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Pages:: 296–324

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549388_011

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pros-thesis is a short experimental research film inspired by the plastic arts project SACRUM (2017-unfinished), a three-dimensional, mixed-media, body-themed box-assemblage. pros-thesis intimates how SACRUM is the exteriorization of the sentient consciousnesses of the model and the artist, and the capacity to re-invent themselves through self-replication. The film reveals how mutual affection not only engenders convergence but nurtures an autonomous existence, while it hints at the sensations elicited through body casting, which makes possible the exact facsimiles of their intimate parts. As model and artist create a prosthesis of their paired bodies, the film pros-thesis shows that the materialization of SACRUM brings them closer; they are together in a process which involves the subjective objectification of themselves through each other. SACRUM is all about coming together to mutually enrich each other’s embodiments. Via its own reticulation, pros-thesis highlights the experience of pluralization, whose correlation with otherness is evocative of Luce Irigaray’s observation that woman—as other—is essentially always two rather than one, on account of her two labia which continuously caress each other.

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Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World

Beyond the Biopolitics of the New Normal

Series: Critical Studies Online, Volume: 42 and Critical Studies, Volume: 42

Cover Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004549388

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Sep 2023

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Part 1 Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century Authoritarianism

Part 2 Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social Distancing

Part 3 Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education through Alternative Pornography

Part 4 Beyond the Senses: Immersing into Self-Exploration through Visual and Plastic Arts

Part 5 Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire

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