Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“How To Open And Close Doors” with Annatina Caprez and Garrett Nelson

During this Practical Fridays workshop, Annatina Caprez and Garrett Nelson demonstrated “How To Open And Close Doors”. Using two doors installed in Corner College as central models, participants examined methods of opening, closing and communicating with doors. The group explored door histories, different types of doors and their problematics, practiced door uses and cultural door etiquette.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“Bartending” with Philip

During this Practical Fridays workshop, Philip demonstrated how to mix three unique drinks, along with a series of bartending tricks that one could use at home or in a party situation. After the demonstration everyone participated in bottle flipping, cucumber garnishing, orange flaming, cocktail mixing and tasting.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“Ambiguity: Do Something Not To See Anything” with Christina Zimmermann

During this Practical Fridays workshop, Christina Zimmermann performed a collective experiment in “ambiguity perception”. Ambiguity presents a perfect test case for the investigation of the self-organizing processes in the brain.

Departing from experimental practices in Gestalt psychology and Cognitive Science, participants were asked to react to, create and manipulate Rorschach inkblot images, which are commonly used in personality tests: “Do something not to see anything”.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“How To Land An Aircraft In An Emergency” with Dan Krusi

This Practical Fridays workshop took place in Dan Krusi’s attic, where he built and installed a fully featured two-seat cockpit and flight simulator. There was a short introduction to flight theory, followed by a practical landing attempt, flown by participants in the cockpit of his homemade simulator.

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“How To Correctly Compost” with Daniel Morgenthaler

What goes into a compost, and what should not? How do you build a compost? What exactly happens inside it? And how many worms should you ideally find in a handful of compost? During this Practical Fridays session, which took place in Daniel Morgenthaler’s Schrebergarten, Daniel provided answers to these and other questions on compost, also known as the «gold of every biological garden».

Location: Daniel’s Schrebergarten (urban garden)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“Diagrams” with Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Christoph Brunner & Jacqueline Poloni

During this Practical Fridays workshop, Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Christoph Brunner and Jacqueline Poloni explored different kinds of diagrams, in artistic, performance and philosophical practices.

Diagrams are strange devices and techniques which attempt to make relations tangible and at the same time evade straight formats of representation. They are expression in physical as much as in immaterial ways.

This workshop familiarized the participants with diagrammatic practices as a means for tracing and enabling movement.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“Bouquet Making” with Alice McCabe and Linda Furrer

During this Practical Fridays workshop, Alice McCabe and Linda Furrer workshopped how to assemble a hand-held bouquet and wrap it in a professional manner. Two types of bouquet making were taught, the forward facing and the rounded bunch, which are very popular in Switzerland.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“A Viking Way of Knitting” with Ingrid Käser

During Ingrid’s artist residency in Iceland, she was taught the viking way of knitting. After her return to Switzerland, Ingrid was looking forward to teach others this unique art of knitting. During this Practical Fridays workshop, Ingrid supplied the appropriate needles, sheep wool, Fisherman’s Friend mints (to aid in felting) and soothing whale sounds.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“Sehen – neu sehen lernen” mit Annette Rempp

Anhand von optischen Gläsern und euren mitgebrachten Kameras, Dias, Bildern, werden Sehgeschichten in Form von Zerstreuung (Minuslinse), Konzentration (Pluslinse) und Verzerrung (zylindrische Linse) erzählt.

Im Vordergrund des Workshops stehen die Fragen:
1. Was sehen wir?
2. Wie bewerten, benennen wir das, was wir sehen?
3. Sieht mein Gegenüber dasselbe?
4. Wie verhält sich dazu unserer Sprachgebrauch?

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)

Thursday 1st January 1970, 12:00am

“Vocal Training” with Julia Schwartz

During this first Practical Fridays workshop, Julia Schwartz taught the basic physical principles of spoken voice use. Each participant, working on a short poem or aphorism and with Julia coaching him/her, ended up speaking the written work in an understandable, clear form.

Location: Corner College (Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zürich)