Performance: Where do you come from? ou as identidades que nos colam á pele

Performance: Where do you come from? ou: as identidades que nos colam á pele

Isto tambem sou: as identidades que escolhemos, as identidades que nos construiram como seres com uma vontade, as identidades que adotamos e reclamamos, e tambem as identidades que trazemos connosco quer queiramos à nao e que se colam à pele, ou mesmo as identidades que *outros* nos colam à pele, e a que estamos presos muitas vezes sem dar por isso.



Puta, bicha, galdéria, estrangeira, migrante, camiona, tuga, perversa, lisboeta, marialva, precária. Somos todxs tudo isto? claro que nao, mas para alguns sim, mesmo quando dizemos que nao é bem assim. Somos todxs definidos por adjetivos ? Claro que nao, e para muitos isso nao interessa. Ou: claro que nao, e para muitos isso interessa e muito. E como é que isso interessa?

em breve teremos o texto em inglês.

Lisboa, 7.7. Liberdade provisória (no ambito da exposicao "isto também sou eu"), por volta das 19.00
Berlin 21.7 Trash de Luxe (t.b.c.)
Leipzig 24.8 Reality Show (muito t.b.c.)


Autoria: Ann Antidote, Lun Ário e Carlos Vargas.
Perfomers: Ann Antidote e Lun Ário, (em Lisboa com Carlos Vargas as special guest!)

jealousy management (again) in Berlin

there we go again, this time at the Other Nature shop! 


Wann: Dienstag, April 17, 18-20 Uhr
Wo: Other Nature, Mehringdamm 79
Sprache: Deutsch (with the possibility of English translation)
Kosten: 5€ suggested donation (or pay what you can)

On Green-Eyed Monsters, Compersive Teddies, and Humans In-between: A workshop on jealousy in polyamourous constellations with Ann Antidote

queer, bondage, art

Flier for services on bondage: performances, workshops, coaching, modelling, consulting for artists

Queer: as in queer definition of safe place, no discriminatory or aggressive behaviour tolerated, inclusive, diverse, interventive.

Art: as in anything created by human* hands, whatever is declared as art.

Bondage: the action of consensually tying up objects or human beings with an aesthetic or erotic intention.

The Sexual Life of the Savages: An informal group of queer DIY artists, bondage enthusiasts, and active utopists

The Sexual Life of the Savages
StudiesForThunder [arroba] riseup [pinto] net
http://lube-nomads.blogspot.com

performance: Offrande Blanche

"Offrande Blanche" // beta version
A ritual and subversive exploration beyond gender.
Transdisciplinar performance by Lun, Ann Antidote and Jn1 (video/dance/bondage)

Public rehearsal @ Theatre Majak LABOR, Open Stage
(RAW tempel) , revalerstr.99, Berlin

Friday, February 24, 2012, 21h

Jealousy management (light) at Schmacht Conference

there we go again, this time at the Schmacht Easter Conference! 


When: Saturday, April 7, 16 Uhr
Where: WS in context of the Women+Trans Schmacht Easter Conference
Sprache: English (with the possibility of German translation)


On Green-Eyed Monsters, Compersive Teddies, and Humans In-between: A workshop on jealousy in polyamourous constellations with Ann Antidote

Workshop: prepare your own bondage rope

We are cunningly considering throwing a "How to prepare your own bondage rope" workshop. During the last months of our teaching, we have been striving to keep the access to our workshops payable for folks with all kinds of economic backgrounds (using the self evaluation principle), and we noticed that the price of good quality bondage rope might be an issue for some people. Aditionally, we have seen that, independent of economic considerations, some people rather prepare their own bondage rope, either out of wanting to build a special relationship to the rope, allergy considerations, wanting to tune up the behaviour of rope to its final details, or even because even paying a lot of money, some, not all, retailers don't offer a quality consistent with the price they charge, or any other reason not covered here. As some of you know, we use self prepared rope, and we feel, after many successes and fumbles, that we came to the point where we can show what we have learnt, and because we have to prepare some sets of ropes in the next couple of weeks anyway, we would throw a workshop on this. Interested? Curious? Throw us a line (studiesforthunder [at] gmail [dot] com), as we are still carefully researching how many people would be interested and the resourses and planning involved. Workshop would be in English/German, in a place in central Berlin to be disclosed further on.

performance: Gay Love Story goes Tacheles

I am sorry to break the surprise, but for those of you following faithfully the performance Gay Love Story, *that* is the surprise performance announced for the next Queer Riot Club, at Tacheles, 14.1!



