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POSTPORNOGRAPHY: sex, art and transgression txabi funtsak    I  girlswholikeporno, edu & jero funtsak During the last century and in this one we’ve just begun, the concept of sex promoted and imposed on us by medicine and the morals of the time is undergoing change and a more critical outlook on sex is starting to flower. Reflections on sex suggested by different forms of art are introducing a new sex culture, reading a new meaning into old concepts, mythical beliefs and taboos. All of this has been baptised POST PORNOGRAPHY.
Post pornography has been defined as “any performance, installation, imagery, text or representation that casts doubt on and criticises dominant pornography and on the stereotypical use of the men and women in sex”. A new take on pornography “that is an alternative, minority and non-conformist representation of sexuality”.
These concepts have taken a deep root in queer** philosophy, and over the last few years many creations and works of art have chiselled out the essentially cloudy limits of post pornography.
The birth of the post pornography conscience can be traced back to 1990 and came to us from the hands of porn actress Annie Sprinkle. Sprinkle defines herself as a multimedia whore and a post-pornographer. She presented the concept of post pornography in a show where she invited her audience to take a look inside her vagina.
Since then, there have been many new proposals in many different formats. An example of this was the book “Baise moi?”, which rankled a few noses and caused quite a scandal when it was made into a film. Post pornography has been subject to many events, workshops and talks is a concept that is slowly spreading across the whole world.

** The queer concept is a call for us not to leave the configuration and limits of new sex and organisms in the hands of the “biopowers” (the multinational medicine industry and media magnets amongst others.)

The 2003 edition of MACBA in Barcelona held a post-porn marathon. Under the heading “Porography, post-pornography: the aesthetical and political representations of sex”, dozens of people put on performances, talks and there was a workshop where scenes from different films were re-enacted and transmitted on closed-circuit TV. Innovative post pornographic proposals from different artistic scenes came out of the whole thing, the performance group POST OP or the association “Nomecompliqueslavida” being two worthy of mention.

“GIRLSWHOLIKEPORNO”
“Sex, beats & pixels”


We aren’t experts in pornography, we watch old porn movies because we like the touch of innocence they give off. Some of the films we have seen from the 80s blow us away whereas others send us to sleep. We’re really pornographic, we love to show off everything and we feel as if we’re living in a time where we’re going backwards as far as culture and seeing everything is concerned (that theory goes before anything we’ve ever lived through). That’s what makes hanging knickers and underwear on the Brandenburg Gate and in the Red Square in Moscow so wonderfully enjoyable.

As our name says, we would like to change all of those dogmas, and out-of-date cultural and psicologycal beliefs that have made the lives of lots of so many men and women so dull and boring, and all based on the uncontrolable femenine tendency to change everything.

In the last edition of SONAR, we were given the chance to find out more about “girlswholikeporno”. The whole show was audio-visually upending and the music was retro and really enjoyable. The whole thing was really colourful and it all ended with a priceless striptease.