This year’s Seattle Erotic Art Festival, June 16-24, celebrates “10 years of
Published 7:00 am Monday, September 24, 2012
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Zap! Electrical play is an interesting and often surprising experience for festival guests.
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Sensation play at Sensation City. Here two participants share an experience with soft fur.
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Suspension bondage, another event at Sensation City.
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Pantie Portraits is an onsite darkroom where people can create photographic prints using their personal itemsaE”anything from jewelry to unmentionables.
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Wax play, another intriguing activity at Sensation City, experiments with temperature and texture, from warm to cool, liquid to solid.
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The entry into Fremont Studios, this year's venue for the festival.
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Decorative rope-play, a unique combination of bondage and aesthetics, was one of many sensual demonstrations that can be explored at Sensation City.
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Sensation City is a small side-stage where festival attendees can experience new erotic sensations throughout the week. They began with Boot Blacking, which is rooted in a connected, dominant/submissive relationship between two people. The Center for Sex Positive Culture will be holding various workshops throughout the festival as well.
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One of many ongoing art tours during the festival.
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Patrons explore Wilkinson's installation during an art tour.
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Le Petit Piege, a massive metal spider web masterminded by Kevin MacDonald, dominates the entry atrium, spanning 20 feet vertically and 40 feet horizontally. It is a unique event space for bondage and aerial performances during the festival.
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Jim Wilkinson stands with a small slice of his installation that catalogs the last 60 years of homoerotic photography and art, from an age of suppression to an era of surplus.
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The Virgin Project, an ongoing series of comics featuring anonymous loss-of-virginity stories that range from comical to tragic. Some stories were illustrated live at the festival.
This year’s Seattle Erotic Art Festival, June 16-24, celebrates “10 years of love and lust” with a visual art gallery that features erotic photography, painting, film, sculpture, and performance. Add music, parties, and interactive installations, and the festival’s shaping up to be quite the aphrodisiac.Photos by Mike Stolp-SmithPublished on June 18, 2012
