Pleasure Center

Collaboration by
Flora McGarrell -- Architect
Saya Woolfalk -- Costumer
Leah Meyerhoff -- Choreographer

The pleasure center is an inflatable structure

New goals/concept

A dystopic solution to the problems of disease, overpopulation, and sexual inequality.

This is real happening in real space to real bodies that are not specifically artists but people from many comunities. They are brought into this narrative to have a sexual experience.

The Pleasure Center embodies a present where sensual pleasure is mediated by an external public institution --The pleasure center facilitates interaction between people in a safe, & non-threatening way by first re-skinning the participants in a new androgynized body that the center provides for them, then allowing the participants to stimulate each other through impermeable membranes.

(It's about putting more layers on to feel safe enough to get close to one another)

Intended audience goals

This Art seeks to both critique the path our sexual culture is going and show people how one can feel sexual pleasure in an androgynized body.

Project description

What it is, why it is significant, what effect it will have,

Project Goals

Use are to describe an ritualized and everyday experience

Give people a playful and pedagogical sexual experience

pedagogical significance: it can have concrete political significance if we are talking about mediated social bodies: maybe stats of std's AIDS, women with bulemia, sex industry, prostitution, institutional sexual relationships - what they mean - what is the sex matrix?

sex as a location for real social inquiry/political and a space for play and intimacy (this piece doe not have to be about intimacy) not puritanism, not to be silenced They are given a new relationship to their bodies as sexual, sexualized, tended to.

take art object into different communties

advertising in multiple communities

vernacular that is legible like toys, jumping room

like going to the movies - pleasure reception

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