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SEX HABITS

Sex Habits

Thursday April 28th at 8pm @ Archer Ballroom
SEX HABITS took the form of a party, a non-linear immersive art event where tracks were interrupted by performances and videos, a space to take a look at the work of printmakers and other visual artists, leather work, collage & photography,  
A place for brains and haptics to be stimulated: an erotic healing station, a bondage workshop, a peep show booth about sexuality and cinema, not quite impromptu readings and other interventions.


Sex Habits was an art show, a party, and an immersive art piece itself. The idea for SEX HABITS came from an article proposing that monosexuality is genital fetishism. While none of the work in this show makes this formulation explicit, the limitations of vanilla heterosexuality are an underlying theme. This work explores the liberating potential of queer sex and highlights differences between fetish and kink, BDSM practices, and sex as death drive. The event was about public sex, the politics of respectability, revenge feminism, sex in the digital age, cam gir(rr)ls, intimacy, the ins and outs of penetration, porn, exoticism and objectification, dreams of sex with aliens, toys, childhood, non-genital-centric erotics, and spurious feelings. Our proposition was that our sexualities, kinks, and also rape culture in its current form have to be discussed with the history of cinemas. In our endeavor to grasp vintage erotica, we encounter representations of rape and domination that persist today.

Looking back on Hay's code era films, post-code exploitation films and grindhouse cinema reminds us of a context where violence subsuming sex was understood as transgressive, even if women had to pay the price with symbolic and physical violence. The censorship era propelled a kind a visual culture that licensed violent patriarchal representation on screen, but also represented the 'others' and their revenge. These articulations are complicated; there is no straight answer which means there is still space to think. Looking at expanded cinema also means taking the measure of how it has shaped our desires and, to some extent, our hetero, lesbian, and gay identities, as well as their queering. 
How the hetero matrix- the damsel in distress or the myth of the 'vagina dentata’- are performed but also parodied is an example of the tricks that cinema and political art at large can sway. In its infinite repetition of what appears to be the same, cinema as well as sex in the digital age remain capable of newness and freedom, or at least we like to believe so.
 
Sex Habits’ time and space are non-linear, it is one of our objectives to push the boundaries of what can be handled together.

 


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Visual Art+++
Emmy Bright
Ianna Book
Noelia Towers
Erika Råberg
Leah Ball Ball] Ball]
Robin Hustle
Heather Gabel


Leather work+++
Laura Prieto-Velasco
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Video+++​
Julia Zinn + Suzy Vogenthol
Elly Clarke/Sergina
Christine Shallenberg
Dayna McLeod
Daviel Shy
Rami George
Hannah Owens
Sara Lovering
Coral Short
Isabelle Frances McGuire
Lamathilde
Here
Elena Tejada Herrera
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Djs+++
Alex Herrera
Ariel Zetina
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cyber.puta+badia
Pepe.acab







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Live Performance+++
​Darling Squire
Glamhag
Mitsu Salmon
anja morell + jeremy pauly
Gabriel Wallace
Here
Leslie Gray
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Stations + Booths

Bondage 101: knots + skillsharing
with Betty Devoe & Leah

Vibrational Ecstasy: an erotic healing station by Here 

A cinema infused peep show booth
by Sara Heymann
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Tech Faerie
Christine Shallenberg

Installers & thought process collaborators:
Jeremy Pauly & Christine Shallenberg

Host:
Jeremy Pauly & the Ballroom family

THANK YOU. <3

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This edition of In/habit was curated by
LADIDA
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Link to Sex Habits' venue: Archer Ballroom
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Co-creators
    • Emblem
  • Future EVENTS
  • Archives
    • Plants and Animals >
      • Gushing Tentacle: a Reading Group
      • Healing Tentacle
    • InLine II
    • Reparations: Post-Butoh Fest collaboration
    • I'm Hurting When You're Not With Me: Post-Butoh Fest collaboration
    • InLine I
    • Rovers I
    • Rovers II
    • Which Phoenix?
    • KINSHIP
    • ECHO
    • Sex Habits
    • PRESS REPEAT
  • Contact
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