Past Events 2023
December 2, 2023
Artist Television Access. http://www.atasite.org/?p=15304
AN EVENING OF ECOSEXY SHORTS with Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle
The Ecosex Art Movement is alive and well and making movies. Come enjoy the pleasures and sensuality of nature from various international perspectives and styles and get your ecosexual gaze on! It’s also a happening with surprises and free swag. Program includes Playing with Fire—An Ecosexual Hot Mess (a 15-min. sneak peek of Beth & Annie’s next feature film, which is about fire), Imagine the Earth Is Your Lover (one-minute films from around the world curated into a dazzling collection), Ecosexercises (Beth & Annie will demo!), Ecosex Wedding Project (documentation of weddings to nature entities), An Ecosex Walking Tour of Holly Park (documentation of a performance producedwith the SF Public Library), In the Gardenwith the Vaginas of Anarchy, (co-created with Katie Bush), and Farewell Carol Leigh, (an homage to Scarlot Harlot). $11
December 5, 2023
Porn Studies: A Symposium honoring the work of Linda Williams
2:00 – 5:00 pm
November 18, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Manifest Yourself!
Berlin
Manifest yourself! – loud & juicy – aims to shine aspotlight on international feminist resistance in art and beyond roughly and not academically from the Suffragettes to the present. It reflects its dazzling and also contradictory manifesto culture, combining not only artistic works in various media and forms but also historical documents, film/music clips and text/research material. The exhibition aims to make visible the aesthetic and linguistic codes of feminist resistance that developed over the last half century. Emphasis also is on how strongly feminism has expanded, diversified and self-critically questioned itself in recent decades. A focus is therefore on artistic works that deal with intersectional, cyber- and ecofeminist concerns. Participating artists will include amongst others Laurie Anderson, Ouassila Arras, Lynda Benglis, Monica Bonvicini, Andrea Bowers, Burchill/McCamley, Valie Export, Ulrike Flaig, Ceal Floyer, FRZNTE, Regina José Galindo, Guerilla Girls, Signe Pierce, Marinella Senatore, VNS Matrix, and Billie Zangewa. Events and collaborations with Berlin-based feminist groups are planned; a publication (fanzine) will accompany the exhibition.
Oct 11-14, 2023
Sprinkle & Stephens’ Ecosexuality Performances
University of Georgia, Athens GA
For the last decade, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been creating performance under the rubric of “ecosexuality” in which they playfully provoke audiences to think differently about their relationship to the Earth: instead of imagining Earth as mother, how would we treat the Earth if we thought of it as a lover? How would our behavior change? How might we, then, co-create a more sustainable future?
This series of workshops and events introduces participants to Sprinkle & Stephens’ ecosexuality performances and their creative techniques. All activities are open to students, staff, faculty, and community. Link to this event on University of Georgia’s site.
Sprinkle & Stephens’ visit will include a host of opportunities to meet and engage with the “ecosexual activists” beginning on Oct. 11. A brief schedule below.
| OCT. 11 | A SprinkleStephens Salon What: Reception, Games, and Book-signing/Decorating of Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover When: 4-6p.m. Where: The Athenaeum | 287 W. Broad St. Athens, GA |
| OCT. 12 | Introduction to Ecosex Art & Ideas What: Artist Talk and Workshop Part 1 When: 6-8p.m. Where: Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre |
| OCT. 13 | Let’s Make a Performance Art Happening Together What: Workshop Part 2: Develop concepts, Prepare costumes, Make props… get creative When: 1:50-3:30p.m. Where: Fine Arts BuildingScreening + Q&A: Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure (TRT 80 MInutes) When: 5p.m. Where: Balcony Theatre (Room 400), Fine Arts Building With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel around California with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a UCSC professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore water in the Golden State. Along the way, Annie and Beth interact with a diverse range of folks including performance artists, biologists, water treatment plant workers, scholars and others, climaxing in a shocking event that reaffirms the power of water, life and love. |
| OCT. 14 | I Love You (Earth) Day! Free Sidewalk Ecosex Clinic What: It’s part performance art happening, part sex ed, and part pleasure activism. The free ecosex walkup clinic will be staffed by our student clinicians. When: 12p.m.-2p.m Where: Tate Center Sidewalk between Tate and MLC |
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This event is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, The Athenaeum, UGA Arts Collaborative, Department of Theatre & Film Studies, Institute of Women’s Studies, & Sustainable UGA.
September 13-17, 2023
Green New Theatre
Austin, Texas. Vortex Theater director and friend Bonnie Cullum is creating a symposium called Green New Theater. We’re invited to participate and collaborate. No doubt this will be a thrilling gathering and happening. We can’t wait!
