ESCAPE | WORLDWIDE
2001
site specific
TRANSART 01 (cur. Traudi Messini) Messe Bozen | Fiera Bolzano 2001
PORNSTAR_BORN TO BE A STAR
The thesis of a porno society imputes that a liberal economic system that relies on the deregulation of the market and trades solidarity for subsidiarity, biasedly promotes individual and pecuniary advantages. Just as pornography depicts sexual operations by biasedly emphasizing the genital area and leaving out the psychical aspects of sexuality, the neoliberal porno society is in search of its egotistical genes. Only the pornstar is born to be a star and social-darwinistically fulfills the law of the survival of the fittest. He embodies the highest degree of attractiveness, the strongest narcissism, the most intimate self-desire and the short circuit between genotype and phenotype. He is pure sex and self-exploiting potency. The porno star is not interested in genetic or social altruism, in the distribution of information and capital, but rather in cloning and onanism. […] Since the constitution of electronic networks, at the latest, the international financial system can be described as a huge onanism machine supported by the pataphysics of the banks. Talk of the virtualization of culture is thus less applicable to new media than to old money, the ultimate medium of transformation, which has become the ontological assurance of our existence. […] We can only survive pornoontologically, if we style ourselves into a cult object. It is only in this way that we can sell our genes at any price and accrue interest for the ego capital of the me-machine. Personal fitness, the cult of the body and financial potency become synonyms for the economic progression of neoliberalism with simultaneous cultural and social inflation. […] The human body is synthesized with corporate identities, which in turn tattoo the body in the form of logos and brand names, which means that every reflection and narration is exhausted in the iterative ejaculation, the empty repetition of capital flows. It is not sexuality, pleasure, masturbation or copulation that are obscene, but rather the impotence of politics, entropic consumption, the metastasizing corporations and their marketing.
Thomas Feuerstein
the works are published in:
coming closer
mit Texten von Thomas Feuerstein
und Robert Fleck
ed. Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck
published by Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck
ISBN 3-902315-02-4
Design: Christoph Hinterhuber