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The park will also offer sex technique workshops and safe-sex methods.

Naked Tokyo is a series of exhibitions that has showcased the work of an international group of photographers at leading art and design spaces in Japan since its inception in 2002.

In their 2007 show at Roppongi's Super Deluxe, with the theme: Contemporary Portraiture from Tokyo, Naked Tokyo artists were encouraged to explode and expand standard assumptions of portraiture by focusing on self-portraiture, sex, eroticism, and anonymous nudity.

In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.

March 2009

The artist is Moriguchi and it comes via a scan from a book called L’imaginaire Erotique Au Japon by Agnes Giard:

Ankh Magazine Is an educational, scientific, sociological and cultural publication which illustrates the conviction that the human body is clean and wholesome, and that increased public understanding of the nudist point of view will contribute to the well-being and advancement of the public, whether practicing nudists or not, as well as to the American heritage of the free press. Published by Elysium Inc., Los Angeles, California, Spring Quarter, 1968.

"To find sex, asshole," she wrote.

Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' is a research project that consists of three platforms – an exhibition, a programme of public events and a publication – examining the juncture of the political and the erotic through the work of artists produced predominantly in the context of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 70s.