E-Viction (2020)
Date: August 21, 2020, noon to midnight
Location: www.e-viction.net
E-Viction is a virtual arthouse / whore gallery event that existed for 12 hours before self-destructing. Log on and be seduced by our virtual peepshow where you’ll have intimate encounters with sex workers and artists making art and sex live on cam. Scroll through performers’ ads, shop art and sex objects at our E-Banned shop, learn about legislation that threatens sex workers and free speech online, join raunchy chat rooms, and protest digital gentrification. But be sure to tune in before it’s all gone at midnight. E-Viction is the only deplatforming you can prepare for in advance.
In the midst of this global health crisis, most sex workers must work, gather, and organize online despite being targets of pervasive surveillance and deplatforming. By engaging on a platform that violates SESTA/FOSTA, visitors and performers alike will engage in a new form of civil disobedience.
E-Viction is produced as part of the 2020 Rapid Response residency at Eyebeam and supported by Kink Out Events.
Cast & Crew
Curators:
Empress Wu
Thea Luce
Niko Flux
Web Artist:
Aarati Akkapeddi
Graphic Design:
Rena Li
Stage Management:
Eli
Marketing:
Lady Euphoria
Shayla Lange
Yves
Olive
E-commerce:
Shayla Lange
Artist Management:
Minxy Lopez
Finance:
Samone
Archival Team:
cherubirl
Abe
Urzulka
Performers:
Apocalyptica
cherubirl
Darla Devour
Empress Wu
Heidi Darveaux
Isis
JEVX
Kiara Cocky
Laur Elias Traynor
Lilith
Mama Maddox
Minxy Lopez
(m)Other
Rosie X. Royale Squiggles.and.Sluts
Stasia Levone
Vivienne Vai
Ze Royale
Press
︎ “Eyebeam announces artists selected for Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future,” Eyebeam
︎ “How Artists Are Trying to Solve the World’s Problems,” NY Times
︎ “Sex Workers to Host Self-Destructing Digital Variety Show Against EARN-IT,” Vice
︎ “These Sex Worker Artists Are Hosting a Self-Destructing Online Art Show,” Paper Mag
︎“E-viction – An Urgent, Innovative Protest Project,” Peepshow Media
︎ “‘E-Viction’ sex work event sheds light on ‘digital gentrification’ by self-destructing when it’s over”, Daily Dot
︎ La Maison du Rouge Interview
︎ “NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Self-Destructing Art,” Autostraddle
︎ “Anti-Censorship Virtual Art Show E-Viction to Launch on Aug. 21,”
AVN
︎ “Anti-Censorship Virtual Art Show E-Viction to Launch on Aug. 21,” Adult Talent List