“Marginal Consent” by Dana Dal Bo
Title:
- Marginal Consent
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
Symposium:
- ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Venue(s):
Creation Year:
- 2012
Medium:
- Two-channel video (loop)
Artist Statement:
Marginal Consent Channel One Poses associated with hysteria in the late 19th century are re-enacted (inhabited) by the artist and posted on amateur porn/ tubesites on the Internet. Channel Two Scroll of collected comments left by users of the porn/ tubesites. By using early photographic images of female hysterics (1890-1910) as a reference for re-enactment (inhabitation), and then (re)positioning them on porn sites, the definition of sexual content is challenged. The work was removed from RedTube for not being sexual in nature, and has been taken down from other site for a myriad of reasons. Despite being diagnostic aids, there is a sexual under/ overtone in many of the original “hysteria” photographs. Due to the limitations of early photography, the patients needed to hold the poses for several seconds for documentation; thus there are elements of voyeurism and (solicited?) performance that resonates with the voyerusitic/exhibitionistic nature of Internet porn.
