Aula de Cinema UV in collaboration with Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection, to play for the first time in València the activist duo’s ecosexual adventure within the framework of the exhibition Against-Print. Ecologist artists fighting the environmental crisis. The play was on Wednesday 11 December 2024 in Universitat de València’s La Nau Cultural Centre.
The documentary “Water Makes Us Wet. An Ecosexual Adventure“ was preceded by a free guided tour through the exhibition in the La Nau Cultural Centre’s Martínez Guerricabeitia Room, with culture mediator Eugenia Rojo, curator of the exhibition by five environment-committed artists, like Graham Bell Tornado, transgender artist whose crossbridging work is base on performance and explores the connections between gender and ecology with a queer perspective.
Universitat de València’s Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society united art and cinema within the exhibition “Against-Prints” to promote critical awareness against the present ecological challenges.
The same motivation behind the work of Sprinkle and Stephens, whose documentary presents an innovative concept: ecosexuality. “Annie and Beth replace the ‘Mother Earth’ idea since we’re not always good kids. But they don’t stop there and go as far as changing the paradigm and turning Earth into a lover -hence ecosexuality- and a female lover at it -ecofeminism-” explained Bell Tornado.
For the performer, the ecofeminist message behind “Water Makes Us Wet. An Ecosexual Adventure” is crucial sin “Earth’s exploitation shares a great deal of similarities to women exploitation” and highlighted how the duo treat the argument, avoiding to “face reality with optimism”.
Graham Bell Tornado is friends with Annie and Beth admited he always wanted to bring their work to València: “I chose their last movie because both directors such as them, an ex-sex worker and an art teacher, are trying to promote a new relation with nature and ecology through ecosexuality”. A form of activism Bell Tornado brought to his artistic work with the theory of queer ecology to a mass public through music, video and graphic art.
There was an open colloquium with Eugenia Rojo and Graham Bell Tornado after the play, the first of the new cycle “Visual Dialogues” Aula de Cinema UV will use to start a new AV line of work for La Nau Cultural Centre’s 2025 upcoming exhibitions
Next activity will take place on 17 January as part of the “Against-Prints” exhibition, with a play and a debate about climate action with artist Chiara Sgaramella.
