Husbands is the performance duo of artists and choreographers Yevheniya Kravets (Amsterdam/Zurich) and Yann Slattery (Basel). While fabulating on queer-trans utopian fiction, their work plays with notions of masculinity and fluid-homo intimacies from a trans-masc perspective.

They use gamer language and structures as tools for interaction with their surroundings and the audience – bleeding out, glitching in-between, yielding, adding players and forever transforming. Coming from a place of playfulness, the duo’s practice questions the relationship between audience and performer – challenging the purported power dynamics of the gaze.

At Norbergfestival 2025, Husbands will present a new adaptation of their performance Playbois (2023), a choreography with original score exploring intimacy within the gendered scripts of game engine mechanics. The duo glitch between a number of both Playable and Non-Playable game Characters that are seemingly moved around the gamespace via a collaged choreography, fusing movement material from different GTA characters, such as the pimp and the stripper.

Within this broken gameplay, the playbois fluctuate between getting played and playing themselves, searching for moments of resistance within the role of the trickster.

Husbands will perform as part of Norbergfestival's bleed: lineup.