E.A.R.T.H. LAB
PLAYING WITH FIRE:
A HOT SYMPOSIUM 🔥
Register for the Symposium here.
October 7-9.
We’ll explore the pleasures, perils & politics of fire through art, theory, practice, and activism. On the UCSC campus in the DARC building, room #108. More info...
Confirmed speakers and participants include:
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle: Keynote
Roxi Power: Zig-Zag Fire Poems
Becca Fenwick: Director, CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research: Presenting UCNRS Fire Data
Karin Bolender: Artist and Director of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (RAW)
Justin Hoover, Artist and Director of the Chinese Historical Society of America
Brandon Smith, Director of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRC)
Benny Fillmore, Washoe Elder and Hotshot Firefighter
Laura Smith-Fillmore, Artist and Translator
Helen Fillmore, Environmentalist, Hotshot Firefighter
Julie Weitz, Artist: Golem: A Call to Action + Prayer for Burnt Forests
Heather and Michael Llewellyn: Artists and Curators of FOREST⇌FIRE Exhibition
Courtney Desiree Morris, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley courtneydesireemorris.com
Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Kali Rubaii, Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
Cláudio Bueno, Professor of Art, UC Santa Cruz
Nicole Rudolph Vallerga: Artist
Kevin Seaman, Artist
Lauren Bon, Artist, Metabolic Studio
& many more...
Check Out Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle's New Book
Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth.
What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely—or, perhaps, broadly—what we have spent many years bringing to light in our lived art. In 2008, we married the Earth in a performance art wedding which set us on the path together to explore the realm of ecosexuality, taking the Earth as our lover and making our mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, we have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in our performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, post-human, materialist, and steeped in humor.
The book is available wherever you buy books, or from the publisher, University of Minnesota Press. We recommend you order from the environmentally conscious As You Like it Pleasure Shop. Amazon.
Click here for the book’s press release.