PLANKTON MANIFESTO LAUNCH

LET'S DRIFT AND GLOW

Solo Exhibition opening by Katja Loher

June 8th, 2021 | 20:00 Opening Reception | 21:00 Launch Party

Artist Katja Loher presents a multi-sensorial exhibition that invites visitors to an (under) water journey raising awareness for this endangered natural environment.

Reading by Gian Maria Annovi, author of the Plankton Manifesto Poetry. First appearance of the new plankton costume designed by Good Grapefruit, performed by Lizelle Dorsey. Scientific input about plankton by  Damiano Righetti, scientist at ETH / WSL.

Family Offices, Foundations & Art Friends

June 15th, 2021 | 19:00

Family Offices & Foundations supporting Immersive Art Experiences for an environmental cause by Dr. Igor Rusek, Chairman ATAG Family Office & Mr. Abhishek Basu, Executive Trustee Basu Foundation

Family Offices and Foundations as independent advisors are key decision-makers and game-changers when it comes to anchoring the idea of sustainability and awareness for Mother Nature and the highly sensitive ecosystems of our world. Within nature lies the basis for art and creativity – it is time to awake, honor and celebrate.

re: ACTIVATE - ephemeral collusion

June 16th, 2021 | 19:30 | Performance 20:00

• Frantz Loriot (viola) + azumi O E (Butoh)

• Silvan Jeger (guitar) 

• Jason Kahn (guitar, vox)

“re: ACTIVATE” focuses on raw value in live music and dance performance. Butoh dancer azumi O E uses her on time composition as a tool to keep the stage as fresh as possible and as real as possible. The stage is filled with playful moments almost like up-rising celebration and mesmerizing shocking intense moments while featuring three experimental provocative musicians. 

Ephemeral Collusion is a unique collaborative experimental project series founded in New York 2019.  It aims to investigate the rich spectrum of possibilities from the one time-only performances.

A gathering with the Kunststiftung Göschenen and friends

Hosted by Christoph Hürlimann, Elisabeth Weber and Katja Loher 

June 18th, 2021 | 19:00

Art and science pop up performances : Video documentation PlankTon - piano and orchestra, a composition by Vivian Nägeli, Musical accompaniment, Kokle by residence artist Ilze Orinska, Butoh Performance by Azumi Oe

In times of upheaval and drastic change which we are currently facing, visionaries with a strong commitment to art have never been more important. Christoph Hürlimann and Elisabeth Weber are not only living and breathing art but also have been supporting artists from around the world and bringing them and their work together in magical places such as Kunstdepot Göschenen. This remote hideaway up in the Swiss mountains has also been Katja Loher's domicile throughout the pandemic with a stunning alpine world as a unique inspiration for her work on the Plankton Manifesto.

The biography of the drawing and Water songs

Artist Barbara Heé presents originals of her biography of the drawings

June 19th, 2021 | 19:-00 Q&A Barbara Heé und Katja Loher | 20:00 Sound performance La Lupa 

Drawn with charcoal pencils from various charred woods on Japanese paper. Each line is passed over the cuts of building boards and thus joined together to form these stars-micados.

“My drawings and paintings involved painstaking studies of plants and trees. These shots of the falls are a gift to me: The Star Taler girl holds open her shift and all the stars fall right in” quotes t Barbara Heé in the book WATERS.

La Lupa’s powerful natural voice fills every room without a microphone until the souls vibrate.

Plankton and plastic floating forest

June 23rd, 2021 | 14:00-17:00 Workshop for children  6 - 12 years old

Creation of a site-specific installation in collaborative action to sensitize new generations on the theme of oceanic plastics by Andrea Liberni.

The project aims to raise awareness among children and adults, on the subject of plankton fragility and its close link with human activities. It consists of creating a plankton cloud hanging from the ceiling in front of the dark blue curved wall of the exhibition space - a cloud composed of hundreds of small semi-transparent paper sculptures "pseudo jellyfish", created by the participants. The collective work of art will generate a dialogue for the participants, artists and visitors, on the environmental theme that will contribute to increasing the sense of responsibility and attention on this topic.

