The Strange Life of the Savages

Ann Antidote

In their words: Ann Antidote

Ann Antidote is a shibari performer and prolific DIY artist, active in video, installation, and sound, mostly in collaboration or in temporary autonomous zones. She has been active in the politics of anti-discrimination including but not limited to addressing queer, polyamorous, sex-positive lives as valid and respect-deserving options. This political work and the criticism that follows permeate her artistic work in Berlin, where she lives, and beyond. Her work has been presented world wide, in contexts ranging -and without distinction - from squats, sex-parties to art biennales and galleries. Not regretting a former life in Physics, she quit her non-art-related day job in 2009, and brought most of these projects under the protective group umbrella "The Strange Life of the Savages" as full-time occupations. Currently she is busy with recently grounded noise/improvisation project (Pausa A Pausa) and finishing a couple of films and performances, almost all in cooperation with others.

Next events:

Regular events
Session || Bondage private sessions || The Glitter un-Dojo || Berlin || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Workshop || Bondage private lessons (all levels) || The Glitter un-Dojo || Berlin || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

May 2021
Workshop || Polyamory 101 || 2021-05-16 || Karada House || online || Ann Antidote

Festival || The Rope meets Noise ensemble || 2021-05-29 || Sonic Curiosities || Berlin || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Genesis Victoria

June 2021
Festival || Let me in || 2021-06-25 || Digital Carnival Z || Richmond, Canada + online || Juli Saragosa Harvey Rabid Ann Antidote Lun Ário

August 2021
Art Festival || Frictive || 2021-08-01 || Lanzarote Art Festival || Lanzarote || Ann Antidote Thursday Flatline

Art Festival || Airbase/d || 2021-08-01 || Lanzarote Art Festival || Lanzarote || Ann Antidote

Performance event || The Rope meets Noise ensemble || 2021-08-19 || HOŠEK CONTEMPORARY || Berlin || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

October 2021
Film Festival || MensPlaining || 2021-10-06 || Porn Film Festival Vienna || Vienna || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

December 2021
new release || Adding time: Relationships* and Longevity/ies - VIDEO Release || 2021-12-31 || video release! || online || Ann Antidote

All works:

2021
since 2021 || Collaboration || Polyamory and longevity || Ann Antidote Karada House

since 2021 || Collaboration || Mamadou fica || Ann Antidote

since 2021 || Collaboration || Adding time: Relationships* and Longevity/ies - VIDEO Release || Ann Antidote Karada House

since 2021 || Collaboration || The tenderness of wolves || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2021 || Bondage, an out of body experience || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen Steffi Käoz

since 2021 || Airbase/d || Ann Antidote

since 2021 || MensPlaining || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

2020
since 2020 || Eat More Bondage - independent magazine || Ann Antidote Thursday Flatline Notorische Ruhestörung Iz Oztat Ali Taptik Liv Massei Colin Ginks Mischa Badasyan Dasniya Sommer

since 2020 || Collaboration || Let me in || Juli Saragosa Harvey Rabid Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2020 || Collaboration || What I haven't done last spring || Ann Antidote

2019
since 2019 || Collaboration || Waxnschlass || Oil productions Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote taje_mahalolz

since 2019 || Collaboration || A story of seasons || Ann Antidote Caine Panik Misantropikal

since 2019 || Collaboration || Zwitschern wie Nokia || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Notorische Ruhestörung Nightmare Collective

since 2019 || Collaboration || Frictive || Thursday Flatline Steffi Käoz Ann Antidote

since 2019 || Silkprint Patches (And some t-shirts left) - The Strange Life of the Savages || Ann Antidote

since 2019 || Rope meets Noise - Queer Sex Work edition || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung Marvel Flandergan Mÿ Sli Maladroit Lun Ário

