Annie Sprinkle, the porn icon and performance artist, will present the West Coast premiere of her new theater piece here this weekend at CounterPULSE in the Mission district.
Exposed: Experiments in Love, Sex, Death, Art, a “multi-media performance-art-theater-extravaganza,” is the co-creation of Sprinkle and her life partner Elizabeth Stephens, a professor and experimental artist.
Sprinkle called Exposed “a unique love story, a genuine celebration of the deepest realms of romantic, sexual and familial love, in order to bring about positive social change.”
She added that it also offers “an artistic response to the violence of war and the anti-gay marriage movement.”
The piece, she said, “explores lesbian courtship, artificial insemination, queer weddings, breast cancer, art experiments, and communion with community.
“Audiences will enjoy a live soundscape, a bevy of enthusiastic lab technicians, and opportunities to be human guinea pigs… in an adventure into the exotic and unknown.”
Four performances are scheduled this Friday through Sunday at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street @ 9th Street. For more information, visit www.counterpulse.org or www.anniesprinkle.org.
