In response to Mélanie Cerezo Gobet’s performance T’es bonne !, this mediation day offers body-based practices, discussions, and theoretical contributions on how Southeast Asian bodies, and more broadly immigrant bodies, have been historically domesticated and exploited.
Program
Posters by ASU Collective
Graphic design: Yoann Cosson
Photography and vector illustration, 2023–2026
These posters were created for ASU Collective’s public campaigns and events. Serving both as tools for mobilisation and forms of graphic expression, they help to raise awareness of the struggles against anti-Asian racism in Switzerland.
Inspired by the aesthetic of activist posters, they accompany the meetings, workshops, parties and gatherings organised by the collective. They assert a collective voice and occupy public space to make the voices and experiences of people of Asian descent visible.
Stéréotypes
Un film de William Ouy-Lim Do & Sarah Waeber (2026, 4:14)
Version En/Fr, sous-titrée De
A stereotype is, at its core, a printing technique used to reproduce an image, always the same one, over and over again.
Featuring : Socheata Aing, William Ouy-Lim Do, Congle Fu, Alexandra Jian-Ning Gong, Ken Van
Voices : Wichheca Hin, Alex Thê Duy Trần
Sound design et music : Mitch Gasser
Wrtng : Sarah Waeber
Editing : William Ouy-Lim Do
Images : Sarah Adatte
Technique : Ken Van
Research : Susan La
Support : ASU Collective
Production : Eyeshot
Books and ASU merch !
Based on elements and protocols from the performance T’es bonne !, this workshop invites participants to explore what work does to the body: repetitive gestures, tension, fatigue, wear, availability, but also support, resistance, and impulses. By crossing domestic work with body work, it encourages exploring different qualities of movement linked to effort, care, and constraint. The workshop will be followed by a discussion.
Reserved for domestic workers and people of Asio-descendant backgrounds
Open to all levels
Comfortable clothing recommended
In French and English
Free of charge, upon registration
Artist
Mélanie Cerezo Gobet (she/her) is a Filipino-Swiss artist active in contemporary dance, performance, and artistic research. Her practice explores identity, cultural heritage, and Asio-descendance through movement, bodily presence, and performativity. In parallel, she develops pedagogical and transmission projects, as well as the feminist project Hysteria Room Hysteria Room with Jade Albasini. She is a founding member of the ASU collective.
Time for informal exchanges over a snack prepared by ASU
The lecture explores how Southeast Asian bodies have been shaped by logics of domestication and exploitation linked to migration and domestic work, with a focus on the Philippines. Around the world, these bodies are assigned specific roles, rendered invisible, or hypersexualized, and subjected to power dynamics that dictate their place in social space.
What imaginaries surround Southeast Asian bodies? How do stereotypes normalize certain forms of work, proximity, or invisibility?
Drawing on the experiences of Filipino women, this intervention examines the mechanisms of control and hierarchy over immigrant bodies and opens pathways to reclaim and make them visible.
Free of charge, no registration required
Open to all
In French, English printed translation provided
Speaker
Natasha Lek Stegmann (she/her) is a Swiss-Singaporean activist, DJ, artist, and researcher. Her practice sits at the intersection of art, research, and activism, exploring migration, identity, public space, and otherness through queer, feminist, and decolonial perspectives. She develops projects such as Diasporaaaa (since 2023), the workshop Am I Asian Enough (2023, with Mélanie Cerezo Gobet), and the lecture-workshop Returning To Our Roots (2025). (2025). She collaborates with choreographer Mélanie Cerezo Gobet on projects including Mal de mère (2023) and T’es bonne ! (2026) as researcher and dramaturge. She is a founding member of ASU and MILLE SEPT SANS collectives.
The restaurant Les didascalies at Nuithonie offers a variety of meals to enjoy on site.
T’es bonne ! is a creation by Filipino-Swiss choreographer Mélanie Cerezo Gobet that highlights the diasporic experience of female Filipino domestic workers. The piece examines the meaning of sacrifice these women assume for their families, while navigating social expectations, colonial legacies, and contrasting moral norms. Through stories, imaginaries, and legends, including the emblematic figure of Maria Labo, illustrating tensions between motherhood, alienation, and stigma, the piece exposes the violences and pressures endured, while opening a space to rethink the injunction to be a “good mother” and a “good immigrant.”
Let’s enjoy a moment of fun after the show!
