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Thursday 27th<\/span> May 2021, 7.00pm<\/p>\n

Presented by LUX X CFAC, Thursday 27 May 2021 as part of the AHRC-funded project, The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Book online via the Eventbrite booking page<\/a><\/p>\n

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Intoxicated By My Illness, Stephen Dwoskin, 2001-2. Courtesy of the artist and LUX, London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dwoskin, Disability And\u2026 sexuality, illness, intoxication: Intoxicated by my Illness <\/em>(2001) in conversation with P Staff and Robert Andy Coombs<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This is the second in a series of rare screenings and discussion events exploring the experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin\u2019s complex relationships with disability, accessibility, care, illness and sexuality.<\/p>\n

Stephen Dwoskin came from the underground, and with INTOXICATED BY MY ILLNESS<\/strong> he returned to it. After his last film of the 1990s, PAIN IS<\/strong> (1997), he broke away from the increasingly format-driven, committee-governed world of television, and found himself out of favour with arts funders. But if INTOXICATED <\/strong>marked a return to underground practices, it was also a step forward into a new medium, and a new way of working \u2013 with digital cameras and digital editing.<\/p>\n

When the two-part final version played at Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2002, Adrian Martin called the result a \u2018masterpiece\u2019. Dwoskin had alienated his sponsors by breaking several taboos \u2013 blurring distinctions between medical care and sexual intimacy, clinical and sexual labour, pain and pleasure, illness-induced delirium and erotic ecstasy.<\/p>\n

INTOXICATED <\/strong>troubles all these borders: with its explicit depictions of BDSM sexual practices, medical care and invasive procedures, its sex-positive approaches to illness, disability, kink-based sexualities and sex work actively court controversy. Digital footage by Dwoskin and others during his extended hospital stay in an Intensive Care Unit is combined with filming of his own sex life at home. INTOXICATED<\/strong> becomes a new way of documenting intimacy.<\/p>\n

At the same time, INTOXICATED <\/strong>is a painterly exploration of digital filmmaking: a testbed, if you like, for editing suites like Final Cut Pro. It is a landmark film in digital filmmaking\u2019s evolution, using frames within frames, superimposition, slowed down footage, bleeds and fades to distort and reform the moving image, alongside an elegiac soundtrack.<\/p>\n

The event will begin with an introduction and communal viewing at 7pm on Thursday 27 May, followed by a discussion on crip and queer sexualities, disability, illness and intoxication from 8pm featuring artists P Staff<\/strong> and Robert Andy Coombs <\/strong>and chaired by Jenny Chamarette.<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTOXICATED BY MY ILLNESS <\/strong>has no dialogue and music from soundtrack will be identified by closed captions. The live discussion will be BSL interpreted and live captioned. The discussion will last no longer than 60 minutes.<\/p>\n

CONTENT NOTE<\/strong>: Please note that this film includes depictions of invasive medical procedures, patients in intensive care, and consensual BDSM sexual activity.<\/p>\n

Read Henry Miller’s blog about the film on the LUX blog here<\/a><\/p>\n

This event is co-hosted by LUX<\/a> and the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) at the University of Reading, and supported by the Arts Committee and the Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Fund of the University of Reading.<\/p>\n

Jenny Chamarette<\/strong> is a writer, scholar and curator, and Senior Research Fellow at Reading School of Art. She is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Robert Andy Coombs<\/strong> is a photographic artist who explores disability and sexuality with a focus on documenting his intimate relationships with friends and lovers. Since receiving his MFA in 2020 at Yale School of Art, he has exhibited in New York and Palm Springs and has received widespread international acclaim for his work.<\/p>\n

P Staff<\/strong> lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and London, UK. Their work combines video installation, performance and publishing to interrogate notions of discipline, dissent, labour and the queer body. They have exhibited extensively, including Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2017); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016). They have gained significant recognition and awards for their work which is held in private and public collections internationally.<\/p>\n

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