BODYPOLITICX
EVENTS/ ACTIVITEITEN
All events are free of charge/ Alle activiteiten zijn gratis toegankelijk.
FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
6:00 p.m.
Exhibition opens
7:30 p.m.
Welcome by Nicolaus Schafhausen and a short introduction by the curators.
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Roundtable discussion with Thomas Bayrle, Jürgen Brüning, Thomas
Edlinger, Eon McKai, Olaf Metzel, Panik Qulture and Florian Waldvogel.
Adopting a format that privileges conversations in small groups, this
discussion evening will place a BODYPOLITICX exhibitor or curator at
each table and invite the public to join them to discuss the themes
raised by the exhibition.
Language: English
Location: WdW Auditorium
10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Jürgen Brüning’s The Porn Ensemble presents The Porn Dialogue
with Jürgen Anger, Tatiana Cerezita, Alexander Gonzales, Florian Manns
and Kiki L’Objective.
The Porn Dialogue is an exploration of today’s tendencies to embrace the
human body as a field of interest by researchers, film-makers, artists
and theorists. The naked human body has been the subject of
interrogation of all beliefs since we first existed. Nowadays, we have
to keep in mind all these pre-existing judgements when we carry out such
an exploration, as all judgments reflect and represent a certain point
of view. Can we still explore and discover the human body without being
judgemental? An ensemble of five experts will take you on a ride into
your inner desires and their reflections. Don't expect a solution. We
live in a world of cruelty that holds only banal answers.
Language: English
Location: WdW Auditorium
Numbers are limited and doors will be closed at 10:15 p.m.
Contains explicit material. Entry restricted to over 18s only.
11:30 p.m.
Party: DJ Fritz Ostermeyer plays Porn Tunes
Location: De Unie, Mauritsweg 25, Rotterdam.
SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
7:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.
Porn: reject, embrace, or something else? lecture by Willem van
Batenburg (film producer, Utrecht)
Reading from his book It will all come up again, van Batenburg reveals
the fascinations and experiences of a naïve film-maker who discovers the
world of sex, erotica and pornography during the sexual revolution, and
who makes it his own profession. A lecture with images and film excerpts
from Batenburg’s own work, as the first porn producer in the Netherlands.
Language: Dutch
Location: WdW Auditorium
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Jürgen Brüning’s The Porn Ensemble presents The Porn Dialogue (see text
above)
Language: English
Location: WdW Auditorium
THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER
7:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m.
Matias Faldbakken (artist/author) and Michael Turner (author) in dialogue.
In the informal setting of a local bar, two distinguished writers have
an open conversation about pornography and literature. Novelist Michael
Turner (Vancouver) is author of the 1999 bestseller The Pornographer’s
Poem, for which he was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Artist
and writer Matias Faldbakken (Oslo) has published two novels, The Cocka
Hola Company and Macht und Rebel, the first two parts of a
yet-unfinished Misanthropy Trilogy. His work was presented in the Nordic
Pavilion of the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Location: De Schouw, Witte de Withstraat 80, Rotterdam
Language: English
THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Screaming Bodies, Silent Witnesses, lecture by Francesco Bernadelli
(freelance curator, Turin and Amsterdam)
The contemporary topic of "Sexual Culture(s)" (ie. variations in
habits, practices, forms and meanings related to specific socio-economic
contexts) is understood as how people signify and make sense of the
complex and contradictory phenomena involved with pornography,
particularly in regard to the rapid growth and mainstreaming of the sex
industries, now a globalized, networked model of labor. Professional sex
workers are usually a silent presence within the literature on sex
related work. How can one trace back and find ways of understanding
these sex workers' life-trajectories? Updated information and data are
essential in the attempt to get closer – on one side – to the
increasingly intermingled relations between pornography, drugs,
trafficking and, ultimately, prostitution, and – on the other side – to
the current body-fixation/fetishization and parallel marketing processes.
Language: English
Location: WdW Library
THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
POST PORN POWER, lecture by Marie-Hélène Bourcier (queer activist,
sociologist and Maître de conférences at Lille University III)
Re-examining works by artists such as Annie Sprinkle, Kara Walker,
Nicole Eisenman and less known pansexual or queer young porn directors
(Sondra Goodwin, Edith Edith and Sir Video), Bourcier’s lecture aims to
demonstrate how the power of porn (namely its performative norms on
bodies and practices) can be redirected, re-signified, twisted in an
exciting and empowering way by former "porn victims", for example
lesbians, black women, or transgender freaks. Immersion,
decontextualization, denaturalization with mainstream porn will be
presented as empowering technologies of porn, which implies being very
close to porn and competing with a productive censorship that is
characteristic of modern and post modern pornographic reason.
Language: English
Location: WdW Auditorium
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