2018
since 2018 || Mental Health and Community || Ann Antidote

since 2018 || XB - a collective joyfull noise || Ann Antidote

since 2018 || Water boils for coffee || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2018 || Japanese bondage, history, community, queering it out, safety || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2018 || Collaboration || At Dagger's drawn || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

since 2018 || Strings attach (rope + noise + improvisation) - performance night || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Notorische Ruhestörung

since 2018 || The revenge of the killer tomatoes || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

since 2018 || A brief herstory of breathing || Ann Antidote muqdisho Lun Ário Steffi Käoz

since 2018 || Collaboration || Collective Nightmare || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung Nightmare Collective

since 2018 || Collaboration || The post-apocalyptic match girl || Caine Panik Notorische Ruhestörung Lun Ário Ann Antidote

since 2018 || Life drawing with bondage || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2017
since 2017 || Music for Bondage Sessions || Ann Antidote

since 2017 || Where wood is chopped splinters will fall || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2017 || The Rope meets Noise ensemble || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

since 2017 || Rope meets Noise at Loophole - the film || Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung Liv Massei Raja de Luna Misantropikal

since 2017 || - SOLD OUT - Rope bags The strange life of the savages with design by AutoSofiaciente. Limited edition of 100. || Ann Antidote AutoSofiaciente

since 2017 || Eat More Bondage - independent magazine || Ann Antidote

2016
since 2016 || There are vulvae around you, if you choose to build them (Workshop) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2016 || Eat More Bondage - short film evening || Ann Antidote

since 2016 || 8 1/2 - Bondage + Drawing jam || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2016 || Each man* kills the thing he loves || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2016 || Bondage Jute Rope || Ann Antidote

2015
since 2015 || Vulva meet paper meets scissor (Collage) || Ann Antidote

since 2015 || Exhibition Vulva meet paper meets scissor || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Sadie Lune Sissi <3 <3 Raoul Berlin Lun Ário Kitty May

since 2015 || Eu sou daqui - I am from here || Ann Antidote

since 2015 || There are vulvas around you, if you choose to see them (Film) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2015 || Who is not here || Ann Antidote Raja de Luna Lun Ário

since 2015 || Parole, parole? -(un)hollow words || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2015 || Fenotypes (work in progress) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2015 || Webpage 'h2-studio berlin' || Ann Antidote

since 2015 || Collages from Vulvae meets paper meets scissor || Ann Antidote

2014
since 2014 || Knives - a cutting-edge workshop || Ann Antidote

since 2014 || The Ides of March Vulva - tu quoque vulva || Ann Antidote

since 2014 || Counterattacking from the kitchen || Ann Antidote

since 2014 || The Four Horsemen of the Apocowboylypse || Ann Antidote Caine Panik

since 2014 || Cunt to Cunt, follow the rope way || Lun Ário Ann Antidote

since 2014 || Mise en scéne, (ghost-)rigging and consulting for bondage || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2014 || Bondage private sessions || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2013
since 2013 || Rapunzel, a hairy story about identities || Ann Antidote Chantel C.

since 2013 || Collaboration || Hummingbirds in the Burgeoning Bushes (PornChoir) || Ann Antidote Billy Rosebutt

since 2013 || The Strange Savage of the Savages: Trailer || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2013 || For Christ's sake, what the hell do you think you are doing? || Lun Ário Ann Antidote

since 2013 || Where does a body end? || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2013 || Where does your body start? || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2013 || O careto (the masket) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2013 || Photos from "There Are Vulvae Everywhere" series. || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2013 || There are vulvas around you, if you choose to see them (Landscape Art + Photos) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2012
since 2012 || Remember Gay Love Story || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

since 2012 || Offrande Blanche || Lun Ário Ann Antidote

since 2012 || BDSM and queer BDSM: term clarification and talk || Ann Antidote

since 2012 || Where do you come from? A cocky answer... || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Carlos Vargas

since 2012 || Cuntries of the world || Ann Antidote Lun Ário JNY1 Kay Garnellen

since 2012 || Placet Plus Ultra || Ann Antidote Kay Garnellen Lun Ário

since 2012 || When granny walks the door || Ann Antidote Emy Fem Lun Ário

since 2012 || Bond-Age d'Amour || Ann Antidote JNY1 Kay P. Rinha

since 2012 || Paisagem com madeira (Landscape with timber and wood) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2012 || Video Landscape with timber and wood in in || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2012 || Bondage tie-up jam || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2012 || Bondage suspension - defying Earth gravity || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2011
since 2011 || 'Gay Love Story' Postcards || Lun Ário Kay Garnellen Ann Antidote