September 12, 2023
“Radical Elders: Transgenerational Performance Knowledge.”
We will do a talk about being “Radical Elders” with the students of the Norwegian Theatre Academy. Produced by Saul Garcia-Lopez, Artist and Professor at the Norwegian Theater Academy.
August 23, 2023
Kunsthalle Mannheim: Green Room: The Earth as Lover. Film and performance evening with Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens and regional artists
Since we also want to reach people who don’t want to or can’t go to BUGA 23 with “The Earth as lover”, there will also be a free evening with Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens and the regional artists in the Kunsthalle Mannheim. This will take place on August 23rd. at 8:00 p.m. In addition to the performance, a documentary about the walks will be shown there. This means that everyone who cannot take part in one of the walks can take part.
August 18, 2023
QZM—Mithu Sanyal, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens and Joy Brooke Fairfield about “The Earth as Lover“
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens meet the impressive Mithu M. Sanyal together with their director Joy Brooke Fairfield on the 18th of August at 7pm. They talk about „The Earth as Lover“ and let us be part of it through their conversation.
August 17-24, 2023
BUGA Garden Show
Mannheim, Germany
The ecosexuals are going to be queering the Buga Garden Show with walking tours, free sidewalk clinics, artist talks, movie screenings, water bar, and more. Our director Joy Brooke Fairfield will be joining us. We’ll be working with a team of local performance artists and creators. Join us!
Earth as Lover Ecosex Walking Tours
August 19, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
August 19th 6-8 p.m.
August 21st 6-8 p.m.
August 22nd 6-8 p.m.
August 23rd 10 a.m. to 12 p.m
See photos of this event and more details here
Ökosexueller Walk auf der Buga,23 Rainbow-Hub auf dem Spinelli-Gelände vaf-foto/Alfred Gerold/VDS/ VG Bild und Kunst www.as-sportfoto.de Alfred Gerold, Feldstrasse 114, 68259 Mannheim fon.0178/4550793 vaf-foto@web.de
CONNECT ME: nature x human x technology
Closing date of this great exhibition that’s been up since September 2022. One room is dedicated to our work.
CONNECT ME will address today’s increased focus on, and quest for communities and connections to each other and the world. Increasing loneliness and isolation, exacerbated by lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic, call for renewed focus on what ‘connection’ means. Trapholt invites Danish and international artists to participate in the project through exhibition, catalogue and talks.
July 31 -August 13, 2023
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art
Exploring the Earth as Lover; New Approaches to Environmental Art, Theory & Activism
Salzburg, Austria
We’ll be teaching an in-person 2-week course in a castle! It will be Interdisciplinary; Art, Performance Art, Community Building, Theory, Praxis.
We are creating a gathering of artists, academics, sex workers, sexologists, healers, environmental activists, nature fetishists, gardeners, media makers, therapists, activists, eco-feminists, educators, (r)evolutionaries, critters and other entities from diverse aspects of life to celebrate, proclaim, challenge, debate, perform, create and stimulate our senses. Bringing our environmental concerns and diverse knowledges together, we’ll learn about what’s happening in environmental art, sexecology and ecosex theory and practice.
More details to be announced soon at www.summeracademy.at/en/
June 14 -18, 2023
Performance Space New York
Assuming the Ecosexual Position; Exploring the Earth as Lover
Manhattan, New York
A Co-Created Symposium & Performance Art Happening with Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle & Friends
For more information, updates and symposium passes go here
Join us for a three-day multi-disciplinary gathering to explore our relationships with the environment and social justice, engage in human/non-human collaboration, critique ideologies and create new sexualities. Let’s examine if our “bodies” end at our skin or are part of something much more complex. This unique gathering includes paradigm-shifting panels, ritual, storytelling, poetry, music, films, ancestors, queer glam, keynote speeches, and creative environmental activist strategies. Experience eco-burlesque, learn about the science, and enjoy soil-idarity, conceptual art, and abundant sensual delights. This happening will be Beth & Annie’s 9th symposium and the first on the East Coast. Mingle with diverse life forms and various communities of artists, scholars, sex workers, queers, fashionistas, plants, spores, water drops, clouds, and more, more, more. If desired, dress in costumes inspired by the Earth, and bring your biome clouds. What happens when we posit the Earth as our lover? We invite you to get your ecosexual gaze on and find out. Everyone is invited. More details are coming soon!
Saturday, May 20, 2023
We are co-producing a feature film homage to Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot; artist, activist, community organizer, filmmaker, sex educator and more…
Film Premiere at the Roxie Theater
Film Premiere will be May 2oth at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco at noon, at the launch of the Sex Worker Film & Art Festival that Carol Leigh started years ago.
