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Book DUETS Ben Cuevas and Annie Sprinkle in Conversation

Download or read book DUETS Ben Cuevas and Annie Sprinkle in Conversation written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance artist, writer, and sex educator Annie Sprinkle speaks to Visual AIDS artist member Ben Cuevas shareprovocative stories about art, knitting, ecosex, HIV, love, loss, risk, activism, humor, and death.

Book Assuming the Ecosexual Position

Download or read book Assuming the Ecosexual Position written by Annie Sprinkle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely—or, perhaps, broadly—what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art, exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, materialist, exuberant, and steeped in humor. Assuming the Ecosexual Position tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of ecosexuality—for Annie, in her family swimming pool in Los Angeles; for Beth, savoring forbidden tomatoes from the vine on her grandparents’ Appalachian farm. The book describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory, which involved influential performance artists Linda M. Montano, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and feminist pornographer Madison Young. Stephens and Sprinkle share the process of making interactive performance art, including the Chemo Fashion Show, Cuddle, Sidewalk Sex Clinics, and Ecosex Walking Tours. Over the years, they celebrated many more weddings to various nature entities, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. To create these weddings, they collaborated with hundreds of people and invited thousands of guests as they vowed to love, honor, and cherish the many elements of the Earth. As entertaining as it is deeply serious, and arriving at a perilous time of sharp differences and constricting categories, the story of this artistic collaboration between Sprinkle, Stephens, their diverse communities, and the Earth opens gender and sexuality, art and environmentalism, to the infinite possibilities and promise of love.

Book DUETS  Frederick Weston and Samuel R  Delany in Conversation

Download or read book DUETS Frederick Weston and Samuel R Delany in Conversation written by Frederick Weston and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Weston and Samuel R. Delany come together for a wide-ranging dialogue, reflecting on their overlapping histories in Times Square, the deep impact of AIDS on their creative practices, and the ever-changing intersections of race, sex, language, and art.With additional contributions by Bruce Benderson, Svetlana Kitto, and Tavia Nyong'o.

Book Duets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kia LaBeija
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-09-21
  • ISBN : 9781732641518
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Duets written by Kia LaBeija and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino come together for an intergenerational dialogue that illuminates their histories as artists and their relationships to HIV and AIDS spanning more than twenty years. From different perspectives, they discuss their shared practices as artists, performance makers, dancers, poets, and activists.With additional contributions by Lia Gangitano and David Velasco. --DUETS is a series of publications that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV/AIDS. These engaging and highly readable conversations highlight the connections between communities of artists and activists. Drawing from the Visual AIDS Artist Registry and Archive Project, this series continues Visual AIDS' mission to support, promote, and honor the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.

Book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art  Writing  and Criticism

Download or read book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art Writing and Criticism written by Lauren Fournier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory.

Book Robert Blanchon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Blanchon
  • Publisher : Visual Aids
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Robert Blanchon written by Robert Blanchon and published by Visual Aids. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo-based conceptual artist Robert Blanchon left behind an extensive and varied body of work before his untimely death at the age of 34. This publication is the first comprehensive monograph to document his oeuvre and its place within the context of New York City in the 1990s. Like his contemporaries Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, and Zoe Leonard, Blanchon grappled with the legacies of Minimalism and Modernism, the relation between politics and art, and his identification as a gay, HIV-positive artist who nonetheless eschewed identity politics as the basis of an art practice. Blanchon's decade-long exhibition history is marked by a witty, insightful treatment of loss, memory and morality executed primarily through photography but also extending to video, mail art and performance. This publication includes essays by Gregg Bordowitz and Sasha Archibald; selections of the artist's writings and an annotated checklist of his archive.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book That Winter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Gillilan
  • Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book That Winter written by Pamela Gillilan and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Book Urban Tantra  Second Edition

