Discussion

DIE NEUE PEINLICHKEIT

Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 7 p.m.

at museum Haus Konstruktiv, ewz-Unterwerk Selnau
Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich

A rotating event program by Helmhaus Zürich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Shedhalle, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Museum Haus Konstruktiv and UP STATE.

Public spheres, private fears, and mediation – such are the topics that a collaborative event program by six Zurich contemporary art spaces aims to address along with the crucial question of embarrassment.

Shedhalle at Museum Haus Konstruktiv

Among others, Katharina Morawek, Curator/Executive Director Shedhalle and Geesa Tuch, film scholar, discuss the functions and social interactions of humor and debate strategies of counter- laughter.