- workshop in english -

Did you ever want to be a doll and let someone play with you? Or want to be able to use someone as a doll? What kind of doll would you like to be? Or to own? Do you dream to have an experience of ultimate surrender? Of being objectified?

How about being a good doll, a beautiful doll? What do you need to be able to be the perfect toy? How about inventing dolls and their mechanics? How about choreographing an erotic scene with dolls? What will happen, when you have to be really there to be able to read your doll?

Dollification is a playset where a person is mentally and physically ‘'transformed' into a living doll. The doll’s purpose is to provide pleasure and happiness to the owner. In this workshop the pleasure can be sexual. The doll-like person adopts submissive role and enjoys being toyed with while the dominant puppet player is aroused by the control that they exert over the doll. Sexual objectification is the act of treating another person as an instrument for sexual pleasure.

Being a doll and playing with a doll deals with role-play, power-exchange and the power of transformation. It focuses on the aspects of control and being controlled in a playful, creative environment.

We will start with an introduction, followed by exercises, negotiations, try-outs and play-scenes.

If you have already found your doll, your costume, your puppet player - don’t hesitate to bring them with you!

Anamnese

Anamnese (she/her) is a researcher in philosophy. She has published articles about sexpositive spaces, suffering in loving relationships and philosophy of emotions. Currently her practical interests center around anonymous erotic contact, objectification and erotic language use.


Julius Elo

Julius Elo (they/them) is a performance artist and one of the founders of the Wonderlust – Conscious sexuality festival and Helsinki Shibari. They work with sexuality, nudity and bodily techniques creating performance concepts and participatory performances where the audience is set at the core of the piece in different ways. Julius is a longtime member of Schwelle7 and has worked in sex positive communities over 10 years.

https://www.helsinkishibari.com/about-us

http://wonderlusthelsinki.wixsite.com/wonderlust

https://todellisuus.fi/in-english/