Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The
gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and
similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the
back seats of cars, and people fucking in parks. Housing for
unconventional family units. Augmented reality sex spaces. Furniture
for sex. Room design. Creating new environments. Gendered spaces, and
gender in the creation of space. Architecture by women, and the
potential for the construction of a feminist architecture. Actively
gender-segregated spaces, as both empowering and oppressing.
Queer-segregated spaces, similarly. The acts of human intimacy,
sexual intercourse, and procreation in weightlessness and the extreme
environments of space. Erotic space tourism. The visibility of sex,
genders, and relationship structures in various spaces. Spaces of
sexual control and permissiveness. Sexual subcultures as spaces of
social division. Spatial enforcement of relationship structures and
gendered power structures. Geotagging as an expression for kinks. The
sexual reading of architecture, especially around historical and
modern styles and concerning ornament and detail. The eroticization
of buildings -- architecture for whorehouses, the Las Vegas strip,
people who want to sleep with buildings. What makes design "sexy" and
the construction of "sexy" as an architectural category as a comment
on late heteronormativity. The terabyte gloryhole. The space in which
the male gaze occurs and the space it defines.
Heterosexism, misogyny, and heterocentrism reinforce the dominant
cultural structure and contribute to the oppression of large sectors
of society. Sexuality, sex, gender, and related constructs are
heavily implicated in and reproduce space, and are also constrained
and restricted by it and by heterosexism. Let's explore this space of
interactions -- send us your ideas for talks, performances, films and machines.
<mailto:arse2010 AT monochrom.at>Contact.
Deadline: February 28, 2010.
<http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika>Arse Elektronika page
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