Tickets are available through the Sex Worker Film Festival.
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens will be speaking at this event.
The Film’s International online world premiere
The film’s International online world premiere will be available after that—details coming soon. We will be hosting a viewing party in San Francisco. You can host a viewing party in your town too. The film will be made of one-minute video homages from around the world that reflect her diverse communities.
Link to Carol Leigh’s overall memorial https://carolleighmemorial.com/
April 27–30, 2023
Earth Day Afterglow Tour
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, artists and life partners known for their commitment to the environment, will be in the Kansas City area April 27-30, 2023, for the Earth Day Afterglow Tour. These events will be hosted by a variety of educational and art institutions to bring awareness to how we can improve our relationship with the earth.
AGENDA
Thursday, April 27
6-9 p.m. Her Art/Their Art Storytelling Night with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens
Free and open to the public – no RSVP requiredHeld at8001 Newton St., Overland Park, KS 66204
Co-sponsored by the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Friday, April 28
6 p.m. Book Signing with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
7 p.m. An Ecosexual Double Feature:
Screening of Water Makes Us Wet and Goodbye Gauley Mountain
Free for KCAI students, get promo code from skrukowski@kcai.edu
$10 for other guests (all guests need tickets)
Hosted by the KCAI Foundation Department & Stray Cat Film Center
Held at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium
4525 Oak St., Kansas City, MO 64111
Saturday, April 29
12-3 p.m. Untitled (Pink Tube) performance by Miller & Shellabarger
3:30 p.m. Performing Couples Conversation with Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens and Miller & Shellabarger
Free and open to the public – no RSVP required
Held at the Spencer Museum of Art – The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence, KS 66045
Sunday, April 30
11 a.m. Prairie Walk*
Free. Space is limited – RSVP required
Hosted by the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Held at the Ivan Boyd Prairie Preserve
2011 North 200 Rd., Wellsville, KS 66092, USA
*This event is weather-dependent
Saturday, April 22, 2023, 4-6 pm
E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF Earth Day Ecosexual Walking Tour | Bernal Heights
Get off your computer and follow along with a gang of colorful, fun tour guides in this site-specific exploration, embodied experience and performative walk around Holly Park. Your attention will be called to beautiful sights, sumptuous scents, the sounds of nature and tasty treats as you massage the Earth with your feet. The group will develop an ecosexual gaze as it shares environmental concerns and explores possible ways to better love the Earth.
Performed by Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle & their Tour Guide Team.
Saturday, March 04, 2023
Night of Ideas
Click here to Register.
The E.A.R.T.H. Lab, artists Beth Stephens Annie Sprinkle, and their ecosexy friends will be hosting 2 hours of happenings at Bay Area’s biggest celebration of creativity and critical thought at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch! This year’s edition brings together dozens of local cultural organizations, leading thinkers and artists to contemplate the theme “More?” In a world driven by the logic of growth, what does it mean to have “more”? What do we need “more” of: more material abundance, connection, creativity? More justice? More joy? Can we share “more” — and can we sustain it? Will “more” ever be enough? Join KQED, SFMOMA, the San Francisco Public Library and the French Consulate’s Villa San Francisco for another inspiring marathon of talks, performances, art and collective imagination. We’ll be in the Environmental section of the library in a beautiful rotunda. The annual event is free and fabulous. More details will be forthcoming.
Selfie of Annie & Beth with performance curator Elisabeth Beard.
Saturday–Sunday, February 18-19, 2023
Grumble Boogie Marathon
We are engaging with Australian artists Betty Grumble and her pal HipHopHoe, during their 24hr marathon Grumble Boogie, an all-day dance ritual for World Pride Day. They will be leading the movement all day in a ritualistic deep dive into decolonizing bodies & time. This is a cathartic utopian space that will be created together, a rite of passage and direct transmission. E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF’s co-directors, Annie and Beth, will lead an Ecosexercise Workout.
The Grumble Boogie will be held in Australia and live-streamed over 24 hours from Sat 18 Feb (awst) to Sun 19 Feb (awst). You can tune in via the link at the website which is currently being built.
February 1-5, 2023
Harvard Library Archiving
We’ll be working with two archivists from Harvard’s library on our own archive and on Carol Leigh’s archive. We are very interested in preserving our herstories.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
Earth Lab SF Field Trip to the Berkley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Join us for a visit to the opening night reception of an exhibition of performance artist Frank Moore’s paintings. The show is co-curated by our filmmaker colleague and friend of the Earthlab SF, Keith Wilson. In conjunction with the exhibition, Fecteau and Wilson will give a curator’s talk at BAMPFA on Wednesday, January 25 at 5:30 p.m
