Dear visitors to the Gessnerallee, dear culture enthusiasts, dear artists
We are emerging from the November maelstrom with Porny Days, the Backslash Festival, the Kitchen Battle Zurich, the JAZZNOJAZZ Festival, the DIVAS showing, the Dawuna concert and the sound installation by Dimitri de Perrot. We look back on a wild, exciting and wonderful time. And we are looking forward to the upcoming programme in December full of drag, sexiness, joy and a unique opportunity for further education.
From tomorrow on, we will be showing Alexandra Bachzetsis' work ‘Exposure’, which was created in collaboration with the Swedish dance company Cullberg. ‘Exposure’ explores strategies for depicting the naked body in art, film, fashion and digital culture. An evening of everyday gestures, excessive body worship in dance, intimate encounters and acts of exhaustion.
Next week, as part of our focus on Aesthetics of Access, we will be focussing on audio description, an accessibility tool that gives blind and visually impaired people access to artistic works. As there are many possibilities for creative use here, we are offering a workshop on December 10 and 11 with the super experts in audio description: the British collective Quiplash. We are delighted that the workshop is already fully booked, but if you would like to join the waiting list, please feel free to write to: workshops@gessnerallee.ch.
If you want to find out who Quiplash is or if you are in the mood for lots of glitter, humour and drag from the UK before the holidays, come to the ‘Unsightly Drag and Friends’ show on December 13 and 14. Under the motto ‘Joy as an act of resistance’, drag kings, queens and things from Quiplash will flood the room with all kinds of laughter, queer and crip joy and, above all, a show filled to the brim with excellent integrated audio description! With Tito Bone, Ebony Rose Dark, Venetia Blind and their Zurich friend Edwin Ramirez - sitting, seeing, sexy and known to many as an important figure in the local crip-queer community, comedian and one-half of Criptonite.The Gessnerallee's winter play, so to speak. To the tickets
You can hear more about the background to the work in the audio interview between Gessnerallee dramaturge Noa Winter and Amelia Lander-Cavallo, co-director of Quiplash, ‘Komisch, traurig, politisch - Audiodeskription und Drag’, or read the abridged interview in German in our newspaper. To the article (Audio Interview and German version)
