Julius Pristauz’s performance sketch for a conversation on pleasure and pain (2026) is being staged in collaboration with Elena Francalanci. It is performed within the setting of the installation sketch for an assembly, using it as a stage. Sexual bodily gestures, dance movements and poses intertwine, with intimacy, performance and confrontation layering upon one another. References to pop culture meet the performers’ own choreographic vocabulary, creating scenes that oscillate between vulnerability, desire and discomfort. The work regards the body as a site of communication where language can seduce, interrupt or fail.

Julius Pristauz’s performance sketch for a conversation on pleasure and pain (2026) is being staged in collaboration with Elena Francalanci. It is performed within the setting of the installation sketch for an assembly, using it as a stage. Sexual bodily gestures, dance movements and poses intertwine, with intimacy, performance and confrontation layering upon one another. References to pop culture meet the performers’ own choreographic vocabulary, creating scenes that oscillate between vulnerability, desire and discomfort. The work regards the body as a site of communication where language can seduce, interrupt or fail.