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Workshop: Touching Space

During the Artist Residency and Open House at Schubertstrasse in Zurich, Jill’s creative practice extends from the core conceptual notion of language to the meaning-making processes of sign—the worn objects, the dwelling memories, the network of relationship she co-built with people and space.

Jill’s poetry involves meaning fluidly residing in a variety of semiotic signs, be it language, image, smell, sound, and she will give insights into what led to her multimodal approach as well as her processes of creating the works in the sharing section.

‘Language is the ability to “touch” others, to relate to things, processes, emotions, individuals, and through this to turn them into something different.’ —— Andreas Weber

Experience the space of Schubertstrasse—former residence of Herianto Sulindro, Kho Family, and now-turned venue of the upcoming exhibition— through languaging. The objects you encounter and the movements of which this house’s design directs you are memories and poetry to be written. Space enfolds the past, present, and future; your presence will be merged into its memory-scape by the ability to ‘touch’ that language holds. We’ll learn how to produce a concrete poem that emerges from your interaction with the house.

About artist

Jill Zheng is a multimodal poet, who works with language as a primary material, oftentimes marrying modes of graphic arrangements, sound, image, translingualism, somatic experience, etc. Her poetic practice takes its inspirational roots from the concreteness of Chinese characters, and seeks to embody cultural hybridity as to traverse linguistic boundaries, for a new game of re-imagination and reading re-orientation.​ She also collaborates with visual and sound artists on multimedia poetry and sound-art performances in Shanghai.

Her works have appeared in Nationalpoetrymonth.ca, Poetry magazine (US), LIFE magazine (China), Paris Lit Up (Paris) etc., and anthologised by Seeing in Tongue (UK). Her latest works have recently been exhibited in Zari Gallery and Boomer Gallery in London.

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Note: The parking space is limited around the neighboring area, with a mix of blue and white zone parking spaces.
We suggest participants utilize public transport. Where the closest station:
Bus stop: Rotbuchstrasse / Nordstrasse (4~5 minute walk)
Tram station: Schaffhauserplatz (7 minute walk)
Train station: Zürich Wipkingen (10 minute walk)

✴︎ Organized by SAUVEART and Schubertstrasse
✴︎ Supported by Kho Family and NCAF