《Molecular Sex》
- 3-Channel-Video Installation
- Dimensions Variable
- 18mins，2020
Molecular Sex is a video installation made by Johanna BRUCKNER made in 2020. The future is often described as a toxic breakdown of the human. For BRUCKNER, the hybridization of the nonhuman and human is rather a starting point for the indeterminacy and queerness of being. Her video installation shows an entanglement of human, animal, technology, sex, and atmosphere in which molecularization shapes a networked world. The fluid main character is a fictitious sex bot that evokes plastic as a chemical substance impacting biological life; it further performs as a brittle star (a sea creature) as well as nanotechnological beings that distort lovemaking and gender.
Pushing the limits of the human sensorium, it invents technological prostheses that redistribute the relations and patterns with which subjects comprehend the world. Bruckner unsettles notions on the nonhuman body, intimacies and emotional worlds produced by the ongoing transformation of technology.
