A screening of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’s film Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure, followed by The One Minutes, and a live Q&A
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Image Credit: Ecosexuality at SF Pride, by Seth Anderson ℅ Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Water Makes Us Wet
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £4-£8, available via the link below
The Museum of Sex Objects is delighted to present a screening of two films by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. This is one of a series of events exploring sexual cultures programmed by The Museum of Sex Objects to coincide with their month-long exhibition at The Horse Hospital this autumn.
We are honored to present a screening of Sprinkle and Stephens's documentary film, Water Makes us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure. We will also be screening The One Minutes Series' Imagine The Earth Is Your Love, a compilation of 23 one-minute shorts curated by Annie and Beth. The screenings will be followed by a live virtual Q&A with directors Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens.
Annie Sprinkle was a long-time sex worker who was a pivotal player in the 1980's sex-positive feminist movement. Beth Stephen's early work explored lesbian and queer culture. After they got together, they married the Earth in a public ceremony in 2008 and came out as ecosexual. They created an Ecosex Manifesto, which launched an international 'ecosex movement.'
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humour, sensuality, and concern, Water Makes Us Wet chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel around California with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit as they explore water in the Golden State. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor "Earth as Mother" to "Earth as Lover" to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural world. 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.
The One Minutes Series: Imagine the Earth is Your Lover is curated by Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens and creates a document of the ecosex movement across the globe - from Belgium to Brazil, Australia to Colombia. In one-minute videos, 23 artists and filmmakers visualise their mad, passionate and fierce love for the Earth. They shift the metaphor from 'Earth as Mother' to 'Earth as Lover' to create a more mutual and sustainable relationship with the Earth. 'Imagine The Earth Is Your Lover' is a collaboration between The One Minutes and Maastricht Institute of Arts and was made possible by the support of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Double bill screening begins at 7:30pm with Water Makers Us Wet
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Image Credit: Pony Express, Girls Grown Wild (Ecosexual Bathhouse), 2015 (© the artist, courtesy by The One Minutes Foundation).
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