Bethany Crawford
artistic research - digital technology - media - writing
My creative research "Pleasuring Technics" works with the reclamation of pleasure as a deeply political practice. In the systems of capitalist violence that govern our lived existence, access to collective and individual pleasure is structurally suppressed. This research questions how we might collaboratively explore the porosity between bodies, environments and technologies to source and summon pleasure? How can technical objects be received through pleasurable co-creation? Through folding technological objects into a collective human/technic-body-assemblage I aim to enact the reclamation of this body as a multi-sensorial and highly porous agent that is productive and receptive to new modes of pleasure which have the potential to reconfigure reality. In continuation of my practice examining technical objects as an “exteriorization” of memory and affect, the research of “Pleasuring Technics” intends to propositionally work from pleasure as the primary formative mode of technical production.