since 2011 || Save the Place || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Ola Marty

since 2011 || Bondage private lessons (all levels) || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2011 || Bondage Performance || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2011 || Bondage regular event || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2011 || Beyond the Basic Knot: More Japanese Rope Bondage || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2011 || There is no place like home || Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen JNY1

since 2011 || Bondage rope preparation || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2010
since 2010 || Queere Elternschaften* || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2010 || Women+Lesbian+Trans* Polyamoury Munch (Berlin) || Ann Antidote

since 2010 || Vacations in Slut Meadow || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2010 || Introduction to Japanese Rope Bondage || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2009
since 2009 || SafeR-Sex (including BDSM) || Ann Antidote

2008
since 2008 || Jealousy Management || Ann Antidote

since 2008 || Do you want to talk about consent? || Ann Antidote

since 2008 || Polyamory and Networks || Ann Antidote Lun Ário

since 2008 || Saying NO! || Ann Antidote

since 2008 || Blog PolyPortugal || Ann Antidote

since 2008 || Contribution to 'Bichana' zine and blog from Panteras Rosa Portugal || Ann Antidote

since 2008 || Booklet 'Polyamoury and CSD demos" || Ann Antidote

since 2008 || Collaboration || Articles for the Krake zine || Ann Antidote Gwendolyn

2007
since 2007 || Entre vários Mundos (Zwischen allen Welten) || Ann Antidote

since 2007 || Articles for Zona Livre, the monthly magazine of Clube Safo || Ann Antidote

since 2007 || Collaboration || Webpage 'die Schlampige Polytanten' || Ann Antidote Gwendolyn

since 2007 || Collaboration || Krakenpostille || Ann Antidote Gwendolyn

since 2007 || Moderator and admin of the schlampige Polytanten electronic group || Ann Antidote

2006
since 2006 || Polyamory 101 || Ann Antidote

since 2006 || Blog "Our Laundry List" || Ann Antidote

since 2006 || I CSD March Porto, 2006 || Ann Antidote

since 2006 || Information Stall at Porto Pride || Ann Antidote

since 2006 || Polyamoury regular Munch in Porto || Ann Antidote

since 2006 || mailing list admin 'PolyPortugal' || Ann Antidote

since 2006 || Blog 'the Sexual Life of the Savages' || Ann Antidote

2005
since 2005 || Women+lesbian+trans* Polyamoury regular Munch in Munich || Ann Antidote

Collaboration in film
I/XXI || ref: Ann Antidote Ana Tsuri Raja de Luna

Landlords (trailer) || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Emre Busse Ceven Knowles

Let Go || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Enactone (trailer) || ref: Ann Antidote Sky Deep

Love Religion(trailer) || ref: Sissi <3 <3 Ann Antidote

Disconnect to Survive (extract) || ref: Ann Antidote

Promotional clip for Shu Lea Cheang's "FluidØ" - Lun Ário || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote

Slowdance - by Harvey Rabbit - trailer || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote

Collective Nightmare by Nightmare Collective || ref: Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung Nightmare Collective

Queer, Kunst + Utopia // snippet || ref: Sissi <3 <3 Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Collaboration in performance
Cunt Lab @ Circus Charivari, 31.May.2014 || ref: JNY1 Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Lê isto . Read This - ( Full Vídeo ) || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote Carlos Vargas

Collaboration in performance, Bondage
Bondage d'amour || ref: Ann Antidote JNY1

The Tenderness of Wolves II (Lithalsa + Strange Life of the Savages) || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote Lithalsa

Jute Disintegration at Supernaut || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote Dasniya Sommer

