still to come, a feminist pornscape

Transcending duality and peak, STILL TO COME,​ a feminist pornscape​ desires otherwise: multiplicity, beyondness, lust for what is yet to come, dissolving and gathering anew.

We are dancing with our butt holes while undressing, redressing, covering my face, your foot, our prosthetic holes, making tongue choreography 1,2,3. Our hair is radical softness, we disappear in ourselves and in an infinite love affair. We play masters of dungeon where we build islands of faceless people and our bodies morph. We want to sext like it was 1996, like our childhood selves merged to a fictional “I” of mutating age and gender, to whom virginity was nothing more than a zodiac state.

Can we approximate a utopian sci-fi-pornochoreography grounded in the here and now?

While the combination of terms still rings contradictory to many, feminist porn has been gathering an ever larger scene in the last decades. Rather than espousing the same old stereotypes and scenes, feminist porn aims to depict a diversity of people and pleasures. As it has been upheld by feminist pornmakers, working on feminist porn includes ethics of fair labor practices and working conditions, respect for performers and striving to portray all the performers having power in their pleasure – no feminist representation without feminist conditions of production. Our artistic proposal is a dance performance that experiments with translating one media to another, film to choreography. We chose not a “one on one” translation, omitting explicit sexual content on stage, but pursued translating using the artistic method of reformulations. This method allowed translations to end up in the previously unknown and facilitated a fully shared authorship. STILL TO COME, ​a feminist pornscape​ is an experiment with embodying and embedding these reformulations, a proposition for the audience of a collective and live choreographic experience.
The piece disrupts the trained gaze and opens possibilities of gazing without a constrained direction of attention. This gap aims to allow for a gaze that desires otherwise. Movement, text and objects are working with a non-frontal audience placing and a care for the minor gesture. “Tantra” dramaturgy creates a multi layered choreography of attention, making space for inflection and indulgence.

STILL TO COME, ​a feminist pornscape​ is a collaboration between Rahel Barra, Ida Daniel, Ana Dubljević, Frida Laux and Zrinka Užbinec, five artists with different approaches and backgrounds within the field of performing arts. They met in the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany and now are set on a common research.

Later, Ana Dubljević compiled practices done in the performance, speculating on feminist dramaturgy, and made the book The Feminist Pornscapes: On Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice

https://adubljevic.wordpress.com/portfolio/the-feminist-pornscapes-on-feminist-dramaturgical-thinking-in-dance-and-performance-practice/