post-porn

Isaac Julien: The Attendant (1993)

Posted July 24, 2015 · Add Comment

The plot revolves around sexual fantasies aroused in a middle-aged black male museum guard — or attendant — by a young white male visitor. Much of the action takes place after closing time. As the guard paces the galleries, a huge 19th-century painting titled “Slaves on the West Coast of Africa”, by the French artist François-Auguste Biard, comes to life, its melodramatic scene of a white master bending over a dying black slave transformed into an up-to-date, leather clad sadomasochistic grouping.

TROPICAL VIDEO ACTIVISM. Transformative Illegalities & Post-Porning Genders

Posted March 3, 2015 · Add Comment

Curated by Fernanda Nogueira

March 7, 2015, 4-9pm, VBKÖ, Vienna

This screening program stems from the urgencies of a collective body, a body formed by fragments, a mutant, which resists any classification, provocative, unsatisfied, which creates new ways of living by acting in the territory of transgression. Tropical Video Activism presents video productions – either registers of actions or more experimental poetics – as signs to make visible, read and spread social transformations, which are in furious excitement in the public sphere in many Southern geographies.

These processes are not happening just in a single territory. We can map the social effervescence, the networks arising and intensifying the emergence and encounter of new transborder communities capable of sharing activist tools and circulating critical information which in the past could only be found in independent, underground and thought marginal networks. Facing the urgency of action and its various potentialities in these different territories, the modern categories such as “originality” or “authenticity” are turned obsolete. In contrast, a broader notion of “network” is strengthen daily in the configuration of a collective battlefield […]

Shu Lea Cheang: FLUIDØ (2017)

Posted March 3, 2015 · Add Comment

Following the acclaimed cyberpunk movie I.K.U., which premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and screened worldwide, Shu Lea Cheang is set to direct FLUIDØ in 2015 with Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion and Berlin-based crew and cast members.

Set in the post-AIDS future of 2060, where the Government is the first to declare the era AIDS FREE, mutated AIDS viruses give birth to ZERO GEN – humans that have genetically evolved in a very unique way. These gender fluid ZERO GENs are the bio-drug carriers whose white fluid is the hypernarcotic for the 21st century, taking over the markets of the 20th century white powder high. The ejaculate of these beings is intoxicating and the new form of sexual commodity in the future. The new drug, code named DELTA, diffuses through skin contact and creates an addictive high.

Alianzas tullido transfeministas a traves de la sexualidad y la postpornografía

Posted May 13, 2014 · Add Comment

Presentación y proyección de vídeo a cargo de Pornortopedia y postporno tullido Nexos. Con la participación de Post-Op, Lucrecia Masson y Patricia Carmona.

La idea es contribuir al imaginario pornografico con la visibilización de cuerpos que se salen de los parámetros de normalidad corporal (tullidos, marimachos, trans, gordxs…) y mostrar como deseables las prácticas a las que estas corporalidades invitan.

“No es lo que el postporno puede hacer por la personas con diversidad funcional, sino precisamente estos cuerpos que se mueven y sienten de una manera no mayoritaria lo que pueden hacer por la sexualidad colectiva, ampliando prácticas e imáginarios.”

Morty Diamond: Trans Entities. The Nasty love of Papi’ and Wil (2007)

Posted April 8, 2014 · Add Comment

This movie by Morty Diamond captures a real couple discussing their sex, sexuality and gender identity while also having hot, sensual sex as the camera rolls. This is one of the first transgender erotic movies to discuss and demonstrate role play as a rich and meaningful part of a couple’s sex life. Papi’ and Wil […]

Bruce LaBruce: Super 8 1/2 (1993)

Posted September 9, 2013 · Add Comment

LaBruce stars in this vaguely autobiographical look at a triple-X star-director caught in the downward spiral of his career. Remarks Googie, the art-house auteur who’s either exploiting LaBruce or launching his comeback, “He was actually attempting to break down the whole subject-camera relationship… It was as if he was an existentialist trapped in a porno star’s body.” Well, almost.

Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: The Threat of the Future (1983)

Posted May 31, 2013 · Add Comment

With the song by Yello “Pin ball cha cha” and the singer that invites us to watch by singing “Come, come closer to me, I tell you man you will see…” we enter in the dance performed by Marina Grzinic. The public is in relation to the dance as in a peep show, implying a pornographic camera eye but as well a certain cannibalisation/pornographic perpetuation of our lives by the law and mass media that from 1980s will transform the paradigm of society and discipline into society and control. Therefore we have a duplication of roles, Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid in front of the camera as in some kind of cinema verite (talking about their sexual lives and lesbian attitudes) and Grzinic/ Smid on the TV behind them as a night show.

Katia Sepulveda: Pascha Revolution (2011)

Posted January 26, 2013 · Add Comment

Performance on February 14th 2011, Cologne, Germany, 12:30 p.m. “Anticapitalism of love” with Amy Rush. Sepulveda and Rush are having sex at the main entrance of Pascha”, the biggest brothel in Cologne, intervening the „power architecture“, and the hyper-heteronormativity they represent. Katia Sepulveda’s work focuses on questions related to sex, gender and sexuality, resistance to […]

Shu Lea Cheang: I.K.U. (2000)

Posted August 3, 2012 · Add Comment

Shu Lea Cheang is best known for her 2000 cult smash I.K.U. in which sensual cyborgs fuck for information and pleasure. The film, heavily influenced by Blade Runner, is perhaps the first cyperpunk movie to radically explore the possibilities of cybernetic sexualities. The pioneer in the field of media art embraced internet and hacking culture early on, recognizing both its capacity to enslave as well as liberate, mixing that with queer and sexually explicit imagery bringing something new to the cultural landscape. Cheang describes herself as both a “cyberhomesteader” and a “high-tech aborigine” hinting at meta-levels of not only her own life, but the worlds of her films.

Lucia Egaña: My Sexuality is an Artistic Creation (2011)

Posted October 2, 2011 · Add Comment

Postporn emerges in the 90’s with Annie Sprinkle as a response to conventional pornography and its incomplete and utilitarian representation of women sexuality. My sexuality is an artistic creation documents the postporn scene taking important place in Barcelona within the last decade. Through the archive material, DIY postporn videos, performances documentation and public space interventions, […]