Offrande Blanche at Labor Majak, Berlin 2012 || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Collaboration in performance, Bondage, Burlesque
The Four Horsemen of the Apocowboylypse - Trash DeLuxe, 2014 || ref: Ann Antidote

Collaboration in performance, Music
CrisisRus “NETWORK | RE:WORK” || ref: Ann Antidote

Documentation of exhibitions
Isto também sou eu / I am this also || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Backstage and making of Dotyk Queer Festival, Minsk 201 || ref: Ann Antidote

Dotyk Queer Festival opening party, Minsk 2016 || ref: Ann Antidote

Film
Schlampenau, a trollopolygarchutopia || Schlampenau, eine polygarchutopia (trailer) || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Save the Place, the tragic end of a real-estate agent || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Ola Marty

Bondage, an out of body experience - 360 - trailer || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

Take me like a sea (Trailer) || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Salty Cherie

A Story of Seasons - trailer || ref: Ann Antidote Caine Panik Misantropikal

Bondage, an out of body experience - 2D - trailer || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen Steffi Käoz

Film, Collaboration in film
Art200 - Festival of Queer Film in Bucharest - Q&A with Ann Antidote, Billie Rose and Luca Istodor on poly&kink section || ref: Ann Antidote

Installation
Where does a body end? || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Landscape with timber - paisagem com madeira || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote

Parole, Parole (un)hollow words - quEAR! ECHOS+NETZE, Bethanien || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote

Where wood is cut, splinters will fall || ref: Ann Antidote

Zwitschern wie Nokia || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Nightmare Collective

Where wood is chopped splinters will fall - Installation Film - Ann Antidote + Lun Ário || 2017 || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Music
Ensayo de Música Noise en la Mona Lisa || ref: Ann Antidote

Boil me cofffee or tea at The Workshop Forsterstr || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Boil me cofffee or tea at Noiseberg by Regis/Noiseberg || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Boil me cofffee or tea at Noiseberg || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Patience Mikado at TATV || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Performance
Cunt to cunt, the rope way, documentation by Ola Marty || ref: JNY1 Ann Antidote Ola Marty Sissi <3 <3

For Christ´s sake what the hell do you think you are doing? || ref: JNY1 Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

The Tenderness of Wolves I || ref: Lun Ário Ann Antidote

There is no place like home, Tacheles must live!! 20.8.2011 || ref: JNY1 Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

Performance, Bondage
Bondage Performance at “My asshole is a nightmare” show 25.2.2016 || ref: Ann Antidote Liv Massei

The Rope meets Noise - Suspending gender stereotypes - Ellipsis, Rotterdam, October 2017 || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Notorische Ruhestörung

Artist trailer for Kink and Ropes 2020 || ref: Ann Antidote

Bondage suspension at Schwuz || ref: Ann Antidote Yori Gagarim

Performance, Bondage, Music
A brief herstory of breathing at Strings attach/ed: rope & noise & improvisation performance night || ref: muqdisho Lun Ário Steffi Käoz Ann Antidote

A brief herstory of breathing || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Steffi Käoz muqdisho

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Maze, Berlin // 21.Nov.2018 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote Lun Ário Steffi Käoz

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Maze // Berlin, 2.Jun.2018 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote Lun Ário Maladroit Marvel Flandergan Mÿ Sli

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Camp Tipsy, 11.Aug.2018 || ref: Ann Antidote Steffi Käoz Alog Notorische Ruhestörung

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Catacombs in Wedding // Berlin, 30.Nov.2019 || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Gattacicova blackstacks

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Hosek Contemporary, 3.Jul.2020 || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Notorische Ruhestörung

Performance, Music
The Post Apocalyptic Match girl at Strings Attach/ed || ref: Caine Panik Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Politics
1ª Marcha do Orgulho LGBT no Porto - Leitura do Manifesto || ref: Ann Antidote

