{"id":37313,"title":"Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God","dimensions":"21,5 x 14 cm, 239 p., language: English, publisher: Orbis Tertius Press, Alberta, ISBN: 978-1-0688637-3-8","date_begin":"2025-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collectie M HKA, Antwerpen","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":18,"permalink":"venus-voluptuous-in-the-loins-of-the-last-god","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/095/627/medium_500/Venus_Nechvatal.jpeg?1773400323","cached_actor_names":"Joseph Nechvatal","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/095/627/large/Venus_Nechvatal.jpeg?1773400323","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenus Voluptuous in the Loins of The Last God is the sequel to Joseph Nechvatal’s novellas, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even and ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator stripped bare, even, published by Orbis Tertius Press.\u0026nbsp; Not written using artificial intelligence (AI), Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of The Last God addresses the erotics of art and identity within the context of artificial intelligence.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist’s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenus Voluptuous in the Loins of The Last God makes further use of Marcel Duchamp’s conceptualisation of the ‘bachelor machine,’ as embodied in his work La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même. Duchamp has been a continuous influence on Nechvatal’s computer-robotic assisted paintings as far back as 1986. Within the book and these paintings, we can see a contraption replete with\u0026nbsp; ‘sex cylinders’, ‘desire gears’, a ‘reservoir of love gasoline’, and a ‘general area of desire magneto’ designed to set the bachelor in a ‘pumping trance-state’ ~ a state which, according to Nechvatal’s reading, represents Duchamp’s ‘definitive desire when he is in an uninhibited bachelor machine mode’ to attain ‘a mystical state of being….’; a state in which previously known boundaries and borders melt away, leaving the auto-erotic subject-object in a perpetual state of excited coming-into-being. Nechvatal is fascinated by the potential of this auto-erotic machinic process as a lost ritual of digital-alchemical becoming. Of course, this image of automation as a generative intervention into the rigid category systems of social hegemony struck a chord in the sphere of early C20 avant-garde creativity responding to the modernist spirit, in turn provoking some of the most virulent criticism of Surrealism’s representation of gender possibilities, in particular its construction of the binaries of active/passive which casts the woman as muse or ‘automatic woman’; as ‘conductor of mental electricity’ (Breton’s words) not as independent generator of creative thought.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":5874,"name":"Joseph Nechvatal","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}