Postporn Marathon
Pornography, postpornography: the aesthetics and politics of sexual representation
Directed by BEATRIZ PRECIADO
The Postporn Marathon is an intensive project which includes lectures, discussions, performances, showings and documents to analyse pornography, the new postpornographic tendencies and the contemporary aesthetics and politics of sexual representation. The seminar will put on a representative selection of pornographic documents from the 20th century, introduce a theoretical debate about pornography and discover the new postpornographic trends. All in all, a marathon that will last two days and two nights and will include interventions of different kinds: lectures, showings of classics of pornographic and postpornographic culture, debates on porn movies and their visual, aesthetic and political position and workshops and performances.
Beatriz Preciado is a lecturer in History and Theory of the Body and Contemporary Theories of Gender at Saint-Denis University, Paris.
Programme
FRIDAY, 6 JUNE
11.00 - 12.00 PRESENTATION OF THE SEMINAR
Beatriz Preciado. A critique of porn reason
12.00 - 14.00 LECTURE
Thomas Waugh. The visual archaeology of lust: a historical account of gay pornographic graphics before Stonewall
17.00 - 20.30 DEBATE
Postporn cultures
With the participation of:
Juan Antonio Suárez. Postpornographies and postmodernities in independent cinema and video
Javier Sáez. The vulnerable stain: pornography and sadomasochism
Joan Pujol and Helena Torres. Autopornography
(The lectures include the showing of scenes from sadomasochistic leather films)
22.00 - 1.00 WORKSHOP PUBLIC SESSION!!!!
Encorps. Post-porn Traffic
Open to ten participants who can enrol at the beginning of the seminar. The workshop will be broadcast on closed circuit and may be followed by the public.
SATURDAY, 7 JUNE
11.00 - 13.00 LECTURE
Marie-Hélène Bourcier. Sexorcism: a postpornographic reading of the film Fuck Me
17.00 - 20.30 DEBATE
Feminism, postfeminism and pornography
With the participation of:
Beatriz Preciado. Porn architectures: Playboy and the invention of multimedia pornography in the fifties
Fefa Vila. Pro-sex feminism and postpornography: ‘I've got, I've got, I've got... You haven't got anything'
LICIT (Diana Zapata and Margarita Carreras). Pornography and prostitution or performance and sex work? Feminism, postfeminism and pornography.
22.00 - 00.00 LECTURE-PERFORMANCE PUBLIC SESSION!!!!
Annie Sprinkle. My thirty years as a multimedia whore