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Syd Blackovich and Carson

St@rFck® — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:19:46 +0000

@SydBlackovich and Carson in a set shot by @CourtneyTrouble for PussyInStereo.com EEL TANK BONDAGE.

A little back story on this photo-set we just made up just now is: Syd is Carsons captive sex slave. She keeps her in the eel tank for guests to enjoy whenever they come over. end story.

PUSSYINSTEREO.COM LAUNCHING JULY 4th TO THE ALTPORN NETWORK

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AltArt Presents: Syd Blakovich

St@rFck® — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:30:32 +0000

Syd Blakovich is a performer, producer and multidisciplinary artist that has created a few of the most controversial statements in queer, alternative, transgendered and art house porn. This will be our first interview here at APS so we thought it would be best to take it somewhere that we felt would set the tone for the interviews to come…

Syd (to us) seems like one of the people that can really explain what is happening in the San Fransisco Alt/Queer Porn movement in general. The scene there has been and is still creating a respected group of accomplished producers and performance artist. You may question us calling porn stars ‘performance artists’ but the fact of the matter is.. that is exactly the point we intend to make with this interview and other articles to come in the future… Alt Porn is ArtPorn although it has been scrutinized that this kind of thinking over-intellectualizes ‘porn’. Some more mainstream critics argue that and that porn is without artistic merit by definition, alt.porn questions the definition of porn in every way. Movements in art such as Dada and Deconstruction question the very idea of art itself in mainstream and counterculture, similar to AltPorn and ArtPorn in its medium.

: Syd Blakovich and Madison Young Red Carpet at AVN

On the front page of her website Syd is very to the point, hopefully in this installment if AltArt we can open a few topics of discussion, with an artist that is quickly becoming our favorite person to ask questions. About any topic.. here are a few..

” I believe that porn is the new contemporary medium of the feminist and queer art movements. “

Please expand a bit on this statement..

I am coming from a liberal arts educational background and the roots of my interest in the adult industry were inspired by what I saw as the intersections of art and pornography, specifically within the works of the emerging feminist and queer artists of the 1970′s and 80′s. This time not only marked the emergence and recognition of prominent female artist’s such as Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneemann and the success of the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe but also presented the advent of pornography and it’s Golden Era. American culture at this time was the birthplace of these art forms and mediums and fostered the growth of these industries, both of which rode the technological crest of accessible video documentation and ideas of the body being both the object and the vehicle of the work. Conceptually you will also see an overlap with these art genres and pornography within our cultural consciousness. Many artists in both the fields of pornography and fine art have encountered social prejudice executed through guise of what is ascribed as “obscene” (I quote this because their still are many states that find interracial depictions of sex to be obscene according to community standards, which in turn are used to define the law). “Obscenity” has always been a legally ambiguous term used to uphold antiquated notions of cultural decency, which are more often than not used against women, sexual and racial minorities. Through this process, both pornography and queer/feminist have been boxed into a culturally imposed identity that occupies the territories that are both abject and outlaw.

Describe your theories on exchange and the ways that sexual advancement is similar to the art of war or the power struggle that freely happens between people having sex? How is this Art?

I am not sure I entirely understand what you mean by “sexual advancement” but I will try and answer this question the best I can. For me power play is an essential ingredient to my sexuality. We live in a world saturated with hierarchies, struggle, oppression, supreme imbalances in the distribution of wealth, and other systems of control. I would argue that it is damn near impossible to escape the ideas and mechanisms that pervade not only our society but the world at large, so of course not only are our identities going to be impacted by all this, but our sexualities as well as the arts. Human nature or nurture, either way we are all influenced by it. I am not even going to open the can of worms of the age-old debate of “But what is Art?” but rather say that for me, life, art and sex are all one big performance piece on a living breathing canvas. Oh look, I think I just got some cultural theory in your porn.

What I mean by sexual advancement was 2 things, the sub/dom relationship and also the power exchange…BUT I also meant the ways that sex is turning into an advanced technology thats different than it was say in 1900.. yet the same. machines, art,porn,queer,transgender,modification,social awareness….expand your thought on this?

