Painting A Nude

Painting A Nude

To kick off the Queer Arts Festival this year we did a Nude Painting performance. Gallerist Tina Butcher was an amazing living canvas. Artist Tina Takemoto was our collaborator. James Mogul took these action photographs. This painting is not for sale.

Breast Cancer Ballet Collages

Breast Cancer Ballet Collages

When Annie was diagnosed on April fools day, 2005, we braved our war against breast cancer together, utilizing our creativity and our passion for each other to cope. We shaved each other’s heads after starting chemo, then posed for erotic photos while totally bald--thus creating a new genre of erotica; cancer erotica. We asked the oncologist for copies of Annie’s colorful radiation treatment plans. We juxtaposed old pin-up photos of Annie with the new topless scans, MRI images and other ephemera to create a series of collages.

SERMON AT THE ONION

SERMON AT THE ONION

Unitarian Universalist Church, Los Angeles

We were invited to give a sermon about love at Annie's childhood church, the Unitarian Universalist Society, "the Onion" in LA. We accepted the invitation which made Annie's mother very happy. We spoke about our seven-year projects that generate and spread love as a way to counteract violence and hatred in the world. We shared stories of our “love-art” adventures with the hope of inspiring other creative approaches to changing the world. The congregation was extremely positve about the service.

Zen For Head, UC Santa Cruz

Zen For Head, UC Santa Cruz

On the occasion of Geoffrey Hendrick's opening, Annie and I decided to celebrate by re doing Nam Jun Paik's rendition of Lemont Young's Zen for Head. As it is the orange year, we used orange paint. We crawled and painted (using our heads) backwards until we butted up against each other. At this point, I did a headstand, Annie poured orange paint on me and Geoff did a headstand too. It was fabulous.

HAIROTICA II

HAIROTICA II

Exposed: Experiments In Love, Sex, Death And Art

Exposed: Experiments In Love, Sex, Death And Art

This unique love story is a performance that offers an artistic response to the violence of war, and the anti-gay marriage movement. Exposed explores lesbian courtship, artificial insemination, queer weddings, breast cancer and more. Mixing elements of pleasure, pain, passion, and juice, the “love artists” will stimulate the senses and open hearts.

When Annie Sprinkle (former porn star and performance artist) and Elizabeth Stephens (professor and experimental artist) fell madly and passionately in love, they decided to make a seven-year commitment to explore, generate, and share their love through art -- ultimately aiming to promote peace and equal rights.

Orange Wedding Vows

Orange Wedding Vows

Annie's Vows

I’m ecstatic to be your blushing bride… again.

Today is the fourth anniversary of our first date and our first time making love. It was fated! At last I found you!

You Beth, are my every fantasy come true.
You are the sun, the moon, and all the stars.
YOU are my cosmic orgasm!

Today I vow to open wider, and enter more fully, into our loving relationship.

I vow to encourage your fulfillment, in whatever form that takes. To assist you attaining your goals, to create a loving home from which you can excel.

I vow to release myself into our creative collaborations so that we come to new heights, and so that you may be drenched again and again in our creative juices.

Beth, I promise to nurture my health and my energy, so I can be here for you.

I vow to love you more, more, and more, -- deeper, deeper, and deeper and deeper and deeper.

ANNIE M. SPRINKLE

Beth's Vows

Four years ago sex and creativity brought us together.
I still haven’t gotten over it,

You planted incredible hot juicy powerful magic in my soul. It was so great I forgot to be afraid.
And that love seed continues to germinate to this day.

For this, the orange year, I promise to encourage your sexual and creative needs as they manifest change and evolve.

I promise to remain fertile to our creative collaborations, to nourish and fertilize them as they continue to grow and blossom.

I promise to make a garden with you that is safe, secure, abundant and fragrant.
But which also includes a weed or two to keep us from becoming complacent.

I promise to worship your body as well as you heart and your mind as places where your creativity is born and comes to fruition.

I also promise to help you cultivate your energy and to husband your health so that you can fully enjoy all of life’s adventures and challenges.

I promise to play in your garden, I’ll be the rake to your hoe, and sprinkle you with love.

I’ll be there for you in every way I possibly can imagine and beyond.

My love for you is larger than the entire universe and this love infuses my entire being. I can’t conceive life without your love.

I vow to be your love art collaborator for seven plus seven plus seven years in sickness and in health and for as long as we both shall live.

And may the light of our love shine out into the world.

ELIZABETH M. STEPHENS

Our Vows To Our Community

Honor you, Love you, Kiss you, Make you laugh, Entertain you, Support you, Respect you, Collaborate with you, Make art with you, Worship with you.

See you, Listen to you, Forgive you, Massage you, Let you go, Protest with you, Stand up with you, Hold you, Tell you the truth, Be response-able to you.

Feel you, Laugh with you, Cry with you, Humor you, Call you on your shit, Cuddle you, Surprise you, Experiment with you, Encourage wonder, Wake you up.

Keep you busy, Grow with you, Nurture you, Exercise your boundaries, Play with you, Commune with you, Congratulate you, Include you, Accept you just the way you are, Mess around with you.

Change you, Remember you and forget you, Tease you, Titillate you, Persist with you, Have faith in you, Dream with you, Make art with you, Illuminate with you, Fuck with you.

Learn with you, Hang with you, Experience with you, Enlighten you, Balance you, Need you, Encourage you, Delight you, Forget you, Be changed by you.

Be opened by you, Compassionate with you, Wait for you, Fart with you, Wander with you, Play hooky with you, Change the world with you, Be confused with you, Open the door with you, Create magic with you.

Rejoice with you , End the war, Mourn with you, Be vulnerable with you, Be ecstatic with you, Grateful with you, Be angry with you, Be courageous with you, Get lost with you, End the war with you.

Rest with you, Read with you, Walk with you, Get old with you, Be creative with you, Come with you, Dance with you, Protest with you, Organize with you, Get down with you.

Learn with you, Prosper with you, Celebrate with you, Change the world with you, Dream with you, Make the world a sexier place with you, Teach with you, Go to the moon with you, Journey with you, Eat with you.

We do!