Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance NYC
For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.
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For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.