Loving Shedhalle Resonance by Michael Hiltbrunner, Carla Pe... - 9783039422876

Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag

Loving Shedhalle Resonance40 Years of Shedhalle Zurich\nAuthor(s): Michael Hiltbrunner, Carla Peca, Lucie Tuma\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, Switzerland\nImprint: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag\nISBN-13: 9783039422876, 978-3039422876\nSynopsis\nZurichs Shedhalle is a space for process-based art on the citys lakeshore. It was originally part of a former textile mill that was converted first into an assembly plant for telephones and radios, and in the early 1980s into a campus known as the Rote Fabrik (the red factory), hosting a theatre and concert hall, a restaurant and bar, studios for visual and performing artists, and art spaces. Since its inception in 1985, the Shedhalle has been a place where independent artists, communities, and activists come together and work. New exhibition formats, as well as artistic practices and forms of knowledge generation, have evolved here, often ahead of their time. They reflect different emancipatory and soci.