Artist stories

In this show, we hear from UCSC Art Professor Beth Stephens and her partner Annie Sprinkle, eco-sexuals , and world, renowned performance artists activists. 

They are putting the E in LGBTQIA+. We talked about their co-production, ⁠Exploring the Earth as Lover, Eco-sex in the City,⁠ a four-day symposium on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that happened last weekend. This was their 9th Ecosex Symposium, a multi-media extravaganza with panels, films, performances & lots of fun environmental activism.  

We discussed a few of the highlights of this four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play. 

For more information, you can go to https://earthlabsf.org/ and https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu/

You can also get their newest book, ⁠Assuming the Eco-Sex Position⁠.