| Place | Wellness Spa Fortyseven |
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| Duration | April 21 - May18, 2022, Mon - Sun 8am – 10pm, on holidays until 8.30pm |
| Language | German, partly in English; with Swiss German sign translation |
In this follow-up project to die grosse um_ordnung, Sabian Baumann, in collaboration with Corinn Gerber, questions body norms and judgmental attributions in the context of bathing. Together with other (cultural) activists, they developed bathing rules for inclusive bathing, a workshop and a series of talks. Nowhere are bodies in public space, metaphorically and actually speaking, as naked as in the swimming pool or the sauna. The project takes this fact to be an opportunity to reflect on body norms, identity concepts and evaluative attributions, and to initiate changes.
In order to make the bathing practices of the recently opened wellness spa Fortyseven, designed by Mario Botta, more inclusive, the staff will be prescribed a workshop on a non-discriminatory welcoming culture. The workshop will be conducted by Rahel El-Maawi and Melanie Dellenbach in April 2022, and is intended to provide impetus for lasting change.
For the duration of three online dialogues, the format of the sweating baths will be adopted and rearranged. The conversations will trouble the understanding of "normality" that differentially values and devalues bodies and their behavior from the standpoint of body normativity. This understanding potentially stresses bodies, divides society, makes healthy bodies sick, non-healthy bodies invisible, is anti-disability, weight discriminatory, thereby causing costs and wasting resources.
sweating baths – rearranged challenges stereotypical notions of gender and common concepts of illness and healing by bringing into conversation the prevailing, normative understanding of the body, which also in Baden is shaped by persisting colonial structures. Queer, Indigenous, and Two-Spirit identities are negotiated. Racism and fatphobia in our society are critically discussed from the perspective of Black people and People of Color. The conversations are an attempt to develop visions applicable today. They can be heard and seen in sign language from April 21 to May 18, 2022, in the relaxation rooms of the Fortyseven Wellness Spa.
sweating bath - rearranged #1
April 3, 2022, 2pm EST / 20h CET
Marie Laing (Kanyen'kehá:ka/Irish-South African) and Thirza Cuthand (Plains Cree/Scottish-Irish) talk about Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer ways of being in the world. (English with English and Swiss German sign and International Sign translation)
sweating bath - rearranged #2
April 5, 2022, 20h CET
FupaMagic and Leslie Philbert discuss racism, fatphobia, and weight discrimination from BIPoC's intersectional perspective (German with Swiss German sign translation)
sweating bath - rearranged #3
April 11, 2022, 20h CET
Edwin Ramirez and Simon Noa Harder talk aboutdiscrimination against trans and disabled people and about fun crip-queer ways to appropriate spaces (German with Swiss German sign translation)
sweating baths - rearranged runs parallel to and in collaboration with the exhibition Take Care - Art and Medicine curated by Cathérine Hug at the Kunsthaus Zürich, 8.4.-7.7.2022. Further works by Sabian Baumann are on view there. A guided tour with Sabian Baumann and Edwin Ramirez will take place there on 6/12/2022 from 5 to 6 pm. In June 2022, there will be a sweat bath with Cathérine Hug and Carol Nater Cartier on the understanding of health and illness and their exhibitability over the change of time.
