Photographs by Elizabeth Stephens and Diane Bonder Featuring Annie Sprinkle with Elizabeth Stephens Shot in 1992 Re-created as ready-mades in 2007 More photos coming soon.

Sculpture by Stephens & Sprinkle, 2007. Elizabeth Stephens' stainless steel speculum box with manipulated and colorized clips of Marcel Duchamp’s "Roto Relief" films inside. Looking into the lips of the speculum can create a mesmerizing effect.

When we were invited by artist Lincoln Schatz to “sit” for one of his amazing “cube portraits,” we were delighted. We loved his project, and besides part of the Love Art Laboratory’s mission is to collaborate with other artists. (Lincoln Schatz portrait of Beth and Annie courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery Note: there is no sound.)

Schatz has built a Plexiglas cube-room outfitted with 24 video cameras. So we went into the cube room with our performance artist dog Bob, a YELLOW ball, and wore cuddly outfits. For one hour we made beautiful love as Bob played with his yellow ball. Take a look at a sample of our portrait.

Our portrait is now an edition of three and available from the Catharine Clark Gallery (cclarkgallery.com) Or commission a portrait of your own. We highly recommend the experience.

Shatz on his project: “CUBE, a 10’ x 10’ translucent architectural structure, extends from the artist’s formal background as a sculptor and draws on his more recent practice in generative video memory artworks. CUBE is designed with 24 video cameras mounted at varying heights within the structure. During a one-hour sitting, digital capture from each video camera is streamed to a computer that houses the artist’s specially designed software. The resulting portrait is compiled from thousands of randomly selected video files; these infinitely reconfiguring images are presented on a plasma screen powered by a computer. Acknowledging the tradition of portraits as biographical, CUBE subjects are encouraged to represent their personalities, interests and values in whatever capacity they choose. The artist collaborates with the participants to help them develop their own conceptual approach to an hour in the CUBE.” (From lincolnschatz.com)

We were invited to do a performance at our neighborhood laundry mat, Bernal Bubbles. Owner Ray Beldner is an artist, and has monthly art events there. We packed the place and many folks had to view our talk from the overflow space next door. People were sitting on top of the all the washing machines. At the end of our show, a man passed out and an ambulance came and took him away. That sure made for a dramatic ending.

We facilitated Extreme Kissing; The Pleasures, Politics and Art of the Kiss, a four hour workshop, as part of the International Workshop Festival in London. Click Here to see the video of the workshop. Click Here to view the workshop hand-out.

This is a new version of our Hairotica installation, (see Red Year) featuring photos taken by David Steinberg. It is the documentation of a love making ritual where we shaved each other’s heads and made love to mark the beginning of Annie’s chemotherapy.

We were gifted a pair of beautiful lovers’ dice. One die instructed, “kiss, lick, touch, tickle, scratch…” and the other instructed “neck, thighs, lips, buttocks, belly...” We placed the lovers’ dice on top of a beautiful map of the world, and invited art patrons to feel free to roll the dice. Their only other instruction was to ‘make love not war.’ A large-scale projection of the dice and map appeared on the wall across the space so that everyone could see what the dice said. People could follow the instructions if so desired.

We held a séance in order to commune with the spirit of Marcel Duchamp. We asked him some questions, and exchanged erotic energy with him. Dutch artist, European chairman of Fluxus, and Annie’s ex-boyfriend Willem De Ridder, was our perfect medium. The public was invited, and about 80 people participated. The séance took place in Bourges, France at Transpalette, and was produced by Emmetrop.

First we sat in a circle holding hands around the bed where William laid, and then we did an invocation. We waited for a sign. When Kabul, a bulldog puppy started snoring loudly, we knew Marcel was in the room. Anyone that wanted to could ask a question, and Willem channeled the answers. At a certain point, the spirit of Andy Warhol showed up too and tickled Marcel. We then had a wonderful group erotic energy exchange with Marcel’s spirit, which brought the séance to a climax, and together we all basked in the afterglow for quite some time. The séance ended with three deep breaths and three claps. Then everyone took refreshments and mingled.