symposium
POST
PORN
POLI
TICS
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.
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
Why watch porn? Why not? Or why not
look for “other” porn? How theorize sex
performances? How produce other bodytechnologies?
How celebrate critical
pleasures? How criticise without censorship?
Why affirm the fetish? Why sexualise
alienation? How intensify the
relation between theory and practice? Why
is power sexy? Why is the body a victim of
capitalist commodification? Why not fuck
different, instead of idealising a way back
to nature? A symposium on the biopolitics
of pornography.
The term post-porn was made famous by
sex worker and performance artist Annie
Sprinkle. It established a new level of
sexual representation: through identifying
with joy, independence and agency in sexperformance,
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 reevalue
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 disciplining 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 on, valued and
affirmed in a wide range of contributions
between utopia and scepticism.
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