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Internal Desire Machines, the body and the screen
An evening with filmmaker, performer, and artist Vex Ashley as she explores the captivating intersection of art and pornography through a presentation of her 10 years of artistic practice, including recent installation Internal Desire Machines at Working Girls, Gallery 46 and screening of some of their influential work.
Vex Ashley, the creative mind behind the innovative independent production studio Four Chambers, has consistently pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling by challenging traditional perceptions of adult content. Through her artistic lens, she uses pornography as the medium, integrating art, philosophy, and human sexuality.
Screening programme:
L'Enfer, dir. Four Chambers, 2018, 10 min.
Hypercut, dir. Four Chambers, 2023, 5 min.
A Cyborg Manifesto, dir. Four Chambers, 2019, 5 min.
Some Disordered Interior Geometries, dir. Four Chambers, 2023, 14 min.
Vex Ashley, the creative mind behind the innovative independent production studio Four Chambers, has consistently pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling by challenging traditional perceptions of adult content. Through her artistic lens, she uses pornography as the medium, integrating art, philosophy, and human sexuality.
Screening programme:
L'Enfer, dir. Four Chambers, 2018, 10 min.
Hypercut, dir. Four Chambers, 2023, 5 min.
A Cyborg Manifesto, dir. Four Chambers, 2019, 5 min.
Some Disordered Interior Geometries, dir. Four Chambers, 2023, 14 min.
Vex Ashley is a porn performer, director, editor and producer. She heads Four Chambers, a pornography project exploring the intersection between sex, psychology, technology and art history and everything else. After rejecting being demoted to "muse" from spending 3 years at art school and getting naked online as a cam girl, Vex started making work as Four Chambers to expand the idea of what sex on film could say, do and be. She speaks, writes and spends a lot of time online talking about creative and independent porn making, sex as performance, authenticity, art and pornography, technology and sex, camming and censorship.
Founded in 2019, Lover Management Ltd. is a 360 flexible management company and creative agency specialising in intimacy and the erotic.
Founded in 2019, Lover Management Ltd. is a 360 flexible management company and creative agency specialising in intimacy and the erotic.
08:30 pm
Sat, 21 Sep 2024
Cinema 1
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