THE CHURCH is a liturgy of purification, a pleasure mass, and a sacrament of creation. It is a theatre invading the space of the club. It is the club invading the space of the theatre. It is a room of worship, of initiations, endings, and new beginnings. A ritual and rite that appears three times in the cover of night. There is no world without belief. We dream about what this Church of ours would be, what it would look like, sound like, how it would smell. It is a play with the sacred and the profane, a work pondering our place in the world. It is longing for moments of self-forgetfulness. It is a sensual and sensitive container for purification, for reflection, for play, for social gathering, for rebirth, for flesh, for life. And above all: it’s a party!We welcome you to THE CHURCH OF 4 FLOORS OF WHORES. Please bring all your sins, worries, truths, dreams, sorrows, beliefs, and other friends with you.
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication, chaos and ecstasy. Cultist rites were characterized by maniacal dancing to the sound of loud music and crashing cymbals, in which the revelers, called Bacchantes, whirled, screamed, became drunk and incited one another to greater and greater ecstasy. The participants of Bacchanalia believed in something. They believed in the bacchanalian element of constant becoming. Their rites were an affirmation of life itself as they celebrated the trancendence of dualistic conditions towards a perception of nature and time as cycles. Within their feast social structures were turned upside down. Breaking free from social order served as a ritualistic realisazion that all rules/conditions/hierarchies were man-made and could just as well look very different. Ecstasy meant to stand outside oneself. The mission was a liberation from restiction of oppressive norms. They worked out methods and rites and rituals to get in contact with that, they tried their hardest to get in touch with Bacchus. They were they but also I and I and I. Everyone in the same room of worship working towards a common goal but also probably a bit alone.
