Lust – Disgust – Power

Qui & Tobibi & Cockraches

Imagine a situation: What exactly is it about the cockroach that disgusts you? Formulate a scenario between you and a cockroach that you imagine would disgust or frighten you (for example: the cockroach is inside my ear). Then try to bring this situation into being. Try to inhabit it and experience it. Does it transform in the way you expected? How does your body transform? How does your body react? What happens when you inhabit a feeling that is, a priori, undesirable? Is it actually as undesirable as you imagined?

Then repeat the same process with pleasure and with fear.

In this sharing, you choose your role: participant or voyeur. Together, we explore questions, actions, and practices around lust, disgust, and power between human bodies and cockroach bodies.

  • Bühne 2
    Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 129
    8037 Zürich

  • Wheelchair accessible

By and with Quillen Mut, Tobibi Ferrari-Bienz, Cockraches

Qui & Tobibi & Cockraches

Qui & Tobibi & Cockroaches met in 2024. Together, they explore the relational networks that emerge in encounters between human bodies and cockroach bodies — in Argentina, Switzerland, and beyond.

Tobibi has been living and working with cockroaches since 2019. For them, the cockroach stands as a symbol of the marginalized and the oppressed — of dissidents and queers. From Hong Kong to the United States to Argentina, “cucarachas” is used as an insult against everything that does not conform to right-wing narratives.

Qui is a dancer and choreographer whose research focuses on the relationship between movement and so-called “negative” or “low” feelings — those unwanted emotions such as shame, disgust, loneliness, and others.