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 Annie Sprinkle and Beth
Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art,
exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the
Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of
ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their
mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the
environment. Ever since, they have been not just pushing but
obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology,
creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism
that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, materialist,
exuberant, and steeped in humor. Assuming the Ecosexual Position
tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of
ecosexuality-for Annie, in her family swimming pool in Los Angeles;
for Beth, savoring forbidden tomatoes from the vine on her
grandparents' Appalachian farm. The book describes how the two came
together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against
homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous
conception of the Love Art Laboratory, which involved influential
performance artists Linda M. Montano, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and
feminist pornographer Madison Young. Stephens and Sprinkle share
the process of making interactive performance art, including the
Chemo Fashion Show, Cuddle, Sidewalk Sex Clinics, and Ecosex
Walking Tours. Over the years, they celebrated many more weddings
to various nature entities, from the Appalachian Mountains to the
Adriatic Sea. To create these weddings, they collaborated with
hundreds of people and invited thousands of guests as they vowed to
love, honor, and cherish the many elements of the Earth. As
entertaining as it is deeply serious, and arriving at a perilous
time of sharp differences and constricting categories, the story of
this artistic collaboration between Sprinkle, Stephens, their
diverse communities, and the Earth opens gender and sexuality, art
and environmentalism, to the infinite possibilities and promise of
love.
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