SIMONE AUGHTERLONY Hand Job (Eröffnung LIMINALITIES Festival)

HAND JOB uses rotating apparatus, blue porcelain, text and bodies in a fragile interplay of gripping, turning, slipping and repeating. Choreographer and performance artist Simone Aughterlony is interested in the moment when something no longer "works" - and turns the loss of control into a method. Two rotating platforms show material that is transformed by physical touch and the work of hands: here things of use or utility are created, there everything eludes a recognizable form; through too much touch, everything remains in transition. A voice-over accompanies the loss of control. Hands tremble, lines become cracks, holes can no longer be closed: erosion becomes erotic. Loosening its grip and embracing the unknown, HAND JOB opens the LIMINALITIES Festival.

THE LIMINALITIES FESTIVAL

LIMINALITIES was founded in 2025 as an international and interdisciplinary art festival and platform for trans* visibility - and is now celebrating its first birthday!

It therefore declares the protection of queer rights and trans* visibility to be a democratic task for society as a whole and welcomes you ALL to a hand-picked program of international works from performance, theater and visual arts, on trans* life in the past, present and (potential) future. Invited artists include Simone Aughterlony (Zurich), Ocean Stefan (Margate), Emma Frankland (Birmingham) and Cassils (NYC). This year, Liminalities will once again be joining forces with the all trans* music festival TRANSTRONICA, curated by Saeleen Bouvar, for some extatic club nights. As a follow-up - under the heading LIMINALITIES ALLIES - Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle themselves will present their new film PLAYING WITH FIRE - AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY.