#desiringsubjects <div style='position:relative; padding-bottom:calc(177.50% + 44px)'><iframe src='https://gfycat.com/ifr/WebbedSmoothClownanemonefish' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' width='80%' height='80%' style='position:absolute;top:0;left:0;' allowfullscreen></iframe></div> THE PLEASURE IN LOOKING: SCOPOPHILIA  transferantial relation, to an other —- *an interpassivity* "to be performing actions, not for the viewer, but in the place of the viewer".  Radical plagiarism to create something new Radical sharing between friends Presence is negotiated through a particular dynamic of transference there is always ritual----—-sexual personas--------- >NOTES >Writing a visual anthro book on the road about the sexual display. But in reality I’m writing a meta narrative. It has to be about the meta -act to succeed. What is my proposition? What is my purpose? I used to sit on this bar waiting to present my project to tinder subjects at the cobra club. It was on the Jefferson stop off the L line. This was my life;  Meeting potential girls to explore their sex appeal in an infinitely reflective space of performativity where the crafting of a sexual self was to be understood as staged and enacted. It was to be a meta-study of agency through their affect. A transcendental space for art girls to experiment with the projection of their sexuality, their sex appeal, and their self visualisation. My aim was to create endless moments of undressing by exploring the delight in performativity, in the exploration of their forbidden self, and encountering their idealised selves projected on the screens.  The urge to record intimate experiences is the driving force behind my pursuit of lifestyle photography. The goal is to intellectualize my own sexuality, so as to speak of intimate labour, and the holographic power that is given when one is looked at and desired as an image-object. We want to work with girls to simulate the act of seduction and convey a style that is new to the pornographic genre largely through the editing and post production. ***What matters more than the theory is you, the oddities and enigmas that make up who you are, and the willingness to be in a performative space with us and yourself. We want to 'invent you as you are.'***  We are interested in exploring how the sex appeal of the young can help shape the subversive logic of those who us. We are the overly alive; the young, overflowing, rebellious corporealities. Us. We want to explore your idealized self, the delight in performativity, the grace in pleasure, and the crafting of a sexual self that is to be understood as staged and enacted.  What we are after is to unlock the erotic imagination of each subject: >"Can [[Pornography]] be the most political form of fiction? ... by showing what should not be shown, through the fantastic and the surreal, to express a kind of mysticism". It was to be an experimental space to understand how her [[GASOLINE DREAMS/Corporeality|corporeality]] was to be projected as capital through the agency of her affect, the acting out of her sexual self; Think nightlife photography, intersects with [[semiotic]] theory and fourth wave feminist ideas of intimate labour and the politics of [[representation]] — the goal is not to capture sexual acts so much as to create something that gazes back at an image of the subject’s ideal;  What we are after is to unlock the erotic imagination of each subject: If erotica could be considered the art-form of the encounter how about the creation of a technologized space of techno-erotic encounters with oneself: a kind of having sex with the screen itself / A poetry of an endless orgasm / It was to be an experimental space to understand how her corporeality was to be projected as capital through the agency of her affect, the acting out of her sexual self- somatic understanding :: BODILY EXPERIENCE IS THE GROUND FOR MEANING MAKING :: Is an up close shot inherently more feteshistic ? ![[X REELS]] ### acting out sexual identities / self presentation  A project needs to be born- an infrastructure of analysis, a machinery of girls, a formula for an industry of desires — The spectacular [[representation]] of the young, their bodies and, their sex appeal is a political space as much as an economy. An act of defiance would be to take the use value of the pornographic medium, the power of something made erotic, and transform it into a mythos of rebellion. The search has been about finding a conceptual framework to photograph sexually explicit imagery, to develop a theory of the body that would help find access to the representations of girlhood- it's about giving myself permission to photograph girls in a sexual manner, so that I can take the images of bodies that rub against bodies and the agitations of a desiring soul in an excited body- and to take all this mechanical excitement, (its use-value if you will)- as a starting point to cross somewhere beyond; onto the other side of the sacred frontier that stands between high culture and vulgarity. (We want to work with girls to simulate the act of seduction and convey a style that is new to the pornographic genre largely through the editing and post production. What matters more than the theory is you, the oddities and enigmas that make up who you are, and the willingness to be in a performative space with us and yourself. We want to 'invent you as you are.' ) the image of self flickers through the movie arising moment to moment with such rapidity and consistency that it gives the impression of constancy. the material presence-of living actors converted into a digital -electro signals -to superimpose something onto that point of view - - which is being scanned, and traced . . << glitch of hyper video >> Desiring bodies producing themselves as-subjects in a transcendental space where every face borders on the abstract. My photography deals with the world of ideas and concepts as much as it is about the crafting of a sexual self and the sharing of intimacy. The urge to record intimate experience is driving these images, that's the idea behind them, to be suggestive, romantic, seductive. I want my images to become self-reflexive productions that speak of the energetic participation and presence of young women in public modes of self-presentation that are sexually spectacular. You know, I want to intellectualize my own sexuality. That's really the goal in pursuing romantic photography for me, so as to speak of intimate labour, and the holographic power that is given to you when you are looked at and desired as an image-object. That's why I posted words of late capitalist French intellect next to the images, I wanted something that would cut across it, I wanted the people walking into this gallery to know that there was something more going on behind the