porning the planet

2008-05-08T17:31:00.000-07:00

I AM INVITING ALL WHO WOULD LIKE TO POSITIVELY AND SERIOUSLY CONTRIBUTE TO THIS BLOG. THIS BLOG WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE BUILDING OF MY NEW SOLO THEATRE PIECE. PORNING THE PLANET.

PORNING THE PLANET -The De-Sensitiz Nation of a Generation

SYNOPSIS:
A star is born- porn star that is- Based on adult film star Brittany Andrews, this darkly comedic play PorningthePlanet follows SENSORA on a surreal journey. As the porn star chosen by NASA for the making of the film PORNING THE PLANET, SENSORA attempts to answer multiple personality disorder through the building of porn persona. On of her way to meet Hugh Hiefner our savior transforms from naive beauty pageant queen, to enlightened porn star, to snuff assassinated president. Leaving her no option but to escape the planet, launching into the galaxy. Porn star as alien embodies the last frontier for men to conquer.

All multi-media in the show reflects images we download from her mind. Her memories are porn. Her daily rituals can be downloaded for mass consumption. This piece explores the impact that pornography has had on our consciousness, in our method of communicating, and loving/hating. Our creation of De-Sensitiz Nation.

PREMIERE SHOWING OF THIS NEW SOLO SHOW ON OCT. 30TH 2011 AT THEATRE 80 ON 80 ST. MARKS PLACE AT 10PM IN NYC. Contact laluchaartsco@hotmail.com for reservations.

DIRECTED BY: PENNY ARCADE

CHOREOGRAPHY BY: VANGELINE

COSTUME AND SET DESIGN: SINDY BUTZ

MUSE AND CONSULTANT: BRITTANY ANDREWS

This piece will also be built with the contribution of interviews, recordings and blogs based on the community's experience with pornography.

FEEL FREE TO RESPOND WITH YOUR NAME OR ANONYMOUSLY. YOU CAN READ BELOW WITH YOUR REACTIONS OR OWN IDEAS ON THE STATE OF MODERN WOMANHOOD AND IF YOU THINK THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT HAS BEEN CO-OPTED BY MEDIA- PORNOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY?

Porning the planet – A STATE OF BEING

READ BELOW,FEEL FREE TO REFER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND OR ANYTHING THAT INSPIRES A RESPONSE FROM THESE QUESTIONS AND IDEAS PRESENTED.

1. what do you define as porn?

2. Is porn just negative or positive to you- or do you have a criteria on what makes porn a negative or positive experience for you?

3. What in your everyday life would you consider to be pornographic?

4. Do you feel the rise of raunch / pop porn culture empowers women economically as successful business women? – do you feel it really empowers women’s sexuality or confines them?

5. Has porn opened/ changed the view you have on your sexuality? If so how?

6. Do you and your partner use porn together in your sexual lives?

7. How open are you with family members or friends about your porn purchasing/ viewing?

8. Has having porn so accessible in your everyday life made your immune to sexual content? Example- rate from 1 to 10 if having porn on, or a magazine open makes you uncomfortable.

9. Who created the concept of porn? Who was it created for?
Do any men associate the women’s feminist movement with pornography? Or is that connection or lack of connection only considered by women?

10. Do you feel the women’s feminist movement has been co-opted by the porn commercial industry? If so, why and list examples you relate to. If not why, and list examples you relate to.

11. Do you feel that there is any connection in your life between pornography and technology?

12. What does it mean to you to be “like a man’? Of “like a woman”? Is there any such thing? Do you believe there are any inherently female or essentially male traits? How do you feel these roles play out in porn you’ve been exposed to.

SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS WERE EXCERPTS FROM ARIEL LEVY’S BOOK
FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIGS

Emotionally unavailable. What does that mean?. We have a culture built on hiding behind and within products.

The way we filter human experience is different now then it has ever been in history. Technology allows an emotional buffer to communicating with our fellow human beings. So when I continue to refer to pornography in the following text- pornography will refer to how we execute modern rituals of communication.

