16/06/2026
Snapshots of intimacy. S3x, care, emptiness in times of digital media communication - A performative lecture about embodiment, pleasure and representation
With Ewa Majewska, Sergio Frutos and Natalia Żychska
24 June 2026 // 19.00 (in English)
Digital dating, online s3x and gaming smoothly became parts of our daily experiencing of intimacy.
The sending of videos, pictures and graphics, even words, by everyday internet users globally, add another layer to Joseph Beuys‘ claim that “everyone is an artist“. We all co-create our intimacy, gendered embodiment and pleasure, and while conforming to some code, we often also violate others. Do we follow the divisions and hierarchies of visual cultures or perhaps create an online utopia? Is our experience of digital intimacy exceptional, or do we follow similar scripts? Is there space for creativity in a world, where visual subordination leads to such phenomena as the “insta face“ or “tiktok gesture”?
Snapshots of intimacy invites to rethink our models of dating, representing and sharing intimate moments in conversation with feminist artists Żychska and Frutos, and writer-theorist Majewska, who all created their ways of portraying these singular and shared moments of everyday s3xual, private and embodied moments.
Can pleasure be captured? How to paint everyday, shared intimacy? How to render it in words, as dialogue rather, that scientific description? Are these efforts emancipatory? Come join us in the discussion and presentation of our projects, which offer examples of finding words, paintings, frames and performances of today’s intimacy in its everyday, ordinary, common practice.
This unheroic polyvocal exchange is meant to enhance our thinking, grasping and immersion in a variety of practices, which all uphold emancipatory, egalitarian common ground for all bodies, all genders, all complexions and all shapes.
