New strategies for making use of public space
Part of the Festival Protesta
A workshop with E/ Urko
Saturday, October 5th 11 a.m.
At ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
Organised by the Festival Protesta and ACVIC
Free activity. Bookings arranged through the registration form, up to 22 places.
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Ecosex is a non-essentialist, anti-capitalist, and post-identity practice which allows us to play with nature individually or collectively in a stimulating way. It is inspired by the ecological strategy of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, who propose to play/communicate/treat nature in a more egalitarian fashion..
We will concentrate on ecosex practices, and on the revolutionary potential of approaching nature from queer and post-porn perspectives. We will learn to feel nature in a sexual and sensual way. We will be conscious of the environment when having sex, and we will change the ways in which we look at, and feel, the water, the wind, the earth, the air...
Ecosex allows you, both in solitude and in sharing with others, to expand your imagination, and to enjoy a pleasurable sexuality with nature.
Public spaces are made for the enjoyment of citizens but, at the same time, are governed by increasingly restrictive "civic" laws which make their use impossible.
We propose to sexualise our environment within the urban context; parks, gardens, common walls. During the workshop we will give a theoretical introduction to the concept of ecosex and BDSM botany, and we will propose exercises to eventually appropriate the urban green spaces on the people’s behalf.
Curiosities:
• The concept of ecosex was born in the 1970s by ecologists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, with the idea of re-appropriating public space in a very different way.
• Post-porn is an artistic and political movement which seeks to reformulate pornography, criticising its more commercial and traditional version, but without denying the sexual stimulation produced by audiovisual content.
• The difference between post-porn and conventional pornography is that in the former there is a diversity of bodies and sexual practices which make dissidences visible, expanding the collective images of what is, and what is not erotic.
• The goal of post-porn is not to excite the audience, but to question the heteronormative, patriarchal, capitalist, and androcentric system.