by bethandannie | Jan 15, 2012 | Book Us
We do walking tours of various sorts, from on hour long to a full day. Each tour is site specific. It can be from just a few people, up to about 60 people. When possible we offer the tours free, if producer can pay our artist fee. However sometimes we charge a fee to the tour-ists to make up our fee. For larger groups we need a couple of bullhorns. Sometimes we use a sign to lead the group. A walking tour can also be combined with a workshop, or bus ride, or other ideas. Here is an example of short tour:
SexEcological Walking Tour
Alternate title: Ecosensual Walking Tour
With Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle
Join Beth & Annie as they point out the ecosexy sites around _________. Experience the fun when you shift the metaphor from “Earth as mother,” to “Earth as lover!” You’ll learn 25 ways to make love to the Earth, find your e-spot, and explore the eroticism of nature through your senses. In this unique tour, art meets theory meets practice meets activism. Adults only. Rain or shine.
To book a tour, contact us.
by bethandannie | Dec 31, 2011 | Book Us
Our art/life projects sometimes take the form of weddings, rituals and rites of passage. We have co-created fifteen ecosex performance art weddings, with hundreds of collaborators in seven countries, in which thousands of people have attended. We have also done baptisms, séances, and customized ceremonies. Each event has been site specific and unique, and so much fun! Our goals are to generate, celebrate and spread the love, open minds and hearts.
SO YOU WANT TO PRODUCE A WEDDING? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
We have been creating a series of interactive performance art weddings in collaboration with various national and international communities and organizations. Each wedding has a different focus/purpose, a different theme and color and various political motivations. In the past six years we have done fifteen performance art weddings, twelve of which have had environmental themes. These weddings, which have involved well over 3000 people, have been magical, garnered critical acclaim, been provocative and memorable for all those that attend. The weddings live on years later through the display of the documentation (videos, photos, texts) in galleries, museums and on web sites. We have found that when people make vows to love and care for the Earth, they change their attitudes and habits.
Currently we are looking for people, organizations, arts groups, and political groups to co-produce and collaborate with us. Our past collaborators have been produced with University of California in Santa Cruz, One Yellow Rabbits Performance Art Rodeo in Calgary, Canada, the International Workshop Festival in London, England, Collective Unconscious in New York City, the Queer Arts Festival in Zagreb, Croatia, the Women’s Visionary Council, Ohio University and Reverend Billy’s Church of Life After Shopping. We were also invited to do a wedding at the Murcia, Spain pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
So far we have married each other, made vows to our community, got legally married in a theater festival. We co-created what we were told was the first openly queer wedding in the Balkans. We made vows to the Earth in a California redwood grove with 350 people in attendance–150 people collaborated in the creation of the wedding. We married the Sky in Oxford, England, and married the Sea in Venice where people came to perform with us from seventeen countries. In 2010 we married the Moon outdoors on the full moon with 500 people, and married the Appalachian Mountains in Ohio.
How it works: We ask for no material gifts, but put out a call for collaborators to help with the creation of the wedding about two months before the date of the wedding. Dozens of people offer to perform, decorate, be in the bridal parties, do a ritual, be part of the production team and create magic. We then weave together the offerings into one amazing wedding day performance event.
What you get: Create and offer your town a wonderful, unique performance art piece, promote and create love for the Earth, get publicity, have fun, work with us (Annie and Beth) celebrate and generate love, create a community bonding and networking experience.
What you need to have: You need to have some time, energy, and willingness. You need to have a production manager (‘wedding planner’) that can network various communities in your area and get them excited about collaborating. You’ll need a publicist or a good strong mailing list, and a location for the wedding (a theater/park/center/space/location.) Have some finances, grants, budget for an artist fee and travel funds for Beth and Annie, and some funds for miscellaneous expenses (sliding scale).
