Sex-Ed
2015-2016
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University
“Campbell and Alvarez, writers and educators, created a series of workshops exploring sexuality with the ultimate goal of producing a communication-based, pleasure oriented, and politically engaged course about sex and sexuality.”
Vex Ashley, Ana Cecilia Alvarez, Victoria Campbell, Petra Cortright, Sissel Tolaas & Paul Chan/Badlands Unlimited.
“Through conscious practice, structured group encounters, lectures and discussions, this seminar took to task the reorientation of the political within the context of a student body at an artist’s-run university.”
Sex-Ed is centered on the means by which we give and receive pleasure and the ways in which we understand intimacy.
Each theme will be an attempt to make sense of—in critical terms—sexual relations on a social or cultural scale. While there will be “theory” involved—and some theories more than others—our approaches will be propelled by the ways in which we can translate concepts into questions, and from questions into practices. How can we orient our sex lives around pleasure and intimacy, rather than capitalist structured patterns of gains and losses? How can we undo not just the structures of domination aimed at our own bodies, but also those aimed at repressing the possibilities between bodies? How can we be more deliberate with one another? And more responsible for one another?
Visiting guests will include artists, public intellectuals, mothers, and whores.
Ideally, through this program, we hope to have a better idea of how students relate to their sexuality in a group setting as well as how to make communication visible in a classroom. By the end of the sessions, we hope to advance a course—and a practice—that gives everyone an opportunity to imagine the kinds of relationships that live up to their desires across all relationships, and across all desires.
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SX-ED is centered on the means by which we give and receive pleasure and the ways in which we understand intimacy. Additional Course Material via Computer Lab’s Library.