"A macho gay guy is sitting in a bar, waiting for his next victim...His lucky number seems to be this cute shy guy coming in... But things might not be what they seem."

In this 8' performance, in which a determinist interpretation is purposedly left impossible, themes are suggested like the role and space transgender people have (or not) in mainstream gay communities, date rape, gender clichées within the queer community, consent, danger associated with sex work, discrimination(s), guilt, fear, lust and ultimately, love.

The two performers, Lun Ário, Kay Garnellen and filmmakers Ann Antidote are queer sex-positive DIY performer artists based in Berlin.

Film: remember Gay Love Story

The documentary "Remember Gay Love Story" (Ann Antidote) is reaching the end phase of its post production, after a very much needed "cool down day" of only about 3 weeks for feedback collection, sleeping and lucidity recovery.

In this short film (aprox 7') we document the very first rehearsal and very first staging of the performance "Gay Love Story", by Lun Ário and Kay Garnellen, for the "Hurenball" (lit. Ball of the Whores), the party celebrating 30 years of Hydra e.V., an association for the defense of the rights and interests of sex workers in Berlin.

"A macho gay guy is sitting in a bar, waiting for his next victim...His lucky number seems to be this cute shy guy coming in... But things might not be what they seem."

In this 8' performance, in which a determinist interpretation is purposedly left impossible, themes are suggested like the role and space transgender people have (or not) in mainstream gay communities, date rape, gender clichées within the queer community, consent, danger associated with sex work, discrimination(s), guilt, fear, lust and ultimately, love.

The two performers, Lun Ário, Kay Garnellen and filmmakers Ann Antidote are queer sex-positive DIY performer artists based in Berlin, and Ann followed from quite near all preparations and settings for this performance and ultimately decided to document them. 

For more information on the film and events related to it, please contact studiesforthunder [at] gmail [dot] com

On facebook:
Remember Gay Love Story (on Facebook)


Screenings:

12.05.2012 Kinky Night of the Shorts, Berlin 
20.6.2012 Exibition "I am this also", Lisbon
3.07.2012 Wotever Pride Film Festival, London
28.09.2012 5. Fetisch Film Festival, Kiel
15.10.2012 Reality Show Festival, Leipzig




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Antidote in her music making aspect

Antidote is an autodidact artist, entertaining herself and others with music, filmmaking and the occasional performance art.

Over the years, her curiosity and obcession with music brought her to mix several styles in her music makingand seek eccletism as a target in itself, in an humble attempt to create sonic landscapes.

Gay Love Story (Queer Burlesque Performance) at AHA

(under construction) Berlin, 17.9.2011

http://www.aha-berlin.de/termine/?datum=2011-09-17

wieder Trash-Deluxe. Das
neue Motto "Fame Monster" entführt euch in eine Welt voller Spaß,
Phantasie und Erotik. Ladet eure Freunde und Familie ein. Wie immer ist
ab 19 Uhr das Café geöffnet und um 20 Uhr beginnt die Show. Eintritt ist
wie immer Frei.

Workshop, regular: Bondage 101

We offer in Berlin a monthly Bondage 101 hands-on workshop. First official date, 7.9.2011 Currently: 1st Thursday in the month. We are considering offering a second event in the month, like a moderated improvisation session aka "pratica" Safety, fun, first steps, first meters of rope. Being a monthly event, the scope will move to more advanced topics, but we insist in having as part of the concept that it should remain a beginner-friendly event. there is vegan soup to receive all participants, and a small donation, according to one´s self-evaluated finantial situation is encouraged. invitational, place not publicly disclosed, write us (info right hand side at this blog) if you want to know more.