We will help you create a new form of performance work that combines social action, interventionist practices and environmental concerns. We are happy to talk with you more about the possibilities of collaboration.
by bethandannie | Dec 15, 2011 | Book Us
We have done a range of performance art events and actions. Each is site specific. Our first theater piece, Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art toured for two years internationally and garnered good reviews, including a big and favorable review in the New York Times. Our show Dirty Sexecology; 25 Ways to Make Love With the Earth is our current show. We are happy to discuss possibilities with you.
by bethandannie | Nov 15, 2011 | Book Us
We have done a range of lectures and panels for over a decade. Our style is to improvise, to banter back and forth, complete each other’s sentences, and engage our audience with humor, visuals, and discussion. We love to collaborate with others. Panel or lecture topics can be a range of from topics, such as radical sex education, art making, environmental issues, love, GLBTQI, feminism, gender, performance and others. Our visiting artist presentation is usually an hour and a half with discussion.
Here is an example:
ASSUMING THE ECOSEXUAL POSITION
Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens
A performative artist lecture, slideshow & tell
What happens when two city girls embrace the Earth as their lover? They get real dirty! Then they marry the Earth, Sky, Sea, Rocks, Sun, and more, in a series collaborative performance art weddings.
Stephens & Sprinkle have developed “sexecology,” a new field of research where art meets theory, meets practice, meets activism. Learn 25 ways to make love with the Earth, how to find your e-spot, and why mysophilia, arboreal frottage and pollen-amory are so deeply satisfying. These ‘grrrrls gone green’ make experimental theater, visual art, video, and lead ecosex walking tours & workshops. Once you know more about the budding ecosex movement, you might discover you are an ecosexual too.
Elizabeth Stephens is an artist, a professor at UCSC, and is working on a documentary film that aims to stop mountain top removal coal mining devastation in Appalachia. Annie Sprinkle was a pivotal player in the sex positive feminist movement, has a Ph.D. in human sexuality, and has lived and worked with Elizabeth for the past 11 years. For more about Beth & Annie’s work, loveartlab.org
by bethandannie | Oct 15, 2011 | Book Us
We have both taught for over twenty years each, and we compliment each other in our teaching styles, skills and knowledge. We love to teach! Learning and teaching are absolutely core to our lives and work. Beth is a full professor of art at University of California in Santa Cruz. Annie has been both a sex and arts educator, and has taught at many retreat centers, top universities/colleges, and even churches!
We are open to invitations to come to you, and to co-create something special and meaningful for your community. We have taught week-long art making workshops, which culminate in performances, such as our Making Art Into Love and Love Into Art workshop that culminated in our Blue Wedding to the Sky, in Oxford, England. Our four day Exploring Ecosex-Art Workshop at Laboral Museum in Gijon, Spain culminated in our Boda Negra con El Carbon performance piece.
We can visit classes, do critiques with students, and work with interns for course credits. We are interested in how art can help create a more generous, more open society while pushing against the boundaries of what is considered art and what is considered life.
by bethandannie | Sep 15, 2011 | Book Us
We have taught together as a team in many places, countries, and venues over the past twelve years. Every workshop is site specific, and varies in length, material, and activities. Each year we think up new ideas and possibilities. Currently our most popular workshops are our Ecosex Workshops.
Here is a general description:
EXPLORE ECOSEXUALITY!
25 WAYS TO MAKE LOVE WITH THE EARTH
Do you find being in nature sensual and even a bit erotic? Do you love skinny-dipping, lying in the sun, and the smell of cut grass? Do you long to have a deeper connection with nature? We will go on a stimulating journey as we shift the metaphor from “Earth as mother” to “Earth as lover.” Learn all about this satisfying new sexual identity “ecosexual.” Find your E-spot, discover where you are on the ecosexual scale, become more aware of the erotic possibilities with nature. Try some eco-sexercises such as hugging trees, licking rocks, making love to the roses. We’ll explore nature through our senses and imaginations, through circulating energy and doing “ecstasy breathing.” We’ll share our stories, explore a variety of experiences, and inspire each other.
We will create safe and supportive space to explore the possibilities for more pleasure and deep satisfaction. We’ll will listen, taste, smell, see, and touch nature. Learn how loving the Earth romantically, and erotically can make your love grow to enormous proportions. We’ll mine our creativity, dig deep into our individual and collective desires. We will experiment, explore, make meaning, have fun, spread the love, be ecosexy, make new friends, make art, share food, and create performances. By the end of this workshop you will know that you always have a lover– your lover Earth. The workshops are site specific and vary according to the participant’s needs, desires, and the surroundings. No previous ecosex or sexuality workshop experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend, all levels, all sexual persuasions and all genders.
