THIS IS WHAT I WANT festival is hosting an Unconference on pleasure, lineage and sustainability. Join us in this peer led space to collectively explore vital ideas about our various practices and activities through conversation, embodied enquiry and performative experiments. This unconference is a site of cross pollination between artists, activists and sexuality professionals, where we can dive deeply into issues pleasure, lineage and sustainability in our practices.
THIS IS WHAT I WANT is working thematically with ‘the line between private and public’ in 2016. Here is what is current for us. Whatever you want or need to talk about is welcome.
1) Pleasure: What does our practice look like if it is pleasure informed? What is the aesthetic experience of watching someone express desire if they expect to get what they want? Or not? How can our pleasure be relevant beyond our immediate private practices, on the broader stage? How does the erotic fuel our every day lives, and can cross fertilization of our bodies of knowledge contribute to sustainability in our practices?
2) Lineage: How do we honor both our chosen and inherited ancestors in our creative practices? Is there a dichotomy between the potency of drawing from a rootedness - spiritual line/race/culture-making/ and the new creations? What is authenticity in creativity? Can you track where those impulses which form our identities and performance inspirations come from? How do we honor both our chosen and inherited ancestors without cultural appropriation? (considering Japanese rope bondage, yoga, body modifications, tantra, butoh, etc)
3) How do pleasure and lineage sustain us? Can pleasure shift us from victim or martyr into something more creative and sustainable that energizes change? How are taboo desires such as age play, the Master/slave dynamic, and gender transcendance reframed as sites of resistance or empowerment? How do we contribute to a culture of shame resilience?
Saturday, June 11 & Sunday, June 12, 10am - 5 pm both days
Lunch will be provided at 1 pm both days and there are cafes nearby.
The Chapel, Fort Mason Center for The Arts
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