Erotic Screen and Sound Conference

The IMA are working with their friends at Griffith Centre for Cultural Research on their conference. Erotic Screen and Sound: Culture, Media and Desire will showcase new research on eroticism in the arts, culture, and society, and will feature more than eighty speakers. It will take place at Griffith University, South Bank Campus, 15–18 February.

The keynotes are: Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California), author of Skin Shows and Female Masculinities; Alan McKee (Queensland University of Technology), author of Australian Television and The Public Sphere, and co-author of The Porn Report; and Kelly Dennis (University of Connecticut), author of Art/Porn. 

For program and registration details, check out ‘Erotic Screen and Sound Conference’ on the Griffith website (www.griffith.edu.au/ccr).

The IMA are also staging two special FREE conference events. All welcome. You don’t have to be registered for the conference to attend.

The Launch

Will be held at the IMA with champagne and cupcakes. Maura Reilly (the newly appointed Professor of Art Theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University) will talk to Luke Roberts about his current show AlphaStation/Alphaville, followed by a screening of Jack Smith’s notorious 1963 gender-bending film Flaming Creatures. ‘This movie will be called pornographic, degenerate, homosexual, trite, disgusting, etc—it is all that and it is so much more’, wrote Jonas Mekas. 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project with the Centre for Cultural Research and OtherFilm. Adults only. Tuesday 15 February at 6pm

Abnormal Love: Avant-garde Erotics

Perverted films from key figures in avant-garde cinema: Peggy Ahwesh, Abigail Child, Martha Colburn, the Kuchars, Jeanne Liotta, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Gunvor Nelson, Naomi Uman, and Stan VanDerBeek. 16mm prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York. A joint project with the Centre for Cultural Research and OtherFilm. Adults only.Thursday 17 February at 6pm