All too often, bondage games take on heteronormative forms - which is fine, but we want to try out inventive ways of experiencing something completely different. Queering - as a verb - stands for the desire for a whole spectrum of: questioning, refreshing, making visible, playing, irritating, celebrating, trying out, liquefying, encouraging, expanding, inventing, solidarizing, mixing, standing by oneself, appropriating, becoming, transforming... At the QUEER BONDAGE JAMS, we therefore want to give more space to creativity in general by...

RopuNawa goes Zurich! - The bondage artist from Basel has not only become one of the best-known riggers on the Swiss scene in recent years, but is now a welcome guest with his performances and workshops at various bondage festivals and locations in Europe and beyond. From mid-October, he will be coming back to Zurich every two weeks to run an intensive 5-evening workshop for local bondage enthusiasts who have already learned the basics and want to get serious about taking it to an advanced level...

serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...

Michaël Reinhold invites his artistic figures, developed over the course of many years, to a conversation. With a precise eye, he captures social patterns of speech and action that cover up taboos and uncomfortable feelings. Sometimes he imitates them, sometimes he exaggerates them to the point of being unbearable. His personas are loud, playful, unpredictable, sometimes more animal, sometimes more child. As an audience, we are free to listen to their conversations, think along with them or get involved.

sihl13 opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain their first experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...

RopuNawa goes Zurich! - The bondage artist from Basel has not only become one of the best-known riggers on the Swiss scene in recent years, but is now a welcome guest with his performances and workshops at various bondage festivals and locations in Europe and beyond. From mid-October, he will be coming back to Zurich every two weeks to run an intensive 5-evening workshop for local bondage enthusiasts who have already learned the basics and want to get serious about taking it to an advanced level...

serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...

Rope bondage is for everyone!
However, this hasn't necessarily been the case with our usual bondage jam so far, because things are often quite conventional and heteronormative there - and that definitely doesn't suit everyone.
That's why there is now the WINTA BONDAGE JAM!
WINTA stands for "Women, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and this special jam is primarily about creating a space in which people who identify as WINTA can simply be among themselves. So basically it's quite simple: people who don't see themselves as WINTA should please stay away from the event.