Lecture by Marie-Hélène Bourcier (queer activist, sociologist and Maître de conférences at Lille University III & Paris I, Researcher at the Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) re-examining works by artists such as Annie Sprinkle, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman and less known pansexual or queer young porn directors.
Re-examining works by artists such as Annie Sprinkle, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman and less known pansexual or queer young porn directors (Sondra Goodwin, Edit 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.