If pornography is sexual images, videos and experiences with no social value. Then how has porn effected the way we ultimately view ourselves, our sex partner and our human experiences with friends and families. It is easy for us to make interactions with strangers pornographic in nature, where we filter the experience as a means to an end. The check out girl scans your items, you don't look at her, you go for your wallet or purse and pull out your debit card to scan. You hear her far away voice say "credit or debit". And that's what registers with us, how do you like it sir? Immediate financial power or reserved power. Based on your response you choose your numbers and complete your transaction. If your humanity has not been completely stripped then you made decide to look her in the eyes and say " have a nice day, or thank you".

My question is that our interaction is not just based on capitalism and how our current sterile process of interacting is set up as business transactions.

again porno as detached, as a way of communicating. and yes the de-humanizing is rapidly increasing. and part of that is whats' happening to woman. woman are de-humanized from thier own experience. so birth, sex and expression for woman are compartmentalized, product oriented and still fuckin controlled by men.
we have come leaps and bounds as woman - but like all movements and the womans movement is no different it was co-opted by the corporate porn industry.

Women will take back by force, by art and social change our expression, re-define sexuality and womanhood.
if i want to wear stripper shoes, fishnets and a g-string in my apartment i should be empowered to do so because i want to, gets me off and fulfills me in someway- not because i can make $200 an hour doing it on a web cam.
thats the difference, "sexy" because you say so or "sexy" because i know so. most woman don't know what is really sexy to them, just what they are told it is.

symbolic motherhood- fatherhood is often more powerful tools then biological parents, because they overide idealogy and what we ultimately embrace as family and what we choose to worship.

my goal is to redefine whore- lupa in latin is wolf it also means whore
the wolf woman as whore is ancient. the whore is the power symbol, men made it dirty to de throne us. but if we redefine what virginity and whorism means to us then no one can divide it in us any longer.
we are viriginal whores every one of us, it is all sacred. so those women dancing at bars on tables are despearately clawing at the sacred power within. but they swander thier sacred energy not knowing how to honor the true whore in side themselves. leaving them vulnerable to the corporate mainstream porn movement.
this is an ancient scam, the world's oldest profession , is the world's oldest technique developed by men to benefit only themselves. now instead of the traditional pimp we are controlled by media images that bitch slap us, take our money and humiliate us into believing, that's what your worth. raquel almazan

REBECCA ALMAZAN RESPONDED

. that's what i meant.
yeah i know what you mean about the de-humanizing affect of our modern society. honestly- i ask you again, because we spoke about this when you were here, was the women's liberation really a liberation- or just another way to subjugate under the guise of freedom? in my mind - things have not equalized in the least. women are still being operationalized in that pornograhic slave way..only now its worse because its acceptable to be the whore. actually- if you don't engage in this behavior - you are seen as an outcast and get labeled as the "ugly girl". you're just not hot like the girl willing to get piss drunk and show her pussy dancing on top of a table. it becomes like a competition made to separate the solidarity of the femme in an attempt to "get the male". disgusting. i just read a very interesting article- just one that i have to read for this week's reading for my class- about africa and the use of language to create political legitimacy. it refers to the african political language and culture as being entrenched in patronimic references. i thought of you because it deals with referring to the state as the "father figure" and also matronly quality to take care of the people. i remembered the conversation we had about father figures. it was interesting.

REBECCA CONTINUES !

well...i agree with you. i mean that's why i don't agree with the lesbian movement of late or the feminists who claim they are feminists and all they are doing is redifining themselvs in a man's world with men inspired terms. i mean...a woman wearing a tie is great. but if she is doing it to mascunalize herself and not because she thinks it looks great is wrong. women try to mascunalize themselves to try to compete with men and that's stupid because all you are doing is emulating them instead of creating their own originality. that is my problem with the feminist movement. and yes strippers and whores have been brain washed to the point of nothingness. they disappear inside this idea of being a whore and a stripper because you cannot be "yourself" and be a whore or a stripper- you have to literally become an alterego to be able to deal with it psychologically. ultimately women do cheat themselves out of their own happiness to be something they are not.
what you are talking about with images is very complicated cognitively speaking. you can trace what people are taught to think- yes. i believe it is true that all the images we are forced to see and know as "truth" is not really your truth. women don't know what sexy is- true. but men don't either. the process is not mutually exclusive. men get brainwashed too. to beleive what they do is right and what they see in women who have their tits blown up and their lips pumped up as sexy. we are all fucked in the head. because corporatism has co-opted sexy. whatever sells becomes the new sexy. but likewise- if there is a demand- people must want it for a reason. they must be attracted to it for a reason. so which came first -the chicken or the egg? In this- I am convinced that it is an extremely complicated question. But not completely deconstructible. The lupa is an interesting concept but i don't know the origins of the word used as whore.
A movement only needs momentum. The only thing is that the male movement has been in operation for much longer. The feminist movement needs to be guided in the right way.
In the meantime I try to keep my eyes peeled for what truly gives me desire and inspiration or what the world says i have to look at and say is sexy or what i want.
;)

