Gathering Concept & Light Design
André Uerba

1st EVENT, 22 August 2019
PERFORMANCES by: La Dernière Mode, Lina Gómez

2nd EVENT, 14 February 2020
PERFORMANCES by: Lyllie Rouvière, Deva Schubert & Juan Felipe Amaya, Camilla Barratt-Due

3rd EVENT, 3 July 2021

4th EVENT, 12 May 2022
PERFORMANCES by: Luísa Saraiva, Lyllie Rouvière, Nitsan Margaliot

5th EVENT, 18 June 2023
PERFORMANCES by: Nattan Dobkin, Deva Schubert

Pool of Emotions

On the 3rd of August 2019 (according a picture with the hanging pool), I went to an hardware store in Berlin to buy screws. On the 2nd floor, there was an inflatable swimming pool hanging. I looked at it and went to the screw section. Then, when I was arriving to the ground floor to pay, I turned around and went up again to look at the hanging pool. I stoped some meters away and I took the picture. Then I thought: the pool would be an "excuse" to undress - to be more vulnerable, to be together!

𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗟 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 is a gathering that stems from the need of entangling a performance event with an intimate and cozy space in which the focus won't remain solely on performing but on the potential of an encounter: the spontaneity of touch, cuddles and care.

We have been collectively & also culturally deprived of the plain innocence of being naked together. Once we can see and honour each other in our raw and vulnerable nakedness, then we can create bonds in a wholly different level.

The gathering happens in the living room of my apartment situated in Kreuzberg (Berlin). After emptying out the living room, a 3 by 2 meters inflatable swimming pool is installed.