![]() Some are even part sociological study and thought experiment. Or at least that's what you can tell yourself when you look at them instead of bourgeois ol' regular porn. Hysterical Literature, an art project by Clayton Cubitt, is a collection of stark black-and-white videos, each featuring a woman sitting at a table reading aloud from a book of her choosing. ![]() However, under the table, there is an unseen person equipped with a back massager who is assigned to distract the reader as she reads.Īs the vibrator does what vibrators do so well, the women try to keep it together and keep reading, but begin to show signs of losing focus with a little gasp, a quick intake of breath or wiggling in their chairs for a better position. They fight to keep their composure, and it's completely fascinating. Here's Janet reading from “Friendship and Character” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's that line between control and loss of control that's so interesting about Hysterical Literature. ![]() “On the surface level I want to short-circuit the practiced poses of modern media-savvy portrait subjects. On the next level I want to explore the battle between the mind and the body. On the level after that I want to explore the relationship of female sexuality to society's concepts of shame. On the final level I want to explore the cultural contrast between art and sex, particularly how people react to the mixture of the two,” writes Cubitt.
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