Faith Holland

Visual Orgasms – Train Erupting

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Electronic Language International Festival

Abstract:
Filmic media has put pressure on sex to be visually consumable. As a result, pornography is often brightly lit, performed in “unnatural” poses, and, most infamously, ejaculation almost always occurs externally. Hollywood, too, has faced this problem of visualization but for the opposite reason: restraint and censorship. “Visual Orgasms” exaggerates this mandate to ‘make-visible’ by creating excessive moving image collages that depict metaphors for orgasm with no actual depiction of sex.