OUT LOUD TOGETHER - Negotiation Playground

Name: OUT LOUD TOGETHER - Negotiation Playground - iAra Banchik Almasia & Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer
Start: 2026-06-13T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Het Verbond

iAra Banchik Almasia & Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer

Sat 13 Jun ’26 14:00

Collective exchange on consent, intimacy, collective care, and audience interaction in participatory performance, informed by FLINTA and kinky community methodologies.chat

English spoken

Sat 13 Jun ’26

14:00

Sat 13 Jun ’26

14:00

Het Verbond

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This gathering is the starting point of Out Loud Together, a new artistic and theater project developed by Ari Ochoa and iAra Banchik Almasia. The session opens a shared exploration around consent, intimacy, negotiation, boundaries, audience interaction, and collective care within participatory performance. Together, we will reflect on what happens when a work invites people to witness, respond, move, speak, touch, refuse, negotiate, or become implicated.

The gathering is intended as a space to exchange experiences, share resources, and think collectively through dialogue, writing, embodied exercises, negotiation formats, and relational tools inspired by queer, kinky, and sex-positive communities, where communication, boundaries, and collective care are often approached as active and ongoing practices.

The research is also intended as a space of exchange between artists, facilitators, performers, and participants interested in audience relations, participatory methodologies, intimacy, autobiography, social interaction, and collective processes. Many artistic practices invite closeness, vulnerability, or participation, while questions around boundaries, agency, responsibility, and repair often remain under-discussed. Rather than searching for fixed answers, we want to stay with questions: How do we navigate desire, agency, discomfort, participation, and responsibility together? What kinds of relationships can performance create between bodies, audiences, and spaces? How do we notice limits, misalignment, trust, or care as they emerge? How can consent function as an ongoing artistic and relational practice rather than a fixed agreement?

The conversations, reflections, and materials developed during the session will contribute to the ongoing research, methodologies, and future artistic direction of the project.

The gathering is open primarily to FLINTA members connected to Het Verbond, with a limited number of places available for interested members of the wider public.

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About iAra Banchik Almasia

iAra Banchik Almasia is a theatre maker focused on participatory performance and scenography. She develops work at the intersection of audience engagement and spatial composition, approaching performance as a shared experience in which audiences are active participants within a carefully composed framework, with attention to how proximity, movement, and spatial dynamics influence interaction. She has presented work at Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Theater Kikker, and De Nijverheid. She holds a Research Master from HKU, where she developed her practice around participation, consent, and relational performance, with attention to how structures of interaction influence perception and group dynamics.

About Ari Ochoa

Ari Ochoa aka Alfa Hoer is a Latinx non-binary performance maker, drag artist, and cultural producer based in Amsterdam. Their practice creates participatory environments addressing power, gender, pleasure, and collective behavior through drag, facilitation, and live interaction. Alfa Hoer functions as both a performance persona and an artistic method, using humor, exaggeration, and transformation to activate audiences and challenge dominant norms.

Ari’s work moves between theatre, nightlife, and community contexts, with presentations in festival and institutional settings such as SPRING, Holland and What You See Festival, alongside independent venues such as BIS (Brussels), W139, and OCCII. They are part of the House of Lost Bois and have produced for House of Hopelezz.As founder of BOTTOMsUP and BUB, and co-creator of MATES&MASCara, Ari contributes to the Dutch cultural field by creating spaces for performance experimentation, safer space practice, and collective authorship.