Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens: Assuming the Ecosexual Position
The Love Art Lab at The Lab
http://www.thelab.org/events/424-loveartlab.html
The Lab,
2948 16th Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103.
415.864.8855 | http://www.thelab.org
Saturday, February 13, 2010
8:00 p.m. | Doors at 7:30 p.m.
$7 - $10 sliding scale | No one turned away for lack of funds
FREE with Lab membership
In celebration of Valentine's Day and this new decade pregnant with
possibilities for change and transformation, acclaimed performance artist
and sex educator Annie Sprinkle and her partner, interdisciplinary artist
and activist Elizabeth Stephens, take you on a joyous and inspiring journey
as they explore, generate, and celebrate love through art. They will weave
their amazing stories, share some dazzling images, and do mini-performances
about their experiments in romance, artificial insemination, breast cancer,
sex education, performance art weddings, and other love-inspired projects.
Currently investigating "ecosexuality," these two dynamic women are mapping
a new field of research they coined "sexecology" - the place where sexology
and ecology intersect. Perhaps you'll discover that you, too, are an
ecosexual.
The evening's proceedings will also feature an erotic cake contest. Audience
members are encouraged to participate by bringing a luscious, lascivious
desert of their own making. Every cake will win a prize, with the most
wildly erotic cakes of various categories taking special honors, and one
very extraordinary cake winning the grand prize. Be creative! Categories may
include Best Vegan Cake, Best Ecosexual Cake, Most Avant Garde Cake, Best
Non-edible Cake (Cake as Sculpture!), and more.
The Love Art Laboratory project grew out of Stephens' and Sprinkle's
response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our
prevailing culture of greed and ignorance, which causes the destruction of
the planet. It has developed into something much larger than the artists
could have imagined. Love Art Laboratory events are symbolic gestures which
aim to instill hope, counter fear, and be a call for action to help make the
world a kinder, gentler and more loving place.
Annie Sprinkle was a prostitute and porn star for twenty years, then became
an internationally acclaimed performance artist and sex educator. She has
authored six books, and produced and starred in her own brand of feminist
"post porn" films. Much of her work was inspired by her experiences with
psychoactive substances, shamanic journeys, tantra and ecstasy breathing.
Sprinkle is currently a popular visiting artist lecturer at colleges and
universities. She has a Ph.D. in human sexuality. She toured four different
one-woman theater pieces about her life to sixteen countries.
Elizabeth Stephens is interdisciplinary artist and activist who has explored
themes of sexuality, gender, and feministic politics through art and
performance for over 20 years. She is a professor in the Art Department at
the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently pursuing her
Ph.D. in Performance Studies at University of California, Davis.
Sprinkle and Stephens live ecstatically together, along with their dog Bob,
in San Francisco.
Event sponsors for the evening include Good Vibrations, Madame Butterfly,
and Vixen Creations.
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