[ecrea] PERFORMING PORN (after the computer became boring)

Just a quick reminder about the deadline for paper&  artwork submssions.
Please submit your proposals by the end of this week (the 14th).

The event website is now online:
www.performingporn.yolasite.com
More material and information will be added to the site over the next couple of weeks.

Best,
Dani




> > > Call for artwork and papers. Deadline: 14 June<<<

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PERFORMING PORN (after the computer became boring)
an event with/about performance art and sex
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]performance  s p a c e [ London, 12&  13 July 2013
http://www.facebook.com/events/435174113246140/

confirmed artists/speakers:
Annie Sprinkle&  Beth Stephens
Sophia Disgrace
Sharif Mowlabocus
Zahra Stardust&  Dani Ploeger


PERFORMING PORN (after the computer became boring) is concerned with the intersections of performance art and pornography, in the context of changing experiences of everyday technologies.

Performance art and pornography have been interrelated in a variety of intricate ways, particularly since the emergence of body-based performance art practices in the 1960s. Whereas feminist work in the 60s and 70s at times explicitly opposed pornography for its problematic gender politics, from the 1980s pornographers such as Annie Sprinkle have produced work that ventures beyond normative gender stereotypes and aesthetic clichés, and blurs the boundaries between performance art and sex work. The arrival of Web 2.0, which enables Internet users to generate and disseminate their own content, has opened new possibilities for performance artists, sex workers, and artist-sex workers. Now, it has become possible to broadcast work widely with limited means and without the need to conform to the norms of the porn, entertainment and art industries.

However, this apparent democratization of performance documentation and dissemination has problematic aspects as well. Apart from a tendency to re-inscribe the norms of mainstream content in user-led production, the universal accessibility and hyperlinking of user-generated content has arguably contributed to the pornification of the perception of body-based performance art in online platforms such as Vimeo and Youtube. The popularity of ‘amateur’ or ‘unedited’ footage has also given rise to a range of simulations of such content, thus further blurring experiences and understandings of authenticity. And since digital porn is now accessible everywhere at anytime in the western world, it has arguably lost some of its thrill: the computer has become boring. Can body-based performance art practices offer a response?


CALL FOR PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO PERFORMANCE WORK (deadline: 14 June)
The event will include a number of live-performances, and a small exhibition of video work.
Please send proposals with the following information (toperformingporn /at/ gmail.com):
-Description of the work, preferably accompanied by sketches/photos/video
-Space requirements
-Duration of work (can be on-going/durational as well)
-Tech rider
-Artist website
-Short bio
-Place you will be travelling from

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline: 14 June)
The event will include several paper sessions
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
-How might performance art practices extend, challenge or subvert established and emerging norms in pornography?
-What are the consequences of the blurring of the boundaries between the genres performance art and pornography in online representation?
-Can performance art practices engaging with (digitized) sexuality contribute to a deconstruction of the ideology of infinite technological ‘progress’?
Please send 300 word abstracts accompanied by a short biography to:(performingporn /at/ gmail.com)


PERFORMING PORN (after the computer became boring) is organized by Dani Ploeger, in collaboration with ]performance  s p a c e [, CUNTemporary, and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University.


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Dr Daniel Ploeger
Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Arts
Brunel University London
www.DaniPloeger.org
www.ContemporaryPerformanceMaking.com
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