The Institute of Porn Studies
The Institute of Porn Studies was born out of the need to critically analyze and experiment with the explicit representation of sexuality, in the multiplicity of possibilities in which it is presented, omitting the prohibitionist versions that consider sexuality a taboo. The Institute is proposed as a laboratory for experimentation and learning, as a space for the production of thought and a place for the exercise of practices between the visual and the spiritual.
The figure of the “Institute” has been a resource used by certain spaces of research and knowledge production as a self-institutional way of formalizing and giving legitimacy to knowledge that has been marginalized. We recover the practice of the “Studies” to tension the hierarchies of knowledge that are produced between moans and discourse, between hormones and syntagmas. We locate them in ” Porno” and not in “porn” because we do it from a geography, methodologies and guttural sounds located in Barcelona, which as a city has been the context for both the mainstream industry, certain expressions of dissident sexualities, commercial pornography for women, and artistic and political movements such as the postporno. The Instituto de Estudios del Porno focuses primarily on non-Anglo-Saxon thought and production, seeking the particularities found in those pornographic expressions and analyses that have not been articulated primarily in English.
The Institute offers an annual training program consisting of theoretical and practical workshops, reading groups and public viewing sessions, contemplating an approach to textual and theoretical production, as well as audiovisual, graphic and technological production. We want to generate a careful, comfortable and safe learning space to imagine, create and study with porn. It is oriented to all those who have an interest in approaching pornography from multiple dimensions and points of view. After completing each complete training itinerary, certificates of specialization will be issued.
