An exhibition of zürich kosmos laserart and the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

Sept 27, 2001 - Nov 25, 2001:
Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Berggasse 19 / zürich kosmos laserart, Lassallestraße 7, Vienna/ Sigmund-Freud-Park, Vienna


Curator
Barbara Steffen

Kiki Seror / Barbara Steffen: Interview

How did you first come into contact with online chatrooms of erotic nature, and why did it become important for your own work?

When I was surfing the web for the first time, I was of course curious to find adult content for pleasure. I also found chats, and for the most part all chats lead to sexual content. The real-time exchange with strangers was more sexually stimulating than the images posted online. I did not intentionally seek out this medium, it found me and kept me under its spell. The first time I experienced such exchanges, I stayed online until seven o'clock in the morning. I was astonished to experience text in such a way and meaning so intensely. These encounters became almost a nightly routine. I felt the need to save some of the transcripts, because of how "unreal" it all seemed. It wasn't until years later, when I reread the text that I could not recognize myself in the roles I was engaged in, and how
the sense of the other person was so present. Even just as words, I could still sense these invisible nighttime collaborators, just as they existed in the transcripts. As memory the text evoked a sense of loss and emptiness. That's where my work began …
...more (Newsletter of the Sigmund Freud Museum 2/2001, pdF)

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