negotiate proximity, emotions, sensuality and solidarity within shared ecologies of the exhibition space and beyond. *The ProtoZone is an exhibition format for process-based art at Shedhalle from 2020-2025 Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Jubiläumsstiftung der Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Mondriaan Fund (Schule der Liebenden), Taiwan National Culture and Art Foundation (Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)), Pro Helvetia, Swiss Cultural Foundation & Oertli Foundation (James Bantone), Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt (Deborah-Joyce Holman), Georg und Josi Guggenheim Foundation, Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation