EVENTS – ARCHIVE
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie others up, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of rope 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 deeply moving aesthetic…
NOT GIVING A FUCK – ON LUSTLESS SEX & SEXLESS LUST – Reading and Discussion with Beata
The LITERATURENSOHN bookstore doesn’t just have a brilliant name. Its owner, Coco, is fulfilling her dream of selling only books she has read herself and values so highly that she can recommend them wholeheartedly. So when you walk into the store, it’s like stepping into a carefully curated Pinterest board of exquisite queer-feminist literature. It’s a great honor that NOT GIVING A F*CK is not only sold here, but is also being invited for a reading featuring an intimate, cozy conversation and refreshments.
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie others up, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of rope 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 deeply moving aesthetic…
FLINTA* ORGY
Intimacy with many—a luxurious abundance of bodies, glances, and touches—ecstatic loss of self—an orgy… Anyone who has ever ventured into such a situation knows how multifaceted and unpredictable such an experience can be. If it’s not always easy even with just two people, how can it possibly work with more? What desires and needs, hopes and expectations do I bring with me, and how do I deal with them? And what about those of the others—and all those bodies?
NOT GIVING A FUCK – ON LUSTLESS SEX & SEXLESS LUST – Book Presentation & Reading
Beate Absalon, a cultural studies scholar from Berlin, has been hosting workshops in Zurich for several years under the label LUHMEN D'ARC. She published her first book in May and is now taking the opportunity to combine practice and theory: following a weekend-long workshop titled (AN)OTHER ORGY, she will present her debut work at GLEIS with a reading and a discussion with the audience.
(AN)OTHER ORGY
"A festival of unbridled debauchery," says the Duden, "a nocturnal celebration of Bacchus; a sacred ritual; a mystical religious service; a secret cult gathering at night,” says the etymological dictionary; “debauchery, revelry, licentiousness; (formal) excess, intemperance,” says the thesaurus; “collective acts that deliberately violate social norms,” says the Wikipedia entry. An orgy! So steeped in legend, and yet so simply beautiful—or even quite crude. In any case, vast numbers of nebulous notions swirl through our cultural unconscious about what an orgy might be. It’s no wonder it’s on so many people’s bucket lists. Wait no longer! Our three-day…