RAQUEL RESPONDS
thats just it. it can't be dissected completely. it is so layered that i could make 30 pieces about it and never get to what damaged people in the first place. the hard core 1st wave feminists were necessary in order to create an alternative. now the alternative is blurred. the reason why we were fighting is blurred. many don't know their identity has been co-opted and they seek strength where they see it. to be cock like, is to gain power into the boys club. and isnt' that what we've always wanted? to be accepted in the circle of power. and what we do and compromise to get into that circle of power is what makes us inherently more like men. its the female president of hbo defending her stripper programming by saying "thats 50's talk, i love the sex stuff" . oh ok, it has nothing to do with you conforming to the programming of soft porn and straight up porn on cat house for mainstream male appeal. or appearing soft and not erection hard - tough when it comes to playing with "the big boys" of network. and thats' our fear now, that our femaile traits are inferior in the work place and that hillary crying was a women's calling card to winning. or can't we accept that our strength is the ability to cry on national tv and be vulnerable and not hide within the erection hardness of the thin fragile male ego.

instead of looking back, i'm digging deep into the ancient meaning of the goddess, the lupa, the wolf- the whore - the original holy one. and lets resurrect that in ourselves and if i'm getting the urge to do it in a pair of mark jacobs boots then that is an ancient desire. and its about finding modern ways to honor the virginal whore that refuses to go mainstream porn but instead redefines what it is to be feminine.

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Kara

porn seems all about intention. the question becomes who are you doing this for? yourself or another?? but maybe it didn't start out that way...what was it that broke women down to either fail at pleasing themselves or never internalize they are the only ones they have to answer to? why is that principle abandoned while the men have held onto obtaining power as it is defined by what they accumulate at the expense of others? why did men hold onto the ambition (although they went about it differently) whereas so many women just adopted a man's ambition as their own, its a way of settling... and settling feels like a result after you've decided that's all there is, or at least that's all there is for you.. doing it because it fulfills you means you take responsibility for fulfilling yourself. men look outside themselves for power. they need to conrol another in order to be in control. needing to be looked at by men means only something outside yourself can satisfy you, and in a way that makes them more masculine, because that ambition will never go away, because that need may never go away
kara mcelaney

Posted by Kara on Saturday, February 09, 2008 at 6:40 AM
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Le Becca!

Well I agree with the fact that masculinity is defined by the power struggle over another. Domination is something that is projected over another in order to make one feel more powerful. Unfortunately, women do not harness their power in order to find a new space in this male- dominated era of power struggles which is not only evident in the household, but in modern societies and the conflict that ensues. This is what i was referring to when I said that modern feminism is only looking to attain power in a manner in which it pertains to the male. Why should we look to attain power in the male definition? Why can't we take it one step further and reclaim our femininity. Why do I have to wear pants to feel that I am crossing the boundary of that male dominated power. Why can't a skirt be just as powerful and be a symbol of power for women as opposed to something negative that debases us? I am going to be doing a research project which looks at the power struggle of wearing a headscarf (pertaining to muslim women) in europe and how that is creating a conflict with state identity. The headscarf is a symbol of power for these women because they associate it with their core identity. The state has a problem with women wearing the hijab in their modern society because they see it as a debasement of women and a clear indicator of their subjugation whereas a Muslim women (or at least the ones that wear it of their own accord) associate it with their power. THey are literally tapping into their own idea of what it is to be a woman and a muslim woman where they live. They refuse to be pushed into the "wearing less is better" movement that has made women weak and divided and sad. The state refuses to see that they can be both powerful and educated and wear the hijab at the same time. Perhaps this is a remnant of how the modern woman has literally forfeited her rights to be a part of this pornographic movement which satisfies who? Yes, men! I am still trying to work out the details of my thesis but I will keep you posted. ;)