Structures of Unfeeling

exhibition & performative learning environment
Tanzhaus Zürich, BINZ39, and ETH Zürich (2024)

initiated by SOHERE (wolf engelen, Vanessa Jane Phaff, Joseph Baan)

Structures of Unfeeling is a performative learning environment that uses the exhibition format for the formation of a public culture around sexualised violence. Initiated by organic research group SOHERE (Joseph Baan, wolf engelen, Vanessa Jane Phaff), the project brings together a diverse group of practitioners from the fields of contemporary art, education, music, performance, dramaturgy, and academia, many of whom have histories of being subjected to sexualised violence or childhood sexual abuse. The programme provided a diverse and comprehensive environment to foster conversation, collective thinking and making, and a discursive framework to encounter the topic of sexual trauma through aesthetic, material, embodied, and theoretical means.

Works pictured include collaborative infrastructures conceived by SOHERE, as well as autonomous works by Vanessa Jane Phaff and wolf engelen.