'A Sexual Series'. Issue 3 (1st November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elg, Emie // Eva-Marie
• Is Part Of: Technoetic arts. Volume 19:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 321
• Page End: 335
• Publication Date: 2021-11-01
• Subjects: Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge -- Periodicals; Interdisciplinary research -- Periodicals; Consciousness -- Periodicals; High technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 001
• DOI: 10.1386/tear_00072_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-965X

Abstract

Sara Ahmed's enquiry on what it means for sexuality to be lived as oriented from the work Queer Phenomenology inspired the art series 'A Sexual Series', based on post-humanist theory and asexual experience. Shapes of performative alter egos materialized from a queer cyborg position of technologically enhanced crip experiences (the strong symbolical constructing process of straightening scoliosis surgery). From being a glitch of the past towards a post-individualist future, the artificial intelligence sexbot is a metaphoric, elevated cyborg drag version of the artist to embody asexuality and queer Otherness. Based on multitudes of CUNTraDICKtions to encourage self-reflection, the series explores the complexities of ob/scene and on/scene performances; the position of a sex positive asexual as well as questions of belonging as a naturally artificial rebel.