As a cultural scientist, Beata researches "other states", such as childbirth, mourning, hysteria, sleep, radical happiness & collective (kill-)joy or sadomasochistic practices. After initially investigating how ropes can induce active passivity - through bondage, but also in puppetry or political activism - she is currently doing her doctorate on inventive forms of sexual education. Her theoretical interest stems from practice, as she likes to put herself and others into ecstatic states - preferably undogmatically: flogging with a leather whip or a bunch of dewy mint, holding with rope or a hug, playing with aggressive cuddling or loving humiliation, letting words or spit flow. Doing things that are out of the norm and out of the ordinary can be frightening and incredibly pleasurable at the same time. Beata designs workshops and sessions as experiential spaces for border crossings, where boundaries are crossed and found, vague and daring fantasies are explored together and a personal style is allowed to emerge.
