In addition to performing at documenta, we were given an exhibition in the Neue Gallerie in Kassel. This exhibition presented our work to an international audience of artists, art lovers, writers, collectors, museum professionals, and gallerists. The carefully curated display of our visual work laid out the historical groundwork of our collaborations with each other. For the Neue exhibition, curator Paul B. Preciado chose our gender fluid 25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth banner, Beth’s Porn Star/Academic Bronzed Panty Collection, and a Breast Cancer Ballet collage. Paul also chose two of Annie’s older pin-up polaroid pieces: Why Whores are My Heroes and The Transformation Salon. Beth’s speculum sculpture, which invites the viewer to look through the speculum in order to watch a video of Annie performing her Public Cervix Announcement, was included, as was our Ecosex Wedding Project, a looped ten-minute video compilation of our ecosexual wedding highlights. The pièce de résistance were the two formal vitrines full of our ephemera, one held wedding invitations, posters, and other items from our Love Art Lab project. Another held zines, publications, and Annie’s Post Modern Pin-Up Pleasure Activist Playing Cards that Annie made in1996 with Katharine Gates. Some of these photos were taken before the gallery opened. When open, everyone commented on how our gallery space was always packed with visitors.
In the group photo from left to right: Balitronica, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, curator Paul B. Preciado, Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, King Erik from Emmetrop, and Cecile aka Mamita.
