RopuNawa is coming to Zurich! – Over the past few years, this bondage artist from Basel has not only become one of the best-known riggers on the Swiss scene, but has also become a welcome guest at various bondage festivals and venues across Europe and beyond, thanks to his performances and workshops. Starting in mid-October, he will return to Zurich every two weeks to lead an intensive workshop over five evenings, helping local bondage enthusiasts who have already mastered the basics and are serious about advancing their skills to reach an advanced level…

serrat(u)s bodywork is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who feels like tying up with others, exchanging ideas, or simply watching and gaining some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Shibari shares many similarities with dance, yoga, and meditation, and possesses 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 live up to their promises either! In recent years, progressive feminist discourses have increasingly voiced criticism of consent concepts—“Consent is a necessary floor—but a terrible ceiling”—since they often fail to do justice to the complexity of intimate encounters or serve the cause of free sex… Sometimes they even backfire. But what, then, should we do to finally put an end to a culture of sexual assault? That is what we would like to explore together in this workshop.

sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie up others, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Shibari shares much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and touching aesthetic…

RopuNawa is coming to Zurich! – Over the past few years, this bondage artist from Basel has not only become one of the best-known riggers on the Swiss scene, but has also become a welcome guest at various bondage festivals and venues across Europe and beyond, thanks to his performances and workshops. Starting in mid-October, he will return to Zurich every two weeks to lead an intensive workshop over five evenings, helping local bondage enthusiasts who have already mastered the basics and are serious about advancing their skills to reach an advanced level…

Bondage games all too often take on heteronormative forms—which is fine, but we want to explore how we can get creative and experience something completely different for a change. Queering—as a verb—represents the joy of a whole spectrum of: questioning, refreshing, making visible, playing, unsettling, celebrating, experimenting, fluidifying, encouraging, expanding, inventing, showing solidarity, mixing, standing by oneself, appropriating, becoming, transforming... At the QUEER BONDAGE JAMS, we therefore want to give creativity more space in general by…

After drawing inspiration primarily from existing texts at the previous day’s CRITICAL FRIDAY: PASSIONATE FICTION – LITERARY PORNOLOGY—and perhaps taking tentative first steps with our own pornographic linguistic experiments—we want to take things up a notch in this workshop and approach the whole thing from a very practical angle. DIY! :) In the first part, we’ll engage—hands-on in partner work!—in tactile explorations of our vocal apparatus, the…

Shantala Hummler and Thomas Traupmann have pornographic literature read aloud and invite us to examine its poetic techniques more closely: How metaphorical can literary pornography be, or how explicit must it be? What devices does it employ to affect us as readers? How graphic 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 relevance and the traditions of contemporary portrayals of the pornographic. In this way, we aim to explore styles of writing, narrative forms, and figurations, as well as the political dimension of the pornographic in literature.