Annie Sprinkle is an internationally known multimedia artist who has toured theater and performance pieces since 1989 to 27 countries. She is one of the pivotal players in the 80’s “sex positive feminist movement.” Her film, The Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop: Or How to Be A Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps, played hundreds of international film festivals and art venues, including the Guggenheim Museum and is considered a “post-porn” film classic. She’s been involved in dozens of other people’s documentaries and appeared in numerous features, such as Inside Deep Throat, The Naked Feminist, Monica Truet’s My Father is Coming, and Gendernauts), and has been in many television shows such as four HBO Real Sex segments and The Sexual Revolution on the History Channel.
Annie Sprinkle started out in x-rated feature films in the 70’s and 80’s. In the 90’s she produced, directed and starred in, Annie Sprinkle’s Herstory of Porn, an award winning experimental film diary about her experiences in the adult film industry. She also directed and produced documentaries such as the Linda/Les & Annie—The First Female to Male Transsexual Love Story and Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World of Orgasm. Sprinkle earned a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality, received the 2013 Artist/Activist/Scholar Award at Performance Studies International at Stanford, and the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant Guard. She co-directed two documentary feature films with her life partner, Elizabeth Stephens; Goodbye Gauley Mountain—An Ecosexual Love Story & Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual adventure. Currently her multi-media art projects are all dedicated to pollinating the budding ecosex movement through art. She was an official documenta 14 artist.
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Image: Annie Sprinkle. Photo courtesy of the artist.