creation of these images, something that they couldn't see yet because theories are abstract in that they are not tangible, but still I believe that they are informing the tangible image-objects in front of them. ™ Usually scantily-clad, thinly-veiled and mostly bare-breasted. :: an attitude of deranged abandon, her tousled hair, grasping flowers, lying in a meadow , girls in windswept landscapes, the splendor of youth, the joys of spring,  powerful women , witches and goddesses vintage erotica, mythology, surreal film, symbols, blindfolds, mystery, pre-raphaelite nymphs, film still, nature, rituals, masks, dance/ performance art, gypsies, tribalism, surrealism, paganism, lace, snakes, props @ costumes, savage nature, dadaism, taboos, the paranormal,   urban decay: edgier concepts:: technopagan symbols :: appearance is highly eclectic // its mystery and exoticism struck a chord with contemporary observers... ancient greek , ritual , institution , the official, [augur] , archaic, divine , 'deviner', prophetic,  art // nature , Sex, death, obsession, peculiar eroticism, exploration of female sexuality, entranced, almost orgasmic, sexuality heightened by the abundant, competing natural world, sexual longing, allegory, subconscious sexual impulses, lively, playful, frolic, promiscuous  :: SIMULATING THE INFINITE SPACE OF THE IMAGE ::  Fabricating omni-presence in an image-site Develop a VR web app that you can interact with time and space - a platform that allows you to access a stream of 4D hyper dimensional beings  endless moments of undressing  Transcendental Sexuality - build a website that sells the experience to art girls, make them want to become invested, involved in the meta study of agency through their affect / self visualization / {The new possibilities for [[subjectivity]] that advancing technologies of pictorial [[representation]] seem to offer -} ### Fabricating omni-presence in an image-site ^7ba180 Brooklyn raised new media studio. It's an independent research study regarding contemporary visuality as much as it is an act of production itself . It is sometimes the pictorial struggle which can be most revealing, and can lead to reflections on and awareness of one’s own interiority: ***thus the act of art making can be a moment of [[ontological]] uncertainty and potentially liberating.***  "Given contemporary visuality, the individuations of the body are inseparable from their technological significations. Hence work, consumption, and the cultivation of an identity are one and the same act, as exemplified, for example, by the monetization of online photo-sharing applications. The interface between the body and the image is a site of value production... The object of biocapital is not manufactured by labor but becomes the body as it labors to make itself into what it wants to be." // **Face Value: An Essay on the Politics of Photography** the abstraction of the body is possible because there is photography — the inter mattering of image and [[GASOLINE DREAMS/Corporeality|corporeality]] The spell of the look :::: the act of looking, focusing, and paying attention distribute energetic resources. ***Here lies the guise of contemporary rituality***:: to look is a laborious act. *It is an action through which scoptic regimes become embodied.*  “An image is, in the strictest sense, an imprint, a trace of physical impression, an affection of the body itself, the effect of some body on the soft and fluid parts of our own body; in the figurative sense, an image is the idea of an affection which makes an object known to us only by its effect.”_ **The camera interposes a mechanical interface between the body and the act of signification  ** #FIELD WORK PRODUCED WITH LOVE IN BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN  2017 A.D.  > The cover is meant to look like an academic journal. I took inspiration from textbooks and an obscure moment in pornography when magazines mimicked ethnographic studies or medical research journals. After the [[HYPERCUBE]], I started working this past winter with a model from Brooklyn that I basically talked her into experimenting with the idea of an intimate photographer conducting a Production-as-research project for Math. We were complete strangers but it turned out to be a really awesome experiment and trial run. I had a vision for a way to produce the final format in the style of a photo-essay. But after that I actually went back to working with the [[HYPERCUBE]] in the farm and never finished the concept. Since that idea of photo essays came up when we talked last week, I started thinking and I’m pretty confident that if we worked together we could bring this idea full circle and submit something to be published by Math. I have a lot of words (sorry again for the fucking wall of text that I’m sending you)- and you have a lot of images and experiences through the process of making them that we could explore as a visual ethnography. We could bring something together that speaks on the art of nakedness, the performativity of undressing - the crafting of sexual self understood as staged and enacted.  **the art of nakedness** art models or just girls interested in exploring their own image through the act of art-making and photography. ) Women’s eroticism, their [[jouissance]], that explosive, blossoming, and inexhaustible [[jouissance]] of the woman unicorn hunters; like storm hunters cinematic pleasure /narrativized desire /cinematic libidinality / cult of personality we usually like to meet up for happy hour nearby (cobra club?) for a meet n greet to give you a better sense of the project so there is no pressure. If you're into it we can stop by the studio and shoot around for a little while.. how's tomorrow night sound? happy hr is till 9 I believe! pioneer works sleep stoner metal experimental erotica no worries, lmk about the cube smtime, we are trying to build a 'model recruitment' site sooner than later and for that I need to start shooting new content / re envision the space we can talk about $ too specially if there is any photo release stuff involved but also i'm just looking forward to experimenting with you as a friend//creative collaborator yup, a life goal is to get properly stoned and watch conspiracy tube on art human evolution and therianthropse with her one day haha hehe I could go on about rita like how 2 exlovers and myself showed up to her thesis show cause we all had an art crush on her last night was kinda magical ✨ I hope you were able to get home okay/ didn't get in toooo much trouble also I found yr sunglasses in my pack, i'll be ar let's meet up in the afternoon and plan to get into some fun after in the studio 🕋💎📽 good at exploring; finding post industrial ruins amongst the rubble of late capital, transient, apocalyptic, feral ![[sheer, see through black block]]