“That was not our plan to say “We’re going to use an artistic mediums to fulfill our erotic fantasies”. We just kind of did it. It can be very sheming. But if done passionate, inspirational and seductive and with the like-minded people, it can be something that makes you feeling free, delicious and brave.”
Elias Kirsche, Founder of EROS 24/7
You can become an artist to gain fame, to try to earn a big money fast and also to achieve an eternal life. You can do that. But at a deeper level an artistic medium can awake an erotic desire, to turn up very sexy and be a very powerful tool to be inspired for erotic fantasies or even to realize them.
In this unique artist in residence program we will give you the opportunity to learn how to use your lust, delight and desire to create art works and vice-cersa – how to use the medium of art to realise your erotic fantasies, create deep and sustainable forms of erotic play for yourself and those who you love.
From our experience, these forms of play can liberate your erotic desire, connect deeper with your sexual self, release deep-seated pain and fear to have more satisfying erotic experience and finally fulfill your secret dreams.
In the morning, the artists offer their own inputs that serves the process of inspiration and exchange. We explore, how erotic phenomena such as desire, seduction, lust, devotion, jealousy, play, death, etc. affect the inspiration and production of art. Artistic means are one’s own erogenous body, the written and spoken word, voice, movement, musical and visual techniques. By means of mutual sensual and artistic exchange, the group tries to crystallize the values and the fundamentals that can be relevant for a more loving and lovable world than the one in which we have landed today. Elias Kirsche
The afternoon is reserved for your own artistic work or for work in groups. What does erotic mean to us in its cultural-historical and spiritual dimension? What role does the daimon Eros play in the art, who, if one follows Plato and Socrates, mediates between the human and the divine world (“Symposium”)? Using erotic art from different epochs and cultures, contemporary interpretations and implementations are to be proposed.
The evening is intended for an erotic diary, work meetings, sensual rituals, expressive dance and similar things. In practical terms, EROS 24/7 defines itself as an artistic implementation of desire research between self-awareness and a result-oriented laboratory. The participants use tantra rituals, meditation, touch, erotic massage and sensual BDSM elements to analyze the impact of desire on creative processes and their results.
Our aim is to present solo and group work that will be documented with text, photos, performance or video. The final result can also be a concrete erotic fantasy, that you fulfill at the end of this week. We will give you an effective tools for making and accepting invitations, for integrating artistic medium in the context of a stable relationship (whether friendship with benefits or long term, play partner or lover), what to do if a play session orrelationship breaks down, how to repair and go on, the spiritual dimensions of sexuality.
The training combines embodied practice, erotic inputs, play, tantric rituals and artistic installations. It is strongly recommended to come for the whole period to get the full benefit. However, if you are unable to, it is still possible for you to enrol. Contact Us!
The artistic research of erotic desire is wholistic, combining inputs each morning, artistic work in the afternoon, curated rituals and safe play spaces at night.
This is deep work. Group check-ins and processing will happen throughout the residence. Time will also be allotted each day by the faculty to provide one-on-one mentoring for you for whatever you may be grappling with.
This residence is recommended for professional and hobby-artists and for people, who already have some experience with tantra, BDSM, as well as an embodiment practice such as sexological bodywork, yoga, martial arts, performance and/or dance. If you are uncertain whether you qualify, please let us know when you schedule your call with us.
We especially are looking for professional muses and models, for kinky and polyamorous people.
Called graphomaniacs, secret servants of Eros and Christian-sexualized fundamentalists, Buddhists and Tantrissimas are particularly welcome!
Because the group dynamic is very important to the success of this journey, you are invited to book a conversation with us before enrolling. It is also possible to make contact through email or PM to Elias Kirsche through Facebook Messenger.
The 2021 summer residence will be led by Elias Kirsche (author, performer and eros activist), Thomas Zollinger (naked performance artist) and Fanny Morgenstern (artist, social media manager and anti-aesthetic feminist).
EROS 24/7 will take place in a remote location (house, villa or studio). Depending on the coronavirus situation in Europe, the project can be carried out in the canton of Jura (Switzerland), in Berlin, near Basel (border triangle), in Sicily or in Poland. The exact location will be determined and announced in late summer. The house should have larger and smaller rooms and a large room furnished as a salon. There will probably be neither cell phone nor internet reception so that the participants can fully tune in to each other and in to their art. It is desirable not to spend the night outside of the house.
The cost of living (approx. € 300-500 + travel / flight costs) will be kept to a minimum and shared equally among the artists.
Our organization fees are currently Early Bird, they will all rise on August 1. If you are interested in coming, you are advised to contact us now.
The exact prices will be given during the call. There are discounts if you book in combination with our Workshops and/or chose to come with another person.
Catering for the residence is purchased with your ticket. Self-catering is not possible. There will be vegetarian and vegan dishes. Your ideas of what we have to cook are welcome
