Preview Sprinkle and Stephens’ Amazing New Film “Water Makes Us Wet”, which will be showing at the festival

Beth Stephens, Ph.D. is an ecosexual performance artist, filmmaker, activist and educator. Stephens’ has made artwork, performance and writing about queerness, feminism and environmentalism for over 25 years. Beth’s current focus is SexEcology, a new field of research. Dr. Stephens is the Founding Director of the E.A.R.T.H. Lab at University of California Santa Cruz where she has been a Professor of Art for 25 years. 

Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. has been creating multi-media about sexuality for over four decades. She was the first US porn star to earn a Ph.D. Coming out as an ecosexual in 2008 changed her life forever. Sprinkle was proud to be awarded the Artist/Activist/Scholar Award from Performance Studies International. Her last book (with Beth) was Explorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasm.

Together Stephens and Sprinkle are founders of the “ecosex movement,” and have officially added the E (for ecosexual) to GLBTQII-E in 2015. Their award winning documentary film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story. has been screened internationally and can be viewed on Itunes. Currently their documentary film, Water Makes Us Wet, is on amazon.com. Sprinkle and Stephens are married to the Earth, Sky, Sea, Soil and many other nature entities. They performed in the Venice Biennial in 2009 and were official Documenta 14 artists in 2016/17. They have a new book coming out in 2020 with University of Minnesota Press. After living together and collaborating for eighteen years, they are still happy campers and blazing more new trails. 

www.Sexecology.org, www.earthlab.ucsc.edu

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Assuming the Ecosexual Position with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. and Beth Stephens, Ph.D.

A Show & Tell with Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

Beth and Annie will weave together stories of their adventures in love, radical sex education, eroticizing breast cancer, and building the ecosex movement which shifts the metaphor from Earth as mother to Earth as lover. They will share 25 Ways to Make Love with the Earth. Beth is a punk dyke sculptor turned art professor. She has taught at University of California Santa Cruz for 25 years. Annie is a former sex worker and porn star turned successful multimedia artist. They fell heels-over-head in love and have collaborated non-stop ever since. In 2008 they married the Earth with a big wedding, and came out as ecosexual. They started new field of research, sexecology, which explores the places where sexology and ecology intersect in our culture, and studies ecosexuals. Their last book, Explorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasmis all orgasm and nothing but orgasm. They are committed to making environmentalism more sexy and fun, and engage a diverse group of outsiders, activists, theorists, artists, and sex community folks. They aim to instill hope, and create spaces for imagining other kinds of futures in the midst of a global pandemic. 

Their documentary film, Water Makes Us Wet screened at documenta 14 and NY MOMA as well as many film festivals internationally. Beth and Annie and their dog Butch explore the pleasures and politics of water while on a road trip that climaxes in a shocking event that reaffirms the power of love. 80 minutes