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CLICK ME
Public Display of Internet Pornography
2nd International Netporn Festival
Paradiso, Amsterdam Saturday, 2 June 2007, 1pm to
5am
CLICK ME is an event to investigate internet
pornography in a
non-conventional way. We are looking forward to a
queer event without
any
rigid queer correctness (as queer doesnt always mean
good porn!). We
want
to re-think the society of the netporn spectacle: the
digital zeitgeist
that has given us a hypersexual body. What to do with
our bodies and
digital machines? Pornography has found its way into
every nook and
cranny
of the Internet, but how can we still be queer
radicals or body
artists,
private hedonists or fervent bloggers in this climate?
Do we still need
to
have a sanctified space like an underground or a
dungeon, when we
produce
desire with our floating networked bodies? Porn went
porn-chic years
ago.
Today netporn goes into Myspace bedrooms and everyday
realcore.
CLICK ME is not only netporn displays, but strategies
of public
engagement and sharing thoughts about netporn. While
creating a
visibility
of desire, we try to experiment with a new
invisibility of
identities.
>From the era of queer communities, we move into the
culture of
crossbreed
pornography. Even amongst those horny mobs targeted by
the netporn
industry giants, people cherish their own queer
varieties. Netporn
means
the messy process of personal affections and anomalies
melting into the
databases of porn masses. In the era of pornification
of mainstream
imagery, there is no more society without netporn, but
a lot has to be
done to sexualize the critical multitudes. Queer and
net
activists,
theorists and artists once again gather in Amsterdam
to discuss the
growing pains of autonomous culture zones, but also
netporn as sexwork,
production of affective commodities and one of the
biggest global
markets.
CLICK ME wants to create a networked debate,
continuing the
discourse
started with the first Netporn Conference in 2005 and
connecting to
other
experiences across Europe and elsewhere, like the Porn
Film festival
and
the Post Porn Politics symposium both held in Berlin
in 2006. What does
a
post-porn politics mean after entering the digital
realms of the
network
society? And what will be the destiny of the porn
genre in the age of
the
affective technologies? Before brainstorming the
dissolution of porn
into
commodities or its future explosion in global
conflicts, our specific
DIY
contribution is an anti-essentialist and intoxicated
event, with input
from new publics, with a nostalgic embrace of (post)
punk wet dreams
and
sex revolutions. Most of all, CLICK ME invites you to
experience the
sexual evolution of the digital generation.
Your stimulators,
Katrien Jacobs, Matteo Pasquinelli and Marije Janssen
Program
Day program
CLICK ME day program will feature an international
selection of
speakers
from various disciplines presenting their views and
thoughts in a
performative setting. Guests, among others, are
American film producer,
sex blogger and writer Audacia Ray, multi-media artist
and musician
Terre
Thaemlitz, post-porn theorist and performer Tim
Stuttgen, 21 century
activist Francesco Palmieri Warbear, and genetic
pornography
demagogue,
Adam Zaretsky. Visitors and participants will meet
during the dinner,
especially designed by food artist Patrick Faas for
CLICK ME.
The day program will be hosted by Nat Muller.
Evening program
The evening program features video and film
screenings, which includes
the
European premiere of Audacia Rays film The Bi Apple,
the (least)
favorite
porn scenes brought to you by participants and
celebrities, the
bareback
monologues and a soiree of irreverent porn acts. The
evening program
will
be hosted by Bahram Sadeghi.
Night program
As the evening turns into night, CLICK ME invites you
to an
unforgettable
party with in the main hall: Dj Sprinkles a.k.a. Terre
Thaemlitz, live
performances by: Khan of Finland en LeClic and Djs
Sandrien and
Abraxas.
Get sweaty on the dance floor or lose yourself in the
underground
atmosphere created in the small hall by the Phag Off
collective from
Rome
who for the first time will collaborate with Cruise
Control queer crew.
Team Plastique will perform live. If this is too much
you can relax in
the
basement and listen to the whispered dirty stories in
the For Your
Ears
Only project by SXNDRX.
List of participants:
Audacia Ray
Terre Thaemlitz
Tim Stuttgen
Warbear
Florian Cramer
Lotte Hoek
Feona Attwood
Sharif Mowlabocus
Adam Zaretsky
Dominik Bartowski
Ticket prices:
Passepartout (including festival dinner) 27,50 euro
Day ticket: 7,50 euro
Evening ticket: 12,50 euro
Night ticket: 12,50 euro
If you would like more information on the program,
participants and
practical info, please visit our website:
www.c-lickme.nl
or myspace:
www.myspace.com/clickmeamsterdam
You can also join our mailinglist to discuss topics
with participants:
http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org
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