Choir Workshop: Earworms for the Rich to Fall in Love With Getting Poor
Venue: Exhibition, Café Bourouissa
A choir workshop hosted by Nicole L'Huillier, Ingo Niermann and Sabina Leone
How do you reach someone who has stopped listening? Common anti-capitalist protests rely on shouting to be heard. But shouting rarely changes a heart. This workshop takes a different approach, one rooted in voice, vibration, and collective sonic presence: building and training a siren-like chorus whose beguiling chants (eventually performed in front of mansions, yachts, casinos, luxury hotels, exclusive clubs and shops) are meant to plant earworms to instigate change, to the rich to “share!”
Following a first workshop at Shedhalle Zürich, this second gathering takes place at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Taking Ingo Niermann’s video Positive Terror – 7 Tutorials as a starting point, Nicole L’Huillier, Ingo Niermann and Sabina Leone will guide participants through basic singing exercises and the shared process of writing, arranging and singing chants.
Nicole L’Huillier’s exhibition Canción de Amor provides a space to explore collective listening and resonance. Activated by touch, voice and movement, its architecture transforms individual gestures into a shared, ever-changing sonic composition, inviting participants to tune into one another and their surroundings.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of singing experience, and you can join even if you did not attend the first workshop at Shedhalle. No preparation is needed: the artists will guide you step by step as you explore your voice, listen to others and create chants together.
The choir workshop is part of a collaboration between Shedhalle Zürich and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
Nicole L’Huillier (born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her work encompasses installations, sound and vibration sculptures, performances and experimental compositions. She studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile and was awarded her PhD in 2022 at the MIT Media Lab. Her honours include the MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts and a fellowship from the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Programme. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (2024), the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), the Bienal do Mercosul (2025), the Kunsthalle Bern and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. She conducts research and teaches at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
Ingo Niermann is a writer and artist based in Basel. His work moves between literature, speculative writing, art, and social and political thought. He is the editor of the Solution Series, published by Sternberg Press, and has authored numerous books, including Umbauland, Complete Love, Mare Amoris and The Monadic Age. His work has been presented at institutions and exhibitions including documenta, the Berlin Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale and ZKM. Niermann is also the initiator of the Army of Love, a project exploring the redistribution of sensual love. He teaches at the Institute Art Gender Nature at HGK Basel FHNW.
Sabina Leone is a singer and drummer from Zurich. With her solo project Héloïse, she performs concerts and is currently touring in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Under the name Héloïse, she has released the 12-inch vinyl EP Rubbish Rubbish (CAF?, 2025) and the cassette One Click One Scroll (2023). From 1997 to 2004, Sabina Leone studied voice with a focus on movement, bodywork, breathing, and theater under vocal and theater educator Mirka Yemendzakis in Greece and Switzerland. In 2003, she attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern, studying both voice and drums. Between 2012 and 2016, she completed the CAS Basic and CAS Intermediate programs in Music Physiology at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2020, Sabina Leone has been teaching the group courses Every Voice Is Unique and Voice Practice at Musikwerkstatt Galotti. She also leads workshops, including at ZHdK, the LUFF Festival in Lausanne, and Theater HORA, and has been teaching private students since 2005.
- Language: English
- Barrier-free access
- No registration required
- Free of charge