The Amazing Sex show Comes to Copenhagen at inter.pblc, Copenhagen

3rd December 2022 - 6th January 2023

Private Booth is a video installation showcased on a 3,5 meter high LED screen. The work is part of the conceptual group show The Amazing Sex Show Comes to Copenhagen, and looks at ways in which voyeurism can exist as a non-sensual aspect of observation, accidental encounters at the risk of consequent judgement.

Originating as a dirty joke, The Amazing Sex Show Comes to Copenhagen juxtaposes the vulgarity of sexual desire with the much raunchier vulgarity of the world of art. Exploring the tech-driven commercialisation of pleasure and the sensationalism of the established art world, the show challenges a reality where a seemingly exclusive sphere has become reliant on its ability to entertain and promote in order to sufficiently stimulate its audience.
The show was promoted as a regular sex show, through a wide distribution of promotional material, such as flyers, posters and online campaigns.

The show was made in collaboration with Melle Nieling, Amelie Mckee and Baocheng Ma.

Live Show (2022, Melle Nieling) is inspired by the introduction of AI in pornographic censorship on social media platforms. The pieces explore the interpretation and misrepresentation of sexuality from the perspective of non-human, inorganic systems.

Teledildonics (2022, Amelie Mckee) reflects on how mechanical objects can be manufactured to automate desire and the absurd devices this can engender.

The Crystal Penetrator (2022, Baocheng Ma), a sleek device that visually resembles a designer home appliance parodically suggests penetrative action in the absence of a physical body, yet in a state of neurotic arousal.

Organised by: Kristian Kirk and Johanne Jacobsen

Thanks to Statens Kunstfond for supporting the production of this work.