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...

In sex-positive spaces, high expectations are placed on consent exercises - but how disappointing it is to admit that they don't deliver what they promise! In recent years, progressive feminist discourses have therefore increasingly criticized consent concepts - "Consent is a necessary floor - but a terrible ceiling" - as they often neither do justice to the complexity of intimate encounters nor serve the project of free sex... Sometimes even the opposite. But what should we do then to finally put a stop to a culture of assault? That's what we want to explore together in this workshop.

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...

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...

The day before, at CRITICAL FRIDAY: PASSIONATE FICTION - LITERARY PORNOLOGY, we were mainly inspired by what had already been written - and were perhaps able to take our first tentative steps with our own pornographic language experiments - but in this workshop we want to go one step further and take a very practical approach to the whole thing. DIY! :) In the first part, we will deal - hands on in partner work! - with haptic explorations of our speech tool, the...

Shantala Hummler and Thomas Traupmann have pornographic literature read (aloud) and invite us to examine its poetic processes more closely: How metaphorical may or how explicit must literary pornography be? What means does it use to affect us readers? How drastic or obscene are these texts? To what extent do they programmatically test the limits of what is acceptable? The history of modern pornography should also be made visible as a genuinely literary history. Together we want to reflect on the topicality and traditional lines of contemporary productions of the pornographic. In this way, we would like to explore writing styles, narrative forms and figurations, but also the political quality of pornography in literature.