[rohrpost] post / porn / politics / symposium 14-15 October, volksbühne berlin.

[Tsila Hassine]

post / porn / politics / symposium 14-15 October, volksbühne berlin.
http://www.postpornpolitics.com/
A symposium on the biopolitics of pornography.


Why watch porn?
Why not?
Or why not look for "other" porn?
How theorize sex performances?
How produce other body-technologies?
How celebrate critical pleasures?
How criticise without censorship?
Why affirm the fetish?
Why sexualise alienation?
How intensify the relation between theory & practice?
Why is power sexy?
Why the body a victim of capitalist commodification?
Why not fuck different, instead of idealising a way back to nature?

The term post porn was made famous by the sexworker and performance artist
Annie Sprinkle which established a new level of sexual representation:
Through identifying with joy, independence and agency in sex-performance,
Sprinkle made us think of sex as a queer/feminist counter-pleasure outside
the victimising framework of censorship and taboo.
Today, queer theorists like Beatriz Preciado or Marie-Helene Boucier
re-evalue the term post-porn to theorise sex in the age of transgender
subjectivity and disidentification, drag and cyberspace. When understanding
pornography as a central dispositif of late capitalism for the normalisation
and disciplination of pleasures and bodies, political ambivalences and
counter-strategies are needed to be discussed and mapped out without
totalising cultural pessimism.
This symposium, which features theorists, performers, filmmakers, artists
and musicians, understands itself as a political intervention into both the
heteronormative landscape of commercial porn production and the discourses
of the mainstream public which make it impossible to think and practice
criticism and pleasure at the same time.
In two conference-days, a performance night and a final party,
queer-feminist approaches to porn are discussed, reflected, valued and
affirmed in a wide range of contributions between utopia and scepticism.
Participants:
bruce la bruce. filmmaker. toronto.
maxime cervulle. theorist. paris.
shu lea cheang. artist. paris.
katja diefenbach. theorist. berlin.
lee edelman. theorist. yale.
stephan geene. theorist / filmmaker. berlin.
girlswholikeporno. performers / filmmakers. barcelona.
werner hirsch. performance artist.
katrien jacobs. theorist / artist. hongkong.
marije janssen. theorist. amsterdam.
bubu de la madeleine. performance artist. kyoto.
matteo pasquinelli. curator / critic. london.
rhythm king & her friends. musicians. berlin.
elizabeth stephens. artist. san francisco.
annie sprinkle. artist. san francisco.
terre thaemlitz. musician / artist. kawasaki
todd verow. filmmaker. new york.
william wheeler. performance artist. berlin / mississipi.

concept and organisation by tim
stüttgen<http://www.logoparc.com/postpornpolitics/tim.htm>
with the jan van eyck academy <http://www.janvaneyck.nl/>, maastricht, nl.
In collaboration with the porn film festival
berlin<http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/>and the volksbühne
berlin <http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/>.
Presented by spex <http://www.spex.de/> and b_books <http://www.bbooks.de/>.