The Earth as Lover, the Collective as Lover. Ecosexual and Posthumanist Perspectives in Performance Art
The Earth as Beloved, the Collective as Beloved
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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.211Keywords:
Activism, Love, Nature, Performance, QueerAbstract
The book "Assuming the Ecosexual Position" tells the story of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens as loving collaborators working together and offers a pleasurable and performative (over)view into their joint (performance) work. The artists have been developing public wedding performances since 2005, and in 2008 they married their more-than-human beloved for the first time in the form of the Green Wedding performance: the earth. Sprinkle and Stephens made a political statement against discrimination with their weddings, as marriage for all was not yet federally legal in the US in the 2000s. With the founding of the performative "Love Art Lab" - which is the focus of the book - the artists celebrated further dazzling wedding performances with the moon, the sky or the Appalachians, among others, together with many collaborators. With their work and this book, the artists are writing another piece of performance history.
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