The Porn Art Movement (Movimento de Arte Pornô) was an experimental art movement I launched in Rio de Janeiro that lasted, as a sustained interventionist effort, for two years, from February 1980 to February 1982. It was the last organized avant-garde movement in Brazilian art and poetry. It was also known as Pornpoetry (Poesia Pornô) or Pornism and in what follows I will alternately use any of the movement’s three names. The movement carried out numerous public interventions, published three zines, two anthologies, several opuscules and varied publications, and developed a broad audience1. Pornism began as a poetry movement and quickly expanded into many other areas, upending aesthetic norms across many different media, upsetting the accepted parameters of everyday experience, and modeling new modes of being.
Porn Art Movement; avant-garde