Do I believe that sex and art benefit from technologies? Yes, in some ways. With respect to the nature of sexualities, I personally steer away from terms that might indicate a progressive linear approach which seems a bit exclusionary and limited in focus. I believe right now we are in many ways reaping the rewards of a technologically saturated culture in terms of access and knowledge. One of my favorite quotes is by Larry Flynt, “The poor man’s art gallery is the newsstand.” For me this ties together many of my primary thoughts on art, pornography, economic class and access. Art has historically been a realm for the rich. Oil paintings of naked pretty girls are visual staples of affluency. Now we have the same subject of these works but a different medium, newsprint and pixels. Once the constraints of limited access are removed from visual media, you see a cultural depreciation of it. When access to depictions of the nude body are no longer just for the ruling class, when an icon of wealth is made available to all, this makes people uncomfortable, particularly those who in possession of wealth and thus you have the response of “obscenity.” I believe access to art in its many forms is a positive thing and taking small steps to narrow the vast imbalances of power and wealth.

I also appreciate the idea of technology being the extention of the body (Thanks McLuhan!) allows the individual to connect globally to others in sexual and non-sexual ways. The repercussions of this digital orgy I would argue to be a confirmation of a sort of Cartesian Dualism, the mind/body schism is widened by our ability to mentally transport ourselves through fiber optic cabels but our bodies remain seditary. If you want to talk about power exchange and control in terms of power struggle and war, I believe technology can be a weapon in creating a seditary society held subject by a ruling class, but I also believe that it is never that simple and most things don’t have an inherent nature to them. Technology is a tool, a limb. Do I believe in a technological consciouseness? Perhaps, but that is an entirely different quesion.

We can also talk about BDSM, which in a lot of ways I see is very similar to technology. It is a limb, stage, vessel, for people to transport a emotional and psychological dialog into a very real physical space.

What was the most powerful instance of this occurrence in your performances and how does that equate to your personal life?

For me, power comes from being able to use my voice to tell as story I believe in and getting paid to do this through porn is an incredible gift. I supposed I am a bit obsessed with the creation of visual representations for things that might not initially take them. I can speak to specifics, if that is helpful. I most recently did an electro-bondage gang bang shoot for Wiredpussy.com where I subbed for the first time. I asked the dom for this specific scene. I wanted to personally access a supreme level of emotional depth, to find a very present and primal sensation by trying to strip away all my external awareness and present the overwhelm and raw vulnerabilities I had been experiencing in my personal life by physically engaging in a scene I knew would force this through an extreme physical predicament

Releasing pure screams, orgasms and tears was cathartic and beautiful. Intense to a degree where people felt uncomfortable with it. Yes painful and feeling like I was on the verge of insanity, it was analog to the emotional sensations I was experiencing then and it was beyond amazing to give them a visual and physical form through this performance.

Expand on the idea of “representations of erotic body especially in the public sphere”

Im interested in that.

I addressed this a bit with the Flynt quote. The presence of the erotic body in the public sphere carries a sense of power with it. It is both disruptive and common place to an extent and for me brings about thoughts on levels of access, class and control. It is about context and content, what is the message, the object, who is the audience. I love it because there is an element of subversiveness to it. Nudity both attracts and repells the gaze and is a platform for the mind and body to merge and dialog, ingesting visual representations that can solicite a physical response.

Before erotica and porn what was your primary vehicle of expression?

I have my BA in fine art photography and digital media but in terms of my professional art career, I have always had an interested in representations of erotic body especially in the public sphere.

Tell us about Pink and White Productions…

Pink & White Productions is a San Francisco based, independent, adult, production company primarily owned and operated by queer women of color. Director and founder Shine Louise Houston graduated from San Francisco Institute for the Arts with a BFA in film. After working a stint in the adult retail business, recognized a huge deficiency in high quality porn that represented queers and gender variant folk. Shine’s directorial methods focuses on integrating the sophisticated visual dialog traditionally associated with the art of film making with ideas of authenticity that are tied in with documentary styles of cinematography. Her work is highly crafted and rendered with an acute consideration for the subject which she is documenting. At the core of Pink & White Production’s films is the concept of making work that reflects the community of which we are a part of. It’s about creating representations of sexualities that we identify with, that are generated through personal narratives. It’s acknowledging our own impact in image making, taking the subjectivity of the producer and making it the object of the work. It’s greatly infused with a post-modern awareness of the self and making a theater based on the sexual aspects of this.

What is your involvement with Pink and White?

I am a performer, webmaster (crashpadseries.com), and co-producer for Pink and White Productions

Do you have any plans to Direct Features that you are not performing in and if so with who?