Strawberry full Moon on the lake

June 24th, 2021 | 20:00-22:00 The balance by Ma Gee and Neklan Unger

payment CHF 80.- upon arrival (cash or twint)

Let’s dive into the moonlight surrounded by the element of water. We will be guided by a holistic health coach and yogi teacher whose principle is: It’s all about balance! Let’s find the balance in movement on the Lake of Zürich and dwell upon a subject in splashing sounds and the glowing full moon.

Provided : Kayak and paddle + Safety jacket + Dry bag + A quick briefing to paddling (if required)

Conscious design evinced

Sensory dance performance and introduction to innovative sustainable fabrics by Good Grapefruit 

June 25th, 2021 | 7.00 pm - Butoh dance performance by Regina Masuhr | 8.00 pm - Contact Improv by Lizzele Dorsey and Yaiza

The Good Grapefruit event is about the metamorphosis of a business approach and its impact on the world. We will present Plankton Manifesto - special edition summer scarves made out of SeaCell yarn, which is produced out of seaweed from Nordic Seas. 

The importance of sustainability and environmental awareness will be artistically illustrated in two dance performances that will take you in a dazzling underwater world and invite you to become a part of the fluorescent universe.

Let`s Play Plankton

June 26th | 07:00 Set 1 #kril | 08:00 Set 2 #zōon | 09:00 Set 3 #phyto

Performances at the Plankton Manifesto Space and in the surrounding old town of Zurich with Simon Grossenbacher, Susanne Escher, Nadine Seeger and Heiko Schätzle.

The collective Let`s Play: Simon Grossenbacher, acting/ performance, Susanne Escher, sound improvisation, Nadine Seeger, movement and vocal performance and Heiko Schätzle (bittelangsam), sound-installation.

"A day into the night" is dedicated to playing with transformation: from solo to symbiosis, from individual to collective, from glamorous to rural, from play to real life: drifting, flowing, shining, reflecting, exploring, like the plankton: we improvise with instruments, costumes and lyrics, with music, sound, voice and movement in changing formations.

SACRED SOUND WAVES - Fundraiser for Dewa Che foundation 

The power of ancient Tibetan Mantras

June 28th, 2021 | 19:30 Door | 20:00 Concert 

• DECHEN Shak-Dagsay and Thomas Niggli (Sitar)

Private Event, by invitation only

Suggested donation CHF 50.-

Entire profit is going to Dewa Che Foundation

www.dewache-foundation.com www.dechen-shak.com

Mare Incognitum – plankton in a sea of change

Science Pitch by Meike Vogt, Fabio Benedetti, Urs Hofmann Elizondo; ETH Zurich

June 30th, 2021 | 18:30 Meike Vogt "The air that we breathe: Die Rolle von Plankton im Klimasystem" 19:00 Urs Hofmann Elizondo "Ozeanlandschaften im Wandel der Jahreszeiten" | 19:30 Fabio Benedetti "Through the looking glass: The magical diversity of marine fauna"

Marine plankton form the base of the marine food-chain and mediate important biogeochemical cycles on planet Earth. Yet, this diverse group of organisms remains poorly understood. In a series of short pop-up talks, three marine scientists will take you on a journey into the fantastic world of plankton, and introduce you to their resourcefulness, diversity, and ethereal beauty. We will highlight differences between marine and terrestrial ecosystems, explore the role of plankton in the uptake of anthropogenic carbon, and illuminate knowns and unknowns with regard to their response to global climate change. See marine ecosystems through a scientist’s passionate eye, and discover fun facts about that 71% of the Earth’s surface that we know so little about.

Dedication to the sea

July 1st, 2021 | 22:00 performance

UNICORN OF THE SEAS at riverside at the Limmat, Zinnengasse Zürich

Performance: Victorine Müller, Light: Simon Egli, Poetic contribution SILENZI ALLA AUA: Davina Andrea Deplazes 

The narwhal, the mythical unicorn of the seas, is one of the endangered species.

