Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as a Lover
1. 8. 23, 7 p.m.
key data
- Venue
- Stadtgalerie Zwergelgarten
- Date
- 1. 8. 23, 7 p.m.
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
In 2002, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle fell in love and have worked together ever since, doing visual art, performance art, theatre, film-making and happenings. They launched the Ecosex Movement (2008) from their home base in San Francisco and have been doing multi-media art experiments that aim to make environmental activism more sexy, fun and diverse. In 2016-17, they were official documenta 14 artists. In 2021 they were awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in film-making.
Films
2017 Water Makes Us Wet–An Ecosexual Adventure. Feature film co-produced and co-directed with Beth Stephens
2013 Goodbye Gauley Mountain–An Ecosexual Love Story. Feature film co-produced with Beth Stephens
Exhibitions
Featured Artist in Performances, Social Practice and Visual Art Exhibitions
2022 Ecosex Walking Tour, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA (US), Ecosex Healing Clinic, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA (US) (Earth Day). 2021 Ecosex Healing Clinic, City Lights, San Francisco, CA (US) (OCT); Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp, Great Salt Lake, (adjacent to Robert Smithson's, Spiral Jetty), in collaboration with Ewelina Jarosz and Justyna Górowska. Rozel Point, Utah (US); Ecosex Walking Tour of the Poudre River, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (US). 2020 Ecosex Clinic, Saitama Triennial, Saitama (JP)
Publications
Publications
Assuming the Ecosexual Position-Earth as Lover. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN (Summer, 2021. Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos. An interview with Linda Williams. Edited by Michelle Meeks. Focal Press/Routledge, 2019. Field to Palette – Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene. Soil Lovers Unite! A conversation with Farmer Philosopher Fred Kirsheman, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. Edited by Alexandra Toland, Jay Stratton Noller, Gerd Wessolek. Routledge, 2018. Gender: Nature. Ecosexuality. Chapter written in collaboration with Beth Stephens. Edited by Iris van der Tuin. Macmillan, Farmington Hills, MI (US), 2017
