Pleasure & Resilience
04.09.2025 - 09.09.2025
Thursday-Tuesday
Juicy Lab is a queerfeminist contact, body, and art-positive lab.
Juicy – as a living, flowing, perceptive being.
Sensing the beauty – the juicyness – of life and being in the body
Tender, somatic, diverse.
Attention please: The Juicy Lab is also a “sex-positive” festival. We understand this to mean allowing our otherwise often excluded sexual existence to be included and celebrating all forms of consensual sexuality as well as all body shapes, characteristics and preferences. We want to place the DIVERSITY of contact and intimacy at the centre and allow sexuality to take its own momentary place and expression. There will be programme points within recognisable frameworks for possible sexual interaction within the group or with oneself. Nudity and sexuality are invited on a voluntary basis, never as a “must”. It is neither guaranteed nor required that participants engage in sexual activity.
Here & Now: Would you like to not only read this invitation on a screen, but also perceive yourself as a sensual being? Your feet, your belly, your breathing, perhaps listening to your body with fascination for a moment – what does this invitation evoke in you?
An invitation to research
When we refer to “us” or “we” in the following, this refers to the organizers´ perspectives.
As a queer-centered research space, the Juicy Lab is opening its doors again this year. Oriented towards the juicy-ness of life, we want to courageously face the current challenges as a queer community & friends with courage.
What does being queer mean?
Being queer is political and an act of resistance. It is also the self-confident appropriation of a term that was once used to marginalize. Queerness is not a trend, but a centuries-old struggle for basic human rights such as integrity, expression and (sexual) self-determination.
For us, the term “Queer” stands for diversity, an alliance with the questioning and deconstruction of social norms – of white-cis-hetero-mono-normativity, patriarchal, colonial and capitalist structures. For us, queerness means recognizing and reviving a greater complexity.
For us, queerness means recognizing and reviving more complexity.
Because structural and individual violence against queer people is still a reality today, and currently on the rise again, it affects us, our language, our bodies and even our most intimate relationships, leaving tangible wounds – in all of us. We believe that no one remains untouched by this destructive separation.
The Juicy Lab stands for relationship spaces filled with life, in which diverse expression, shared learning, and individual empowerment can take place.
We would like to point out that queer people are not a homogeneous group, even if this is often attributed to us by the dominating society. Our experiences of discrimination, but also experiences of pleasure, joy and empowerment, are extremely diverse. You can find out who the Juicy Lab is designed for under “Community”.
Why Pleasure & Resilience?
We are interested in what skills and ingredients are needed to deal with the challenges and changes of our time.
In a world characterized by oppression and inequality, resilience is not just personal resistance, but a quality needed for our collective survival and cultural (r)evolution.
Hyper-individualism has had its day – resilience grows through community!
It not only arises from individual gifts, it needs solidarity amongst ourselves, an interdependent redistribution of resources, shared care-work, the willingness to co-regulate, as well as effective communication strategies.
We are opening the Lab, looking for these treasures in our community.
So! How can our juicy joy and pleasure not be taken at the expense of the world, but instead become the starting point for empowerment, social activism, and individual courage?
Our invitation is to get to know your desires – your life-juice, and what gets in your way. We want to encourage each other as a community, build trust, offer support and find ways together to be in relationship with what is separate again.
Do you also want to reclaim intimacy, beauty and creativity as a superpower in a capitalist – patriarchal society?
We believe in a necessary cultural revolution in which our body (perception) is an essential source of transformation, activism and social justice.
This requires courage. Courage to fail, to question, to be uncomfortable. We no longer want to preserve assumed safety and simplicity at the expense of suppressing our liveliness, of white-cis-binary-hetero-mono-normative, anti-body ideas and concepts. We also believe that no one is NOT suffering from the resulting separation. Patriarchal, (post)colonial, capitalist power structures have a concrete, tangible impact on our bodies, language, relationships, our living expression and possibilities for action.
What else do we need? Slowness, rest and relaxation are also superpowers!
A need that is unfortunately all too often neglected in our society and difficult to perceive at such events, but which is nevertheless very dazzling and intimate on the inside:
the joy of being/staying with yourself
As an antithesis to FOMO comes JOMO – Joy of Missing out, which was also part of our motto last year. It was really touching to see how many people were inspired and enriched by it.
Why is this important especially in such spaces? Because we believe that the most beautiful and valuable experiences arise from relaxation and without pressure and in contact with oneself. (see also programme)
Feel it? Then Juicy-Lab is the right place for you!
Share it & Spread it (and before, get tested)
In order to generate a trusting and at the same time free container, our experience shows that invitations via friends’ networks work well. It is therefore encouraged to forward the invitation to people you know, like and who could be interested in such exploration. At the same time, check in with each other about what you need to be at the event together (see Community).
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juicy-info@juicy-lab.love)
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Juicy Greetings
Fenja, Carla, Zuzu, Ananda, Jimmy & Luzy