This clip show is about the central and unexpected part played by performance in post-porn. Post-porn started around 2000 as a new porn and minority porn and a way of deconstructing mainstream porn. And occasionally make us wet for good. Fifteen years later, it turns out that performance, be it in bars, festival or public space, be it in Europe or Latin America saturates post-porn space and subcultures instead of movies. Why is that ?

 

Queer activist and theorist, Marie-Hélène Bourcier/Sam founded Le ZOO, the first queer group in France in 1996. In 200, he coined the term « post-porn » in the first volume of his Queer Zones’s trilogy : Queer Zones 1, Politique des identités sexuelles et des savoirs, (2001), Queer Zones 2, Sexpolitiques (2005), Queer Zones 3, Identités, Cultures, Politics (2011). He translated Teresa de Lauretis and Monique Wittig into French and writes extensively on medias, gender and sexual politics, pornography and post-pornography, queer subcultures and politics. He co-designed the post-porn marathon at the MacBA in Barcelona in 2004, ran the Paris Porn Film Festival (2008-2009) and co-directed Mutantes with Virginie Despentes He is currently working on two books : one sex and neoliberalism and the other one on discriminations at university.