Download or read book Urban Tantra Second Edition written by Barbara Carrellas and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can't be found in today's fast-paced world, you haven't experienced Urban Tantra. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Urban Tantra, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates the ancient practice of Tantra for modern sexual explorers desiring to discover new frontiers. With a juicy mix of erotic how-to and heart-centered spiritual wisdom, this updated edition includes a brand-new introduction, up-to-date references and resources, a new take on the possibilities and responsibilities of Tantra in today’s world, plus new and cutting-edge information to reach an expanded community—added information on multi-partner play, more intersections for Tantra and BDSM, practices for asexuals and aromantics, expanded practices for trans and gender nonconforming people, and more. With more than one hundred easy-to-follow techniques for expanded orgasmic states and solo and partner play (as well as more adventurous practices), this in-depth guide reveals the delicious worlds of ecstasy available to all, no matter one's gender, sexual preference, or erotic tastes. Urban Tantra expands the notions of pleasure and opens new heights of intimacy and sexual fulfillment.

Book Day With out  Art 2017

    Book Details:
  • Author : Visual AIDS
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-12
  • ISBN : 9780967842585
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book Day With out Art 2017 written by Visual AIDS and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS was the 28th annual iteration of Visual AIDS' longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett for Visual AIDS, the video program prioritized Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic, commissioning seven new and innovative short videos from artists Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia LaBeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Brontez Purnell.The 54 page soft cover publication includes film stills and artist statements from contributing filmmakers Mykki Blanco, Kia LaBeija, Cheryl Dunye and Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Brontez Purnell; a statement by curators Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett; and an essay by the Tacoma Action Collective.

Book After Django

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Perchard
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2015-01-12
  • ISBN : 047205242X
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book After Django written by Tom Perchard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz--that quintessentially American music--in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused French cultural and political life? After Django begins with the famous interwar triumphs of Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt, but, for the first time, the focus here falls on the French jazz practices of the postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians such as Andr Hodeir and Barney Wilen is examined in depth, as are native responses to Americans such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. The book provides an original intertwining of musical and historical narrative, supported by extensive archival work; in clear and compelling prose, Perchard describes the problematic efforts towards aesthetic assimilation and transformation made by those concerned with jazz in fact and in idea, listening to the music as it sounded in discourses around local identity, art, 1968 radicalism, social democracy, and post colonial politics.

Book Nicolas A  Moufarrege

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dean Daderko
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-10
  • ISBN : 9781933619736
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Nicolas A Moufarrege written by Dean Daderko and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hugh Steers

Download or read book Hugh Steers written by Cynthia Carr and published by Visual Aids. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings is the first publication on the career of American figurative painter Hugh Steers (1962-95), who died of AIDS at the age of 32. Committed to figurative painting at a time when it had fallen out of favor, Steers painted expressionist-realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp and what Steers himself called a 'gorgeous bleakness.' Steers consciously merged AIDS, intimacy and the body into the traditional vocabulary of painting. With his vulnerable subjects depicted in hospital rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, Steers engaged with radical ideas about male intimacy, queer politics, fragility and health care at the height of the AIDS crisis. Featuring more than 600 full-color images of Steers' paintings on canvas and paper, this volume provides a long-overdue, expansive view of the artist's career and impact."--Amazon.com.

Book Backstage Girls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Serena Czarnecki
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-08-27
  • ISBN : 9780999691663
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Backstage Girls written by Serena Czarnecki and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and honest look into the world of exotic dance through powerful poetry and visual images. Adult film legend turned dancer turned artist Serena Czarnecki's book is candid, sensual and unforgettable. Never before has an artistic project parted the velvet curtain to reveal a forbidden place that is stirring, beautiful, ugly, passionate, indifferent, stark, rich and sad--all at the same time. Come inside...

Book The Itinerant Languages of Photography

Download or read book The Itinerant Languages of Photography written by Eduardo Cadava and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Itinerant Languages of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, September 7, 2013-January 19, 2014"--Title page verso.

Book Melodious Accord

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  • Author : Alice Parker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780929650432
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexico and Emerging Carbon Markets

Download or read book Mexico and Emerging Carbon Markets written by Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: