Introduction to post pornography
(For Leonardo Faccio ( Soitu.es ) - It happened at Christmas 2008. The Vatican was bursting with tourists when the Holy Virgin of Relief began to moan. Then it was Pius XII who issued from the grave moans of pleasure. The faithful listened with horror anomalous miracle. But chastity of the Saints was never in doubt, because the guards at the Basilica of San Pietro immediately discovered that the sound came from two ordinary cassette tapes. According to the security cameras, officials had been four women in long skirts, medal around his neck and head covered.
"It was a horror. We had dressed up, "Diana told me six months after Torres pornoterrorista attack," wool stockings and shoes fell I was so horrible that he could not even look. "
Diana is 28 and ridge punk, studied philology and he explains that the attack was an artistic response to the Catholic repression. "Sexuality is a door liberating thought and represses the Church," he says. But then clarifies that pornoterrorismo is just one of the manifestations of the group to which it belongs: Pos Porno, a movement that militates in favor of expanding sexual liberties and takes years to grow in Barcelona. The next day, Diana would do: would a female ejaculation squirting-in-public. And I was invited to see it.
We were in an old factory worker in the neighborhood Poble Nou, where now the multimedia lab Hangar. That act Diana, under the direction of Shu Lea Cheang, the artist of Chinese origin who led the first net.art project presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. That work recovering the true story of Teena Brandon, a Nebraska transsexual girl murdered for having loved and lived as a man. This time, Cheang Barcelona has mounted a performance in which Diana is part of the cast.
In Hangar house music sounds canned beer costs a euro. Just get surprised me a girl's whiskers, sweeping all logic straight. The rest is very different from what we put on the screen when Almodóvar opened Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom in 1980. That movie was a sympathetic and caring approach to sexuality mutant. The group Post Porn, however, conveys the urgency typical of who bears political conviction to defend.
Prostitution may be the only job you can access a transsexual and against this radical form of homophobia raises the collective voice Porn Pos. But his immediate enemy is the subtle message that no one speaks, which continuously transmit-traditional pornography. I see on the Internet before I met Diana at Hangar.
"What if Nacho Vidal appears penetrated with a dildo?" Asks a woman in a video post-op group, which questioned the lack of variety of sexual practices seen in porn industry.
"Pornography proposes pedagogies of sexuality: when and how we use our bodies. Play models. Deep Throat taught women how to do fellatio, "he says from his web page, the philosopher and Professor of Gender Theory Beatriz Preciado.
"I worry that adolescents consume mainstream porn," says María Llopis on his blog, accompanied by nine women who are preparing to film a new kind of porn.
There is a constellation of at least 20 sites that make up the galaxy Pos Spanish Porn on the Internet. Among them I see the blog for women who bombed with Diana against the Vatican. Each one has its own identity. But all agree on two references:
1. The Queer Theory, which states that no registered sex roles biologically human nature.
2. An exuberant woman, brunette, nice called Annie Sprinkle and is recognized as the pioneer of Pornography Pos.
Sprinkle was an American pornographic actress who in the mid 80's decided to show how overwhelming that is repeated like a machine a small part of human sexuality. The result was the film 'Herstory of Porn, "a parody that introduced an element as sensual as delayed by the sex industry: humor.
"What we want is to represent and normalize sexual practices that are not visible and many consider deviations or paraphilias," Diana told me, anticipating what would be tonight at Hangar.
Diana Barbie
The scene where Diana act has a mountain of broken computers in the center. Poscibernético landscape is designed by Shu Lea Cheang to record the saga of IKU (2000), his first film that evokes the story of Blade Runner. The story is about humanoid-replicating, which after a crash on the Internet, cyber scavenge the necessary devices to recover their orgasmic capacity. The title is UKI and logical approach when 'sex' is still the most searched word on the web. Is our sexuality would be the same if there were no Internet? In fact, the trajectory of Diana Torres met her through your page, where it hangs on video their personal performances.
Diana goes naked on stage and read poetry. I see on the screen of my computer. Then grave and another woman enters the scene. In the background are giant images of stonings, beheadings, human, rhinoplasty. The fear and pleasure are there. The other woman enters Diana with a Barbie doll, until she explodes with a scream and leaves a puddle of fluid on the stage. Promises to do something tonight at Hangar: an assault on the senses. Hence the name of your website.
"There is no sex in large scale if not through an apocalyptic moment," wrote Norman Mailer and perhaps he was right. The pornoterrorismo causes a kind of apocalypse when you plug in a lesbian sex scene, poetry, and the inevitable bloody death preteen reference evokes a Barbie Is it possible to feel pleasure with this scene without being afraid of feeling discriminated?
It is sad to admit that many of our reference limits are so poor a Kama Sutra as cinema and television. But it is true: "There is a science of sexuality," said Michel Foucault - "but not the pleasure of the people, because in the West never had erotic art." Maybe the porn versions of YouTube - Pornotuvo, Sextube, Pornotube, Tuporno - serve to know the extent of popular wit, because currently they are the closest to the democratization of pornography.
In Hangar, Shu Lea Chean calls attention. Diana appears wearing nothing but a net dress and says it is ready to act. Between shades of red and blue lights, actors crawl, lick, penetrate. The cast is made up of eight people, including a single male that I see. It's skinny, blonde, looks like Gary Oldman and the slow sensual moves of a cat, until one of the girls with a dildo rammed and contorts as if Gary was the victim of an electric shock.
For sorting, guess you came to that faced feminist women against men in the 80's. Breaking the gender roles imposed is the biggest political challenge proposed by Pos Porno. Hence, in Hangar no one says a man or woman, if not 'biohombre' and 'biomujer'. The goal is not to offend those born with an aesthetic that does not correspond with their sexuality. 'Tecnohombre' or 'tecnomujer' are those who went under the knife or are addicted to the prosthesis.
"Few people know that serves the prostate: the largest center for male pleasure," Diana is shocked.
"The body has a multiplicity of expressions that can not be reduced to the male and female. Sexual identities are a political tool invented in modern times, because until the seventeenth century did not exist, "says Beatriz Preciado, author of the books 'contrasexual Manifesto' and 'Anal Terror' which has just been presented in Barcelona, like other four titles considered 'pospornográficos', and also signed by 'biomujeres'.
At the end, I see that Diana convulsing on the ground intermittently but dominated by a mighty squirting, female ejaculation which we have so little information.
- Are you pissed?, Asked after his performance.
- No, this is not pee-meets Diana. After complaining that we know so little about the squirting. But he assures me that male pleasure is less known.
"We all know what it is the clitoris. But few know that serves the prostate: the largest center for male pleasure, "Diana is shocked -" So the Greeks were proud to be penetrable guys. Now a man can not say I enjoyed your prostate for fear of being called gay. The Church has screwed up, "says Diana, and she gives me one of those looks-challenging-punks, and warning me that I'm missing a very good part of life. And maybe you're right.