Come check out this great talk in Montreal, Quebec, if you're in the
area! I'll be there talking about SiS...
*THINKING SMUT*
A DIY Porn Panel Discussion & Screening Session
Friday March 28, 2008
6:30-8:30pm
Thomson House
McGill University
3650 McTavish
Room 404
featuring:
Sharing is Sexy_San Diego, California
Pornopticon_Toronto, Ontario
Lickety Split_Montreal, Quebec
DIY Porn. Do you know enough to have an opinion?
It's the gender/sex/sexuality/desire matrix; it's the “it's complicated”
drop-down label; it's the personal-is-political-is-so-called-lifestyle
politics.
It's the space where the histories of our skin-its betrayals, its
exotifications, its rejections, its presumed innocence, its so-called
deficiencies and deformities-are called into question and laid bare.
For most DIY porn collectives, the act of making images is as important
as the images they make. This 'sex' (erotica? art?) is produced and
performed through collaborative, consensus-based work. At its best, it
seeks to decolonize imaginations and build alternatives to the
industry's exploitative economies, a space where sharing can be sexy.
DIY Porn. You might have an opinion. Maybe you also have an analysis, a
collection, a habit, a fetish, a secret, a practice, an addiction, a
worry, a desire, a vision.
Our invited panelists will share their projects and visions. These
presentations will lead into an open discussion about 'thinking smut'.
This event will have a safe space policy. Please come with an open mind
and open heart.
A GGFS-affiliated Event (Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship)
Sponsored by Queer McGill & QPIRG Concordia
Further Information on Panelists:
Sharing is Sexy
SiS is a collaborative open source porn laboratory. We are a group of
queer people, transgender people and people with othered bodies coming
together to create a site for free porn that is licensed under Creative
Commons (BY-NC-SA 3.0). We are creating our own porn using photography,
video, writing or any form that suits us. SiS is polyamorous so, we are
open to new members and looking to collaborate. <sharingissexy.org>
Pornopticon
Our Collective, evolved out of a desire to give visibility to multiple
forms of sexuality. Our main interest lies in redefining the sensing and
the sensed sexual bodies, and in developing a new aesthetic language
that pushes the body past the limits of its signification through
atypical forms of expression. For us, desire is never a single line but
originates from bodies that are already multiple, and the collective
itself is a way of engaging with this multiplicity. We understand our
art as a coming together of bodies in new molecular formations. Along
these lines, the question as to whether this will ever become a new
(micro)politics of sexuality is not as important as the actual
experience of sharing and coming together to keep exploring.
Lickety Split
Lickety Split is a pansexual smut zine dedicated to encouraging
sex-positive expression and thought. The zine promotes collaborative art
making and encourages diverse contributions to climb into bed with one
another, because one sexual expression just does not satisfy. Lickety
Split wants to help make the masses cum with smutty photography and art,
essays and stories in order to fulfill the whole human being and address
the complexity of sex.
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