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Künstler/in
Elke Auer
(geb. 1980 in Graz, Steiermark)
Date2017
ClassificationsGrafik
MediumHandwriting auf Kalligraphieübungspapier
Dimensions420 × 297 mm; Rahmen: 45,4 × 33,4 × 3 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28271
DescriptionMODERN HOLESfrom how one becomes what one is
to how one becomes and not is
or: the larger the ideal
the bigger the hole
MODERN HOLES is a long term, research-based art project about the political potential of
love and sexuality and its possible effects on contemporary life- and identity designs. The
title not only refers to our pleasure holes and how they shape our desires, but also to the
holes in our hearts and heads, and to the ones we hide in because we feel fragile and lonely.
Starting by acknowledging that masculinity just like femininity is fiction I am trying to reflect
on how this politicohormonal fictions play into the concepts of identity and community within
my generation of anxiety. MODERN HOLES is about techno holes and bio holes, sticky
masculinity and hormones, fluids and tissues, depression, dopamine and drugs, white
privilege and white fragility, isolation and alienation, pop, hip hop and poetry.
An important theoretical framework for this project is Paul Preciados book “Testojunkie”
about sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era.
2015-ongoing
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