HARD LABOUR Stripper Life Drawing. Hosts: East London Stripper Collective
About this Event
Hosted by ELSC is a network of feisty, feminist and fiercely independent women, who also happen to be strippers
Join a life drawing class like no other. This event is for artists of all ages, genders, backgrounds and levels of ability. Sex worker artists from the Scotland 4 Decrim network are inviting the public to take a rare glimpse into a world that is notoriously secretive, mysterious and hidden from view. Come and draw strippers and sex workers as they perform their usual club routines - in a different context from the strip club to the art gallery. Capture eroticised performance in action and witness sexual labour as the visual artform it always has been.
Artists and sex workers have a long and intertwined history. Some of the most celebrated painters in the world (Degas, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec) all famously depicted sex workers in paintings hanging in prestigious galleries today. But sex workers identities have long been erased from the public imagination, reviled, stigmatised and narrativised as victims.
The contemporary sex workers' rights movement demands autonomy, for sex workers to be seen as the protagonists of their own lives, images and histories. This life drawing class, organised entirely by sex workers, requires artists to participate in a cultural exchange, to recognise the eroticised labour performed and to enter the class as contributors of an artistic happening, rather than consumers of sexualised performance.
Content Notes Adult life drawing class with full nudity.
Where is it happening?
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