ELECTRODE (2011)
performance installation (anal electrode, emg sensor, video projection, loudspeakers, packaging material)
An Anuform® anal electrode connected to a modified Peritone EMG sensor registers the activity of my sphincter muscle. Anuform® and Peritone are medical consumer devices for the treatment of incontinence problems. I fake the orgasm of an anonymous subject who took part in an experiment into the nature of the male orgasm in 1980. I attempt to replicate the subject’s sphincter muscle contraction pattern, which was registered during masturbation and orgasm in the experiment. I repeatedly perform the same pattern. The data is projected onto a screen in the form of graphs and is used for digital sound synthesis.
(c) Martin Popelár / OCNM Archive
from: J.G. Bohlen et al. (1980). The Male Orgasm: Pelvic Contractions Measured by Anal Probe. Archives of
Sexual Behavior, 9(6), pp. 503-522.
