But I'm a Creep. A lab report.

This text is meant to be a warm companion for you before or after attending our workshop: ON CREEPY OLD MXN & BEYOND – & playSPACE, Saturday, December 18, 2021, at serrat(u)s bodywork in Zurich. – – – "How about I follow you around all day tomorrow?" - "But then I would know that... Maybe you could hire someone I don’t know to follow me around in secret like a stalker?” – “Oh, that’s a good idea!” – Two people plot how to get to that feeling that sends cold shivers down your spine. Because something feels off, even if nothing clearly dangerous is happening. They are surrounded by a whole group of people who are compiling some sort of curiosity cabinet of such weird ideas. One person is thinking of designing jewelry out of clipped toenails, while another wants to take up a creepy passion for a private collection: to secretly cut off a lock of hair from each of her lovers and catalog them. One woman kneads pizza dough to put on her face as a grotesque mask, because she was deemed too young and pretty to trigger this specific…