ABCDE FLASH

 

Photo: Anaïs Stein

abcde Flash (she/her) is a Basel-based sexploratory, conceptual artist whose work focuses on challenging her own mental and physical boundaries and blockades. She addresses and defies her own limitations through conscious and reflective play with partners, and she uses various media as a way to both document and give shape to these intimate encounters. Whether through film, still images, or text, abcde Flash candidly shares her processes of navigating different sexual curiosities with equal parts vulnerability, authenticity, and humour. 

A graduate of the University of Amsterdam, she obtained a MSc in Gender and Sexuality studies following the completion of her thesis on the impact that heteronormativity and the coital imperative have on perceptions of what constitutes as sex, and the influence that these perceptions have on safe sex practices. 

— abcde Flash on Instagram —

 


Works & Projects

>>FILM>>PERFORMANCE>>EXPOSITION>>PRESS

 

FILM

 

Walking A Fine Line

CH, 2019 – 4:20 min – Idea, Script & Production: abcde Flash /// Director: Meti Oker /// Cinematographer: Piero Cioffi /// Editor: Chimpy /// Cast: abcde Flash, Adrien P., Matis d'Arc, Naïd Vaké, Spam Arfitt /// Bondage: Matís d'Arc – luhmen d'arc /// Guitarist: Fabio Arfinengo /// Sound Technician: Garcia Olivar /// Tattoo artist: Moritz Lindur /// Special thanks to serrat(u)s bodywork Zürich

Walking A Fine Line is the celebration of one person's sexploratory journey. abcde flash, the film's creator and protagonist, turned to a sex worker less than a year ago with the wish to be guided towards new thrills, challenges and boundaries with her curiosity leading the way. The maze-like tattoo roping around the side of her body is a reflection of the journey she has been on and is still on – an obscure but playful line with no clear beginning or end, a line that sneaks its way throughout the film in different forms and moods. The film is not just the milestone of one woman's sexual journey but also the result of it.

Best Porn Short - Luststreifen Basel 2019 /// Honorable Best Mention - Cinekink New York 2019 /// Helveslip - La Fete du Slip, Geneve 2020 /// Official Selection - Encounter Film Festival (Academy Award, BAFTA Qualifying and European Film Award Qualifying) /// Semi-Finalist - Flickers´ Rhode Island International Film Festival (Academy Award Qualifying and BAFTA Qualifying)

Selected & Screened at over 25 Film Festivals worldwide


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Taking the Piss, I Shit You Not

CH, 2021 – 6:11 min – Creator, Production & Director: abcde Flash /// Camera: Daddy-o /// Editing & Sound Design: Chimpy /// Cast: abcde Flash, Daddy-o

abcde Flash likes water sports – being peed on is soothing – but her bladder, shy in sexual as well as non-sexual situations, holds her back. Always up for pushing past mental barriers she asks playpartner Daddy to help coax her bladder into a zone of comfort using several self-invented techniques like adult diapers, an enema and the concept of overshooting. “Taking the Piss, I Shit You Not” is a candid snapshot of two people who play together with humour, intimacy and care while emotional and physical boundaries are being challenged.


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Grace.

[greɪs ˈpɪəriəd] – CH, 2022 – 5:36 min – Creator, Production & Director: abcde Flash /// Camera: Simon Bitterli /// Editing & Sound Design: Chimpy /// Cast: abcde Flash, Daddy-o

The menstrual cycle has four phases, and abcde Flash has mastered them all. She’s learned to recognise each phase by their needs, weaknesses, and strengths.
From the oh-so-draining ovulation (a period of rest), to the absolute mind-fuckery of the luteal phase (social interactions can wait), she arrives at the follicular and menstruation phases, where creativity easily flows (and anything goes!).
Grace. is an ode to abcde Flash’s understanding of her cycle and herself. By accepting each phase for what it is, she’s transformed this never-ending experience of highs and lows into a most reliable routine: a cycle that, like clockwork, she knows she can count on.

