The extraordinary and dear, dear friends Post-Op are celebrating 10 years of impressive struggle and creative work within the field of gender and post-pornography, with a massive weekend filled with conferences, workshops, performances and, of course, sex parties, at Hangar, Barcelona.
If you are like me, faraway in this island, there’s a live streaming option, by minipimer.
This is Planet A from Momoko Seto:
She creates hybrid mix-genre films by transforming everyday life elements into a poetic and singular universe.
She also has some filthy seafood porn like this one.
(search engines show that people get to this blog by looking for “octopus” and “octopus porn”. Today is a better day for them!)
Like the sea monsters that prowled the edges of the once flat earth, the Cephalopods and Worms threaten our boundaries. Primitive, alien, yet connected to our own predatory minds and soft flesh, they both attract and repel. They are a premonition of the human animal yet to evolve, and they remind us that the primordial persists within us. It is a fearful affinity that is allegorized in the earliest myths of creation and procreation, and is the heart of evolution.
Judy Fox at P.P.O.W Gallery, NY.
Maybe she likes you back. Maybe she wants you back, maybe she says she’s attracted to you but she’s confused, but you doubt yourself anyway. Because why would she want you, broken rough-edged you, when she could be “normal”? Why would she want to be with you when she could be with a nice man that her mom will like? Why would she choose you when she could choose him, someone that she can take home to her family, that she can marry in a big field with flower girls and a ring bearer. Everyone at that wedding will be happy because they’ll feel like she’s safe with this man, she’ll have a beautiful life with this man, someday she’ll have babies in the image of this man and of her and of a future that doesn’t involve shame, confusion, having to jump through hoops, having to lose family or friends, having to make sacrifices and tough decisions just to hold a hand on the street. She could be normal, she could be blissfully normal, and all you have to offer is a pair of empty palms with the lines all out of order.
But god, you can do things with those palms. That’s what you wish you could tell her when you’re staring at your shoes or finishing that drink or pretending there’s nothing else to say. You can do things with those hands and those fingers, you’ve spent a lifetime in bedrooms preparing for a body like hers. You learned to love her on a sea of skin and spines that spelled out “soon, you’ll meet her soon,” and you want to show her with your own skin, your own lips, your rough and soft edges, that you can give her something no one else can. You learned how to desire and pleasure in your own way, and you want to show her life through that pleasure. You want to turn her towards your window and let her see the view.
It’s interesting how cute the poster looks and how filthy this festival is. I’m really happy with the result and I hope everything went well during la Muestra.
Exotica Loom won the third prize of the Petra Joy Awards with Corpuscle! We are being interviewed next week.
Great “old” treasure from my good friend and neighbour Maria.
“Nos podemos llegar a plantear cómo de igualmente construidas y estereotipadas están las actitudes disciplinadas y las subversivas”
New and truly first moving image project by Exotica Loom.
Open call for the 5th edition of the magnificent Muestra Marrana that is growing every year more and more like a hungry monster.
This time there will be a focus on older people and their sexuality. Inspired by that, here is the poster I did:
Here is how it looks on the website you should go to submit:
