What is the relationship between art/aesthetic and sex?
At its best art can be a sexual experience… Through my work I’ve experienced how little art deals with sexuality. There is lots of art-istic works depicting it, symbolizing it, wanting it, but few artists who really deal with sexual practice or sexual experience. So in reality, outside of the symbolic domain, the relationship is rather weak. That is, art has a very superficial connection to sex. In my work I combine a) art as an experimental field with b) the body as an experimental playground. The intriguing result is that the aesthe-tic experience is turned inward. The artistic experience — if this exists — is internalised, pointing toward the inner, embodied ex-perience. In this case it becomes evident that the common notion of aesthetics is challenged. Rather than being a pure, reflective pro-cess it also becomes dirty, desirable, cheap and very human.