Cena do Ócio productions

We went show business, that everybody knows, assuming that DIY products which barely raise donations could remotely be considered "business". So, not satisfied about doing performance and documentaries on appalling topics, we decided to try our rusty fingers at doing some music. So, Cena do Ócio will be an umbrella for our films, CDs and performances. it will have its own homepage soon, but until then you can find us here, and make us very happy. We (me and Lun Ario) are currently working feverlishly to finish a single (called "Our lives are shapped by what we love") containing at least a song as hommage to the communities and movements which shaped our lives (it is actually called "communities"). It is irony and smart-aleckdness free, just thankfulness and bliss. Hopefully to be aired at open stage at the Queertopiafestivalen Norberg where we will show "Vacations in Slut Meadow". To contact us: antidote [at] imensis [dot] net .

JeLuLo: A performance

Saturday, the 23.7, at KlangSynthese. An integrated performance involving video art by Jny.one and this blog´s local contributors, Lokki and Lun Ario in bondage improvisation and looking pretty and fluffy. Film will eventually be available in the usual channels near you... Bake your lovelie cakes, wear your crazy costumes, take your music instruments, your artworks ... If you have any funny idea to make this night crazy, do not hesitate ♥ (contact with email please) ------------------------ From 20H : participative buffet dinner (bring smthg to eat and drink) Jam session : take your instruments ! Playlist : the best of our generation musics from the 80's, pop, rock and dance (take your stick with your selection !) Visuals performances, queer surprises, costumization stand, make-up ------------------------ Through the night X tractor crew : hip-hop, drumstep electro fidjet & breakcore dj sets Kirdec : electro-punk dj set Shaman Urbain : tekno dj set Sim On Kor Funkle : happy hardcore / breakcore Bazti : analogic liveset Tato : breakcore bass-guitar perf and more friends !!!

"dein mein error", now we went show-bizz

Lun Ario (aka +nuvens+) and Kaj Garnelen take part in the theater play "Dein Mein Error". Prémiere: Ludwigsburg, ADK, Friday 4.3.2011 20h. Here the trailer:

Dein Mein Error. from Franck and me on Vimeo.

Queer Bondage Performance @ Hurenball

A associação Hydra, fundada em 1980 por algumas mulheres corajosas, completa 30 anos. Para quem não sabe, a Associação Hydra bate-se pelos direitos e interesses dxs trabalhadorxs sexuais e é baseada em Berlim. Quem quiser saber mais em português, clique aqui E sim, completa 30 anos. Razão mais que suficiente para festejar, com o Hurenball, o "Baile das Putas". Festejemos então todos os que achamos que devemos festejar também. Sábado, 29 deJaneiro de 2011, 21h, KitKatClub, em Berlim

Alguém que contribui para o Sexual Life of the Savages ("nuvens") contribui com uma humilde e nervosa participação numa performance envolvendo bondage e de conteúdo fortemente político. As fotos e a resenha da performance virao em breve (nao antes, que é para nao estragar a surpresa)!!!

Queer Bondage Performance at Warehouse Party

Queer Bondage Performance at Warehouse #03: The 120 Happy Days of Sodom with "nuvens", who by the way, is too shy to appear in photos and therefore is not the sexy pony in the photo... Credits: Photos Amaury Grisel

Bondage Workshop (as replacement for Dasniya)

...lokki and Lun Ario ("nuvens") stepped in as replacement during Dasniya´s absence (Parsifal mise-en-céne) for the weekly bondage workshop. September 2010, January and February 2011. Thanks for the trust! credits: foto by Amaury Grisel .

