Playfight is a form of peaceful grappling, related to Contact Improvisation but extended by the aggressive / discomfortable / challenging sides of interaction. Here we practice direct and authentic physical contact without words and without judgment.
A lot of people remember playfights with friends or parents from their childhood and this primal activity can easily be understood as the original form of any movement practice or sports. It combines the quality of play and fight in a way in which we can safely test our limits and explore our physical skills in a friendly social surrounding.
21. JULI 2024
11am -2pm
Price: 15-30€ (pay as you can)
Location in 1060 Vienna
max. number of participants: 25
This Workshop takes place in the frame of Eurogames.
Please Register via their Website.
Listening to Wishes
22. October
Theater of Intention
Playfight Experience
at Centre for Art and Culture
Semmelweisklinik
registration: embodiment_vienna@gmx.at
14.th March
@ skin festival @dschungel vienna
11.th March
IN A PERFECT WORLD YOU WOULD BE MY ALPHABET.BALANCE
Performance @ WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse
5.th March
Objectification_a social Sculpture _Workshop/Artistic Gathering
@Queerartspacesvienna @WUK Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse
18.th January – 18.th March
IN A PERFECT WORLD YOU WOULD BE MY ALPHABET
performative Installation
@Queerartspacesvienna @WUK Vienna
2022
25. November, 18h
In a Perfect World You would be my Alphabet
Performative Installation
by Frederik Marroquin and Dorian Bonelli
@ Bildraum Studio , Kulturhaus Brotfabrik,
Absberggasse 27, Stiege 9
3.,4, Dezember
Objectification – A social sculpture
Workshop / Collective Creativity
26.-28.August
Playfight and Objectification – A Social Sculpture
28. Mai
Playfight @ Gayt Gallery
Coming soon:
Playfight for Love Guys, Australia – verschoben
Transformatives Schreiben: Invitations
Questions and Registration via
Workshops 2021
28. November _ 3rd Playfight Evening at Maschinenraum
28.August _ Intentional Touch, a slow version of Playfight – at Maschinenraum Tattoo Studio, Vienna
April _ Present/Absent, Das gegenwärtig Abwesende – at Stretch Festival, online
April,May,June _ Drawing Borders I,II,III – Consent for TattooArtists
2020
July _ Bow to Yourself at Stretch Festival
May,June
March,April
Corona Connect – An Online Programm by Queer Body Workers Vienna
Questions and Registration via
photo by Jean-Baptiste Huong
Most Workshops are held in English.
Events 2019
12. May : Queerfight at FÊTE du Slip, Lausanne
24. May : Talk “CONSENT: clarity – borders – connection”
talk and panel discussion by and with Sara Ablinger
21.-23. June – CONNECTION, Consens and Communication“
Workshop facilitated by Sara Ablinger and Dorian Bonelli
16. Nov. : Queerfight-Playfight / male edition
23.-24. Nov. : CONNECTION, Workshop
later 2019
Mask and Minimalism _ PowerPlay/Constellation Work/Installation Art
Transformative Writing _ Object/obstacle
Events 2018
16. Dezember : Hybrid Movement . BodyParkour with Ákos Hargitai, Bodylibrium® Movement with Roman Freistetter, Playfight_QueerFight with Dorian Bonelli
22. September : Playfight _Queerfight . mit Lian Brugger @ Transpride Köln
12. Mai : Transformatives Schreiben : Growing @ Seestadt Aspang
Past Events
2017
“Playfight” / 2nd Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference, Vienna
2016
“Transformative Writing” / Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
“Playfight” / Trans*Inter-Conference Munich
“Transformative Writing” / Kunstkanal, Vienna
2015
“Transformative Writing” / Schwelle7, Vienna
“Playfight” / Trans-Conference Potsdam
2014
“The Fifth Element” / Organisation und Support
“Territory:Maleness” / Schwelle7, Berlin
2013
“Love me Gender” / “Xplore – Festival for Art and Desire”
“Maleness” / Schwelle7, Vienna