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 sexpositiven Räumen werden an Consent-Übungen hohe Erwartungen gesetzt – doch wie enttäuschend ist es dann einzugestehen, dass die auch nicht halten was sie versprechen! In den letzten Jahren wird deswegen aus progressiven feministischen Diskursen zunehmend Kritik an Konsenskonzepten laut – "Consent is a necessary floor - but a terrible ceiling" – da sie häufig weder der Komplexität intimer Begegnungen gerecht werden, noch dem Projekt des freien Sex dienen... Manchmal sogar ins Gegenteil umschlagen. Aber was sollen wir denn dann tun, um einer Kultur der Übergriffigkeit endlich einen Strich durch die Rechnung zu machen? Das möchten wir in diesem Workshop gemeinsam ergründen.

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...

Fesselspiele nehmen allzuoft heteronormative Formen an – was auch fein ist, aber wir wollen probieren, wie man erfinderisch auch mal was ganz anderes erleben kann. Queering - als Verb - steht für die Lust an einem ganzen Spektrum an: hinterfragen, erfrischen, sichtbarmachen, spielen, irritieren, feiern, ausprobieren, verflüssigen, ermutigen, erweitern, erfinden, solidarisieren, vermischen, zu sich stehen, aneignen, werden, verwandeln... Bei den QUEER BONDAGE JAMS wollen wir deswegen der Kreativität ganz generell mehr Raum geben, indem wir…

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.