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...

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.

Rope Bondage is for everyone! However, this has not necessarily been the case with our usual Bondage Jam, because often things are quite conventional and heteronormative - and that does not fit for everyone.Therefore, there is now the WINTA BONDAGE JAM!WINTA stands for "Woman, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and this special Jam is primarily about creating a space where people who identify as WINTA can simply be among themselves. So basically it's very simple: people who don't see themselves as WINTA , please stay away from the event.

What do the art films at the Porny Days Film Festival trigger? How much sex can art tolerate? And how do we talk about images that break with viewing habits and conventions of sexuality? On Sunday afternoon after the legendary Porny Days Film Festival party, we will take time to reflect on the festival experience. We invite people with a background in aesthetics, cultural studies and cultural production to visit the Porny Days Film Festival and share their festival experiences with us.

A BDSM orgy takes place in one room of the 25hours Hotel. In the other, the minds of actors are heated by texts about body battles and love mania from Kleist's drama Penthesilea. In the building opposite, in the Spionagenbureau, the audience...

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 for newbies. On this day we create an easy and playful introduction for beginners and offer a refresher for people who have already attended a beginner's course and want to refresh their knowledge. The focus is on the basics of bondage with Japanese-style ropes.

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...

Dana Reina Téllez is interested in the body as a territory - as a place where (de)colonization processes take place. As a brown PoC migrant, artist and bodyworker in Europe, she creates spaces in which the following questions are to be made visible: Which colonialist-racist and culturally appropriated continuities continue to be practiced and perpetuated in the fields of bodywork and wellness? To what extent are these continuities exerted on our bodies and what might liberation through our own physicality look like?

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...

Feel me, feel me...? - The tactile and haptic sensuality of our bodies puts us in a lifelong and uninterrupted tactile connection with what surrounds us - and with ourselves. Touch is essential, vital and fundamental to who we are and what we are, how we encounter the world and other beings in it. But as central as it is to our identity and our coexistence with other people, in our everyday consciousness it usually appears more as a necessity - to achieve a goal, to fulfill a formality, to make a difference.

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.