This event is part of the series CRITICAL FRIDAYS. Here, we move beyond the outdated separation of body, mind, and soul and instead explore embodied cognition and the cognitive powers of the somatic. The focus is on the body as a medium for artistic and ritual practices. We foster dialogues with experts from the fields of science, art, and care work. Performances, workshops, readings, and film screenings serve as our starting point for collective reflections, in which we bridge the gap between closeness and distance, between personal experiences and avant-garde cultural theories.
Ever since the Renaissance, art and eroticism have been engaged in a passionate liaison. One is kissed by the muse; the gaze explores images with voyeuristic delight; etymologically, the word “brush” derives from “penis”; and works of art are born. Pornography, on the other hand, is regarded as an aesthetic that is neither particularly erotic nor artistic; it is more about forms of predictable hypervisuality with the sole purpose of facilitating orgasm. But when pornography is presented as art films at the Porny Days Film Art Festival—viewed through a queer-feminist lens—what happens here? And what happens in the many other art, workshop, and event formats we attend at the festival? How do we talk about images that break with visual habits and conventions of sexuality? And what do the festival’s various films and events trigger (in us)?
While porn usually serves to get your hand down your pants, we’re calling for: a hand on your heart and a hand on your brain! On Sunday afternoon, after the legendary Sweat & Glitter Party, we’ll take time to share our festival experiences and invite you to join a group discussion with experts from the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, dance, and directing. Amid all the analytical examination and discussion of content, perspectives, (re)presentations, and conventions, the focus should always remain on the personal and individual—perhaps even intimate—experience at the festival and our collective reflection on it. Feel free to ask questions or share what turns us on or off, how we experience other people or the community at the festival, what—perhaps even confrontational or transformative—experiences we’ve had in the movie theater or the darkroom at the festival party, and how the festival as a whole functions on all levels of experience. This is entirely in the spirit of the Critical Fridays series, which seeks to move beyond the outdated separation of body, mind, and soul.
Experts:
>> David Bloom (choreography, dance)
>> Sebastian Köthe (Aesthetics)
>> Ellinor Lori (Porny Days)
>> Federica Gregoratto (Philosophy)
>> Sabrina Tannen (Direction, Acting, Curation)
>> Download: Reader “Aftermath of a Porn Film Festival”
AN EVENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PORNY DAYS – FILM ART FESTIVAL ZURICH
SCHEDULE
Sun, 27 Nov 2022 - 12pm-3pm
LANGUAGES
German
PRICE PER PERSON:
CHF 20.00
Low(er) Income Tickets
CHF 10.00
Supporter Tickets: CHF 30.00
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CRITICAL FRIDAYS is a project by iridescent matters in collaboration with Carla Peca, presented by luhmen d’arc.
With the kind support of
