[aha] Arse Elektronika 2010 - Space Racy - San Francisco

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###### monochrom's
##### Arse Elektronika 2010
#### SPACE RACY
### Talks, machines, workshops and performances
## San Francisco, September 30-October 3, 2010
# At Chez Poulet, Center for Sex and Culture, Parisoma, Noisebridge and 
Mission Comics and Art

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


### SPACE RACY?

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.


### SCHEDULE

## Opening Night and Prixxx Arse 2010
# Hosted by monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner.
With a superspecial keynote by Susie Bright (All Along the SexTower: Sex 
on Stage in America, from Susie Bright's Reporters Notebook)
Featuring many guests stars, like Thomas S. Roche, Charlie Anders 
(Erotic mind control via the Internet) and Elle Mehrmand and Micha 
Cárdenas (virus.circus)
Thursday, September 30, 2010
9:00 PM at Chez Poulet (3359 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco)

## Discoursive and Performative Approaches
# With Samuel Coniglio, Jason Brown, Heather Kelley and starPause/Jordan 
White
Friday, October 1, 2010
8:00 PM at Center for Sex and Culture (1519 Mission Street between 11th 
and So. Van Ness, San Francisco)

## Conference for Brainy Pervs
# With talks by Ella Saitta, Ben Dagan, Philip Freeman, Adam Flynn, 
Svenja Schroeder, Mae Saslaw, Katrien Jacobs, Annalee Newitz, Carol Queen
Saturday, October 2, 2010
12:00 noon at Parisoma (1436 Howard St. at 10th, San Francisco)

## Six Feet Under Club
# Let's have sex in a coffin! monochrom wants you to go down
Saturday, October 2, 2010
9:30 PM on street outside of Parisoma (1436 Howard St. at 10th, San 
Francisco)

## Screw-It-Yourself: Workshops and Unconference
# With Christophe, Maia Marinelli, E. Conrad, Elle Mehrmand, Micha 
Cárdenas, Zach Blas, Heather Kelley, Robert Glashüttner
Sunday, October 3, 2010
2:00 PM at Noisebridge (2169 Mission Street, San Francisco)

## Microtalks on Sex/Tech/Art
# Lightning talks about technosexual art and comic culture! Give your 
own 5-minute presentation!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
8:30 PM at Mission Comics and Art (3520 20th St. Suite B, San Francisco)


### FESTIVAL PASSES

# Single day pass: $20 (with a possibility of student discount)
# Festival pass: $50
# Workshops @ Noisebridge: free, but possible material costs