Sibylle Peters
Queens. The Heteraclub
The Queens is a club exclusively for women who desire men. At the narrow borderline between art, sex work and care they experience touch and intimacy in 1:1 encounters with male performers – always on their own terms and keeping a curious eye on their own boundaries. 2020 in St. Pauli, now, a pandemic later, in Mülheim an der Ruhr!
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Language: German and English
Attention: For women only!
With translation into German sign language on 15.06. and 17.06. (time by appointment). Please register until 05.06. at barrierefreiheit@impulsefestival.de.
18.06., 11:00: Brunch with the Boys (Open House for everyone – including men!)
Registration at: anmeldung@impulsefestival.de
Once they come through the door, every visitor becomes a “queen”. Male wishes are not important here: what matters are the wishes of women, their desire and their pleasure. They can choose which one of the five heteraperformers they would like to spend half an hour with. Here one doesn’t have to say no to anything, not saying yes is enough. Nothing will happen unless the woman initiates it herself. And the heteraclub’s number 1 rule applies at all times: everyone has the right to be sexy.
The QUEENS opened its doors for the first time in February 2020. The HETERACLUB had big plans. But then it happened: and the club went from a hundred embraces a day to zero. Now, in 2022, touching and intimacy are possible again. The QUEENS will move from Hamburg to the Ruhr and out of a nightclub into a penthouse. Instead of sitting at a bar, the queens sit together on a sofa, and talk about orgasms, fantasies and broken hearts.
A club for all women who want to express desire again. Who are ready for an intimate encounter of an entirely different, entirely new kind. Who are curious and shy and just want to see first what is possible. And in between there is cream cake served by a friendly heteraperformer in a tutu.
Credits ›
Female Pimps: Charlotte Pfeifer, Eidglas Xavier, Sibylle Peters
One-on-one performers: Ansuman Biswas, Findus, Michael von Schönberg, Valerian Süß, Viktor Teimann
Assistant: Conny May
Stage design: Matthias Anton
Photos: Margaux Weiß
Graphics: David Caines
Styling: Katharina Duve
Production: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Production ›
A co-production with Kampnagel, Hamburg. Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and by a grant from the Elbkulturfonds of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg und Hansestadt Hamburg. With support from the Fuck Yeah sex shop collective, Hamburg, and the Live Art Development Agency, London.
Biography ›
Sibylle Peters is an artist and researcher. She studied Literature and Cultural Studies in addition to Philosophy and has taught at universities in Hamburg, Berlin, Basel, Wales and Gießen. Peters creates performance lectures and live art projects that focus on participation and collective research, often in collaboration with geheimagentur. She also co-founded and serves as Director of the transgenerational performance laboratory Fundus Theater / Theatre of Research in Hamburg, in which children, artists and researchers meet as explorers. She is also the co-founder and Director of the doctoral research programme Performing Citizenship in Hamburg and has been a Visiting Professor for Transdisciplinary Devising at the Folkwang University of the Arts.