Erotic Experiences with the Natural World for a Person at Home Alone is a series of three narrated audio works that engage the listener intimately with plants, air, and water while staying isolated indoors due to COVID-19 precautions. The initial work was multi-sited and accessed three ways: A toll-free hotline at 1-833-NATR-XXX, a printed zine that was mailed to recipients, and the interface at the bottom of this web page. After the launch of the hotline in August 2020, the number was distributed in public through posters and tagging installed by myself and by colleagues in cities across the U.S. and Canada. That fall I created three "commercials" for the hotline, riffing on commercials for anti-depressants, phone sex lines, and miracle products. They are still airing at random on GRTV and posters are still being distributed and hung. The line is live- you can call it right now.
The work uses sound and narrative to direct the body of the viewer into a set of motions they would not otherwise take. The narrator and listener play dominant and submissive roles, borrowing the frameworks of guided meditation, BDSM, and phone sex. The tension felt in this exchange speaks to larger social tensions, and through the device of sound and written word, tension and pleasure become the material of the work. Using subversive material brings light to non-normative lives, and alternative (queer) kinds of intimacy and kinship. Through discomfort, these audio works could be a gateway to acceptance of loving practices outside of the norm.
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click on an image below
it will take you to a sound page
where a narrator will guide you
on an erotic experience with the natural world
from the safety of inside your home
it will take you to a sound page
where a narrator will guide you
on an erotic experience with the natural world
from the safety of inside your home
