Elizabeth Stephens, Ph.D., is a filmmaker, performance artist, activist, and theoretician. Stephens gained her MFA at Rutgers in 1992 and completed her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at UC Davis in 2015. Her most recent project is the book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover from the University of Minnesota Press, 2021. She is the Founding Director of the EARTH Lab (Environmental Art, Research, Theory, and Happenings) at UC Santa Cruz. Stephens' work explores embodied ecologies, queerness, and pleasure in this age of environmental struggle.

ARI Faculty Fellowship Project: Playing With Fire. Professor of Art Elizabeth Stephens and her partner Annie Sprinkle, acclaimed nationally and internationally as founders of the ecosexual art movement, have received ARI funding and were honored as 2021 Guggenheim Fellows for their upcoming film Playing with Fire. Now in its initial pre-production phase, the documentary will look at wildfires as they correlate to “social fires”, examining how fires are actually connected to systematic racism and classism.

 

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