On the intersection of activism and pornography, Videokabine recreates the “masturbation booth” experience online. Each occasion features around four performers broadcasting live from their houses for the pleasure of anyone keen to listen in.
A chat box by the side and a donation button for the performers (Videokabine is a non-profit event), the setup combines the intimacy and immediacy of camming with the collective experience of performance art with Geisler’s photos providing a green-screen background.
The very first Videokabine saw over 500 audiences listen in from around the entire world, all viewing equivalent performance in anonymity – which could, by itself, be an experience that is erotic. You’d be hard pressed to find a stronger combination than getting off on a live peep show with no idea who else is in the room if you consider mystery and riskiness to be powerful libidinal forces.
“It had been, so far as can be done into the electronic world, a genuine event of life and community, ” Karl claims.
Scheduling “anything between performative art and filth”, _Videokabine’_s programme is really a bag that is mixed. Some shows are light-hearted, other people are profoundly governmental or maybe more intense. Past occasions have actually featured performers like Misha Mayfair and Kris Canavan – who work with the greater extreme part of fetish, utilizing vomit, bloodletting and self-sacrifice – and came across some criticism. Continue reading “Taken to life in collaboration with UNCENSORED, a festival that is interdisciplinary”