![]() ![]() ![]() The piece examines the overlap of current developments in performance art, art display, economics, marketing and the participatory nightmare of life and work as theatre. Motivational language is interwoven with metaphysical gestures of salvation characteristic of economics as well as of what is considered "Political Art." collective experience and extending the video piece into physical space. PLEASE RELAX NOW uses the screen as a source of light and darkness drawing attention to the issue of art consumption as individual vs. The piece ends with the artist exclaiming in full excitement "And now: exhibit yourself to the others!" as the screen turns white and fills the space with light. The artist keeps provoking the spectators with sexy language before they are guided towards the "orgasm-as-event". By foregrounding an ambiguous tension inherent in the artist’s own body and voice, the spectators will find themselves asking: "Am I aroused because of me or because of you? Because of what I imagine you have not or because I cannot imagine what you have?" Operating on several levels of sensorial consciousness, a limitless image is created one that spills outside of itself and challenges the gendered sexual taxonomy of the spectator. Turning off the screen for comforting darkness and intimacy she continues to talk to the spectator in a soft voice, demanding them to start touching their genitals in promise of the ultimate experience: masturbation inside an exhibition or cinema space. Haunting and seductive in a televisual or billboard-like sense, she asks the spectator to lean back and relax, promising that she – the artist – will orchestrate a memorable event that will transform the spectator into an integral part of the art piece – or make them even become the art piece! On screen the artist introduces herself, addressing the spectator directly and seeking their trust. ![]()
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