Insemination Jubilee: Gooning and Cocooning

An AORTAlive Workshop

Recording link sent out morning-of via email / Class starts at 3pm EST

**Recording available for 14 days after the class**

Empress Wu meets Kerosene Jones in an experimental performance/artist talk that dissects and enacts mythopornographic tableaus.

Empress Wu and Kerosene Jones present Insemination Jubilee: Gooning and Cocooning (2026), the inevitable sequel (or arguably prequel) to Jones’s Mummycule 4 Bob (2026), performed exclusively for Aorta Live. Expect fag4dyke cross-pollination and gestational whimsy on every register: creative, somatic, psychological. Staged in Empress Wu's dungeon and cocooned by the magic of friendship, this performance-cum-scene-cum-artist-talk-cum-studio-tour digs into where these two artists' personal and professional practices coalesce. Is art about sex? Is sex about power? Is power about life? If life imitates art but is stranger than fiction, at the end of a long day, who's really inseminating whom?

Open to all 18+

About your Presenter:

Kerosene Jones is a writer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work engages with marginalized queer subcultures and radical performance legacies, as well as the history, practice, and ethics of extended vocal technique. Utilizing unorthodox compositional techniques and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide sonic, ceremonial, and intertextual sanctuary for horny ghosts with unfinished business. His work has been supported by Art Omi, BBC Radio 4, Black Mountain College Museum, MoMA PS1, NYSCA, The Poetry Project, Visual AIDS, and Wave Farm. His arts & culture writing has appeared in BOMB, Filmmaker Magazine, Interview, Document Journal, X-TRA, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Kitchen Magazine. Jones is the Arts Editor of WUSSY Magazine and the Programs Manager at CPR - Center for Performance Research. He is a graduate of the Performance and Interactive Media Arts MFA Program at Brooklyn College.

Empress Wu (all pronouns) is a dominatrix and cultural activist practicing in NYC and beyond. Their work explores the performance of intimacy, through digital landscapes, queer SM, sexual labor, ancestral ritual, conflict, and more. Her work in all its forms have been seen at MoMA PS1, Performa Biennial, Brown University, and probably a dungeon near you. She lives digitally at empresswu.net

About AORTA films:

AORTA films champions queer and trans indie p()rn to create a future of ethical fuckery. An internationally award-winning studio currently celebrating their tenth year, AORTA films has been making “lusty, opulent, ethical fuckery” since 2015. Centering queer performers across a wide range of bodies and identities, AORTA films offers inventive explicit programming including 90+ short & feature films, a queer clip library, a semi-annual film festival, a guest artist series, commercial work, workshops, and more. This year, to celebrate their 10th year AORTA films launched AORTAlive, a home for live digital adult programing featuring online events including workshops, artist talks, performances, panels, and more. In addition to their site membership, all members of AORTA films get $10 tickets to all AORTAlive events. Not a member yet? See for yourself at www.AORTAfilms.com.

Tickets:

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• (Not a member yet? Fix that here! Existing AORTA films Members, please find your ticket passcode in the member portal of AORTA's website.)
• $15 Regular Ticket
• $30 Redistriubtion TicketWhat's a Redistribution Ticket?
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Additional Info:

• This event will be held live online
• Ticket Sales end at 11:59pm EST the night before the event
• Ticket buyers will receive a link to the event on the morning of the event.
• All attendees who purchase tickets will receive a link to stream the event recording 1-2 days after the event, which will be good for the next 14 days.
• This recording will not be available for purchase after the fact - if you'd like to access the video after the event, please buy a ticket now!
• Attendees are welcome to attend the event with their camera on or off; at the begining of the event we'll detail guidelines for audience participation
• If you have any questions, please email AORTAlive@AORTAfilms.com

The presenters leading AORTA films’s events are curated for their skills and knowledge, however, the views and opinions of these educators does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of AORTA FILMS, LLC. and this collaboration does not imply endorsement of any views expressed by the presenters.