Sexes Festival

Overview

Yes, here comes the 'S' word: Sex.....es Festival. (Finally, a festival to call its own!)

It seems that Performance Space wants to heat things up a little with some visual and performance art sexy times. Looking at sexuality and gendered identities in contemporary Australia, this is one festival that aims to be progressive and confronting — and refuses to shy away from embarrassing.

The visual arts exhibition Sexes, which runs for the length of the festival, has 17 artists working across photomedia, video, installation, performance, sculpture, and collage, alongside a serve of theoretical discourse about all things gender.

If live art is more your thing, never fear, because there will be a performance program that also comes under the heading of Sexes and aims to "generally prance around the themes and ideas" of sex and all that it entails. Another performance piece is Whelping Box (Oct 23 to Nov 3), where two performers will chain themselves to stakes to test their limits.

By now you’re probally in the mood for some dance, which you can get in the form of Something in the Way She Moves (Nov 14-17), in which a middle-aged woman does the dance of the everyday.

And finally, there's Clubhouse: Sex Club (you can't get much more illicit than that). But this isn't some sleazy club on the Kings Cross strip; this is a Sex Club that wants to talk about sex, watch dirty movies together, perform erotic readings (hopefully no 50 Shades of Grey), dance, and more.