PROJECTWEBSITE EVA builds an orgasm machine
Photo by Caroline Aravicius, from one of the 31 people that took a trip in Mediamatic.
Eva Schippers has build an orgasm Machine in 12 days with found and donated materials. During the project we drove around Amsterdam during the project to collect the donations! The orgasm machine was part of the BEFtival at Mediamatic, organized by Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp: a 10 days festival celebrating female pleasure, launched during Museumnight 2021.
What is the border between torture and pleasure?
An Orgasm Machine, build in the tradition of Barbarella [1968], Woody Allen movies [1973] and the pseudo-science of Wilhelm Reich [1930] with a soundtrack made by the Amsterdam musicians Pasjenten [MMIO].
During the project women were invited to have a private experience in the Orgasm Machine, after the artist gave a guided introduction, which they could end by ringing a bell. The results that woman wanted to share -stories, photographs, drawings and oral testimonies- are gathered by the artist.
