Sharing is Sexy at Open Studios, UCSD, Friday, April 4th

Come see Sharing is Sexy’s photos and videos at the Marcuse Gallery at UCSD, tomorrow, Friday, April 4th between 2-8pm!

Friday, April 4, 2008
2:00–8:00 pm
Visual Arts Facility (VAF)
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 9209

Directions to the show:
http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2008/information.php

About the show:

http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2008/ucsdopenstudios_PR.pdf

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 9, 2007
Contact: Glenna Jennings
626-676-0627
gjennings at ucsd d0t edu

UCSD Visual Arts Department Announces Open Studios
La Jolla, California – The Graduate Visual Arts Department at the
University of California – San Diego invites the Southern California
community to view the work of its current MFA students at Open
Studios on Friday, April 4th from 2-8 pm.

From dirtbike culture, discarded fire alarms and Nanotechnology to
stand up comedy, dream stimulation, and water balloons, the visual
artists of UCSD’s highly noted MFA program employ a wide range of
subject matter in their multi-disciplinary practices. The resulting
works are a rich array of technological investigation, social
speculation, psychic space and real-world intervention.

Many of UCSD’s MFA candidates have worked and exhibited widely
throughout the globe. Within the Southern California art
community, the students have recently collaborated with The
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Fritz Haeg’s Sundown
Salon, LA’s LACE and Sixteen:One galleries and CECUT, Tijuana.

Join us for an afternoon of art, film, performance and music at the
Visual Arts Facility, located off of Gilman Dr. on the UCSD campus.

For directions and more information, please go to:
http://ucsdopenstudios.com

Sharing is Sexy’s statement for the show:

http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2008/artists.php?a=Sharing_is_Sexy

In looking at most mainstream porn, we don’t see ourselves and our friends. In response, we are creating the porn that we want to see. In our project, we are sharing our bodies with you willingly. We’re in control, do not change the channel. Our collective practices consensus. Everyone has an equal voice in what we do and how we do it. We are examining the question of open source porn while respecting the work of sex workers. We’re in this to create change.

In doing so, we have created a collective, Sharing Is Sexy (SiS) and are building a porn-positive and sex-positive community in our home of San Diego, California. Beyond the website, we are also organizing events that advocate sex-positive ideas, having porn watching nights, hosting burlesque shows and making zines. Did we say sharing? Sharing builds community. By fulfilling our own desires and finding those with shared desires, we’ve got each other’s backs, in more ways than one.

SiS is a collaborative open source porn laboratory. We are a group of queer people, transgender people and people with othered bodies coming together to create a site for free porn that is licensed under Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 3.0). We are creating our own porn using photography, video, writing or any form that suits us. SiS is polyamorous so, we are open to new members and looking to collaborate.

http://sharingissexy.org