[aha] Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY

[T_Bazz]

Arse Elektronika: SPACE RACY

Conference, machines, workshops and performances
September 30-October 3, 2010

Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The 
gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and 
similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the 
back seats of cars, and people fucking in parks. Housing for 
unconventional family units. Augmented reality sex spaces. Furniture for 
sex. Room design. Creating new environments. Gendered spaces, and gender 
in the creation of space. Architecture by women, and the potential for 
the construction of a feminist architecture. Actively gender-segregated 
spaces, as both empowering and oppressing. Queer-segregated spaces, 
similarly. The acts of human intimacy, sexual intercourse, and 
procreation in weightlessness and the extreme environments of space. 
Erotic space tourism. The visibility of sex, genders, and relationship 
structures in various spaces. Spaces of sexual control and 
permissiveness. Sexual subcultures as spaces of social division. Spatial 
enforcement of relationship structures and gendered power structures. 
Geotagging as an expression for kinks. The sexual reading of 
architecture, especially around historical and modern styles and 
concerning ornament and detail. The eroticization of buildings -- 
architecture for whorehouses, the Las Vegas strip, people who want to 
sleep with buildings. What makes design "sexy" and the construction of 
"sexy" as an architectural category as a comment on late 
heteronormativity. The terabyte gloryhole. The space in which the male 
gaze occurs and the space it defines.

Heterosexism, misogyny, and heterocentrism reinforce the dominant 
cultural structure and contribute to the oppression of large sectors of 
society. Sexuality, sex, gender, and related constructs are heavily 
implicated in and reproduce space, and are also constrained and 
restricted by it and by heterosexism. Let's explore this space of 
interactions.

http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika