The world used to be silent
Now it has too many voices
And the noises are constant distraction
They multiply, intensify
They will divert your attention from what’s convenient
And forget to tell you about yourself
We live in an age of many stimulations
If you are focused, you are harder to reach
If you are distracted, you are available
You are distracted, you are available
You want to take part in everything
And everything to be a part of you
Your head is spinning faster at the end of your spine
Until you have no face at all
And yet if the world would shut up, even for a while
Perhaps we will start hearing the distant rhythm of an angry young tune
And recompose ourselves
Perhaps having deconstructed everything
We should be thinking about putting everything back together

Silence yourself!

Last year I helped Nuria Camprecios and Lola Clavo producing the performance night with Diana Pornoterrorista that turned out to be a massive success! Here a video to refresh your memory.

This year Lola and I are working together as Exotica Loom curating and producing 2 events:

• Saturday 13th, highlight of the weekend, Filipe Canha with his brilliant performance YOU MUST BE AWFULLY SECURE IN YOUR MASCULINITY and a Q&A with the artist. You cannot miss it!

• Sunday 14th, closing film of the festival, And You Belong (world premiere), following around queer hip hop band Scream Club + Q&A with director Julia Ostertag moderated by journalist Val Phoenix + live band Plaitum, in a different style from Scream Club but with the same DIY attitude

Also, our short film Corpuscle (that is now in a compilation along Annie Sprinkle and Maria Beatty!) was selected and is screening on Saturday at Steamy Windows!

Special thanks to Nuria Camprecios that was working hard with us but had to go to Barcelona.

So, book your tickets, tell your friends, and we’ll see you there!!

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.

-La Muerte en Venecia, Thomas Mann

 L' Entre au Paradis, Henri Robert Bresil

Redshift by Emily Richardon

The film has a gentle intensity to it, and is composed of changes of light across the sea, sky and mountains. It shows movement where there is apparent stillness, whether in the formation of weather patterns, movement of stars, the illumination of a building by passing car headlights or boats darting back and forth across the sea’s horizon.

(Some previews at arte.tv)

and Inger Lise Hansen

Hus by Inger Lise Hansen

- Hus is a film which attempts to reveal the private and hidden layers of our habitation (…) It is a film about time and processes, about disintegration and construction. -In Hus I was interested in physically deconstructing and reconstructing one object. I imagined the house as a shell that separates “private and public spheres”. Through the use of animation I could open up this “shell” and examine it.

(I’ve recently wrote a proposal where I explained something very similar about the “house layers”)

One her incredible upside down landscapes (excerpt from Travelling Fields):

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!)

 …El territorio comenzará entonces a construirse en un sistema complejo de interacciones con un comportamiento absolutamente indeterminado e incierto

[via arqueología del futuro]

I’ve been increasingly interested in the idea of temporary architecture, nomadism and how do we think about “home”.

Si estáis por Barcelona no os lo perdáis! Este miércoles en Can Felipa.