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POST
PORN
POLI
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Post Porn Politics Symposium Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 October 2006 Volksbühne, Berlin

Queer feminist perspectives on the biopolitics of porn performance and sex as culture production. (Das Symposium wird primär in englischer Sprache stattfinden!)

Lectures /
Films /
Performances /
Presentations
and
Party.


With contributions by:

Bruce La Bruce (Filmmaker, Toronto)
Maxime Cervulle (Theorist, Paris)
Shu Lea Cheang (Artist, Tokyo)
Virginie Despentes (Filmmaker / Author, Paris)
Katja Diefenbach (Theorist, Berlin)
Lee Edelman (Theorist, Yale)
Stephan Geene (Theorist , Berlin)
Girlswholikeporno (Performers / Filmmakers, Barcelona)
Katrien Jacobs (Theorist / Artist, Hongkong)
Marije Janssen (Theorist, Amsterdam)
Bubu De La Madeleine (Performance Artist, Kyoto)
Matteo Pasquinelli (Curator / Critic, London)
Beatriz Preciado (Theorist, Paris)
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)
Del La Grace Volcano (Visual Artist, Göteburg)
William Wheeler (Performance Artist, Berlin / Mississipi)

Practical Information

Admission:

Daily Conference
1 day 6 Euro

Daily Conference
2 days 10 Euro

Night Program
Saturday 12 Euro

Night Program
Sunday 10 Euro

Ticket Saturday
Conference & Party 15 Euro

Ticket Sunday
Conference & Party 15 Euro

Night Program
Weekend Ticket 15 Euro

Symposium
Weekend Ticket 20 Euro

Booking:

Advance booking is recommended.
For further info please check www.postpornpolitics.com

For books contact the Volksbuehne Berlin at
0049 30 240 65 777 or www.volksbuehne-berlin.de

Volksbühne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Linienstraße 227
10178 Berlin
T 0049 30 24 06 55

Organisation:


Tim Stüttgen (Researcher Theory Department, Jan van Eyck Academie) in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), the Volksbühne Berlin and the PornfilmfestivalBerlin.
Contact: timiboi@yahoo.de Presented by b_books and Spex

www.postpornpolitics.com
www.janvaneyck.nl
www.volksbuehne-berlin,de
www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de

Post Porn Politics Symposium Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 October 2006 Volksbühne, Berlin

Warum Porno gucken? Warum nicht? Oder warum nach anderen Pornos suchen? Wie Sex-Performance theoretisieren? Wie andere Körper produzieren? Wie kritische Lüste feiern? Wie zensurlos kritisieren? Warum den Fetisch feieren? Wie Pornographie diskutieren? Wie Pro-Sex-Feminismus und Queerismus connecten? Wie Entfremdung sexualisieren? Warum Theorie und Praxis verkomplifizieren? Warum ist Macht sexy? Und warum der Körper ein Opfer kapitalistischer Vergesellschaftung? Warum nicht lieber anders ficken, anstatt Naturzustände zurückzuersehnen? Ein Symposium, das Sex als Kulturproduktion diskutieren und problematisieren, intensivieren und feiern soll.

Auf dem Symposium Post Porn Politics setzen sich Filmemacherinnen und Performance-Künstlerinnen, queere Aktivistinnen und Filmwissenschaftlerinnen, feministische Künstlerinnen und andere Produzentinnen ins Interface mit dem dreckigen Dings namens Porno. Anstatt weiter auf traditionellen Positionen der Zensur zu bestehen, sollen historisch und kritisch, aber auch affirmativ und produktiv nach neuen Strategien aus dem Zentrum der Macht gesucht werden. Oder neue Körper in es hinein?

Day One
Saturday
14 October


11:00
Doors open

12:00
Introduction
Tim Stüttgen:
Post Porn Politics

12:30
Lecture
Katja Diefenbach:
Dyed in white.
On fetishistic repetition, commodity and body experiences.


13:15
Presentation
Todd Verow:
How to shoot sex scenes and become a porn star.

14:00
Lecture
Maxime Cervulle:
Poor guys do it better. Ethnic gay pornography and class.

14:45
Break

15:30
Presentation
Bruce La Bruce:
But is it art ? Notes from a reluscant pornographer.

16:15
Lecture
Lee Edelman:
Toward dehumanization: pornography and the queer event.

17:00
Final discussion

21:00
Presentation:
GirlsWhoLikePorno

22:30
Performative lecture
Annie Sprinkle:
My life and work as a post porn modernist for 30 years.

00:00
Performance night
with
contributions by:
Shu Lea Cheang /
Bubu De La Madeleine /
William Wheeler
and others…


01:00
DJ Sprinkles aka
Terre Thaemlitz

Day Two
Sunday
15 October


11:00
Doors open

12:00
Book reading
Virginie Despentes:
Porn witch

12:45
Lecture
Stephan Geene
The happiness of the displaced feeling: the invisible hand, penis surrogates and sex.

13:30
Lecture
Terre Thaemlitz:
Viva McGlam? Is transgenderism a critique of or capitulation to opulence driven glamour models?

14:15
Break

15:00
Performative presentation
Annie Sprinkle /
Elizabeth Stephens:

Post Porn Love !

16:00
Performative presentation
Beatric Preciado /
Del La Grace Volcano:

Post Porn & New Technologies of Pleasure

17:30
Final discussion

21:00
Panel
Katrien Jacobs /
Matteo Pasquinelli /
Marije Janssen:

Confessions of a porn (fashion) victim
Interviews about the personal netporn experience.


How do you like your porn today? With the arrival of new technologies like internet, myspace and youtube, something has changed in the world of porn. It became possible for everybody to access porn and to share with people from every corner of the planet.
You can surf the net for those special sexual desires that you thought no one shared with you. Or you can show your home made work to the world. There are always people who will love you for it. We want to know how people experienced online porn in their own life. From our porn celebrities at the artporn festival to our 'normal' neighbor, to see what they will confess to us about their online porn use.

23:00
Concert
Rhythm King & Her Friends

00:00
DJs