[...] Prostitution, porn and feminism. Webwhore manifesto: feminist manifesto that reindicates the decriminalisation of sex work and the use of internet as a tool.
Netporn. How internet has subverted the flow of information and has completely changed the access to porn material.
Pornography and feminist movements. From the antiporn positions of Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin to the anticensorship of Gayle Rubin and Carole Vance.
Women against pornography vs Women against censorship.
Women in “feminist porn”. Classics like Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman or recent creators like Maria Beatty, Emilie Jouvet from France or Cronika from Mexico.
Connections between post-porn and the queer movement. Queer as the fight against heterosexist stereotypes and pink capitalism. Queer as the breaking force of the social construccions of woman-man, gay-lesbian. Butch-femme roles and drag kings.
The objectification of woman’s body. Sexual trangression as a feminist strategy. If women’s naked bodies have symbolized patriarchal sexual repression, is it really possible to subvert this gaze?
The representation of men as objects of desire. Most of the images of men are made from a gay perspective. Why? Are women not desiring male bodies? How can we create a sexual imagery that represents our desires without degrading the objects of our desires?
Yes, we desire all kinds of bodies in fact. Men, women, whatever. And men’s bodies are sexy. But perhaps we do not want to do it in the way men have used the body of women as an object to impose their power upon them. Perhaps women are not willing to do it in the same abusive, degrading way the male has been doing it. How can we do it?
As women our role in pornography has always been in front of the camera. But now we want to be behind it - and in front of it. We want to make porno. And not only this: we want to subvert the image of our sexuality that has been constructed by the industry of porn. We want to create pornography that subverts the genre’s sexism. Explore our desires. Sexualities multiply, queer theory as catalyst. As women our desire has been excluded, our sexuality vulgarised.
Here are some of the main areas that we explore in workshops we do:
Origin of the term “Pornography”.Invented during the Victorian period of 19th century England, pornography is composed of two greek words : porne / “prostitute” and grafia / “description”. It emerged to describe, in a disapproving way, the sexually explicit images (or “daguerrotypes”) that began to circulate amongst the working class due to the invention of photography.
Different conceptions of pornography. From Andrea Dworkin´s definition as mediatic prostitution to the new definitions of postporno of Marie Helene Bourcier.-Dichotomy between pornography and erotism: erotism as euphemism of elegant porn. Pornography as cinematographic genre and as constructor of realities.
From: "GIRLS WHOLIKE PORNO (Barcelona)" (2006 ?)
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http://www.logoparc.com/postpornpolitics/girls.htm-.-
[...] 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.
From: "CONFESSIONS OF A PORN (FASHION) VICTIM
INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE PERSONAL NETPORN EXPERIENCE.
Katrien Jacobs - panel with Matteo Pasquinelli and Marije Janssen" (2006?)
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http://www.logoparc.com/postpornpolitics/katrien.htmKatrien Jacobs is a scholar, curator and artist and works as assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. She was born in Belgium and received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in 1960s/1970s body art and performance media. She has lectured widely and co-organized several conferences and events, such as the Institute of Network Cultures’ “Art and Politics of Netporn.” http://networkcultures.org/netporn. She recently finished a book entitled Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art. (2005, Maska Publications) http://www.libidot.org. Her new book ‘The Sexual Chemistry of Internet Pornography” analyzes the boom of indie porn sex on the Internet is forthcoming with Rowman and Littlefield, USA.