Proposal for a Porn Company, 2013
10 min 37 sec HD, Three channel video Installation, Loop, color and sound -
10 min 37 sec HD, Three channel video Installation, Loop, color and sound - an object and a text piece Inspired by the video production of MEN AT PLAY, a gay porn company based in London, specialized in producing erotic films about men involved in the management of a company, as owners, executives or employed in profit oriented enterprise, these videos were filmed in offices, hotels, airports, cars and other places in the urban environment. Through the city of Sao Paulo the work is trying to search for locations in the urban environment that could possibly be sites for a future production of this company as well as unfolding and deconstructing the narrative structure of porn production by using some audio and video material of the pre-sex scenes from the online (commercially accessible) archive of the London based company. Commissioned by Videobrasil em contexto prize - Produced by Associação Cultural Videobrasil in partnership with Sesc-SP, Delfina Foundation, and Casa Tomada.
The piece works with the universe explored by the porn production company MEN AT PLAY, which specializes in erotic storylines involving male characters from the corporate and business world. Set in the city of São Paulo, the video installation portrays a search for potential locations for a hypothetical video by the production company. It unravels and deconstructs the narrative framework common to the genre’s productions, utilizing audio and video material from scenes that precede explicit sex, taken from the London-based company’s online archives. Building urban sceneries tied with their public dimension, the artwork discusses the place of sexuality in the city through the prism of an implicit private obscenity that lurks around the supposed integrity of those spaces.
*_Commissioned by Videobrasil em contexto prize - Produced by Associação Cultural Videobrasil in partnership with Sesc-SP, Delfina Foundation, and Casa Tomada.
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Installation shots and Details, Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil:
