Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual Adventure, 2017, USA, photo: Seth Temple Andrews
The Parliament of Bodies screening of Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual Adventure (2017), Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, USA, 75 min. English
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel around California with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore water in the Golden State. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural world. Along the way, Annie and Beth interact with a diverse range of folks including performance artists, biologists, water treatment plant workers, scholars and others, climaxing in a shocking event that reaffirms the power of water, life and love.
September 6: Presentation and discussion with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens (directors), Keith Wilson (co-producer, director of Photography, editor), and Jordan Freeman (associate producer, aerial cinematography)
The Parliament of Bodies is the Public Program of documenta 14. Its special film program adds another layer to the multifaceted experiments with new forms of sovereignty beyond the norm that take place within the spaces of the exhibition as well as in both cities, Athens and Kassel, in the form of a dissonant yet synchronic practices of heteroglossia and heterogeneity.
