Octopuses on Ecstasy
Video
2021
This video artwork emerged from a night of intense anxiety, drawing parallels to Gollum's torment in The Lord of the Rings. Created as a form of self-therapy to process trauma and conflicting emotions associated with intimacy, the work combines various visual and audio elements in a dreamlike state.
The video mixes sleepwalking-like footage with daily random shots, internet images, homosexual live streams, and advertising content. The soundtrack is equally diverse, featuring city nighttime ambiance, recordings from moments of insomnia and depression, gay live stream audio, nostalgic pop music (particularly Canto/Hokkien Pop from the 1980s and 1990s), and songs from my long-distance boyfriend.
Characters in the video vary in gender, age, and ethnicity. The homosexual live discourse often narrates various daily acts, symbolizing a hidden sociality of queer relational life and its utopian potential. The work explores how images become vibrant fluids and currencies in the digital age, acting as mediators for virtual interactions. It represents what Preciado calls "orgasmic forces" - the labor forces of the pharmacopornographic age, where techno-bodies oscillate between excitation and frustration.
The video mixes sleepwalking-like footage with daily random shots, internet images, homosexual live streams, and advertising content. The soundtrack is equally diverse, featuring city nighttime ambiance, recordings from moments of insomnia and depression, gay live stream audio, nostalgic pop music (particularly Canto/Hokkien Pop from the 1980s and 1990s), and songs from my long-distance boyfriend.
Characters in the video vary in gender, age, and ethnicity. The homosexual live discourse often narrates various daily acts, symbolizing a hidden sociality of queer relational life and its utopian potential. The work explores how images become vibrant fluids and currencies in the digital age, acting as mediators for virtual interactions. It represents what Preciado calls "orgasmic forces" - the labor forces of the pharmacopornographic age, where techno-bodies oscillate between excitation and frustration.
The images in the video represent vibrant fluids and currencies, functioning as mediators for virtual interactions and embodying what Preciado refers to as "orgasmic forces" in the pharmacopornographic age. Ironically, the video was quickly identified as "sexual stimulation" and removed from Vimeo after being uploaded.
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