Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, aka Ms Tytania – Dominatrix, pornographer, scholar and activist, is creating an archive of niche fetish films and femdom.

In this History of Sexuality, Foucault noted that fetish is a form of sexual desire that goes beyond the genitals and often too beyond the physical body.

This is where my focus of interest in all things fetish comes from: the belief that porn on the farthest reaches of sexual desire can be radical act, a threat to ordinary life and the status quo. It’s no wonder that current legislation in UK and the US tries to repress and invisibilise forms of sexual expression that empower women, that question the function of the body as reproductive and the genitals are the locus of pleasure.

By showing samples from this Fetish Archive, Itziar wants to challenge our notions of pleasure and intimacy, of love and of what constitutes sexual pleasure. I am interested in all forms of sex that disrupt the narrative that sex is about the genitals, that sex leads to romance and the reinforcement of the nuclear family.

I advocate for eroticism that tear apart the ideas of coupling, nesting and intimacy that support the fabric of society. In this time of post-truth and post-politics, sexuality is again a danger to an obsolete and decaying sense of society where new forms of being and of community, can emerge. When minorities make porn, it often becomes a radical act of resistance.

This event will be a guided spoken presentation, illustrated with clips and excerpts from her fetish archive. Although many of these nice sexual activities are not genital nor include nudity, the content is still of an adult nature.

Talk and screenings plus Q&A.