The Institute of Porno Studies was born out of the need to analyze and experiment critically 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 proposes itself as a laboratory of 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 production of knowledge as a self-institutional way of formalizing and giving legitimacy to marginalized knowledge. We have recovered the practice of «Studies» in order to stress the hierarchies of knowledge that are produced between moaning and discourse, between hormones and syntagmas. We locate them in «Porno» and not in «porn» because we do so 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 post-porn. The Institute of Porno Studies focuses mainly on non-Anglo-Saxon thought and production, looking for the particularities found in those pornographic expressions and analyses that have not been mainly articulated in English.
The Institute offers an annual training program consisting of theoretical and practical workshops, reading groups and public viewing sessions. It contemplates an approach both to textual and theoretical production, as well as to 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 aimed at all those people 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.