This isn’t footage of the show. It’s the video we projected during the show. I’ll give you a little background while it’s loading (I hope you’re not using dial-up…).

So. Naughty Nurse. What the fuck, right? Well, as I said before, one of our projects was to understand “the gaze.” In this case, it was the “masculine gaze.” (You know, all that Laura Mulvey garbage.) We thought about Internet porn in terms of control and power: strip-clicking, picking your own perversion, etc. The Internet is a virtual banquet of perversion. But we weren’t critical of this perversion. (Ok, yeah, I’m critical of this perversion…) So we thought it might be disconcerting to let the gaze objectify Al, to string her up there like a puppet. Did this work? NO NO NO. Was it fun to shoot? Hell, yes.

First, we had to decide on the specific text that Naughty Nurse was going to say. It HAD to come from epithelium.org, but no one had said anything pornographic (some described their experiences with porn, but didn’t use the kitchy language that porn sites use). Then we found Timse’s answer to the question: If you had a fan club… Timse replies: I have a variety of acts… It was perfect. Even if our little naughty nurse section was a conceptual failure, I will always be proud of finding that text.

Why the nurse? Well, at the time, we hadn’t constructed the doctor’s section but we knew we wanted to explore the medical gaze. We tried to preemptively streamline. Did we manage to conceptually link the doctor and porn section? NO NO NO. But hey, we tried.

And WHAT are the fake breasts for? Well. Me and my big ideas. I was going for prosthesis. Both technological and sexual prosthesis. I thought about virtuality in terms of adding and subtracting from the body: BECOMING a different body (as Deleuze might say). Did it work? Well, I think so. Aren’t you a little disturbed by those boobs? Don’t they make you a little uncomfortable? If you were, we succeeded. If you weren’t, well… sorry to bore you.