transmediale

Commercialising Eros

Start:
04.02.2012 - 13:30
End:
04.02.2012 - 15:30
Festival location:
hkw, k1
Event type:
talk

A discussion with Jacob Appelbaum (us), Zach Blas (us), Liad Hussein Kantorowicz (il/de) and Aliya Rakhmetova (kz/hu)
Moderated by Gaia Novati (it/de)

 

Includes the live performance Watch Me Work by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz (il/de) and Kate Ehrhardt (za/de)

 

This panel sheds light on the interferences and tensions between sex and business, analysing practices and strategies of technology entrepreneurship and networking models, online sexual imagery and queer virality. Moreover, it stresses the aspect of conscious reflection on bodily practices as opposed to simply consuming, focusing on how queer communities and sex workers use IT in their communication and how they try to break usual stereotypes through online and offline actions. A conscious reflection and practice of sexuality can be the way to imagine a different model of “commercialising eros”, mobilising communities, generating advocacy, and more broadly, shaping culture.


Restricted to adults above 18 years.

 

(Image: Zach Blas)

Participants: 
kz
Aliya Rakhmetova (Kazakhstan, 1977) is a sex workers’ human rights...
il
Liad Hussein Kantorowicz (born 1977) is a performer and activist from...
za
Kate Ehrhardt (born 1983) is a South African artist, living and working in...
us
Jacob Appelbaum works as a developer for The Tor Project and as a staff...
us
Zach Blas (born 1981) is an artist-theorist, living and working in the US.
it
Gaia Novati (born 1976) is a curator and activist, working on gender...
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