Rope meets noise, Performance, Music, Bondage
The Rope meets Noise ensemble // At Experimental Stage, Camp Tipsy, Uckermark, 26.VIII.2017 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Steffi Käoz Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Zukunft am Ostkreuz // XB-liebig in exil // Berlin, 18.Nov.2017 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // La Mona Lisa // by ZAYOclaco || ref: Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Espace Khiasma, Paris // Polychrome || ref: Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Metz, Bête Noire lancement || ref: Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // At Noiseberg #81 // 5.May.2018 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Loophole, Berlin // 9.Jan.2018 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote

The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Loophole // Berlin, 7.Aug.2018 || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote Maladroit Lun Ário

Rope meets noise, Performance, Music. Bondage
The Rope meets Noise ensemble // Loophole // Berlin, 9.Jan.2018 by Mizantropia || ref: Notorische Ruhestörung Ann Antidote Misantropikal

Trailers
The Strange Life of the Savages, A DIY art collective (trailer) || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

Ann Antidote for Dotyk Queer Film Festival, Minsk 2016 || ref: Ann Antidote

Eye's Walk Digital festival 2019/Trailer. "Eros":: Art in the public space of Lazareta || ref: Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

Related press:

catalogue
2019- Proudly Perverted || ref: Ann Antidote

2019- Lanzarote Art Festival || ref: Ann Antidote

2017- QuEAR - transtonale festival Berlin || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2016- Sound::Gender::Feminim::Activism || ref: Ann Antidote

publication
2018- Cuntroll Zine || ref: Ann Antidote

2018- Slanted House || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2017- Ethical Sloth || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2017- Cuntroll Zine || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2015- Mein lesbisches Auge || ref: Ann Antidote

2014- Mein lesbisches Auge || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2014- Her noise archive || ref: Ann Antidote

articles and interviews
2021- IHeartBerlin || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2020- A New Hai zine || ref: Ann Antidote

2020- Shibari statt Makramee @ L-MAG || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2020- Anouschka Notasexpert @ La Septieme Obsession || ref: Ann Antidote Anoushka Notasexpert

2019- Couleur 3 || ref: Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung Oil productions

2019- NY Times || ref: Ann Antidote Iz Oztat

2019- Trendsetter Istanbul || ref: Ann Antidote Iz Oztat

2019- Finantial Times || ref: Ann Antidote Iz Oztat

2019- Sluttish media || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Notorische Ruhestörung

2018- TAZ || ref: Ann Antidote

2018- Jazz London || ref: Ann Antidote Notorische Ruhestörung

2017- Sluttish media || ref: Ann Antidote

2017- Público || ref: Ann Antidote

2017- Sociedade portuguesa de Sexologia Clínica || ref: Ann Antidote

2017- Siegessäule || ref: Ann Antidote

2016- Cineuropa || ref: Ann Antidote

2016- Indywire || ref: Ann Antidote

2016- KYKY || ref: Ann Antidote

2016- Poly Role Models || ref: Ann Antidote

2016- Público || ref: Ann Antidote

2016- FILET Magazine || ref: Ann Antidote

2015- Feminine Moments || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2014- die Krake || ref: Ann Antidote

2014- Vamos falar de sexualidade || ref: Ann Antidote

2014- Siegessäule || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Gwendolyn

2013- Portugal Post || ref: Ann Antidote

2013- Qüir.pt || ref: Ann Antidote

2013- Radio manobras || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2013- Público P3 || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2013- Lilly's lifestyle || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário

2012- Queer.de || ref: Ann Antidote Gwendolyn Lun Ário

2012- Domenique von Sternenberg || ref: Ann Antidote Gwendolyn Lun Ário

2012- Domenique von Sternenberg || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Otko.tv || ref: Ann Antidote Gwendolyn Lun Ário

2012- Kink travels || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Kink travels || ref: Ann Antidote Gwendolyn Lun Ário

2012- Polari Magazine || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Photorocket || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Qüir.pt || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Daniel Cardoso || ref: Ann Antidote Gwendolyn Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Dezanove || ref: Ann Antidote Lun Ário Kay Garnellen

2012- Siegessäule || ref: Ann Antidote

2011- Anarchistisches Radio Vienna || ref: Ann Antidote Gwendolyn Lun Ário