warming up: a queer porn screening and conversation
Curator/moderator
Feverhead, Columbus, Ohio
February 25, 2012
warming up was the first queer porn screening I curated and facilitated in Columbus, OH, featuring work by directors Shine Louise Houston, Courtney Trouble, and Madison Young. My conviction was that if we consider pornography to be an archive of human sexual behavior, queer porn makes important social contributions by giving representation to bodies, sexualities, and sex that go otherwise unacknowledged and often disavowed within our society’s mainstream cultural productions. In a society in which bodies/people are identified by markers such as gender, sex, and sexuality; in which rights and value are mediated on the bases of these identifications; and in which media —including pornography —plays significant roles in shaping our perceptions of both ourselves and of others: the production and screening of this material takes on substantial social and political dimensions. The screening offered a sampling of sexy scenes by award-winning filmmakers and performers, followed by a moderated discussion about the social and cultural relevance of this work and pornography as a productive site of knowledge in addition to its erotic functions.
I screened scenes from Shine Louise Houston’s HeavenlySpire.com, Courtney Trouble’s Roulette: Toronto, and Madison Young’s Fluid: Men Redefining Sexuality; with performances by James Darling, Quinn Valentine, Jiz Lee, Drew Deveaux, River Turner, Tommy Midas, Rose, and Devi Lynne.
Trailers/More Info:
HeavenlySpire.com with James Darling and Quinn Valentine:http://www.heavenlyspire.com/wordpress/james-darling-and-quinn-valentine/
Courtney Trouble’s Roulette: Toronto: http://courtneytrouble.com/dvds/roulette-toronto/
Fluid: Men Redefining Sexuality: http://goodreleasing.com/fluid-men-redefining-sexuality/
Feverhead, Columbus, Ohio
February 25, 2012
warming up was the first queer porn screening I curated and facilitated in Columbus, OH, featuring work by directors Shine Louise Houston, Courtney Trouble, and Madison Young. My conviction was that if we consider pornography to be an archive of human sexual behavior, queer porn makes important social contributions by giving representation to bodies, sexualities, and sex that go otherwise unacknowledged and often disavowed within our society’s mainstream cultural productions. In a society in which bodies/people are identified by markers such as gender, sex, and sexuality; in which rights and value are mediated on the bases of these identifications; and in which media —including pornography —plays significant roles in shaping our perceptions of both ourselves and of others: the production and screening of this material takes on substantial social and political dimensions. The screening offered a sampling of sexy scenes by award-winning filmmakers and performers, followed by a moderated discussion about the social and cultural relevance of this work and pornography as a productive site of knowledge in addition to its erotic functions.
I screened scenes from Shine Louise Houston’s HeavenlySpire.com, Courtney Trouble’s Roulette: Toronto, and Madison Young’s Fluid: Men Redefining Sexuality; with performances by James Darling, Quinn Valentine, Jiz Lee, Drew Deveaux, River Turner, Tommy Midas, Rose, and Devi Lynne.
Trailers/More Info:
HeavenlySpire.com with James Darling and Quinn Valentine:http://www.heavenlyspire.com/wordpress/james-darling-and-quinn-valentine/
Courtney Trouble’s Roulette: Toronto: http://courtneytrouble.com/dvds/roulette-toronto/
Fluid: Men Redefining Sexuality: http://goodreleasing.com/fluid-men-redefining-sexuality/