Ten million tiny nerve connections link the central nerve of its very special tusk with its surface and turn the outgrowth into a sensitive sensor. Although apparently hard and massive, the tusk works like a membrane with a tender surface that can register changes in water temperature and pressure and the concentration of chemical substances. What a wonderful creature!

Ungemaltes oder die Reise ins gnadenlose Licht

July 3rd, 2021 | 18:00-20:00

Al Meier will present "Unpainted or the journey into the merciless light". The artist is present and reads poetic texts from his book

Art is the lived response to the search for the true and the beautiful.... I am a performing philosopher and poet. My 40 years of work are characterized by the search for the valid in art, beyond fashions and trends. Across media, the artistic questions always find new content and forms of expression. Formal reductions to the essential reflect and characterize my drawings, objects, paintings and photographs. Constructive concrete elements are mostly in dialogue with organic lines. It is in this interplay of intellect and intuition that the new forms of expression are found. In this intermediate realm of suggestion, simplicity and clarity, my works question and illuminate the timeless, existential questions of our existence.

A by ssal M o  tio n chant d’or – cri cyan

July 5th, 2021 | 20:00 music performance

Sándor Bajnai (keys) & Chrigu Gerber (cello)

chant d’or – cri cyan is a duet of church musicians usually playing the organ and singing, or entertaining people of all ages with beautiful music of different styles.

What’s life, what’s just biochemical process?

It works as long you don’t ask by laws of saturation and reactions – longing, greed and decay. Those silly simple little movements that build our worlds and finally destroy them to create new ones. Who moves, who is moved? We follow the waves of lust across Kitsch and acoustic research, blossom and rottenness.

H2O

July 6th, 2021 | 17:00-22:00

Art Installation by huber.huber

Artist duo huber.huber have created an installation from elements of three installations on the subject of water and expansive installation. Sound from the video “Land of Plenty” by Michael Bucher, dive into installation H20 with a sip of sake and a bowl of miso soup.

The subtle scent of fish and seaweed of the miso soup mixes with the scent of summer rain on hot asphalt. Fine wisps of mist creep along the ground. The sounds of the electric guitar (Michael Bucher) mixed with the sound of water to form a sound carpet.

http://www.huberhuber.com

Planet Water

July 7th, 2021 | 18:15-21:00

• 18:15             Introduction of the virtual gallery by video artists from Studio de Maan

• 18:30-19:00  Science talk by Katja Peijnenburg, followed by Q & A

• 19:30 Live     Koi Noises, Butoh Solo Performance by Sylvie Chen, Music by Christian Fischer.

• 20:30-21:00  Science talk by Katja Peijnenburg, followed by Q & A

Dr. Katja Peijnenburg a.k.a. @katjaplankton is a researcher and group leader ‘Plankton diversity and evolution’ at Naturalis biodiversity center in Leiden. Current research focuses on planktonic snails because these are sensitive indicators of the impacts of global change. Besides playing key roles in the oceanic food chain and the global carbon cycle, planktonic snails are mesmerizing creatures speaking to the hearts of people. By teaming up with Studio de Maan, they produced videos to communicate research findings as well as their beauty, in the hope to inspire people to take better care of our planet.

So let´s drift! CLOSING CELEBRATION 

July 8th, 2021 | 18:00-22:00

Finissage of Katja Loher's Exhibition -DJ and Silent Disco by James Wolfensberger-

• 19:00 Organic Voice by Sylvie Chen

• 19:30 Plankton Input Damiano Righetti

• 20:00 "thrghsttsfmttr", sound performance by Tobias Meier

• 20:30 Plankton Input by Katja Peijnenburg

• 21:00 Together by BB-8

James Wolfensberger, Co-Founder Tanzgarage, Silent Disco parties in Zurich and the surrounding area.

www.Tanzgarage.com