| Volcano ~ Adrien Sina 2004 |
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| Violent explosions...
softer and tender eruptions... Volcano explores another point of view
on orgasm after Valie Export, Annie Sprinkle and Vito Acconci...
Volcanoes and male genitalia share the same anatomical structures:
tubular conduits and chambers where the pressure is build up. The
precursor signs before eruption, the viscosity or the fluidity of both
magma and seminal liquid are unique and identify the geological
formation or the body to which they belong. Beyond the visual
fascination, both flows of lava and sperm could offer death or life,
contaminate, destroy or fertilize... Male orgasm is usually considered to be mechanical while female orgasm is organic and complex... Not quite convincing... Female artists through feminism have explored their sexuality far more than male artists. The eruption of male sexuality in contemporary visual culture is a recent phenonmenon - it was previously more literary, while female culture has flourished on this terrain since the 1970s Deadly flows... The flow of lava could be deadly, contaminated, beyond the beauty of the spectacle. Beyond the visual fascination for the plumes and clouds of sperm, the same eruption could offer death or life, in a second... Volcanoes, violent agents of destruction, fertilize huge tracts of land for centuries with their ashes. The anatomy of a volcano is close the anatomy of the male genitalia. The same complex structure of tubular conduits, chambers where the pressure is build up. The same precursor signs before the main eruption, discreet flows of seminal liquid, periods of accumulation, constraints until the boiling liquid flows find an outlet... Irruption of identity... The viscosity of the magma determines both the formation of the volcano and its associated activity. The viscosity or the fluidity of the sperm flows is also unique and specific to each male body... It can reveal age, states of stress or confidence, health or disease... More than a genetic portrait, a forensic clue to identity at the scene of the crime, the orgasm reveals psychic states of mind, qualities of interrelation with a partner... A drop of subjective and intersubjective identity... The sculptural aspects of the flows and clouds are fascinating... Each male could play a symphony of eruptions, with specific rhythms, magnitudes, orchestral scores, connecting to dramatic, romantic or violent states of relationships with the self and others... The intensities of the music composed for Volcano perceptibly precede the flow of visual events. They follow the variations of bodily feelings under-control, whereas the moving images relate out-of-control climaxes. The disconnection between these two layers create a feeling of unexpectability and undeterminacy.... |
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