EMBODIED RESISTANCE
Basel, Switzerland
July 3rd-4th, 2026
Collaboration with Katherine Newton
How does it feel to live in a time marked by the live-streamed genocide in Gaza, alongside ongoing wars and widespread human rights violations across the world? The scale of systemic violence can feel overwhelming. Do we come to shared cultural spaces to disconnect from it, or to face it together?
This participatory somatic experience is an act of resistance against numbness and disconnection. It invites us to stay present with difficult realities rather than turn away. Through guided practices, reflection, and sound, we explore how systemic violence, displacement, and global injustice live in our bodies and shape how we relate, choose, and respond.
We will create space for grief, anger, fear, compassion, and hope, and reflect on the values that uphold human dignity, justice, and solidarity.
PROFILES
Sharka Rey is a Czech-born (1985) and a Basel/Aarau-based performance artist, psychosomatic sex educator, and pro-Palestinian human rights activist. Her work combines embodied practice, political engagement, and experimental performance to explore body, intimacy, power, and collective resistance, creating participatory works engaging questions of justice, accountability, and social transformation.
Katherine Newton (1987, Munich) is a trinational artist, English by nationality, raised in Germany, and based in Switzerland. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sound, performance, video, animation, installation, and conceptual work. She creates immersive environments where sculptural, performative, and interactive elements invite psychological and emotional exploration.
