Post Porn Politics
Book launch: Thursday 3 June 2010 6.30
-8.30 pm
Queer_Feminist Perspective on
the Politics of Porn Performances and Sex_Work as
Cultural Produktion
What
happens after the pornographic moment? What is the
post. . . in porn? What is post to the term that is
porn? Why watch porn? Why not? Or why not look for
“other” porn? Why not produce post-porn? How do we
theorize sex performance?
How do we produce new body- and sex-technologies? How
do we celebrate critical pleasures? How do we analyze
and criticize without censorship? Why affirm the
fetish? Why sexualize alienation? How do we intensify
the relation between theory and practice? Why is power
sexy? Why is the body a victim of capitalist
commodification? Why don´t we perform and show sex
differently, instead of idealizing a way back to
nature? A symposium on the biopolitics of pornography.
The concept called "post-porn" was invented
by erotic photographer Wink van Kempen and made
popular by sexwork-activist and performance artist
Annie M. Sprinkle. It claimed a new status of sexual
representation: Through identifying with critical joy
and agancy while deconstructing its hetero/normative
and naturalising conditions, Sprinkle made us think of
sex as a category open for use and appropriation of
queer_feminist counter-pleasures beyond the
victimising framework of censorship and taboo.
Contributions
by:
Murat Aydemir (Visual / Cultural Theorist, Amsterdam)
Bruce La Bruce (Queer Filmmaker, Berlin / Toronto)
Maxime Cervulle (Queer Theorist, Paris)
Shu Lea Cheang (Cyber_Visual Artist, Paris / Taiwan)
Katja Diefenbach (Political Philosopher, Maastricht /
Berlin)
Lee Edelman (Queer Philosopher, Tufts University /
USA)
Stephan Geene (Political Theorist,Berlin)
Werner Hirsch (Drag_King / Performance Artist, Berlin)
Katrien Jacobs (Visual / Media Theorist, Hong Kong)
Maria Llopis / GirlsWhoLikePorno (Filmmaker /
Activist, Barcelona)
Bubu De La Madeleine (Performance Artist / Sexwork
Activist, Osaka / Kyoto)
Matteo Pasquinelli (Political / Media Theorist,
Amsterdam / London)
Beatriz Preciado (Queer Philosopher, Barcelona)
Annie M. Sprinkle (Performance Artist / Sexwork
Activist, San Francisco)
Elizabeth M. Stephens (Visual / Performance Artist,
San Francisco)
Terre Thaemlitz (Audio / Visual Artist, Kawasaki /
Japan)
Cosey Fanni Tutti (Audio / Visual Artist, London)
Todd Verow (Queer Filmmaker, New York)
Tobaron Waxman (Visual Artist / Toronto, New York)
William Wheeler (Drag_Queen / Performance / Video
Artist, Berlin / Mississipi)
Michaela Wünsch (Cultural / Queer Theorist, Berlin)
Chantal Zakari (Visual Artist / Media Researcher,
Boston)
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Treating of Matters
Which He Who Reads Will See, and He Who Listens to
Them, When Read, Will Hear
Book
launch: Wednesday 9 June 2010 6.30 -8.30 pm
A
publication by Royal College of Art Communication Art
& Design Students
Can
we make design history research and the sharing of its
resources a more active part of everyday graphic
design practice, How can we question the gender and
racial biases of available histories? Could we pursue
a new form of writing design history, less confined to
proven academic models, more intuitive or creative,
thereby taking greater control over our profession and
how it is translated or related in existing histories?
List
of contributors: Pedro Cid Proenca, David Crowley,
Alexandre Dumas De Rauly, Sara De Bondt, Sophie Demay,
Marine Duroselle,, Sophie Dutton, Jules Esteves, Mick
Farren, Mael Fournier-Comte, Lola Halifa-Legrand,
Angelina Li, Will Holder, Richard Hollis, Yi Lin
Juliana Ong, Savage Pencil, Francois Rappo, Adrian
Rifkin, Marsha Rowe, Michel Wlassikoff & Afonso
Duart
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