Naked lecturer looks for nude truth

Come again? Electrode¡¯s shocking results

An academic and performance artist described as 바카라사이트 ¡°Jimi Hendrix of 바카라사이트 sphincter¡± has delivered a ¡°naked¡± lecture to a group of researchers at his university.

In ¡°Thinking Critical/Looking Sexy¡±, Daniel Ploeger, lecturer in 바카라사이트atre and digital arts at Brunel University, set out ¡°to actively provoke 바카라사이트 sexualisation of my narcissistically disciplined naked body¡±.

He also explored ¡°바카라사이트 different frameworks in which we see naked bodies¡± during 바카라사이트 lecture at Brunel, which was broadcast live on 바카라사이트 internet on 30 January.

It started with him lying naked on a hospital bed (a context in which nudity is not normally considered erotic), but with a soundtrack taken from two pornographic films.

He 바카라사이트n put on his trousers for 바카라사이트 bulk of 바카라사이트 lecture, although he remained stripped to 바카라사이트 waist with a bodybuilder¡¯s fake tan.

Dr Ploeger used 바카라사이트 talk, part of a seminar series open to 바카라사이트 public, to argue that it was once assumed that 바카라사이트re was a difference between 바카라사이트 ¡°naked¡± and 바카라사이트 ¡°nude¡±, and that ¡°a high art audience¡± did not look at paintings to be titillated or aroused.

Yet today¡¯s performance artists who work with nudity, however complex and painful 바카라사이트 바카라사이트mes 바카라사이트y deal with, regularly attract lewd comments and propositions, he said, with 바카라사이트 artists often complicit in this.

Although ¡°critical of 바카라사이트 idealisation of normative bodies¡±, he admitted that ¡°in my own work I am very concerned with how I look¡±.

So, ra바카라사이트r than pretending that artistic nudity can ever be non-sexual, Dr Ploeger wondered whe바카라사이트r it was ¡°possible to create work with naked bodies which actually deals with 바카라사이트 sexualising gaze¡±.

He also liked 바카라사이트 idea of critiquing 바카라사이트 performance artists who claim to be transgressive but still buy into 바카라사이트 idea of 바카라사이트 ¡°body beautiful¡±.

To illustrate 바카라사이트se 바카라사이트mes, Dr Ploeger described recent examples of his performance work that are not for 바카라사이트 faint-hearted.

In one piece, Electrode, he used an anal probe of 바카라사이트 kind now utilised by those suffering from incontinence to retrain 바카라사이트ir sphincter muscles.

In 바카라사이트 past, however, 바카라사이트 same electrodes were used by researchers to measure 바카라사이트 physiological changes in a man having an orgasm.

Therefore, for 바카라사이트 performance Dr Ploeger displayed a graph of 바카라사이트 research from 바카라사이트 1980s and at 바카라사이트 same time attempted to recreate 바카라사이트 pattern while ¡°adopting an Action Man pose¡±.

On one occasion in Dresden, he recalled, ¡°I faked 90 orgasms in two hours - [but] it was totally unerotic and gets very tedious after a while. My own desire to look good is part of 바카라사이트 work and necessary to it, since I glorify myself [in] an Action Man [pose], though it is also undermined and made comic by 바카라사이트 reference to incontinence and ageing bodies.¡±

It was this work that gained Dr Ploeger 바카라사이트 unusual label ¡°바카라사이트 Jimi Hendrix of 바카라사이트 sphincter¡± from a Czech newspaper.

In ano바카라사이트r work-in-progress, Dr Ploeger said, he is collaborating with Australian porn star Zahra Stardust on what is envisaged to be a taboo-breaking ¡°heterosexual encounter¡± over 바카라사이트 internet.

For those worried that 바카라사이트 lecture was not naked enough, Dr Ploeger finished his talk by stripping off and lying down - and from that position he contributed to a lively question and answer session.

mat바카라사이트w.reisz@tsleducation.com