“My body is not a temple, my body is a tool of resistance”
– Diana J. Torres
What is your sexuality, your desire, your shame, your nakedness?
Do they merely reproduce capitalist and colonial clichés, or are they something more: a source of struggle and pleasure, a possibility for shifting norms and political narratives — in the name of building a community that dismantles hierarchies and carves out new directions in culture?
Pornoterrorism — as an artistic and political strategy — entered the field of post-pornographic art in a radical, subversive and profoundly expanding way, opening its terrain to new layers of meaning. No wonder: post-porn itself became, at a certain moment, the domain of the Academy, appropriated by the dead language of theory and academic dogmas. And yet post-pornographic art was forged in the heat of street fights, political activism, rebel art spaces, squats, and autonomous queer environments shaping today’s culture of resistance and visibility. That is why it cannot be appropriated: it is a continuous fluctuation, a force producing ever-new subversive narratives — always updated, always transgressive, always ahead of its time.
For this reason, we decided to bring the aesthetics of postpornoterrorismo closer to our audience — that passionate and honest fusion which frames sexuality as a political terrain: not neutral, but shaped by the normative discourses of religion, patriarchy, and the state. An aesthetics of transgression, one that can appear outrageous (great!) and blasphemous (even better!), but which ultimately leads us along a debauched path toward social and cultural transformation. Otherwise it would be nothing but decoration.
We have one night to show what we consider most essential today in performative arts connected to the post-porn movement: a series of performances prepared specifically for this event, focused on the politicality of bodies and employing strategies characteristic of “post-pornoterrorism.” Among the invited artists, an ongoing dispute persists — about the language through which sexuality can be performed as a defense of one’s rights, about how broad the spectrum of topics can be, and about what is truly grounded in the present moment. Despite these disagreements, all of the works belong to an aesthetics of radical corporeality: nudity, bodily fluids, autoeroticism — tools capable of provoking discomfort, yet simultaneously prompting reflection on personal norms and cultural limitations. All of them also affirm sexuality as a tool of agency and liberation, while at the same time revealing its entanglement in violence, normativity, and control.
Invited artists:
Maria Basura — Chilean performer, director, and activist associated with the radical political project Fuck the Fascism. Her performances — shown both in autonomous spaces and at festivals — focus on the decolonization of power, often drawing on BDSM and fetish aesthetics.
JorgeTheObscene & Roxy Nova — a Chilean–Scottish sex-worker and performance duo rooted in independent queer–club culture. They use performance to present and defend the rights of sex workers, consciously transforming mainstream porn aesthetics into a rebellious and comic spectacle mocking cultural clichés and deconstructing social norms, often with active audience participation.
Anna Kalwajtys — one of the most progressive Polish performers, working at the crossroads of radical feminism, politics, art, and sexuality. Her performances often involve direct reactions with audience members, provoking improvised situations based on symbolic violence. Though seemingly chaotic and unpredictable, her performative strategy follows a consistent logic that usually culminates in a radical political message.
Lola Pistola — Spanish activist and artist focusing mainly on the emancipation of non-normative bodies and on representations of corporeality in culture. She often uses bodily fluids, masturbation, and post-apocalyptic aesthetics. Her practice frequently addresses current political issues, drawing on “fashionable” cultural ideas such as body positivity or hydro-feminism. Her approach could be described as biopolitical performance.
Simona Kasprowicz — artist, performer, and director focusing primarily on the oppressive nature of patriarchal culture and on redefining trans sexuality. On stage she performs her own sexuality, often dealing with themes of normative social control and playing with pop-cultural tropes of femininity. She frequently uses subversive visual codes, interacting with religious or political symbols.
Betty Q — a legend of Polish burlesque, who considers the form exhausted. Her subversive performance attempts to move beyond the ghetto of previous practices, dismantling burlesque aesthetics in the name of real political action and the search for a language focused not on satisfying the tamed tastes of an audience but on creating an uncomfortable, demanding dialogue with them.
Liad Hussein Kantorowicz — presents a new, extremely vivid and crucial language of post-porn and queer performance used for artivist actions, often centered around radical politics. Their work is multidimensional: original songs, performance art, film, and video-art.
Leon Dziemaszkiewicz — a legendary and pioneering figure of body art, tirelessly traveling across eras and generations. His performances use simple but intense means — paint, colorful tapes, feathers, trash objects — through which Leon skillfully navigates dynamic queer culture, referencing its aesthetic roots and authentic DIY ethos.
Nicky Miller / Electrosexual — a DJ-performance collective rooted in club music yet grounded in visual art, queer cinema, and video-art. The best opportunity to feel the heartbeat of Berlin’s authentic underground scene — and not just because of the music.
Film program
The event will be complemented by a film program: gallery films shown in the hermetic art world as well as underground narratives by collectives / artists from South America and Europe — including Poland. Most of the program belongs to the festival circuit and has been presented at the most significant post-porn festivals worldwide. We will showcase queer narratives from squats, feminist and transfeminist manifestos, ecosexual films rooted in dark ecology and interspecies alliances, decolonial post-sexual survival strategies, progressive and radically political films focused on emancipation and resistance, works created by sex-worker collectives, and underground Brazilian BDSM cinema — dozens of short films illuminating the broad spectrum of themes shaping contemporary post-pornography.
We have only one night to show it — but we will remember it for a long time.
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Graphics: Victor Soma