(Queer) Polystammtisch Berlin

Queer Poly Meetup in Berlin

(English below) QueerPolyBerlin: Encontro regular poly para mulheres e trans* em Berlin (De 4.10.10) Pessoas poly tem necessidade de se encontrar com outros que assim vivam ou se interessem pela ideia. A unicidades dos seus problemas, e a incapacidade de muitas vezes serem compreendidos pelos não-poly sao os grandes motores destes encontros. Em Berlim, começou a aparecer, em 2007, a necessidade não só de um grupo poly, mas de um grupo dirigido principalmente para mulheres e trans*, no geral de filosofia queer. Sendo assim, a Lisa e depois Rowin, fundaram e moderaram o polystammtisch-berlin@gmx.de, um encontro de poliamoristas mensal regular, e aberto, para mulheres e trans* queer. Desde ontem antidote modera a lista electrónica que o suporta.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (English) QueerPolyBerlin: Regular poly meet-up for women and trans* in Berlin (From 4.10.10) poly folks need to meet kindred spirits, in order to exchange ideas and find solutions in a more efficient way to usually very specific problems. Their unique problems, and the dificulty in being taken serious by the mainstream society is a a powerful motor to such meet-ups. In Berlin, Rown and Lisa have been moderating polystammtisch-berlin@gmx.de. , a regular poly meet-up for women and trans* since about 2007. Since yesterday antidote is taking care of the electronic list supporting it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (deutsch) Polystammtisch für Queer Frauen/Transgender (Berlin) Polyamouröser Frauen/Transgender-Stammtisch (Berlin) , Austausch über das Stricken an polyamourösen Beziehungsnetzen, so manche Laufmasche und die wunderschönen Muster, die sich ergeben können. Jeden 2. Mittwoch im Monat um 20:00,Silverfuture, Weserstr. 206 (das ist zwischen Pannierstr. und Nansenstr.), 12047 Berlin-Neukölln. Info und Kontakt: polystammtisch-berlin@gmx.de.

Queer and Kids, Berlin, meet-up for alternative parent* networks

(english and german below) Começa a haver um interesse cada vez maior, dentro ou fora de constelações poly, na criação de modelos alternativos familiares e de relação com "a gente pequena" ou crianças. Trata-se do desejo concreto, a longo prazo, de assumir parentalidades de crianças, em que haja mais do que um ou dois adultos envolvidos, e em que os papeis educadores sejam conscientemente assumidos e definidos e não sejam influenciados pelo género social ou pelo modo de vida. Para se começar a discutir possibilidades, para se criar uma rede de apoio, e para apoiar situações já existentes ou emergentes, criou-se recentemente em Berlim o grupo "queer com miúdos" (Queer mit Kind, em alemão) , de cuja organização eu faço parte. Extracto do manifesto: "Somos o grupo "queers com miúdos" (Aka parentalidades*), e somos um grupo de adultos, de background queer e de esquerda, que procuram criar um encontro para discussão e eventual intervenção na sociedade, acerca de modelos de educação alternativos, sua aplicação na sociedade, sua aceitação, bem como investigação das possibilidades de relações com os outros adultos envolvidos na educação de uma criança. Procuramos para isso outros queers radicais que desejem assumir parentalidade(s) numa perspectiva *concreta* e de longo prazo.." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (English) Interest is starting to grow aournd the topic alternative families, either among poly people or not. We mean here a sincere, long-term and responsible wish to rear children (aka "small people") in constelations with more than one or two adults, and where the role played by each educator is consciously self-chosen instead of stuff like social gender or lifestyle of the adults involved. In order to discuss what possibilities exist, to creat a self-support network, and to support and learn from already existing situations, the group "Queer with Kids" (Queer mit Kind, in german) was recently created in Berlin. A small extract from its manifest: "We are the Queer with Kids group (aka parents*) , and we are a group of queer and left-wing adults, who seek to create a meet-up for discussion, support and intervention on alternative education models, its application in society, its acceptance, as well as investigating what possibilities exist of relating to other adults involved in such education of children. Therefore we seek other queers who nurture the wish to assume a parent* role in a long term, concrete and responsible perspective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (german) Die Queere Elternschaften* Gruppe (Queer mit Kind) richtet sich an Menschen mit einem linken hersschaftskritischen und queeren Hintergrund, welche elternschaftliche Beziehungen zu jungen Menschen leben möchten

Bondage 101, showing you safely the ropes. Berlin.

Bondage 101, showing you the ropes in a safe way 8.2.2010, Berlin, Be_Cunt party

This is meant as a very basic introduction to bondage for absolute beginers. A very significant part of it will be dedicated to considerations on material, your motivation for doing bondage, safety, negotiation, responsability. You will be encouraged to think and find out what suits you best, regarding the above mentioned topics. Only after you are scared to death after this frist phase, and correspondingly aware that some care must be taken when dealing with rope, we will look together, slowly and carefully, on the first approaches to *fun* with rope and what possibilities it offers. The techniques shown during the workshop will depend on the size of the group and its dynamic. References to more advanced bondage workhops, networking and bibliography, etc, will be provided.