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09. – 11.
APR
2026
SIMONE AUGHTERLONY
Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it
© Ali Haji
Amid the fog of fallen pipes and broken monuments are enigmatic figures: the King, the Narrator, the Fairy, the Tourists, the Lack, the Horse, the Architect. Together, they detail a space of opacity, erotics, and fragile connections. Drawing from Jack Halberstam’s theory of “unworlding”, performance maker Simone Aughterlony seeks to address the aesthetics of collapse and its potential to loosen the body from systems of gender and progress. Driven by an uncanny numerological significance of the number 5, Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it confronts architectural and structural ruination against a backdrop of the capitalist drive for renewal. It invites the public to consider the wreckage of all that we have built and inherited as material for a romance with the future, archive of the past, and sobering recognition for where we are now.
With the kind support of the Swiss Embassy in Austria
Time
19:00–20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
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Artist Bio
Simone Aughterlony
is an independent artist based in Zurich and Berlin, working predominantly in dance, performance and visual art contexts. They have been devising queer-spirited choreographic works over the last twenty years. Engaging with alternative forms of kinship inside their process, new constellations emerge as possibilities for reconfiguring a culture of togetherness that fosters both familiar and unknown quantities. Aughterlony’s works playfully compose with representation and its saturation, seeping into and embracing the phenomenology of mis-recognition and the absurd. In recent years, the works Biofiction, Uni * Form (co-authored with filmmaker Jorge León), and the collaborative project, Everything Fits In The Room with Jen Rosenblit, have toured extensively. Aughterlony was the recipient of the Canton Zurich Kultur prize in 2023.
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Credits
Concept, research Simone Aughterlony, Jen Rosenblit Creation, performance Mickey Mahar, Leah Marojević, Joseph Wegmann, Simone Aughterlony, Lucia Gugerli Light, video Joseph Wegmann Musical composition, live performance Lou Drago Trumpet recordings Shems Bendali Narrator voice Miguel Gutierrez Costume design Lenna Stam Technical management Jan Olieslagers Photography Simon Courchel Administration, production Umar Hallawi Dramaturgical advice Joshua Wicke Production assistant Thalia Tulkens Outside eye Nils Amadeus Lange
Produced by Imbricated Real Co-production Gessnerallee (Zürich), Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Tanzquartier (Vienna) Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zurich, Swiss Arts Council – Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Else v. Sick Stiftung, Stiftung Corymbo, SIS – Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, La Becque/ Résidence d’artistes
Early research support Pro Helvetia research grant Berlin laboratory research contributions Mickey Mahar, Emil Ertl, LABOUR/ Colin Hacklander and Farahnaz Hatam, Justin Kennedy, Theo Nabicht, Bettina Knaup Thank you Isabel Lewis and Callie’s Berlin Zurich laboratory research contributions Bast Hippocrate, Mélissa Guex, Ondrej Vidler, Li Tavor, Simon Grab, Felipe Ribeiro, Simon Courchel Thank you Shedhalle Zurich, Lucie Tuma and team, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Rote Fabrik, Pascal Leutwyler New York City laboratory research contributions & symposium Raja Feather Kelly, Connor Voss, Effie Bowen, devyn emory, Stephen Morrison, Jack Halberstam, Avgi Saketopoulou, Felipe Ribeiro, Caroline Dionne, Ryan MacNamara, AK Burns
Support The Invisible Dog Art Center, Center for Performance Research, Swissnex in Boston and New York, The Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Pro Helvetia Research Travel Grant Thank you Gary Wilmes
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Supporting Program
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APR
0918:30 – 18:50
Introduction
In English
Time
18:30 – 18:50
Location
TQW Halle G Foyer
Duration
20 Min
Price
Free admission
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APR
10Following the performance
Artist Talk
In English
Time
20:15 – 20:45
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
30 Min
Price
Free admission
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Events
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APR
09
19:00 – 20:00
Simone Aughterlony
Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
Additional Information
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APR
10
19:00 – 20:00
Simone Aughterlony
Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
Additional Information
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APR
11
19:00 – 20:00
Simone Aughterlony
Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
Additional Information
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