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Dionysos, Perpetual Orgy or Organs of Life Gallery Juno
January 15/February 20, 1999, translated by Andrea Meyer

"It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension" C.G. JUNG.

- The square space is the womb of dreams.American society transforms its sexual frustration into heightened violence.
- Tantra doctrine, unlike Christianity and Buddhism, integrates sexuality into religion, rather than suppressing the libido
--in favor of isolation and contemplation.
- Sexuality is a social phenomenon.
- Sexuality is overburdened with sacralité.
- Sexual energy stands in direct opposition to death.

The erotic image never leaves us indifferent; it has a role and a function, hence its attraction, its violence, its perversity. It directly touches the spectator's soul...

The libido represents both freedom and obligation: freedom to act as an individual and obligation to reproduce as a species. Simple pleasure does not exist. Even in De Sade, we recognize the will to destroy the result of pleasure, perhaps here lies the ultimate pleasure?...

Transformation of the subject into object; Man's regression into his primary state - bestial, cannibalistic, naked; dissolution of the self into "the world of water".

Erotic violence is both natural and culturally integrated; Greek vases display this folly, this desire to renew the universe by renewing the self and society in a Dionysian orgy. Orgies have always had a paradisiacal quality, as in Genesis, something prehistoric that disrupts established social boundaries.

Art and Eroticism stand in opposition to society organized around work, thus becoming sulfurous, taboo. The more societies work, the less individuals achieve emotional and sexual climax, and this imbalance lodges itself between conscious reality and subconscious aspiration. Primitive societies do not suffer from this dichotomy, as they knew how to integrate work and sexuality in a natural, mythological and artistic fashion.

Ultimately desire exists only to break the solitude and reintegrate the individual into the human community; the realm of living and sexual beings.

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