I really love producing and contributing that way. I don’t have a real desire to be behind a camera right now but if I do I imagine it would be gonzo. I kind of fucking love gonzo and the lo-fi homemade aesthetic. There’s a sense of intimacy it get from the grittiness of it, which I think is unbelievably hot.

What was your latest release?

The latest release I did with my own company is called Champion, which is an MMA love story porn with real fight and fuck scenes. I think the next video I am in that is about to be released is Madison Young’s Art House, which I perform in as my performance art duo with my partner Jiz Lee called twincest (www.twincest.net). It’s very surreal; we fuck on a bed of lunchmeat and fellate hot dogs.

Also check out NoFauxxx.com’s new release Roulette, which I am in a bar side gangbang.

What was your favorite scene?

Hmm, I get asked this question a lot and it’s really hard to say. The fact that I get to regularly work with so many of my close friends and lovers is absolutely amazing. My first scene for Pink & White Productions with Jiz Lee in the DVD “The Crash Pad” was phenomenal particularly so because it was so emotionally heated. Jiz and I are real life partners and it was the first time we worked together, we also weren’t supposed to be having sex at the time, which made it even hotter. Most recently, I shot with Madison Young for the first time for our newest movie, Champion, and it flowed so well. To be honest with you, I am a bit of a sadist and was overjoyed to work with her because she not only can take pretty much anything you throw at her, but she LOVES it. I love my job. I also shot my first traditional b/g scene, which was far from traditional and had a magnificent time.

How do you feel that alternative porn is effected by queer porn vs. gay porn in mainstream and how do you think the balance between them all works out?

My hope is that there can be some integration and dialog between queer and gay porn, both contributing to the other on certain levels, perhaps overlap of stars and talent as well as concept. We all are most certainly influenced by what we see and are surrounded by. I think gay porn has had a huge impact on my own sexuality and the way I perform. I think a lot of it is super hot; my number one wank off material is gay porn. I actually would love to work with some of the more mainstream gay performers….

(Holy shit…Logan McCree!)

What makes a scene queer or alternative to you?

There is this inherent quality in my own view of alternative queer porn that screams collaboration. There is a freedom in performing that seems highly creative and filled with improv that comes straight from the performers’ heart, almost like a personal sexual narrative. It’s not about executing a sequence of moves or positions.

How long have you been making pornography?

I started in 2005, working for Kink.com and Pink & White Productions.

What was the first scene you ever did as a performer?

My very first video scene was for Kink.com’s UltimateSurrender, which is a competitive wrestling site. I LOVE wrestling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and many other forms of combat fighting. It’s what I do in my free time.

: Syd is fucking hot and will also kick your ass.

What was the first scene you ever did behind the camera?

Co-production for Pink & White, I was involved since the beginning with our first feature “The Crash Pad.”

How do you feel about the porn expos and the big business of it all, do you embrace the crowd or are you more of a performance and creative type that likes the studio, and the production process more?

I think expos are a great place to network if you work in the industry with other like-minded folk. However, I am more likely to run into one of my fans at the local organic produce market than at one of these things so that’s not why I got. I go as a business owner. The crowds that tend to be at these things are not really my demographic so I do feel a bit out of place there, but I have never met a fan of mine that I didn’t like.

With sites like NoFauxxx and Pink and White creating queer porn, also considered altporn in the Bay area do you feel that is somehow a culture that exists there? Is San Fran the home of Queer Alt Porn?

Most definitely. You have had companies like SIR Productions, NoFauxxx, Kink.com, Trannywood Pictures and Pink & White springing out of the Bay Area for years along with many other kink and gay companies. SF is the big queer mecca of sexuality on many different levels.

Some of our favorite producers and performers are in the Bay area, are there any under the radar or up and coming stars or producers you are working with that people should know about?

If you haven’t check out Morty Diamond or Trannywood Pictures you really should. They are on the forefront of trans sexuality and are really redefining trans porn. I am also a big fan of what Audacia Ray is doing and happen to be a fan of more established folks such as Belladonna, Eon McKai, Madison Young and Tristan Taormino. Check out Maria Beatty and Emilie Jouvet.

Syd Blakovich

Co-Producer for Pink and White Productions

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This is the and ‘and and and and’ part of the interview what/who we’re talkin about more.

Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. &&&&find out more>

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Syd Blakovich interviewed by St@rFckr staff writer at APS Tuesday Feb 24th 2009.

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NO FAUXXX PREMIERS THE FEATURE, “ROULETTE”

St@rFck® — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:57:37 +0000

NO FAUXXX’S COURTNEY TROUBLE PREMIERS THE FEATURE, “ROULETTE”
A triumph of independent/DIY porn, to benefit Homo A Go Go at the Roxie Theater
San Francisco, CA: It’s been 6 years since Courtney Trouble founded NoFauxxx.com, a DIY queer porn, erotica, and community website. No Fauxxx has achieved what no other adult website has: built an independent, artistic and feminist community based around erotic portraiture and pornography. Now Ms. Trouble brings No Fauxxx’s fans, from around the world, a full-length DVD, distributed by the sex toy store, Babeland, and titled, “Roulette.” The film will debut on Thursday, March 12, at 9:00PM at the Roxie Theater, located at 3117 16th St.
As the sole creator and force behind No Fauxxx, Courtney Trouble makes her highly anticipated directorial debut, while also performing in one of the films vignettes. Two years in the making, the film brings seven distinct vignettes together to create a game of sexual roulette.
Roulette: An engaged gay couple brings a one-night-stand appeal to their punk rock sex on a rooftop. A queer femme hosts and directs her own gangbang. A Female-to-Male (FTM) transgender guy gets himself off with a glass dildo, and a real life lesbian couple proves that staying home is anything but mundane. These drastically different scenarios are authentic documents of queer sex, culture and desire, proving that queerness is “as hard to define as it is to ignore.”
This red carpet premiere and benefit is a meeting place between long-time collaborators Homo A Go Go and No Fauxxx. Ms. Trouble was a key volunteer during the first Homo A Go Go festival in Olympia, WA in 2002. No Fauxxx has also sponsored events and screenings at subsequent Homo A Go Go festivals.
Homo a Go Go 2009 is slated for August 13-16 in San Francisco, CA at SOMArts (934 Brannan St.) This 4 day event is a festival of queer music, film, art, performance and activism. Homo a Go Go recently relocated to San Francisco from Olympia WA, and is a grassroots event that draws participants and artists from all over the world. From 2002-2006, the festival became widely known for creating a unique atmosphere of community, culture and activism. Homo a Go Go has been dubbed, “the ultimate Gaycation,” and described as, “life changing,” by festival attendees.

The diverse roster of past Homo a Go Go festivals has included everyone from major label luminaries, to indie favorites and underground gems. Past festivals have featured appearances by The Indigo Girls (Epic Records), filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), a reunion of indie/queercore legends Team Dresch (Chainsaw Records), the internationally renowned band The Gossip (Kill Rock Stars/Music with a Twist), Mirah (K Records), Juba Kalamka (the director of PeaceOUT World HomoHop Festival), Bob Mold’s Blowoff, writer Michelle Tea, transgender activist/writer/performer Kate Bornstein, transgender performance artist/activist Imani Henry, photographer Mariette Pathy-Allen and filmmaker Bruce La Bruce.

Bookings and negotiations for the 2009 festival are still in progress, but the staff at Homo A Go Go expects this year to include several noteworthy artists. There will be over 100 performers, artists and filmmakers scheduled to perform and show their work at this year’s festival. Like the past Olympia based festivals, festival goers are expected to travel to the San Francisco event from all over the world.

Reading like a Homo A Go Go festival guide, some famous No Fauxxx foxes include Junx from Gravy Train!!!, Scream Club, Nicky Click, and mainstream porn stars like Madison Young and Lorelei Lee – offering up their most intimate photo sets and videos to this date.

No Fauxxx puts art and authenticity above all other aspects in the creation of its imagery. Trouble has appeared in numerous art galleries and film festivals beyond the world of pornography. Her work is considered erotic portraiture – providing sexual arousal adherent to pornography, and the contextual composition of traditional portrait, photojournalistic, and abstract art.

“If it weren’t for Homo A Go Go,” says Trouble, “I would have never known what Queer meant. It was what I was looking for in my youth and could never find: a community-driven event that showcases incredible queer artists, introduces so many people to each other and creates such change in the GLBT universe. And now that I’m older, I see the young queers getting together at Homo A Go Go events and I see that it is still absolutely essential to queer/GLBT visibility, awareness and support.”

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