Event info

Ecosexuality

Walking bare feet on a warm dirt trail. Lying in dewy grass. Sitting on a smooth and strong tree trunk and feeling the power. To float on clear still water. Taking a shower with all the potted plants and feeling them stroking your calves. Pushing your hand down into the dry hot moss. Allowing a mountain spring to tickle your body. Finding the smell of arctic thyme. To love the earth. To fall in love with nature and become one with it.

Embark on an arousing journey with Iris and allow yourself to experience the earth as your lover.

Iris is a performance artist and curator who has worked with women's bodies and lives in her work. She emphasizes pleasure, taboo, shame and longing. The right of women to do what they want with their bodies and their lives has been the starting point in Iris' work. Among other things, she has collected and published women's masturbation stories and held story circles where stories related to the subject are told. Made a radio play about older women and their right to be sexual beings and at the moment she is working on a show about women who choose not to have children that will premiere at Lókal 2021. Her work at Plöntutíð 2021, Ecosexuality, focuses on all genders, on humanity itself and its relation to nature.

Ecosexuality closed story circle

A closed story circle about ecosexuality will be held Sunday 29th of August at 19.00.

Do you want to share your love affair with the earth in a closed group? Before the show there will be a meeting where you can share your experience and listen to others. You can also share your story at the event itself if requested. Sharing is never an obligation. You can also just come and listen. The meeting will take place in central Reykjavík, location will be sent out after registration. To join, book your place on tix.is.

Iris is a performance artist and curator who has worked with women's bodies and lives in her work. She emphasizes pleasure, taboo, shame and longing. The right of women to do what they want with their bodies and their lives has been the starting point in Iris' work. Among other things, she has collected and published women's masturbation stories and held story circles where stories related to the subject are told. Made a radio play about older women and their right to be sexual beings and at the moment she is working on a show about women who choose not to have children that will premiere at Lókal 2021. Her work at Plöntutíð 2021, Ecosexuality, focuses on all genders, on humanity itself and its relation to nature.

extra insight

Ecosexuality or sexecoligy is based on the idea of ??nature as a lover and encourages people to look at the earth as a loved one instead of a resource that can be used. One could turn the example around and consider what it would be like to think of one's spouse as a resource instead of a lover. Certainly there are many beautiful things that we associate with the word resource. We envision beautiful and rewarding nature when we talk about a natural resource. But a resource always indicates something that can be used to its advantage, whether it is to be admired or to be utilized, and does not necessarily encourage giving in return. For nature itself, it would be more appropriate if we treated it as a lover that we respect and love and want to see grow and prosper.

The women behind the concept and movement (sex ecology or ecosexuality) are Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle. Artists who wanted to make the environment of activism more fun with all kinds of performances, humor and sex positivity.

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Plöntutíð is a new theater- and performance arts festival that will be held for the second time during the 3rd - 5th September. The festival is a platform for artists who work with nature and strive to move beyond anthropocentric performing arts. The performance pieces on the festival are made for plants, in collaboration with plants and even performed by plants.

During Plöntutíð, workshops and a number of stage works will be shown in unconventional spaces around Reykjavík and Kópavogur. The program will be formally launched with a streamed performance called "Thank You for Keeping Me Alive" by Wiola Ujazdowska. The second day, Saturday, is dedicated to the youngsters and family time. The BRUM soundwalk by the performing arts group Trigger Warning takes off in Heiðmörk, then a Plant Theater workshop in Gerðarsafn with Lóa Björk Björnsdóttir is from one to three and the happening The Youth in the Woods will be performed by teenagers led by Ásrún Magnúsdóttir in Öskjuhlíð at four o'clock. In the evening, Jakub Ziemann and Yelena Arakelow receive people in a food experience called Dear Carrot, sorry I forgot you out in the cold. Eva Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir and Vigfús Karl Sigfússon will premiere the soundscape Plöntusnúður for party-thirsty plants in the empty space in Skeljanes. On the last day of the festival, The Plant Becoming Project offers a bus trip around Kleifarvatn in Reykjanes and there will be a Plant Theater in The Botanical Garden in Reykjavík. Finally, there will be an opportunity for the curious to go on a sensational journey in Ecosexuality with Íris Stefanía Skúladóttir and experience the earth as a lover.

Plöntutíð is funded by the Bank of Iceland Entrepreneurship Fund, the Reykjavík Arts and Culture Council, the Kópavogur Arts and Culture Council and the Children's Culture Fund of Iceland. Thank you!!!

You can read more about Plöntutíð at plontutid.com.

COVID-19 information

The festival will be held in one way or another and follows all the regulations on restrictions on gatherings due to the pandemic. Most events take place outdoors and in small groups of people that are closely linked. At the few indoor events and where it is more difficult to maintain the one-metre proximity limit, masks will be required. For more information, contact plontutid@gmail.com.