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Abstract:

Proposing the notion of sexotechnologies applied as an aesthetic strategy in technofeminist performance, makes possible a way to approach to understand this term as a mechanism of subversion within the regimes of scenic visibility, through the game with pleasure and its performativity on stage and artistic circuits with public presentations that brush the limits of the intimate. This through the use of technological interfaces, with which not only gender and sexuality are transgressed, but also other spaces are opened up, such as that of disturbance thanks to the exposure of the sexual taboo, and also of perversion, thanks to the deviation from the normative sexual pattern. This consequently opens up other focuses of analysis charged with the subjectivity and intimacy of the observer, in dialogue or conflict with that of the performer, and the proposal in question “Noise from the Matrix”, the possible transfeminist imaginaries that are generated from the mutation of the performer’s gender on stage, and the reflections that will appear from the academic analysis of the artist on her own work. We identify two forms and/or uses in these sexo-technological practices: one conventional and the other non-conventional. The former includes all those practices in which conventional sex toys are used, such as dildos, harnesses, vibrators, among others. In the second, which is the one we are interested in analysing, we find non-normative objects for post-porn performance. In non-conventional sexotechnologies we find erotic and sexual forms with devices that were created with another technical/technological purpose, but that when used for sex in technofeminist performance cross the border of sexuality, proposing another vision of sex, which takes the object out of its state of everyday transparency and leads the artist to inhabit an open-code, abject and transfeminist body.

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The Dramaturgy of the Uterus emerges as a narrative possibility through the analysis of Nicol Rivera's performance Noise from the Matrix. This act, which combines masturbation and noise soundscapes, generates new dramaturgies linked to technofeminist performativities. The work presents a discourse on desire that unfolds between the performer and the object, reclaiming the voice of a territory historically associated with reproductive functions. Through the sonic possibilities and movements derived from the sexual action on stage, the female body is positioned as a discursive device and a sexual technology that transgresses traditional narratives. Rather than employing words, the performance guides the spectator through noise, creating an alternative narrative that evokes the orgasmic paroxysm experienced by the performer’s body.

In this way, the dramaturgy of the uterus challenges modern dramatic structures, proposing flesh and internal organs as a narrative apparatus that puts on the forefront the power of an intellectually weaponized vagina. This technofeminist discourse questions the traditional conceptions of the “truth” of sex.

Specifically, the exploration of the technological objects’ own internal dramaturgy, is connected to the essence of their programming, the integrated circuit, and the electronic diagram that defines the functions they will execute. From this textual perspective, the object becomes the form containing dramaturgical writing, while the performer acts as the interface translating what resides in the device. Consequently, in the interplay between device and interface (performer), combined with the post-pornographic action introduced by the dramaturgy of the uterus, an innovative system rooted in post-pornographic and technofeminist action has been identified. This system constructs a new dramaturgical circuit that is read and interpreted by the user (spectator).

Doktorarbeit: hierbei habe ich mich mit einer Performance mit technologischen Schnittstellen beschäftigt, die vor dem Hintergrund einer technofeministischen Perspektive entsteht und in der wir eine Verbindung und Beziehung zwischen Gender, Sexualität, Post-Porno und Technologie feststellen.