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"I do ask myself: why am I turning people in?"
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"I do ask myself: why am I turning people in?"

Jade carefully picks up a pink silicone cake mold, which is modeled on a cerebral hemisphere. Jade carefully scrapes out a thin white layer and collects it in a small bottle. Then we turn on the microphone and ask what Jade is doing and why :) With this audio series, we'd like to introduce you to people who can take a leaf out of our book when it comes to the question: What do you actually do in a Playspace? Because they come with many challenges. How do I get in touch with people? What should I pack for this? Should I plan something or spontaneously see what works? We were lucky enough with Jade...

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How can you actually play in so-called sex-positive spaces and is it actually about sex or not actually about something else, but what do you call it?
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How can you actually play in so-called sex-positive spaces and is it actually about sex or not actually about something else, but what do you call it?

While walking with a friend, we talk about my perception and experience of the so-called sex-positive spaces - out of her open curiosity, as she has not yet experienced these spaces first-hand. I start by describing a bit of the 'infrastructure': how it all started for me in the first place, how I first stumbled into a workshop by chance at a dance school where ropes and floggers were also used, how I then met Schwelle7 and Matís, whom I told about writing my master's thesis on Shibari and who then recruited me as an assistant for a bondage course in no time at all. Finally, the more difficult part, trying to describe what interests me about the rooms in the first place. I mention the classics that many people in the "scene" report about. How liberating it is to let people...

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Intimate Interviews Part II
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Intimate Interviews Part II

Last year, we had the pleasure of conducting interviews with lovely and talented people about everything that concerns us in our work. To do this, we first pampered our interviewees with a bodywork session of their choice so that we could get into conversation with each other in a well-blooded way. We had prepared many questions and they came up again and again, while others arose spontaneously. So the conversations usually started with a free association on the topic of "sex" - just say the first thing that comes to mind without thinking. And towards the end, it was usually about which workshops on creative intimacy they would specifically like to see. What emerged between us and was put into words are pieces of gold for me! Here is the second transcribed interview!

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Video interview by the Goethe-Institut China with Beata on "Pornography & Society"
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Video interview by the Goethe-Institut China with Beata on "Pornography & Society"

What materials can be used to trace the elusive nature of sexuality? How are our bodies and their desires entangled in power relations - how to deal with them? Alone or with others? Publicly or privately? By emphasizing the beautiful or the difficult sides? With play or seriousness? Being sweet or being angry? Do you even have to decide - and why is it always so much about deciding "This is good and this is bad!" when it comes to sexual matters? Silvan Hagenbrock, online editor of the Goethe-Institut China, spoke to Beata about her work and vision for the issue of the online magazine "yì" focusing on "Pornography and Society".
Watch the video here.

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Intimate Interviews Part I - The connection between art and desire and a workshop request concert
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Intimate Interviews Part I - The connection between art and desire and a workshop request concert

Last year, we had the pleasure of conducting interviews with lovely and talented people about everything that concerns us in our work. To do this, we first pampered our interviewees with a bodywork session of their choice so that we could get into conversation with each other in a well-blooded way. We had prepared many questions and they came up again and again, while others arose spontaneously. So the conversations usually started with a free association on the topic of "sex" - just say the first thing that comes to mind without thinking. And towards the end, it was usually about which workshops on creative intimacy they would specifically like to see. What emerged between us and was put into words are pieces of gold for me! Here is the first transcribed interview!

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