public screening with Karin Michalski (artist and curator, Berlin)

A co-operation of iQt and Art Academy Mainz.

Friday, June 14, 2019, 6.30 – 9 pm, Hörsaal Kunst (room: 01-307),

Am Taubertsberg 6 (5 min from Mainz main train station, exit West) 

Community Action Center (A.L. Steiner + A.K. Burns, 2010, DV/TRT, 69 min)

Poster “Community Action Center” (Steiner/Burns, 2010)

„Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner which incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. […]This project is a small archive of an intergenerational community built on collaboration, friendship, sex and art. […] Burns and Steiner worked with artists and performers who created infinitely complex gender and performance roles that are both real and fantastical, set to a soundtrack of music and original compositions by artists culled from the worldwide sisterhood. The video seeks to expose and reformulate paradigms that are typical of porn typologies, intentionally exploiting tropes for their comical value, critical consideration and historical homage.“

Film rental and quote: Video Data Base http://www.vdb.org/titles/community-action-center

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Thank you to Linda Hentschel, Karin Michalski and Friederike Nastold for the collaboration.