The Chrysalisseum launches its first Artist-in-Residence, with Imagination Suprnation (IS) living 'la vie domestique' and developing work in-situ informed by the AIR thematic Ladies of Leisure.
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IS' residency at The Chrysalisseum explores the genre of the blue movie as a format
for presenting performative work.
IS will investigate through a process of research and development the erotic and the role of the body in art history (historical and contemporary) and the blurred line between art and pornography.
IS is also interested in the how current scientific frontiers of genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology effect our understanding of the body, and how this then translates into the cultural expression of pornography.
The IS residency interfaces with the Chrysalisseum AiR theme of ‘Ladies of Leisure’ in various ways. Firstly, it takes the activities relegated to the ‘boudoir’ and transfers them to other zones of the domestic interior. Secondly, it uses the concept of the ‘domestic’ to reveal a site of female and ‘other’ empowerment through sexuality and sexual activity. Thirdly, in its fantasy and hyperbole (further heightened by the pornographic medium) it references the experimental lifestyles and erotic proclivities of artistocratic and regal women of history, such as Catherine the Great.
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