The Sensing Salon is a studio practice, conceived by Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva, that expands the image of art beyond objects, events, and discourse to include the healing arts. Through formats that facilitate collaborative studying and experimenting with different practices and tools for reading (e.g. Tarot and Astrology) and healing (e.g. Reiki and Political Therapy), it fosters a form of sociality that attends to our deeply implicated existence. Together they perform individual and group sessions of Poethical Readings where they use different reading tools, layering them to image and discus the question brought forward by the participants.
The Sensing Salon takes different shapes according to the context in which it takes place and it involves different guests and participants in each iteration.
Upcoming Events
Reading with Echo: A Seminar on the Psyche
Shedhalle Zurich
Throughout these almost ten years of practice, the Poethical Readings exposed how one or more of the components of what we call the emotional intrastructure of the subject—namely, fear, guilt, shame, and anger—are at play, behind every question and in the midst of every crisis. Towards gathering a sense of why and how this infrastructure has come to compose the psyche, which is the figuring of interiority assembled by psychoanalysis, we have organized this structured study program, which we call the Echo Seminars. Between November 19th and 22nd, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri host ‘Reading with Echo—A Seminar on the Psyche’ at Shedhalle, Zurich,
Seminar Sessions
Wednesday 19.11. 5–8 pm / Shedhalle, Seestrasse 395, 8038 Zürich
Friday 21.11. 5–8 pm / Oskar R. Schlag, Geissbergweg 10, 8006 Zürich
Saturday 22.11. 1–4 pm / Shedhalle
Public Reading
Saturday 22.11. 5–8 pm / Shedhalle
Please register at mail@shedhalle.ch