Where
Espace Nuithonie, Rue du Centre 7, 1752 Villars-sur-Glâne
Access
Bus 5 (Arrêt Cormanon)
On-site parking
A 25-minute walk from Fribourg station
Language
Workshop : French / English
Lecture : French with written translation in English
Eligbility
Lecture: open to all
Workshop: open to domestic workers and people of Asian descent.
Adoptees and their descendants are warmly welcome.
Program
Die Konferenz untersucht den weissen Blick und die Art und Weise, wie westliche Normen rassifizierte Hierarchien konstruieren und dadurch Sichtbarkeit, Raumeinnahme und Wahrnehmung asiatischer Körper in der Schweiz beeinflussen. Zudem wird beleuchtet, wie diese Darstellungen – darunter Hypersexualisierung, Fetischisierung und Desexualisierung von Körpern – soziale Interaktionen, Beziehungen und das Zugehörigkeitsgefühl prägen sowie welche psychologischen und körperlichen Auswirkungen sie haben.
Den Teilnehmenden werden Reflexions- und Empowerment-Ansätze in Form von theoretischen Inputs, Beispielen und Erfahrungsberichten vermittelt. Video- und Audioausschnitte aus der Popkultur veranschaulichen die Inhalte zusätzlich.
Offen für alle, Anmeldung erwünscht
Auf Französisch mit simultaner Übersetzung ins Deutsche
Der Workshop bietet zugängliche Übungen zu Bewegung, Körperwahrnehmung und Selbstbezug. Die Teilnehmenden sind eingeladen, Spannungen und Anpassungsmechanismen im Zusammenhang mit Rassismus zu erkunden und ihre körperliche Präsenz in einem wohlwollenden und inklusiven Rahmen neu zu erfahren.
By Mélanie Cerezo Gobet et Akané Nussbaum
Offen für asiatisch-diasporische Personen, Anmeldung obligatorisch
Auf Französisch und Deutsch
Bitte bequeme Kleidung zum Bewegen mitbringen
Austausch im informellen Rahmen
Wo?
L’Atelier, Place de Notre-Dame 16, 1700 Freiburg
Sprache
Französisch mit simultaner Übersetzung ins Deutsche
Zulassung
Konferenz: offen für alle
Workshop und Diskussion: ausschliesslich für asiatisch-diasporische Personen, Anmeldung erforderlich
Adoptierte Personen sowie deren Nachfahren sind herzlich willkommen.
Gratis
Workshop-lecture by Natasha Lek Stegmann
During this workshop–lecture, Natasha Lek Stegmann will present historical facts about eating or not eating meat from a decolonial perspective. She will also speak about identity, loss of identity, and most importantly, reconnection with one’s identity. The lecture will weave together historical, scientific and personal perspectives. Following the lecture, Natasha will facilitate a workshop inviting participants to question their relationship to eating meat, to their identity, and to their own contradictions.
Natasha Lek Stegmann (she/her) is an activist, musician, DJ, artist, and researcher with Swiss and Singaporean roots. Working between art, research, and activism, she draws on a background in social sciences, with studies in ethnology and human geography, to explore inclusion and exclusion, public space, migration, and otherness. Her perspective is informed by queer, feminist and decolonial thought, while striving to remain grounded, accessible and collaborative.
Her current projects include Diasporaaaa (since 2023), a multifaceted exploration of migration and identity featuring a podcast on Transition Radio. She created the workshop “Am I Asian Enough?” (2023) and Returning to Our Roots: A Decolonial Reflection on Plant-Based Living (2025), both addressing Asianity, belonging, and decolonial perspectives. Natasha also collaborates as a researcher and dramaturg with choreographer Mélanie Cerezo Gobet (Mal de Mère (2023) ; T’es bonne (2026)) and plays an active role in collective and associative work as a founding committee member of ASU and co-founder of MILLE SEPT SANS since 2015.
Workshop By HE Shen 何珅
The contemporary identity of tofu is multifaceted: it is both a racialized and queer agent, and a material that traverses histories, from its Taoist alchemical origins to Caséo-Sojaïne, the Parisian tofu factory that helped disseminate anarchist ideas to China. In this tofu workshop, we will engage these intertwined threads by making tofu collectively, cultivating solidarity, and opening space for creative experimentation. We will explore the political potential of collective tofu-making as a practice imbued with subversive resilience, pleasure, and mutual care. Together, we will reclaim tofu-making as a site of decolonial queer resistance.
