DEGENERATE ART
SEX | ART | CENSORSHIP
ASSFEST M25 | RIM | 14.05.25 | THE ALDERMAN | NAARM (MELBOURNE)
What is sex? What is art?
Two impossible questions, with an overlapping space of further ambiguity…
Our panellists are all artists working at the interface of sexuality and the arts. Join us for a lively chat about the gaze, identity, obscenity, the body, queerness, disability, politics and SO MUCH MORE... Your questions are SO welcome!
BABY VOODOO, PSYALUX & EVE X MODERATED BY SAI JAIDEN LILLITH
BABY VOODOO
DEMASQUE MAGAZINE
Star W., aka Babydoll / Baby Voodoo, is an erotic artist, producer, and curator with over a decade of creative experience in the 2D and 3D mediums. She is the founder and publisher of Demasque Magazine and currently hosts Erotic Art Club, a community initiative celebrating overt sensuality through creativity.
As an artist, fetish model, performer and former erotic photographer, her work has been seen to be exhibited both locally and internationally, with her expertise seeing her be invited to judge multiple fetish community title competitions across Australia and abroad, as well as to host the interactive educational and entertainment Kink Korner space at Sexpo in 2022 and 2023. Star holds a Bachelor of Design, a Master of Art Curatorship and ‘half a PhD’, with her academic research focused on the display of sexuality in galleries, museums and digital social spaces.
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PSYALUX
Psyalux is a mixed-media visual artist whose work in recent years has centered on representing and connecting the kink community by exhibiting online and at in-person events. By exploring themes of power, vulnerability, sensuality, and liberation, they seek to create space for dialogue, visibility, and recognition for alternative expressions of identity and intimacy.
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EVE X
INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINE & CANTO V FILMS
Eve X is the founder of Sacred Primal Arts, The Australian School of Sexuality and Tantric Kink Australia (forthcoming). She first entered the sexuality industry almost twenty five years ago; since then she has worked in various aspects of the field.
Eve is best known for her provocative and profound erotic performance art with Sai Jaiden Lillith; they have been appearing regularly on stages in Melbourne and Sydney since 2019 as Infernal Desire Machine.
Eve has held over 60 sexuality education spaces since 2019.
She is a regular educational presenter with OzKinkFest and Sexpo / LoveX, and co-owner of Alter Space.
Eve’s work is deeply embodied; informed by queerness, neurodivergence and chronic illness. It is also deeply transpersonal; weaving politics, ecology and spirituality into the story of the body.
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SAI JAIDEN LILLITH
INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINE & CANTO V FILMS
Sai Jaiden Lillith is a Melbourne based gender fluid prodom/me, escort, activist, educator, creator of visual erotica, artist, event organiser and Shibari witch.
Sai has taught workshops at OzKinkFest, Sexpo / LoveX, sex worker groups and trained numerous private students including a number of professional peers through their own unique brand of individualised and transformative frameworks.
Neurodivergent and in possession of the letters BPD, ADHD & CPTSD, they are a fierce advocate for accessible spaces and ethical practices, authentic connections and fully committed to unflinchingly facing up to and harnessing the shadows within oneself. Sai’s philosophy is to live a life consciously created, relentless interrogated and framed by love.
Known for their gorgeous and connective rope work, intense performances, and creativity across their modalities, they approach all they do with deep reflection and commitment.
Sai performs rituals in ropes with Eve X in Infernal Desire Machine, teaches as a co-founding member of Sacred Primal Arts, is the vocalist in the industrial / Gothic band ZCluster where they can be often found singing in full Shibari suspension bondage, runs the production company The Soft Machine that puts on live music / BDSM / erotic circus events such as Sex Ropes and Rock and Roll & Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs, produces and stars in visual erotica through Canto V Films, runs public rituals through The Coven, is the 2IC for the Australian School of Sexuality and last but not least wrangles a toddler with Eve X…
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