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…

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.

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 provoke? How much sex can art tolerate? And how do we talk about images that break with visual habits and conventions of sexuality? On Sunday afternoon, following the legendary party of the Porny Days Film Festival, we’ll take time to reflect on the festival experience. To this end, we’re inviting people with backgrounds in aesthetics, cultural studies, and cultural production to attend the Porny Days Film Festival and share their festival experiences with us.

In one room of the 25hours Hotel, a BDSM orgy is taking place. In another, actors are getting worked up over passages about physical battles and love-madness from Kleist’s drama *Penthesilea*. In the building across the street, at the spy agency, the audience…

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…

Rope Bondage for Beginners. On this day, we’ll provide an easy and playful introduction for beginners, as well as a refresher for those who have already taken a beginner’s course and want to brush up on their skills. The focus will be on the basics of Japanese-style rope bondage.

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…

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

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…

Can you feel me? Can you sense me? – The tactile and haptic sensibility of our bodies keeps us in a tangible connection with our surroundings—and with ourselves—throughout our lives and without interruption. Touch is essential, vital, and fundamental to who we are and what we are, and to how we encounter the world and other beings within it. Yet 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, fulfill a formality, or bring about a result.

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…

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…

Michaël Reinhold invites the fictional characters he has developed over many years to join him in conversation. With a keen eye, he captures social patterns of speech and behavior that mask taboos and uncomfortable feelings. Sometimes he imitates them; other times, he exaggerates them to the point of unbearability. His personas are loud, playful, unpredictable—sometimes more animal, sometimes more child. As the audience, we are free to listen to their conversations, follow their train of thought, or join in.

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…

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…

Rope bondage is for everyone!
However, that hasn’t necessarily been the case at our usual Bondage Jam so far, because things there often end up being quite conventional and heteronormative—and that certainly doesn’t suit everyone.
That’s why we’re now launching the WINTA JAM!
WINTA for “Women, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender,” and this special jam is primarily about creating a space where people WINTA as WINTA can simply be among themselves. So basically, it’s quite simple: people who do not WINTA as WINTA are asked to stay away from the event.