He Shen 何珅 (they/them) is a spatial practitioner from Sichuan, currently teaching and researching at the Chair of Architecture and Care, ETH Zürich. Their work bridges architecture with queer and decolonial studies, exploring intersections of race, gender and sexuality with space. Shen is currently focused on food narratives, particularly tofu, tea, and rice, to unearth and radicalise forms of Asian queer resistance across national and continental borders yet often silenced or overlooked.Shen is a recipient of the City of Zürich Art Grant 2025, and a member of the Asian Future Collective. They previously taught at the Zürich University of the Arts and have presented theirwork widely, including the Architecture Foundation in London, the Nieuwe Instituut in Amsterdam, EPF Lausanne, Kunsthalle Bern, and Kunsthalle Zürich.
Community supper by Cho-Yu Wu
To close the day, chef Cho-Yu Wu invites participants to share a moment of care and conviviality around food. This will not be a participatory dinner in the formal sense, but rather a relaxed space of cook & talk, aka an informal moment to chat, taste and be together near the kitchen. Those who wish are welcome to lend a hand, stay around and join the conversation. This Community Supper resonates with the day’s reflection on food, identity and decolonial perspectives : a moment to connect, eat, and continue the conversation around nourishment in all its forms.
Cho-Yu Wu (she/her) is a Hongkie-born Swiss chef. Growing up in an immigrant family, food was always a central topic, a way to survive, but also a way to thrive and stay connected to one’s roots. She began cooking at an early age, helping while her parents were at work, and later discovered the demanding life of a restaurant owner’s child. Over the past ten years, she has cooked for people from all walks of life, including in international competitions. Her cuisine is a patchwork, blending the rural traditions of Chinese walled villages with elements of European fine dining, always guided by a sense of concept, taste, and emotion. Whether flexitarian, plant-based, or based on transformed textures, her dishes tell stories of migration, resilience and belonging.
Wo?
L’Atelier, Place de Notre-Dame 16, 1700 Freiburg
Sprache
Französisch mit simultaner Übersetzung ins Deutsche
Admissibilité
Conférence : tout public
Atelier et discussions : réservé aux personnes asio-descendantes, sur inscription Les personnes adopté·es et leurs descendant·es sont chaleureusement bienvenu·es.
Gratuit
Am 22. März 2025, im Rahmen der Woche gegen Rassismus und in Zusammenarbeit mit Info-Rassismus Freiburg, bietet das Kollektiv ASU zwei Veranstaltungen an:
11:00 – 12:00
Vortrag „Anti-asiatischer Rassismus: Historische Ursprünge und aktuelle Realität in der Schweiz“
13:30 – 16:00
Workshops und Diskussionen: „Am I Asian enough ?“
Kostenlos, Anmeldung über das untenstehende Formular erwünscht.
Snacks und Getränke werden angeboten, es ist kein Mittagessen vorgesehen. Restaurants befinden sich in der Nähe.
Anlässlich der Woche gegen Rassismus (Settimana Contro il Razzismo) im Tessin arbeitet das Kollektiv ASU mit Dialogue en route zusammen, um einen Sensibilisierungstag zum Thema Rassismus zu organisieren, der mit dem für diese Ausgabe der SCR gewählten Thema „Wörter“ und der Rolle der Medien bei der Verbreitung rassistischer Stereotypen zusammenhängt.
Die Veranstaltung wird in einem dynamischen World-Café-Format stattfinden, in dem drei verschiedene Themen im Zusammenhang mit Rassismus angesprochen werden, die jeweils von einem anderen Verein geleitet werden.
Das Kollektiv ASU wird für einen der Workshops verantwortlich sein, der sich auf anti-asiatischen Rassismus und insbesondere auf Sinophobie (anti-chinesischen Hass) konzentriert.
In unserem Workshop werden wir ein konkretes Beispiel analysieren: eine Reportage im italienischen Schweizer Fernsehen, die sich mit den „All you can eat“-Sushi-Restaurants an der Grenze zu Italien befasst, die von der Tessiner Kundschaft stark frequentiert werden, aber im Fernsehen oft in einer abwertenden und rassistischen Weise dargestellt werden.
Die Teilnehmenden haben die Möglichkeit, diese Inhalte zu dekonstruieren, indem sie darüber nachdenken, wie die gewählten Worte und Bilder eine verzerrte Sicht der Realität verstärken und Diskriminierung schüren können
Bias in prima pagina – Media e (anti)razzismo (Bias auf der ersten Seite – Medien und (Anti-)Rassismus)
15:15 – 17:00
World Café mit drei thematischen Workshops
17:30 – 19:00
Rundtischgesprächmit Experten und Expertinnen zum Thema Kommunikation und Sprache in den Medien
Auf Italienisch.
Gratis, auf Anmeldung über dieses Formular.
