The Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi hosts Cinemapocalissi, a two-day cycle of screenings that turns the Teatrino in a post-porn cinema. The project curated by Il Colorificio, a curatorial collective that explores the relationship and the non-normative representation of bodies and sexuality, is the fourth chapter of the association's annual programme entitled L'Ano Solare. A year-long programme on sex and self-display.
The programme includes films by Kathy Acker e Alan Sondheim, AltSHIFT, Xavier Baert, Maria Basura, Amber Bemak, Cade, Marc Caro, PaulX Castello, Shu Lea Cheang, Colectivo CENEx, Linda Porn, Ediyporn, Lucía Egaña Rojas, Jean Genet, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Barbara Hammer, Bruce LaBruce, Del LaGrace Volcano, Dylan Meade, Eric Pussyboy e Abigail GnashLlaveria, Joanna Rytel, Annie Sprinkle, Wong Ping.
Cinemapocalissi
It returns scenarios in which the regulated field of the sexual act undergoes a violent paradigm shift. If in fact mainstream pornography - or straight porn - is meant as a technology that can unilaterally regulate sexuality, openly interested in the satisfaction of a specific viewer, post-porn recognizes in sexuality a technology in itself, Proposing itself as a place of analysis to explore the desire as a critical agent of a social body.
Post-pornography was born at the turn of the eighties and nineties from feminist and queer claims that identified in the appropriation of the means of production (and reproduction) Hetero porn alternative ways to imagine new representations of desire and highlight the educational uses of sex. Through post-porn sex is no longer interpreted as a ground in which the biological desires of the natural body flow, but as a platform to identify those same desires as well as technological, social, cultural and political and to redefine the boundaries.
