Come to float and listen for the third edition of SWIRL POOL, this time researching the materiality of water in the public yet intimate sphere of Badehaus Sargfabrik. Between 7:00 PM and midnight you will experience the swimming pool unfolding through liquid letters, collective listening, porous bodies, sensuous songs and hazy halls – The rooms are still resonating. For this evening, we are very excited to have performing artists Selma Leo, Lina Katt, Paula Behrens and Ilay Schwinghandl joining us to continue the collage of the swimming pool.
The SWIRL POOL series are created and curated by Anna Boding Kildetoft, Josefine Ehs and Siri Viola.
Lina Katt, Paula Behrens, and Selma Leo are a collective of artists and choreographers studying at HZT Berlin. Their work explores the erotic, intimacy, and the body as porous, engaging with movement as a way to investigate fluid boundaries and shared vulnerability. Drawing inspiration from thinkers such as Audre Lorde, Astrida Neimanis, and Bini Adamczak, they merge feminist theory with choreographic practice. Together, they have created performances including I wish this was about pleasure (2024, at Uferstudios Berlin), seeping (2025, at Lake Studios), and Leaking Bodies (2024, reworked and extended in 2025, at Berlin Art Week).
Leaking Bodies is a performative installation exploring the body as porous, interconnected, and gloriously leaky. We think of bodies as tubes, channels, and containers that merge, swap, and spill into each other. Through performative interventions the installation becomes activated - bodies move, touch, and tilt, shifting from structure to meaning. Spitting, sweating, dripping - leaking becomes a mode of relating, merging the ecological with the erotic. We explore the materiality of water and its intimate relationship to the body, lingering in the sweet spot between connection and contamination.
Ilay Schwingshandl
I water
ich will dich aufbewahren
eingraben
einbetonieren
ich will dass du mir gehörst
dass du mir gehorchst
du bist einbetoniert, einbetoniert
und ich spucke auf den Boden.
Stimme, Text, Fieldrecordings und Loopstation, jedes Mal neu arrangiert, in dem Versuch dem Unsichtbaren Präsenz zu geben: Viskerale, basslastige Aufnahmen von Wasser und elektronischen Elementen. Bröckelnde Erde, Knistern, Kauen, Spucken. Hall, kirchenähnliche Melodien und meditative, unheimliche Klänge. Eine Sammlung an Träumen und Notizen von Alltäglichem in einem Dialog mit Wasser in welchem ich — inspiriert von meiner Recherche rund um den Ottakringerbach— die materiellen Auswirkungen des Patriarchats auf Natur und feminisierte Körper reflektiere.
Teil der Performance ist im Rahmen der Tender Steps Residency 2026 von Raw Matters entstanden.
ilayschwingshandl.com
PROGRAM
20:00 Performance: Lina Katt, Paula Behrens & Selma Leo, Leaking Bodies
22:00 Performance: Ilay Schwinghandl, I water
Listening session in the warm room curated by Afvikling Kassetter
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Bring a towel and a water bottle
At Badehaus Sargfabrik it is an option to be nude, you can wear whatever you are the most comfortable in <3
GUIDELINES
NO DISCRIMINATION
We do not tolerate any form of discrimination in the pool. This means no racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic or other offensive behaviour.
BE MINDFUL
Be mindful this is a space for rest - keep conversations low, be kind towards other visitors and respect that the pool is a non-sexualised space.
NO PHONES AND PHOTOS
We wish for the space to be phone and camera free, so visitors can enjoy the space in peace.
SAFETY PERSON
If you experience anything uncomfortable please don´t hesitate to reach out. You can find us at the entrance or wearing a yellow ribbon.
DOORS: 19:00
Beginning: 19:00 End: 00:00
Doors will be closed during the performances. See program further down.
