Once part of Lake Zurich, the site of Shedhalle was transformed into seemingly solid ground by artificial embankments. ProtoZone19 takes this human-made change as a starting point to question the mutability of material and social foundations - and thus also the systems on which ideas of stability, power and community are based.

Lake water returns back to the hall, where the participating artists invite you to examine how material and immaterial conditions are controlled or interrelated, how fundamental systems collapse, and how collective needs can be maintained in times of climate crisis and authoritarian politics.

ProtoZone19 moves on unstable ground as a starting point for changing ways of dealing with what surrounds us.

Participating artists:

Bronwyn Katz, Vika Kirchenbauer, Göksu Kunak, Layton Lachman, Omsk Social Club, Su Yu Hsin, Activist Choreographies of Care (Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Sunny Pfalzer)