<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Cross-fades. Reconstructing the Future</span></span></font></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; ">__________________________________________________________</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b>Exhibition Opening: Friday, 8 October, 2010<br>Exhibition: 9 October - 23 December, 2010</b></font></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b>Opening Times: Tue - Fr 1 - 6 pm, Sa - Su 12 am - 6 pm <br></b></font><br>with: Zbynek Baladrán (CZ), Rossella Biscotti (I/NL), Daniela Comani<br>(I/D), Christoph Draeger (CH/USA), Karen Geyer (D/CH), Hofmann&Lindholm (D),<br>Knowbotic Research (A/CH/D), Uriel Orlow (CH/UK), Suzanne Treister (PL/<br>UK), Sarah Vanagt (B), Miriam Visaczki (D)<br><br>Curated by Anke Hoffmann und Yvonne Volkart<br><br>Lately, history and the past have become topics in art to an ever<br>greater extent. Just as the science of history has faced up to these<br>challenges and overhauled its premises art, increasingly, takes part<br>in the debate and continues to write or even rewrites history, clearly<br>comprising the present debates in the theory of history, which, among<br>others, today even deems subjective narratives and biographical<br>research valid topics. History can be viewed as something that is not<br>given but as a multi-layered bunch of many narrations. It should be<br>told differently, should be rewritten again and again We perceive<br>politically engaged art, as extraordinarily apt, ideally suited for<br>this new approach in historiography since art always has been a field<br>developing aesthetical procedures and strategies in opposition to the<br>prevailing culture and its potential predomination. The title Cross-<br>fades refers to an artistic strategy which we would like to put<br>emphasis on. It means that we, today, put the past into a perspective<br>that may possibly lead to a film of the future.<br><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><br></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">______________________________________________________________</span></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><br></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b>Events </b></font></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><br></span></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">______________________________________________________________</span><br></b></font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b>Film & Talk with Sarah Vanagt (in conjunction with the Cross-Talk)</b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Friday, 12 November, 7 - 9 pm</span><br><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">The artist and filmmaker Sarah Vanagt from Brussels is a (hi)story-<br>teller. Her films reflect the barbarous colonial history of Belgium in<br>Central Africa, history lessons in Ruanda and tell world history from<br>a perspective of immigrants. Excerpts and screening of the films:<br>Begin, Began, Begun, 2004 and Boulevard d'Ypres/ Ieperlaan, 2010.<br><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b>Cross-Talk Art, Science, Histor</b></font>y<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Saturday, November 13, 4 - 8.30 pm</span><br><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">The historian Beat Näf (University Zurich), the art theorist Ute<br>Vorkoeper (Hamburg), der curators Raffael Dörig and Katharina Dunst<br>(Shift-Festival, Basel), the Shedhalle - curators Anke Hoffmann and<br>Yvonne Volkart as well as the artists of the exhibition Suzanne<br>Treister (London), Christoph Draeger (New York), Sarah Vanagt </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">(Brussels) and Miriam Visaczki (Berlin / Weimar) will explain their </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">individual approaches and discuss their differences in methods. </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Noticable is, e.g, that the exhibited artistic positions present historic </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">events - in opposition to historical science - often obscure, superimposed</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">or even absent.</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville-SemiBold"><b>Guided Exhibition Tours</b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Friday, October 22</span>, 6 pm with Yvonne Volkart, curator<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Friday, November 12</span>, 6 pm with Anke Hoffmann, Yvonne Volkart and the artists of the exhibition<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Friday, November 26</span>, 6 pm with Angela Wittwer, assistant curator<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Sunday, December 12,</span> 3 pm with Anke Hoffmann, curator<br><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br>For more information please see: </span></font></font><a href="http://www.shedhalle.ch/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">www.shedhalle.ch</span></font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">_____________________________________________</span></span></font></font></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>