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Ohrwurm

CH, 2022 – 14:23 min – Creator, Producer & Director: abcde Flash /// Cast: abcde Flash, Jade Escrivá, Tallboy Kingsley, Yumo Cheng /// Camera: Luisa Ricar /// Editing & Sound Design: Terence Chim /// Music: Acid Amazonians - Handlebar

Four Swiss-based queers meet for the first time to explore the various ways that play is possible with much under-represented organ: the ear.

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Pussy Gazing

CH/D 2023 – 6:51 min – Producer & Director: abcde Flash /// Cast: abcde Flash, Lu Sá Sukha, Marilyn Nova White /// Camera: Ethan Allison Folk & Hanna Schaic /// Editor - Terence Chim

A sorcerer struggles to understand the malaise afflicting his feline companion, whose vacant stare into the void speaks to a deeper disconnection with the world. Feeling at a loss for how to heal his feline companion, the sorcerer turns to abcde Flash for guidance, seeking her expertise in the arcane wet arts. Through their collaboration, they forge a bond built on trust and mutual respect, united in their quest to restore the cat's vitality and rekindle its connection to the world around it.

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PERFORMANCE

Photo: MIchael Gilgen

Sexpionage – On Voyeurism & Exhibitionism

A performance by luhmen d’arc at Porny Days - Film Kunst Festival, Zürich, CH 2019 – Idea: Matís d’Arc & Talaya Schmidt /// Direction & Stage/Set Design: Matís d’Arc & Sabrina Tannen /// Performance: abcde Flash, Amanda Curvee, Fairy Juice, Julian Martin, Julian Amandus, Matís d’Arc et al. /// Video: Simon Andy Voegelin —

Wir laden ein: in ein Atelier mit bezaubernder Aussicht. Fernrohre und Feldstech’erinnen stehen schon bereit. Und vis-à-vis im schönen Hotel geschieht so einiges. Dort treffen sich in einem Zimmer Menschen – Perverse freilich allesamt – und wohl wissend, dass andere freie Sicht haben, lassen sie (es) sich ausgezeichnet gehen. Ein Sehen und Gesehenwerden.

Photo: Michel Gilgen

Das Ganze gerät auf allen Seiten zum Experiment. Denn im Hotelzimmer ist das Spiel ein improvisiertes und das Beobachtetwerden bei solch schlüpfriger Performance trotz exhibitionistischer Neigungen für alle neu. Im Atelier wiederum kann man nicht so recht wissen, für wen das Spionieren und Spannen neu, für wen es lang gehegte Phantasie oder gar schon ein routiniertes Vergnügen ist. Hier sind alle eingeladen, sich am erlaubten Spannen zu erfreuen und andere Spannende beim Spannen zu bespannen. Eine feine Gelegenheit, sich über das Gute und das Schlechte, das Berührende und Erregende und das Unheimliche des heimlichen Beobachtens ausgestellter Intimität auszutauschen. Wir wünschen viel Vergnügen!

Photo: Pierre-Yves Massot

Photo: Michel Gilgen

Photo: Pierre-Yves Massot

Photo: Michel Gilgen

 

EXPOSITION

Photo: Viktória Hrončoková

Photo: Viktória Hrončoková

The Teacher Sub ´Little´ and the Student Dom ´Mister´

Lust*Art, Basel CH 2021 – abcde Flash & MVRUKOMU

“Art is relational. Relationships are art.”
— Alexandra Goodall

Photo: MVRUKOMU

Photo: MVRUKOMU

Photo: MVRUKOMU

Photo: MVRUKOMU

 

 

Articles etc. about & with abcde Flash

"SEXUALITÄT LERNT MAN NICHT EINFACH SO"
abcde Flash on her film Taking The Piss I Shit You Not & Dario Schoch from Porny Days Zurich in an interview at RaBe-Info

KONSENS UND SPIEL – OPEN PANEL ZU KONSENS IN DER KUNST
article on the 2021 Lust*Art Basel exposition and abcde Flash’s installation The Teacher Sub ´Little´ and the Student Dom ´Mister´

ON FINDING DIFFERENT WAYS TO BE CREATIVE
interview with abcde Flash by Grashina Gabelmann for The Creative Independent – on turning her personal explorations into art, only recently discovering that she is creative, and the value of a day job unrelated to your artistic work.


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