KATRIEN JACOBS & MARIJS BOULOGNE
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ANSWERS WE FIND WITH OUR PUSSIES
On the occasion of the publication of Libidoc:
Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art (Maska,
2005), the author Katrien Jacobs and artist
Marijs Boulogne will engage in a unique interactive
conversation about sex, love, death and ecstasy. Marijs
Boulogne is a Belgian artist who taps into the lost
(Flemish) histories of female ecstasy and cults of martyrdom
and sexuality. Through obsessive actions, awkward
ritualistic abstinence, and a strange physical desire to
meet and marry the highest unknown, Boulogne’s
characters desire to find erotic contact with God.
Katrien Jacobs will initiate a dialogue with Boulogne
and the audience in order to discuss and understand
the most powerful sex drive of the artist, to test out the
intimate play of bodies and public codes of sex, death
and fantasy.
Questions raised by members of the audience will be
answered by Jacobs and Boulogne. For example: Are
artists hyper-sensing varieties of sexual desire as a result
of biological-cultural growth, or are they drenched in
sexual data through the mass media? Can sex art best be
approached with our evolving animal instinct, or do we
need a cultural-historical erotic education? Can we build
‘soft’ social spaces to unblock desire and tackle the
climate of fear? What is the relationship between sexual
desire and a longing to transcend materiality through
contact with ‘unknown’ abject entities or processes
of death and deterioration?
Katrien Jacobs, the author of Libidoc: Journeys in the
Performance of Sex Art, initiates a dual narrative in the
personae of Libidot and Dr.Jacobs. Libidot travels and
has overtly sympathetic, even intoxicated, subliminal
reactions to the research subjects, while Dr. Jacobs is
locked inside an office and responds to the works with
detached cynicism. Their subjects, and the subject of the
book, are twenty-seven leading contemporary artists,
whose work explicitly or subtly touches upon human
sexuality and pornographic representation.
Katrien Jacobs
In collaboration with Maska, the publisher (2005)
Special guest: Marijs Boulogne (Belgium)
Organisation: City of Women
In collaboration with: Maska; Galerija Kapelica
