Annie Sprinkle
"In the future, everybody will be so sexually satisfied, there'll be an end to violence, rape and war. We will establish contact with extra-terrestrials and they will be very sexy." — Annie Sprinkle
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Annie Sprinkle (born Ellen Steinberg July 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, performance artist and sex educator; she describes herself as a "Post-Porn Modernist". She is perhaps best known for live shows in which she invites the audience to "demystify the female body" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Sprinkle [Jul 2004]"Post-Porn Modernist"
Referring to pornography and postmodernism, Annie Sprinkle describes herself as a "Post-Porn Modernist".Public Cervix Announcement
In 1991, Annie Sprinkle douched on stage in preparation of her ‘public cervix announcement’ in which, aided by speculum and flashlight, she allowed audience members to look at her cervix. Feminist theory and performance art has been crucial to the development of s/m masquerades in lesbian s/m videos. --Katrien JacobsLinks
"In the future, everybody will be so sexually satisfied, there'll be an end to violence, rape and war. We will establish contact with extra-terrestrials and they will be very sexy." — Annie Sprinkle http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/16/annie.htmlBooks
- Annie Sprinkle: Post-Porn Modernist - Annie Sprinkle [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Porn-star-turned-performance-artist Annie Sprinkle presents an illustrated history of her 25-year career, documenting her transformation from ugly duckling to prostitute to porn queen to sexual healer, activist, and educator. Although she began as "an excruciatingly shy girl" selling popcorn at an adult theater showing Deep Throat, her playful and uninhibited nature was soon recognized. When the police closed the theater, she asked a spiritualist friend for a spell that might bring her a new job. "It was my first experience with witchcraft," Sprinkle recalls, "and I didn't really expect it to work. But did it ever! I hit the jackpot. Maybe it was just good luck, but a week later I was working as a prostitute." She was discovered by porn producers soon afterward and went on to make over 200 hardcore films before leaving the industry to develop her own public performances, the most famous of which was her "Public Cervix Announcement," in which she allowed audience members to view her interior using a speculum and a flashlight. Well-written, well-illustrated, and calmly outrageous, Post-Porn Modernist is a great introduction to an American original. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com - Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance (Critical Performance Series)
by Annie Sprinkle, Gabrielle Cody, Gabrielle H. Cody [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Dedicated to "academics, whores and academic whores everywhere," Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance is a collaboration between sex worker and performance artist Annie Sprinkle (Annie Sprinkle, Post-Porn Modernist: My Twenty-Five Years as a Multimedia Whore) and Vassar College drama professor Gabrielle Cody (Impossible Performance: Duras As Dramatist). Sprinkle is probably the best-known of the first generation of women performance artists whose work focuses on sex and sexuality. Together, the authors reflect on Sprinkle's work and explore tensions within feminism over pornography and the complex power relations inherent in any art that makes use of the female body. The book combines Cody's academic analysis and Sprinkle's own writings with conversations between Sprinkle and her friends (porn star Veronica Vera) and critics (anti-porn feminist Mae Tyme). While too academic for many readers, the book is entertaining and provocative, and should delight any serious student of feminist performance art. Photos not seen by PW. --Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. via Amazon.comConsidered the first female performance artist to focus explicitly on sex, Sprinkle, in one of her most notorious performances, invited audience members to view her cervix with the help of a speculum and a flashlight. This is the third installment of Continuum's "Critical Performances" series, which pairs artists with critical theorists. Here, Sprinkle and Cody (drama, Vassar Coll.) collaborate to provide critical analysis of Sprinkle's performance work. Sprinkle's Post-Porn Modernist: ...--From Library Journal
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