Tomasz Kaliściak and Tomasz Sikora / Soma rhei, or the New Vision of Porn
One way this inconsistency could be explained is that the artists – who never miss the opportunity to emphasize their “anti-ideological” stance – do not intend to deconstruct the binaries in advance, from an established theoretical position, with a preconceived goal in mind. Instead, the fluidifications and exchanges happen by and along the way, as an unpredictable effect of sexual and aesthetic experimentations. While at the beginning “man” and “woman” are simply given, through various means of communication and exchange – fantasmatic projections, sexual play, fetishes, manipulations of the visual, etc. – the cultural, if not biological, information gets de-, reand overcoded. No longer “man and woman”, but a composite mechanism – with various elements plugged in and out – that acquires its own mode of functioning, its own ephemeral “genetic code” or operating system. Individual bodies become extensions of a monstrous machine for the production of anonymous, inhuman sex; humans are no longer in any sense “subjects” of sexual activity, but rather are themselves subject to sexual mechanical flows and pulsations.
*** “Hectoliters of sperm”? So be it.
The artists avoid using liquids whose possible meaning – in their view – is too limited or univocal (i.e. urine, which only connotes “excretion, rejection of something that is redundant”; AS). They 78